Looking at it from the outside, it seems like a desperate transfer.
A 30-year-old striker who was loaned to a Turkish club after making a minimal impact in the Premier League... signing for Manchester United?
If Netherlands forward Wout Weghorst was being considered for a return to the English top flight after his modest spell at Burnley, before this weekend you would have imagined it would be to a club battling relegation, not one trying to get into the Champions League.
But that is the frankly sensational scenario. So would this surprise potential January loan move to United make sense for Erik ten Hag and his needs?