After Salomon Rondon joined Newcastle United before the transfer window closed and was handed the number nine shirt, he got tacit approval from the club's biggest living legend when Alan Shearer claimed the former Malaga and West Brom striker might turn out to be the best bit of business done by a Premier League club this summer.
A bold claim from Shearer, who has watched many of his Toon replacements come and all too quickly go, without making an impression (at least a positive one) on the St James' Park faithful.
In the early years of the Premier League era, Newcastle fans were spoilt with forwards. Aside from Shearer, they witnessed Les Ferdinand and Andy Cole pull on the famous black and white. Even everyone's favourite Dubai helicopter pilot Michael Owen was sort of decent for the Magpies... for a bit.
However, since Shearer's retirement from the beautiful game in 2006, Newcastle's striking options have turned rather sour. Here are six of the worst forwards to appear at St James' Park over the past 12 years...
6. Seydou Doumbia
Younger and more video game savvy Newcastle fans rejoiced at the sight of Seydou Doumbia finally getting his opportunity to play Premier League football, with the Ivory Coast international most commonly known for his 93-rated pace on FIFA.
Doumbia joined the Magpies on a loan deal in February 2016 with a view to making the transfer permanent the following summer.
Three appearances, zero goals and Newcastle's relegation to the Championship meant that a permanent move was never going to happen, however.
5. Nile Ranger
Where do we start with this one?
Ten years ago, Newcastle's director of football Dennis Wise thought that criminally convicted 15-year-old Nile Ranger had the temperament to make it to the big time and brought him to the Toon academy.
Ranger was charged with four criminal offences and one FA homophobic charge during his four-year spell in the North East, before moving to Blackpool in 2014 where he was equally troublesome.
Ranger did manage to score twice in 51 appearances for the Magpies, but no one's really going to remember that are they?
4. Luuk De Jong
The 2014 arrival of Luuk De Jong was another Newcastle loan signing that got the Toon fans initially excited to see him play. This was a fully-proven international striker - a player who scored 39 times in 76 games for FC Twente between 2009 and 2012. What could go wrong?
12 games, no goals, and De Jong was never to be seen again.
3. Shefki Kuqi
Former Blackburn and Crystal Palace striker Shefki Kuqi only managed to score a total of three goals for Championship sides Derby County and Swansea City during the first half of the 2010/11 season. So naturally Premier League Newcastle gave the Finn a top-flight contract.
Even Kuqi himself was surprised at the move, saying after his arrival at St James' Park that he certainly wasn't expecting to play Premier League football again and was one of the "happiest footballers in the world" after joining the Magpies.
He was less happy when he was released six months later having made six appearances without scoring. He then joined Oldham Athletic, where he helped the Latics finish 16th in League One the following season.
2. Emmanuel Riviere
Unlike many of the players mentioned in this list - Emmanuel Riviere did manage to score a goal (just one) for Newcastle during his unsuccessful spell at the club. That being said, the Frenchman was on the books at St James' Park for three full seasons.
He joined the Magpies for £6m, helped the club get relegated in his second campaign at St James' Park before joining French club Metz in the summer of 2017 for £1.3m.
1. Xisco
Ah, Xisco. Remember him? Newcastle fans certainly do, but for all the wrong reasons.
He joined the Magpies in 2008 for a then fairly pricey fee of £5.7m, but ended up being Newcastle's seventh choice striker behind Michael Owen, Obafemi Martins, Andy Carroll, Peter Lovenkrands, Shola Ameobi and Mark Viduka.
He did manage to score on his Newcastle debut - a 2-1 home defeat to Hull City - but did little else.
However, a transfer away from the club was blocked by FIFA as the Spaniard had already played for two clubs that year - and couldn't appear for a third.
You would have thought the player would have been sold very quickly at the earliest opportunity, but no. Somehow, Xisco stayed on the books at St James' Park for four more years. He was sent off in a Newcastle Reserves games for violent conduct in 2010, in a season where he was even placed behind Nile Ranger in striker pecking order by manager Chris Houghton.
He finally left the club in January 2013, but he will always be remembered by Newcaslte fans one way or another.