It's what I expected. I said a while back I expected the last of our signings would be loans and depth and that's what it's ended up being. No shame in that and no over the top spending.
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Could have been worse. We have been teased with the prospect of Pelkas and a mystery winger for weeks so it was good to get one of those over the line.
Do you want the really great news....!!!!!!.... there's only 18 games to go before the JANUARY TRANSFER WINDOW....
A big squad needs a lot of management, I'm not sure we have the coaching staff to keep everyone happy. Peter Van Der Veen and Andy Dawson aren't enough, the 3 wonder kids from Arsenal & Chelsea alone will be used to a massive training structure. Have we planned in enough coaches for this level of recruitment?
Watford kept hold of their two "stars", Norwich retained most of their Premier League squad, Burley strengthened with the player we courted for weeks, we know how outclassed we were by West Brom and we will find out on Sunday about Sheffield United. When we go up as Champions, not sure who will get the other automatic spot.
On paper that all looks good business but let's see how it all pans out. Are the foreign imports robust enough and committed enough for 2 games a week in Autumn and Winter? The 3 teenage loanees have about 8 cup games of experience between them. How many will be able to step up to proper football? A plethora of riches on some positions, have we left ourselves critically short in others?
Cheap ? Cheap would have been not signing him at all, that's cheap. Any player coming up here from Chelsea will not be cheap. We need bums on seats now, the retail outlets booming and the corporate lot wading in. It would also help if we scored more goals then we concede, starting on Sunday.
Our transfer business is quite astonishing compared with previous years and amazing testimony to the work Acun, Tan and Lee Darnborough been doing. But the shortage of defenders still seems very odd to me. Be fascinating to know if we've got what Shota thinks he needs or what Acun and Tan think he should want. I keep thinking about Acun saying he'd rather lose 4-3 than draw 0-0 and then Shota coming in and keeping us up by playing 3 CBs.
I'm actually going to change my stance to spending 10m and god knows what a week for Chelsea to bring in Aubameyang.
