Manchester City have been unusually goal-shy this season.
That seems an odd statement to make about a team that has scored 22 goals in 11 Premier League games, but when you consider that Pep Guardiola's side have drawn blanks in three league outings, it's clear that they haven't been at their best.
Two of those games - against Southampton and Crystal Palace - have come at the Etihad Stadium. If you found those games boring then let me remind you of the 2006/07 season...
City scored 10 league goals at home. 10. All season. 10 . No team in the history of the Premier League has managed fewer.
It wasn't as if Stuart Pearce didn't have goalscoring options at his disposal either; over the course of the campaign, seven different players took on the goalscoring burden, but the goals just wouldn't come.
Three of those attackers - Bernardo Corradi, Paul Dickov and Emile Mpenza - were signed in either the summer prior to or midway through the season. But what happened to them after their Manchester stay?
Bernardo Corradi
When City paid Valencia £1.8 million for the sun-kissed Italian striker in the summer of 2006, they thought they were getting style and class. In reality, what they got was a bad temper and a memorable goal celebration.
Corradi scored just three goals and was sent off twice in 25 league appearances, with a double against Fulham accounting for 20% of City's home goals that season.
After his second strike, Corradi performed an iconic celebration. Thanking Joey Barton for his two assists, Corradi pretended that the corner flag was a sword and knighted his teammate.
After that productive outing, Corradi waited three months before scoring in a 2-1 defeat away to Portsmouth - and that was that.
The striker spent the following season on loan at Italian outfit Parma, before he left City for Reggina on a free transfer in 2008. He then had spells at Udinese and Montreal Impact before retiring at the end of 2012. Corradi is now the coach of the Italy U17 team.
Paul Dickov
Right, before you start thinking I'm going to slate him, let me make one thing absolutely clear: Paul Dickov will forever be a City legend, irrespective of the struggles of 2006/07. The club arguably wouldn't be where it is today had the Scotsman not scored that late, late equaliser in the Division Two play-off final in 1999.
That's partly why many City fans were happy to see Dickov, by then 33 years old, rejoin the Blues in 2006 after four-and-a-half years away.
Things didn't go quite so well the second time around though, with Dickov failing to find the net in 16 league appearances. From Boxing Day onwards he wasn't included in 17 consecutive matchday squads, although he did make a farewell cameo in a 1-0 defeat to Manchester United on the penultimate day of the season.
After that, he spent time at Blackpool, Leicester, Derby, Leeds and Oldham, before retiring in 2011.
After a foray into management that saw him take charge of Oldham and Doncaster Rovers, Dickov started doing TV punditry for City.
Emile Mpenza
In a last-ditch attempt to end their goalscoring woes, City brought in one-time Belgian prodigy Emile Mpenza from Qatari club Al-Rayyan on a free transfer.
It's a little ironic that the striker who only joined City in February made the biggest impact, but back then not many things surrounding City made sense.
While Mpenza didn't manage to contribute to City's paltry home goals tally, he did score crucial goals in back-to-back wins away at Middlesbrough and Newcastle that helped Pearce's side avoid relegation.
However, the following season under Sven-Goran Eriksson he reminded us all that he was indeed a City striker by scoring just two goals in 15 league outings.
In 2008/09 he dropped down to the Championship to play for Plymouth Argyle, before turning out for Swiss outfit FC Sion, Neftchi Baku of Azerbaijan and finally then-Belgian second-tier side SC Eendracht Aalst, where he played alongside Vincent Kompany's younger brother, Francois.
So, the next time City draw a blank and everyone cries out for Txiki to go and buy a striker... be careful what you wish for.
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