Luis Diaz is subject to a transfer bid of over £37million from Liverpool. The release clause in his Porto contract stood at £67million.
It is difficult to overstate just how mind-boggling these sums of money would have been to the stick thin boy who grew up dirt poor in one of Colombia's most deprived regions.
As a youngster, Diaz would sit and watch the enormous trains loaded with coal thunder past his home village of Barrancas, carrying their cargo from the pits of Cerrejon bound for the coast and then to Europe.
Porto and Colombia winger Luis Diaz is poised to sign for Liverpool in a deal worth £50million
This football-mad kid was no doubt vaguely aware of clubs with exotic names such as Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester United, Everton and Newcastle.