Southampton fans have opened up pre-winter signing discussions and Emmanuel Dennis looks a profile that can assist the Saints' attacking acts.
Southampton fans can't make this up. Ross Stewart marches off the pitch in the opening half and the same night, ex-forward Che Adams drops a late goal in a 3-3 clash in Italy.
Far and clear, Adams was the counterpart who complemented Adam Armstrong like no other Saint had managed to. Stewart was growing in this same duty, but a pause from on-field action has left Will Still without concrete answers if the 29-year-old could sustain this long-term.
That said, it will not be a futile St. Mary's request to Johannes Spors for pairing Armstrong with a like-minded attacker.
A fifth of the season is gone, and it's accepted that signings shouldn't be match solutions at this phase. Got it but Saints can't level down beneath putting two goals to secure a game - can't skip the one goal opponents always stamp, some way and somehow.
Emmanuel Dennis can be the helpful striker Cornet couldn't for Saints
As Just Saints summarised, strikers and their full cheat sheet are lazing around with no work. How about Southampton employing a 27-year-old Emmanuel Dennis from there?
In the Premier League, Dennis has vivid critics like last year's Southampton loanee Maxwel Cornet. What the latter meant to a Burnley side in his days, the same impact Dennis demonstrated at Watford.
But the second club nightmare struck Dennis as it hampered Cornet's Premier League prospects. To say then the out of work attacker can't struggle at St. Mary's as Cornet did, will not be a risk free judgment.
Cornet got six convenient months at Southampton and Dennis can also be offered six, beginning from January. If he fails in parallel to Southampton's objectives, then there's no point for continuing.
But if any cheerful impact comes from Dennis' boots, then Southampton fans can pat the decision makers on landing a clinical striker out of nowhere.