With Erik Lamela's transfer from Tottenham Hotspur to Sevilla now complete, a grand eight-year era is about to draw to a close at the north London club.
Lamela signing for Sevilla, as part of a reported £21.6 million deal that brings young winger Bryan Gil the other way, heralds the departure of the final member of the "Magnificent Seven" -- the seven players signed by Spurs in 2013 using the proceeds of Gareth Bale's then world-record £85m transfer to Real Madrid that same summer.
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When Spurs found themselves flush with cash but with a Bale-sized hole to fill in coach Andres Villas-Boas' squad, they burned through £105m in just 55 days to plug the gap with seven new faces: Etienne Capoue, Nacer Chadli, Vlad Chiriches, Christian Eriksen, Paulinho, Roberto Soldado and Lamela.
Lamela was the last remaining player of that spending spree, with most of the others proving to be far less magnificent for Spurs than first billed.
This wasn't aided by the fact that Villas-Boas was sacked just four months into their first season and his replacement, Tim Sherwood, lasting just five months in the job before Mauricio Pochettino was hired in the summer of 2014.
EXCLUSIVE! First photo of all seven new #THFC signings pic.twitter.com/WEAxaz22IT
â Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 13, 2013
Here's a look at how Lamela and the rest the Bale-funded septuple fared at Spurs, with their contributions ranging from veritable excellence to virtual irrelevance. (All transfer fees taken from Transfermarkt).