Yet another flash of the cash has been made by a Chinese Super League club, with Tianjin Quanjin acquiring Fiorentina forward Nikola Kalinic for around 45 million euros.
A pursuit of Chelsea's Diego Costa failed to get off the ground with the North-Eastern China club opting for the experienced Croatia striker in his stead.
And despite Kalinic's 50m euro release clause, Quanjin seem to have secured the coup of reducing the 29-year-old's fee to a mere 45m euros.
Such a deal would mark the fourth most-expensive transfer to have taken place in the Asian league, surpassing the 42m euro deal for Jackson Martinez but lagging behind the fees of Oscar, Hulk, and Alex Teixeira.
Already this season, Kalinic has bagged 12 goals in all competitions for the Viola, placing him an impressive joint-eighth in the Serie A scoring charts.
Fiorentina only paid 5m euros for the striker when he signed from Dnipro in 2015