According to reports in the Southern Daily Echo, Southampton striker and Sheffield United target Sam Gallagher won't be leaving the club on loan, and Blades boss Chris Wilder should turn his attentions to Chelsea's Tammy Abraham instead.

What's the word, then?

Well, while the Yorkshire outfit have enjoyed a positive few weeks in the transfer market and have had a brilliant summer overall – except for losing David Brooks to Bournemouth – they still appear to be missing that striker to partner new boy David McGoldrick with Billy Sharp and Leon Clarke getting no younger.

United have been linked with a move for Saints centre-forward Gallagher, who has spent the last two seasons on loan at Blackburn Rovers and Birmingham City respectively, but Mark Hughes says he wants to keep the 22-year-old at St Mary's, as per the Southern Daily Echo.

That news will come as a blow to Wilder, who can make the signing of the summer with a cheeky swoop for a Premier League side's hat-trick hero, who will need to turn his attentions elsewhere if he wants to boost his frontline before the loan window in the Football League closes.

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Why should he target Abraham?

Even though the 20-year-old is one of only three senior strikers at Chelsea right now alongside Alvaro Morata and Olivier Giroud, it is difficult to see him getting much of a look in under Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge this season.

The England U21 international failed to set the world alight during a top-flight loan to Swansea City last term, and it is clear that he needs to be playing regularly to find some form and continue his development.

That will have to come with a Championship move now, and he would certainly arrive at Bramall Lane with plenty of pedigree and promise given he scored 23 times in 41 games at this level during a spell with Bristol City during the 2016/17 campaign.