Manchester United's priority has to be signing a striker in January.
Even before Cristiano Ronaldo parted ways with the Reds, the need to improve their forward options was clear. Scoring just 20 league goals this season and languishing on zero goal difference is nowhere near good enough should the club wish to be in the Champions League next season.
Now Ronaldo has departed, Anthony Martial is unchallenged as the first-choice centre-forward. He is in good form under Erik ten Hag but Louis van Gaal's concern about the Frenchman will still bother many United supporters.
Speaking in 2016, the then-United manager said: "I like him [Martial] on the wing, I don’t believe he is an out-and-out goalscorer like Ruud van Nistelrooy. In the future he might change, he certainly has the ability, but at the moment I see him as a wing player.
"He has had an excellent first season in England and he can only get better with age and experience. He can improve further, I can see things in his game that he can work on, but the best way to improve is to play at a higher level and that is what he is doing."
Of course, as Van Gaal suggested could be the case, Martial has adapted his game in the six years that followed those comments and is now more comfortable in the number nine role. But there is always that lurking suspicion that he may be better served on the wing.
This is a fear that many United fans now have about pursuing Cody Gakpo as a replacement for Ronaldo. Martial may have been able to adapt his game enough to suit playing as a centre forward, but there's a risk attached to such a tactic and asking Gakpo to do the same doesn't necessarily mean United would eventually see the best of the Netherlands youngster were he to move to Old Trafford.
Perhaps Van Gaal's comments are a warning for United to target a striker this winter instead of trying to mould a winger into a frontman.