After a season of so much bitter disappointment at Aberdeen, Calvin Ramsay's imminent sale to Liverpool provides a remarkable individual success story.
It's a big deal. Not just in terms of the club record fee that will be earned - £4.5million up front plus £3.5m of potential add-ons - but in the sheer magnitude of the purchaser.
Even the most prominent Scottish players aren't supposed to leave the domestic league and directly join one of the very best squads in world football. Recent history shows as much.
Andy Robertson had to take a detour through Hull City from Dundee United to reach his stellar heights at Anfield.