Cyle Larin has Southampton to thank for a call-up to the Canada national team for the World Cup.
Scoring nine goals from 22 appearances last season, the 31-year-old has now put pen to paper on a permanent contract at St. Mary's, with the Saints reigniting his lost hunger for goals.
Only scoring one goal during a pitiful loan stint with Feyenoord, before embarking on a move to England, this switch was make-or-break for his World Cup chances.
Thankfully, taking that bold leap has paid off, with Larin noting that getting back into the rhythm of scoring goals with Southampton has given him a "great confidence" to succeed on the world's most-watched stage.
Costing just £2.5m to snap up for good, Saints fans will be hopeful that the goals just keep coming next season from their new hero, with Larin potentially turning into a James Beattie-level legend at St. Mary's.
James Beattie's unlikely rise at Southampton
Like Larin, Beattie would cost a modest amount to win all the way back in 1998, with the 6-foot-1 forward only costing £1m to pick up.
Not much would have been expected of Beattie on his arrival, with Larin also wandering in as a slight unknown, with the now retired 48-year-old only playing a handful of games for Blackburn Rovers here and there, before moving down South.
Scoring five goals during his debut Premier League season was a promising return, but that was only the start for Beattie on the South Coast, as he went on to grab a lethal 76 strikes from 232 total clashes.
The 2002/03 season in the top-flight even saw him enter into the golden boot conversation next to the likes of Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Thierry Henry, as he bagged a red-hot 23 goals from 38 league games.
Safe to say, the £1m spent on his services was money well spent, as he morphed into a modern Premier League icon at St. Mary's.
Larin will be hoping he can follow in Beattie's esteemed footsteps, with the 31-year-old's late career chapter with the Saints only just getting started.
Larin will want to follow in his footsteps
The well-travelled striker's aim, when linking back up with his Southampton teammates after the World Cup, will be to fire home the goals that make promotion a reality.
He already has eight second tier goals next to his name, from 16 appearances, so it's clear that is a marksman capable of setting the intense division alight.
But, he will want to tread along the same path as Beattie even more, away from just being remembered for being a goalscoring hero, by becoming an iconic presence in the Premier League for the South Coast giants.
He has the goalscoring chops to do this, too, with Larin putting away strikes for fun in the MLS, La Liga, the Turkish Super Lig, and the Jupiler Pro League previously, a red-hot 100 to be exact.
He will be desperate to make his next challenge the Premier League, with the ageing striker bowing out gracefully from his nomadic career with a memorable stint in one of the world's most revered leagues.
Before he gets too caught up dreaming, though, the Championship can be a cruel beast, so promotion isn't guaranteed.
Yet, if he can keep up his lethal loan form, Southampton should be near the top of the second-tier mountain when May arrives on the calendar next year.
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