Southampton had a Brazilian plan to cure their attacking pain-points but Liverpool has pushed the Saints aside.
Inside seven days, Southampton have demonstrated how funny as competitors they can be while playing. The Saints buttered Sheffield United fans into smelling back-to-back Championship wins for a full half, and perhaps sold unbeaten season dreams to Liverpool fans.
Since Still and company left Merseyside, the Reds are tumbling from awful to miserable to plenty of underwhelming what-ifs, that can be next.
Overall, a momentum searching Southampton unit have shattered the tempo of the honourable English champions and two teams will have to cough up the consequences. First, any outfit that lies in the waiting list to play Liverpool, and second, the Saints with an off-field damage calling them already.
Around end of July, Southampton were assembling a pile of right-wing succession ideas after Tyler Dibling who coincidentally ended up at the Reds' neighbours Everton.
Southampton's Alysson strategy is cooked after Liverpool's intervention
Now, the crux of this saga was Tom Fellows taking over Dibling's dressing room locker but Fellows' flair could have been neglected for a Brazilian's creativity. The Saints were glancing Gremio's attacker Alysson Edward with impressive eyes but if anything that may have kept their wallets zipped could have been his age.
Internally, the verdict could be along the lines of keeping tabs on Alysson's progress and then weighing up the funds, if necessary.
Currently, it's becoming unnecessary with BolaVip suggesting in their words: "It's worth remembering that the main interested party for some time now has been Liverpool, from England, who are monitoring his performance on the field and are currently studying ways to have him in the squad in the next window."
The Saints are not in pole position for Alysson anymore but who says no to the 19-year-old potentially studying Rhian Brewster's failed case and snubbing Liverpool for St. Mary's.