Darren Bent completed his drawn out move to Sunderland today and leaves having cost the club over half a million per goal.
The forward scored 25 times in 79 appearances since he signed from Charlton for £16.5m back in 2007.
That means he cost £660,000 per goal, twice as much as new signing Peter Crouch's seven clubs have paid for the privilige of his goalscoring talents.
If he continues to provide the name value for money, the £10m Sunderland have handed over will buy Black Cats fans a mouth-watering 15 goals, though they will hope that's not spread over too long a career at the Stadium of Light.
Yet it would be unfair to judge Bent entirely on the overblown fee Daniel Levy was willing to part with for his services.
Right from the very start Bent looked out of place. His new manager, Martin Jol, didn't really want him and made little secret that Robbie Keane and Jermain Defoe were his preferred pairing as Bent fritted in and out of the team during his first season at the club.
Sure enough when both his rivals, and Dimitar Berbatov, departed for pastures new, Bent seemed to thrive on the sudden responsibility.
Under new boss Juande Ramos he enjoyed a rampant pre-season and then went on to finish last season as the club's leading scorer with 17 goals in all competitions.
Yet even as the goals flowed, it was clear his time at the club was coming to an end.
Bent may have scored a brace against Manchester City shortly after Harry Redknapp arrived, but the goals, and his confidence, quickly dried up. Shortly afterward he found himself in a familiar position: warming the bench.
Had he not got the message when Redknapp unceremoniously dropped following a below par performance against Fulham in November (when, let's face it, everyone was crap) then he certainly did when Harry spent the whole of January reassembling his arch nemeses back at White Hart Lane.
Then, If the burden of a record transfer had not caused him enough trouble it also made it more difficult for Bent to be moved on.
Had the fee been more manageable, there is little doubt he would have been sold long before Sunderland attempted to haggle with a defiantly stubborn Daniel Levy.
It is easy to see why our chairman usually gets a decent fee for his players, and it does not take a wild imagination to guess the reason he took a particular interest in making sure the club recouped as much of the £16.5m fee he paid Charlton as possible.
Sadly his attempt to sign a big name player, with genuine resale value, failed. Not that it ever made sense in the first place. Bent was signed at an inflated price that Levy could never hope of making a profit on, and he was never the player to justify the fee with his performances on the pitch.
Bent is a good goalscorer and certainly has more ability in front of goal than Redknapp's wife (no offence Sandra, always thought you were more of a play-maker). Give him a chance, one-on-one, and seven times out of ten he will hit the back of the net.
The problem is that there is not much more to his game. His first touch is poor and he is unable to play with his back to goal, so he cannot play on his own upfront. Yet his lack of intelligent forward runs hardly endears him to a manager looking to play him alongside a creative forward like Keane
That said, Sunderland have certainly improved their forward line and Harry has an extra bag of cash he can throw at another club for that midfield general he craves, or, dare I say it, the left-winger we have been after since god knows when (or blow the lot on Blackburn's defensive colossus Chris Samba).
Bent was neither the best, nor the worst, forward the club has ever known and perhaps, in the end, he leaves the club with his head held high. I mean, at least he's not Sergei Rebrov, right?