Manchester City have just smashed the record for the biggest transfer fee between British clubs for a British player by landing Raheem Sterling from Liverpool for £49m.
The mega-deal comes half a century after they did the same thing by bringing in Denis Law from Huddersfield Town.
That £55,000 move was in March 1960, when Law, then 20, had made 91 Town appearances, the first of them as a 16-year-old.
City beat Arsenal, Chelsea and Glasgow Rangers to land their man.
And the transfer eclipsed the previous record of £45,000 when inside-forward Albert Quixall moved from Sheffield Wednesday to Manchester United in 1958.
Law, also an inside-forward in the old system, had been plucked from junior football in his native Aberdeen as a 15-year-old.
Born in February 1940, he became Scotland’s then-youngest post-War debutant in October 1958, scoring in the 3-0 win over Wales in Cardiff.
He won 55 caps in all, six while at Town, and scored 30 goals at international level.
Law, who notched 19 times for Town, spent 15 months at City before a £100,000 move to Torino.
That made him the first British player sold for a six-figure fee.
He was making history once again in July 1962, when Manchester United became the first British club to spend a six-figure fee (£116,000) on a player.
Law, of course, enjoyed his greatest days at Old Trafford, featuring alongside George Best and Bobby Charlton in the so-called ‘Holy Trinity’.
Linked with a return to Town in 1972 (it never materialised), he completed his career with another season, 1973-74, back at Manchester City.
The Maine Road club also set a British transfer record in September 1979, when they paid Wolves £1.45m for Steve Daley.
