Our glorious leader Reggie was speaking to Radio Solent where he revealed that, over this weekend, he hoped to sign a 24 year old Spanish striker with Premiership experience. Unfortunately, what with his broken English, the jury is still out on whether or not he meant a Spanish striker or someone just based in Spain - either way, it's paved the way for a whole lot of rumour and guesswork.
"The News" have gone for the latter angle, choosing former Manchester City hitman Paulo Wanchope - very much Costa Rican, but very much based in Spain - as their supposed number one target. They did conveniently leave out the quote about him being 24 though since he's very much 29. The thought of having him here has some fans up in arms complaining that we're "going for the cheap option" or "taking the leftovers", but if it's a player that Perrin reckons could do a job then I'm prepared to trust his judgement. Spending big bucks doesn't guarantee success, as we all know.
Going off the criteria we've been given, there are a possible names we can throw into the ring.
Luciano Figueroa - Came to England with Birmingham very highly rated, and made one substitute appearance. Er, and that was it. He's in the right age range but after a good Copa America he's becoming more highly rated and his value will be increasing by the day.
Diego Forlan - Criticised heavily at Manchester United and probably wasn't quite up to the standards of the then-champions, but he's done well for himself in Spain and is believed to fancy another crack at England.
Facundo Sava - Mask wearing weirdo playing for Celta Vigo, although if I remembe correctly he's only on loan from Fulham. Not a prolific scorer but not a bad player.
Darko Kovacevic - Former team-mate of Dejan at Sheffield Wednesday, he's currently at Sociedad. Into his 30's but still a talent; his spell in England wasn't the most successful and it would be a risk.
John Aloisi - Nah, you're alright thanks. As much as I'd love to see you come crawling back to us after failing your medical at Panathinaikos, one cripple in Fuller is enough for our club I think.
Michael Owen - Oh go on.
And not a single Spaniard amongst them. Still, in the time honoured tradition of lazy exam paper writers who don't know how to end their questions; "discuss".