Matt Doherty ticks plenty of boxes for Jose Mourinho and Tottenham Hotspur and crucially he also helps them get around another problem in their squad.
Spurs have long struggled with the number of foreign players in their squad and with the arrival of Denmark international Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg this month again reached their limit of 17 in Jose Mourinho's European squad.
What does not help is that UEFA and the Premier League have different views on what constitutes a homegrown player.
The Premier League say that "a Home-Grown Player means a player who, irrespective of nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to The Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons, or 36 months, before his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21)."
UEFA state that those three seasons must be spent only within the national association of the country where the player's football is being played, so for Spurs players that would be under the England FA.
So for Ben Davies, who other than three years spent as a youngster in Denmark, was with Swansea as a teenager and qualifies as homegrown with the Premier League. However, as Swansea fall under the Wales FA, he is not homegrown in UEFA's eyes.
Eric Dier, who spent his academy years in Portugal, is considered foreign by both the Premier League and UEFA, despite being a current England international.
Yet Republic of Ireland international Doherty fits the bill for both squads as a homegrown player because he was bought by Wolves from Bohemians as an 18-year-old for £75,000 and spent the required three seasons with the English club.
During Wolves' run in the Europa League this season to the quarter-finals, Doherty was named as one of their homegrown players.
It is not just on the main lists where the Premier League and UEFA differ.
In the Premier League, U21 players do not have to be registered, which means Gedson Fernandes does not have to be accounted for despite coming from Portugal in January.
However, UEFA's version - the B list - requires U21 players to have spent two seasons at the club.
Juan Foyth was able to get on that list last season but now has to be registered on the main list in Europe because he did not spend three years with Spurs before turning 21.
Gedson would face the same problem in the 2021/22 season should Tottenham make his loan deal permanent.
