After the famine, a feast is on pre-order at Stamford Bridge.
After a year of frustration and fax machines gathering dust, Chelsea are back at the table.
Hakim Ziyech? Done. Timo Werner? Agreed in principle. Ben Chilwell? Surely the next item on the menu.
Come late summer - or whenever the 2020-21 campaign finally begins - Chelsea's young pretenders will have much-needed reinforcements.
In a transfer market depressed by coronavirus and financial ruin throughout the world, Chelsea have dipped deep into their pockets.