Tony Xia has worked the Aston Villa fans into a frenzy by tweeting about 'a world class No.9' striker.
Xia claims Villa are closing in on a player who fits that description, which, understandably, has caused more than a ripple of excitement among the claret and blue faithful.
Allowing for the Chinese businessman's limited but rapidly improving grasp of English, just how do you define 'world class' when it comes to football transfer targets?
We asked fans on Twitter that very question. Here's a selection of their responses.
Craig Carnell: Clinical finisher produces goals out of diddly squat and battles for all balls plus not cheap
Mark Hiley: Probably an international in this case!
Paul Herrick: 20 goals a season consistently
Pete K: Regular starter for a top 15 international team
Stephen O' Leary: Any striker that scores enough goals to get us promoted will be deemed "world class" by me
Porg: A player that can slot into any of the top European teams and make a significant impact.
Pseudo_Kieran: A striker with at least 20+ goals a season for 2-3 seasons
Chris O'Donnell: Players in the ilk of Suarez, Leweandowski, Ibrahimovic are world class. But the term world class is tossed around too lightly!
Iirutsun: The point is, we should be happy that we're looking at great players. @Dr_TonyXia's definition of "world class" matters not.
Chris: A player that any team in the would would pick in their strongest 11.
Coach Bombay: 20+ goals every season, no matter what league or level they are playing at #worldclass
Lord Flacko: someone that definitely won't be signing for us..
Sean Davies: Emile Heskey
Shelley: player who would get into the World team of 11 players. However like word 'legend' it has been diluted to mean international?
dmp_85: A striker that could play for a champions league semi final club
Jonny Nickless: Suarez, Aguero, Ibrahimovic, Lewandowski. Not counting Messi and Ronaldo. That's it. Costa, Higuain, Benzema, Etc a tier below
Paul Barry: 30+ goals in the prem. 40+ goals in the championship. It's all about goals.
Dean Moulder: 'World class' is as pointless a phrase as 'big club'. It is clearly subjective. Eg, Andy Carroll is 'world class' in the air.
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