In a world where his former midfield partner Moises Caicedo went to Chelsea for £115million and Argentina colleague Enzo Fernandez moved to the same club for a mega £107m, Alexis Mac Allister at a paltry £35m could be the signing of the season.
He might not get the headlines of Mohamed Salah or front up Manhattan billboards alongside basketball icon LeBron James like Virgil van Dijk, but the Argentine is the magician driving Liverpool’s quest for a record-matching 20th English league title.
This was the fifth Liverpool match in a row where his metronomical midfield displays have yielded a goal or assist, starting with that 99th-minute defence-spliting pass at Nottingham Forest and ending here with a similar eye-of-the-needle assist for Mohamed Salah.