A mark of Luther Blissett's talents is that AC Milan shelled out £1M back in 1983 to acquire his services.
It came off the back of a success at Watford for the Jamaica-born England striker, who scored over 150 league goals for the club in three different spells and holds the appearance record.
Tonight, we had the pleasure of chatting to him about his career on Off The Ball tonight.
Looking back on the Watford side he played in alongside John Barnes and under the management of future England manager Graham Taylor back in the late '70s and into the 1980s, he charted their extraordinary rise from the Fourth Division to top flight runners-up in a meteoric spell.
"At the time we came together and it was an amazing group of players and we gelled very well together and success just came. We used to look forward to each game and just enjoyed it and because we enjoyed it, the performances were a bit special," he reminisced, before talking about the period where his own avalanche of goals began in earnest and his first impressions of a young Barnes.
Luther Blissett in 2014 (Adam Davy / EMPICS Sport)
Blissett also talked about that move to AC Milan, which lasted from '83 to 1984, before a return to Watford.
"It was very difficult to turn it down because how often do you get to play for one of the biggest clubs in the entire world. It was something I had to do because I felt it would definitely improve me as a footballer and as a person because the way they prepare and the way they train, that was something which I added to everything that I already was learning at Watford and just brought it to another level."
And the man, who also played for Derry City briefly in a spell in 1993 that he described as "tough" in the competitive sense but "enjoyable" as an experience, had strong words about management and coaching opportunities, having taken his first qualifications when he was 17.
"It's something I'd really love to have really taken on and done more of but opportunities were never really given to me. That door never opened for me," he explained.
"I played football in the first team from the Fourth Division right the way to the First Division. I've played in Italy, I've played non-league football, I've played international football, so I found it quite insulting at times when people would write back and tell me that 'you don't have the experience to take this job on' - things have that just got on my goat a little bit because then they give the job to somebody else who is, when you go on what they've actually achieved in their career when they played, they've had no experience compare to what I've had."
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