Gabriel Jesus' knee injury and subsequent surgery will have an impact on Arsenal for the foreseeable future.
Whilst Eddie Nketiah is the natural replacement for the Brazilian when the Premier League season resumes on Boxing Day, options beyond the Hale End academy graduate are quite thin even with the imminent return of Emile Smith Rowe who has been tipped to play as a centre-forward by Mikel Arteta.
With the January transfer window fast approaching, there is a chance for the Arsenal manager and newly-appointed sporting director Edu Gaspar to push ahead with plans to sign a wide forward amid links to Shakhtar Donetsk's Mykhaylo Mudryk or Cody Gakpo of PSV Eindhoven.
