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Juventus want to win the Champions League at all costs - even if that means paying €90 million for a player who will turn 29 before the turn of the year.
The imminent departure of Paul Pogba to Manchester United threatened to undermine Juve's attempts to re-establish themselves among Europe's elite and Manchester City's interest in Leonardo Bonucci also suggested the Bianconeri were a big fish swimming with sharks.
The Italian champions are presently in the process of tying Bonucci the latter down to a new deal, one that will earn the play-making centre-half €5m season after tax, but it is the move for Higuain that is of greatest significance.
It is a statement signing; a message to the rest of Europe's elite that Juve mean business. Big business, as underlined not only by the €90m transfer fee but also the fact that Higuain will earn €7m after tax for the next four years.
It is now 20 years since Juventus last lifted the Champions League, which is an agonising drought for a club of their size. They have been beaten finalists four times in the interim, losing in 1997, in 1998, on penalties to AC Milan in 2003, and suffering a 3-1 defeat to a brilliant Barcelona side in Berlin just over 12 months ago.
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