The January transfer window is officially open, and while Juan Manuel Iturbe is so far the only big signing that has been confirmed by a Premier League club after he agreed to join Bournemouth from Roma, fans of almost every club in the league will be clamoring for new signings.
Liverpool are being linked with all sorts of goalkeepers, Arsenal are being linked to strikers and midfielders, and Manchester United are being linked to almost everyone, but history suggests that January deals can often not work out as planned.
In fact, desperation to stay up, to make a title surge, or to cover injured players has resulted in some truly shocking panic buys down the years, and here are seven that stuck out to us as particularly bad.
Chris Samba - QPR - £12.5 Million
Signed from Anzhi less than a year after joining the truly weird Russian club, Samba was brought in to offer some stability at the back of a hap-hazard QPR side.
Instead, he played just 10 times, including one performance against Fulham where he apologised to the fans after the match on twitter, and the R's were relegated.
Samba then bizarrely returned to Anzhi for a reported £12m in the summer.
Andy Carroll - Liverpool - £35 million
We don't need to tell you anything about Andy Carroll's struggles at Liverpool, as the deal is constantly brought up to mock the club, especially when he comes back to haunt them as he did on Saturday with the second goal in a 2-0 win for West Ham at Upton Park.
He was supposed to be a future England regular and offer Liverpool another dimension as a perfect foil for Suarez.. But that was never going to happen really.
Savio - West Ham - £9 million
West Ham themselves have had several shocking desperation deals in the January window, but under Gianfranco Zola the relegation threatened Hammers threw £9m down the drain when they brought Savio over from Bescia.
He was touted as one of the most exciting talents in Italian football, but in English football he was absolute muck, and made just 10 appearances in three years with the London club.
Kostas Mitroglou - Fulham - £12 million
When Fulham signed Greek striker Mitroglou from Olympiacos, they turned a few heads as the striker had been enjoying a highly successful run in the Champions League where he found the net with regularity.
When he arrived in London, mental manager Felix Magath deemed him unfit to play, and Fulham were relegated with their record signing making just three appearances before heading back to Piraeus.
David N'Gog - Swansea - Undisclosed
Swansea needed a striker, and clearly thought "Hey, Liverpool must have thought he was decent once.." so they made the decision to spend money to bring David N'Gog from Bolton in the Championship.
The fee has remained undisclosed, presumably to save further embarrasment, as N'Gog was heading back to France six months later having played three times.
Benjani - Man City - £9.5 million
We'll let Harry Redknapp tell you why Sven Goran Eriksson's need for a striker got the better of him, although it's not like the wasted money mattered to City in the end.
"I had to shove him out of the door!" @Redknapp sold Benjani - but he didn't want to go! #FletchAndSav https://t.co/lk4DDtQxpp
— Fletch And Sav (@FletchAndSav) January 2, 2016
Juan Cuadrado - Chelsea - £23 million
After getting rid of Andre Schurrle, Jose Mourinho noticed a void in the role of unused expensive winger, so he decided to halt any momentum that Cuadrado had gained from the 2014 World Cup by signing the Colombian and never playing him, before sending him back to Italy when Juventus came in for him in the next transfer window.
