At £40 million, Alex Iwobi's Deadline Day move from boyhood club Arsenal to Everton has made him the most expensive Nigerian transfer ever, and saved the Super Eagles from an embarrassingly quiet window.
Finally, a Nigerian has cracked into the top 10 of all-time most expensive African transfers. Iwobi moved into sixth spot, pushing Egypt's Mohamed Salah (£36.9m) down to seventh. It was a rare Nigerian big-ticket move this offseason.
It is perhaps a reflection of the current state of the transfer market that Iwobi's transfer barely moved the interest needle on the continent. Certainly, it caused nowhere near as much interest as his uncle Austin Okocha did when he moved to PSG from Fenerbahce in 1998, for the then-African record fee of £12m.