There's been a running theme among Southampton players in recent transfer windows.
You know what it is, we know what it is, even Claude Puel surely knows what it is.
Last summer, Sadio Mané joined Nathaniel Clyne, Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren in trading the south coast for Merseyside, while Rickie Lambert also made the move before his Anfield spell was cut short.
So, when Manolo Gabbiadini struck twice for Puel's team to bring them back from a 2-0 deficit in the EFL Cup Final, you just knew what would follow.
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The goals were Gabbiadini's fourth and fifth in a Southampton shirt - not bad, seeing as it was only his third game for the club - so it's perhaps no surprise that the internet might link him with a Liverpool squad without a lethal orthodox striker.
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And the former Napoli man wasn't the only Saints player to attract the theoretical attention of Jürgen Klopp.
Jack Stephens impressed at centre-back after a shaky start, and the England Under-21 man has been earmarked as a replacement for Lovren. Only by random people on the internet, mind you.
Elsewhere, Liverpool aren't even lacking when it comes to attacking midfielders, but some people seem convinced they'd be able to find a place for Nathan Redmond.
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