Record £15million striker who returned to the Premiership after spending a season with Atletico Madrid in Spain.
Chelsea had expressed an interest in signing him from Leeds 12 months earlier: what impact might he have had for the Blues in the 1999/2000 season?
Despite playing in a relegated side in the Liga Primera he finished up as the leading scorer, and was snapped up by Chelsea as soon as the 1999/2000 season had finished.
A predator in front of goal, Jerrell, as his mother calls him, made his name in Portugal with Boavista.
George Graham snapped him up for Leeds in summer 1997. His goalscoring made him an instant hero at Elland Road, a status he lost when he asked to leave the club because they wouldn't pay him enough.
There can be fewer more single-minded strikers in the world, a facet that does not always endear him to team-mates.
Proved his worth by winning the Premiership's golden boot award for the 2000/01 season. In all competitions he netted 27 goals.
Did even better the following season when grabbing 33 goals in all competitions, striking up a fine partnership with Eidur Gudjohnsen. That coincided with being handed a greater chance on the international stage with Holland after being amazingly ignored for so long.
Still not exactly a favourite among fans in the lowlands, mainly down to his powerful style rather than a pretty 'Total Football' approach.
In the summer of 2002 speculation began to grow that Chelsea were desperate to off-load the striker to help ease what was a crippling debt. Some claimed he was available for £10million, others £30million. What seemed certain is that he was up for transfer. By then he had scored an amazing 55 goals in 89 games for Chelsea.
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