TEAM not scoring enough goals? Sign a striker. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

That has certainly been the common consensus among Wanderers supporters as the club’s drought extended to a record six competitive games, straddling two seasons.

For the record, I agree. Though I think the talented Zach Clough is capable of getting into double figures, I’m mindful of the fact this is his first full season of senior football and I am not expecting too much, too soon.

Likewise, I am backing Gary Madine to grab a dozen goals by the end of the campaign. He’ll need a lot more luck than he has got so far, but I see a spark in the former Sheffield Wednesday man that I like, and I think he’ll prove a good buy in the end.

For all that, I believe Wanderers lack a real penalty box predator, someone who can really sniff out a goal from nothing. Problem is that those kind of players don’t grow on trees.

I’d also argue that the club hasn’t owned a player of that type in some considerable length of time.

I wrote in my previous column that I did not expect the money gained from Tim Ream’s sale to be reinvested in transfer fees, rather go towards the general cost of living.

It is becoming increasingly clear that as he looks to sell or find new investment, owner Eddie Davies and his family have requested that the club stand on its own financial feet – and if you have been following the accounts these last few years, running a Championship club is some considerable expense.

Neil Lennon has brought in Wellington Silva and Francesco Pisano, and is presumably investigating either or both of Rais M’Bolhi and Juan Manuel Casado.

My hunch tells me that they have, or will be signed, with the money Wanderers have saved on Ream’s wages – but I stand to be corrected.

Many Whites fans were disappointed that the Whites did not bring Adam Le Fondre back to the club in the summer. Realistically, it never came close.

Wolves have paid a considerable seven-figure loan fee and taken a large percentage of the striker’s wages. All of this is being done, say my friends down in that neck of the woods, with a view to signing him permanently next summer.

Wanderers had gambled on him in January, using a good chunk of the money they got for Chung-Yong Lee, and it worked out well.

Yet even if Ream had been sold six weeks earlier, I have my doubts as to whether it would have been a wise move to do it again.

Lennon has opted to sign a second right-back in Pisano, and I’ll freely admit that surprised me.

From what I know of the Italian, he is a more defensive type than Lawrie Wilson but was the need greater elsewhere on the pitch? It’s the manager’s call.

I think if Wanderers are to sign another striker it will most likely happen in the loan window.

Gary Hooper has been the name on everyone’s lips for some time now – but just like Le Fondre and Cardiff, his club Norwich City are intent on making the deal worth their while.

Reports suggest the former Celtic striker is on upwards of £30,000 a week and that the Canaries want that fee paid in full during the stay of his loan. That means for a three-month stay it would cost £360,000 at a conservative estimate.

Hooper would be an excellent addition – but he wouldn’t be owned at the end of it, and we’d be back to square one again.

There may well come a time when Wanderers have to bite the bullet and find the money for such a deal from somewhere. Certainly, lingering around the foot of the Championship is not what anyone had in mind this season.

But right now the club can’t really afford to make knee-jerk reactions. It’s time to back the Cloughs, Madines and Emile Heskeys to get back to scoring form – hopefully against Nottingham Forest this afternoon – and make the most of what they have already got.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – if Wanderers can keep their best side on the pitch, it’s not that bad.