Roberto De Zerbi is not as panicked about Tottenham's striker issues as many others. Only two Premier League sides have scored less than Spurs so far this season, and there are concerns over summer signing Omar Marmoush, who has not hit the ground running in North London.
Marmoush was supposed to fix Tottenham's lack of goals, but he has just one goal in nine Premier League games, and his performances have been below par. Meanwhile, Dominic Solanke has continued to struggle, as he has done for much of his time at the club, scoring just once himself in 10 league appearances so far this season. Elsewhere, Richarlison has been cast aside.
It has been a disappointing start to the season in general for Spurs, who are down in 11th place despite putting together a record summer transfer window in terms of spending. Spurs did have a bounce back in recent weeks, winning three on the bounce, but they have since lost to Leeds United to start the alarm bells ringing again going into the international break.
With Spurs having been such big spenders in the summer transfer window, the question now becomes whether they will invest again in the January window, which is a notoriously expensive window to do business, especially for key positions like the striker position.
GIVEMESPORT's Ben Jacobs has provided some important insight on the Market Madness podcast.
"What they won't want to do is necessarily go all in and panic buy in January for someone on a long-term contract, instead of just biding their time and waiting it out," he said.
Because you've got Dominic Solanke, who is liked, according to my information, by Roberto De Zerbi.
Hopefully, there's other wider players and versatile attackers that can chip in with goals. And Omar Marmoush is still there as well and can play in more than one position.
"So they're short on goals. But unless you disagree, Kate, they're not actually that short, in my opinion, of attacking options, they just maybe could use a luxury extra number nine option.
"But if everyone's fit, Roberto de Zerbi won't be pressing the panic button. So they could move for a striker in January, but only if the right target presents itself."
Who that right target could be remains to be seen, especially with the prices they are likely to face in the winter window. Top clubs do not want to sell their best strikers in the winter, so it's usually a case of paying a huge fee or settling for less than best, which Spurs would be wise to stop doing.
It is certainly not out of the question that Marmoush comes good, given he has a recent history of scoring Premier League goals for Manchester City. But the narrative is already turning against him, and there is no sign of Solanke becoming a reliable source of goals.
The goals are going to have to come from somewhere, and in the Premier League, they rarely come in the form of a makeshift striker, so Spurs would be wise to look elsewhere if, come January, they feel as though Marmoush and Solanke are not - or will not become - reliable sources of goals.