Juan Mata is Manchester United's new £37million record signing.
Such a sizeable fee is inevitably followed by lofty expectation and the pressure will be on the Spaniard from his first kick.
That has long since been the case for club-record buys and, if history tells us anything, it is that such burden can weigh heavy on the prized player.
Here, Sportsmail takes a look at the fate of the record signings of each Premier League club and determines if they proved a flop or a hit...
I dont think mata is a flop, essien might be.
How can anyone signed less than a week ago be considered a flop already?