Brennan Johnson's place in Tottenham folklore is secure. It will always be his goal, untidy though it may have been, scrambled inside the near post with a scrape of his studs, that won the Europa League in Bilbao.
He will always be 'Johnson again, ole, ole' to the Spurs fans on account of that strike in the San Mames, his 18th in a prolific season and one to silence some of the sniggering at the back of the room.
It was Johnson who brought the 17-year major trophy drought to a close in N17 by toppling Manchester United in May in the Spanish Basque region and end a long wait of four decades without European success.
Who would have thought then that before the year was out, the Spurs board would have agreed a fee for him to join Crystal Palace.
The deal is not completed. The window is not formally open until New Year's Day and Thomas Frank says he trained fully on Tuesday and is available if selected against Brentford on Thursday.
But Spurs, having won 1-0 at Palace on Sunday, have accepted an offer and the next move is down to Johnson.
Other clubs are interested, including Bournemouth and maybe this is designed to flush out others, such as Aston Villa and Everton, but the fact is Johnson can go for £10m less than they paid Nottingham Forest two-and-a-half years ago.
And while it is a bold decision to cast another reliable goal source aside so soon after Son Heung-min's exit to LAFC in the summer and with Spurs short of goals from open play there is logic to it.
Firstly, Johnson cannot get in Frank's team. Mohamed Kudus is a fixture on the right wing, freshly signed for £55m from West Ham.
Johnson is not going to displace him despite scoring four to Kudus's three goals in all competitions.
Playing on the left, Johnson simply does not carry the same threat so as Frank settles upon a preferred line up he is on the bench. He has appeared in all but two of the 18 Premier League games this season but started only six. And when injured players including Dejan Kulusevski return he will be further from starting.
Kudus, Kulusevski and Johnson all want to play on the right, and nobody has made the left wing their own since Son.
At 24, Johnson probably wants to play more regularly, and Frank must sell to create not only funds to reinvest but space within the squad if he is to strengthen it.
Spurs have sold badly in recent years. From Tanguy Ndombele and Giovani Lo Celso to Ryan Sessesgnon there are many examples of players signed for huge fees who have left for very little.
If Johnson leaves for £35m he will be the club's third biggest sale in 10 years, behind Harry Kane and Kyle Walker.
'That's key,' said Frank, on the matter of selling. 'It's not only doing one thing right, playing a specific way or getting the culture right or whatever, there's a lot of elements we need to do well to be able to compete at the highest level.
'Part of it is being able to sell. You see the other top clubs, they are quite good at selling. That's something we need to be improving. That's something I know the guys above me are working very hard on. Everything's linked.'
Johnson might not be the last. There is interest from Juventus and other Italian clubs in Radu Dragusin, who returned after 11 months out with a serious knee injury in the win at Palace on Sunday. Spurs would like to sell Yves Bissouma if they can find a buyer.
Frank hopes it will help him revive and rebalance his squad as he prepares to go into the market in January, when the main priority will be a wide attacker who can play on the left.