Manchester City spent around £65million this summer on signing Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez. Just let that figure sink in for a minute.
They might have known what they were dealing with when it came to Haaland's release clause from Borussia Dortmund but the initial £14million outlay on Alvarez is looking like just as much of a steal.
Increasingly, the headache for Pep Guardiola is going to be how to manage the minutes of his superstar strikers. In an era where No. 9s are becoming scarcer, City have two of the best in the role and they are both only 22.
Alvarez's return of seven goals for City might pale in comparison with Haaland's 23, but a return of 0.7 goals per 90 minutes for a player who only moved to Europe from Argentina in the summer and hasn't had a pre-season is still remarkable. When Haaland was absent for the Blues just before the World Cup, Alvarez shone when given the chance to steal the limelight, which says a lot about his character as well.
Since the World Cup began, Haaland has been returning to peak fitness, overcoming an ankle injury that hindered and then sidelined him just before the season hit the pause button. But while Haaland has been recuperating, Alvarez has been starring in Qatar as the Robin to Lionel Messi's Batman in an Argentina side one win away from glory.
Alvarez came off the bench in Argentina's first two games of the World Cup, the defeat to Saudi Arabia and the edgy win against Mexico, but he's now started four games in a row, scoring four goals, and looks like a certainty to start the World Cup final against France on Sunday.
This is turning into Messi's World Cup and the 35-year-old was magnificent against Croatia, but Alvarez was just as valuable, winning the penalty from which Messi opened the scoring and then adding the next two himself. Their partnership has been a significant find for Lionel Scaloni, with Alvarez's energy and pressing intensity allowing his senior partner to remain upfield when Argentina chase the ball. They've complemented each other excellently.
It's been proof that Alvarez can thrive in what is essentially a two-man strikeforce, even if pinning Messi down to a position when Argentina have the ball has been much harder.
Guardiola might have been watching that with interest as he ponders whether to start his two elite centre-forwards together more often in the second half of the season.
So far they have been on the pitch together in nine games, totalling 268 minutes, in which City have scored 13 goals, at one every 20 minutes. It's an imperfect science, but that equates to 4.5 goals per 90 minutes.
The longest they've played together was the 69 minutes against Forest, with the Blues 5-0 up before Haaland, who already had a hat-trick, was withdrawn. Against Crystal Palace, they were together for 23 minutes, in which time Haaland also scored a hat-trick.
There have also been occasions when Alvarez has come on to play with Haaland when City had games won. Rather than replacing the Norwegian, he played with him for 19 minutes against Wolves, 15 minutes against Manchester United and 20 minutes against Southampton.
Guardiola might have wanted to rest other players in those fixtures, but it could also hint at a desire to try and get the two to develop an understanding. On several occasions this season he has been adamant they can play together.
The Catalan was predicting they could form a partnership in pre-season and after the win at Wolves in September he again praised their link-up play and combinations. Most recently, after Alvarez scored in the Carabao Cup win at Chelsea, he suggested they could be paired together against defensive teams.
"They can play together," Guardiola said. "Against teams that defend so deep, they can share. The good players, they can always play together, and in this squad we have many."
Haaland is clearly almost impossible to leave out, but after his performances for City just before the break and now in Qatar, it's becoming increasingly difficult to leave Alvarez out as well. Maybe the solution is to unleash them together on the Premier League.