In Chelsea, there are very willing sellers. In the mega-rich Saudi Arabian league, there are ambitious buyers with the huge plans and amounts of cash to match.
Together they have joined forces to potentially produce one of the stories of the summer window.
The exodus of Chelsea players to the Middle East that is in the works has raised eyebrows because a convenient possible solution has emerged which could go some way to solving some of the Londoners’ biggest issues.
They need to bring in funds, lower their wage bill and trim the size of their squad and it would help if a big chunk of that was done before the end of this month.