Rarely does a swap deal take place without eyebrows being raised along with mutters of discontent, usually due to the fact one of the clubs involved has had an absolute nightmare.
When Southampton agreed to let Pierre-Emile Højbjerg move to Tottenham last summer, they waved goodbye to a dependable midfielder who’d been a mainstay in their starting XI for the best part of four seasons.
The Saints received just £3m for Højbjerg, though the deal included youngster Kyle Walker-Peters arriving at St Mary's; an inexperienced full-back with just 22 Premier League appearances to his name.
Oh how the footballing world scoffed. ‘Ralph Hasenhuttl, they have just had your pants down my friend’ - less than six months on and the Southampton boss looks to have played an absolute blinder.
Walker-Peters is fast developing into an absolutely brilliant right-back, and his energetic displays have become key to everything that's good about Southampton's play.
Last season Hasenhuttl chopped and changed at right-back, with Cedric Soares spending most of the first half of the campaign at full-back before moving onto Arsenal, where he's endured numerous injury issues.