January transfer thread

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There’s two things we need to not conflate here.

People will say Speakman has failed, and he has, but only to an extent.

I personally don’t believe he’s failed in his planning. Just in the execution. He’s not been able to get the deals done. Which is all that matters. If it’s because the right player wasn’t available; then perhaps we should have reconfigured what the right player means.

But I don’t think the planning was wrong. They’ll have done everything they could. Just failed to execute
 
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If we don’t get a striker in we’ve totally wasted a fantastic start and all the good feeling within the fan base will have evaporated too. How can you not learn from the mistake from the first window of the season?!
And what if gelhardt comes in and scores loads between now n the end of the season? Doesnt mean weve wasted a great start if we dont bring in a striker, i agree itll be disappointing but we still have quality attacking players
 
I don’t doubt they’re working hard and there’s no doubt the Stewart injury has made a difference but it’s multiple windows now and we went into this one saying we needed two in. Even accounting for the Stewart situation, we failed with that. Looks very likely we counted on Everton getting sorted, despite saying all window we wouldn’t do that.
It was quite hard to foresee Everton being quite so **** at bringing a forward or two in.
 
If we don’t get a striker in we’ve totally wasted a fantastic start and all the good feeling within the fan base will have evaporated too. How can you not learn from the mistake from the first window of the season?!
All the good feelings from the fan base will have disappeared.<doh>
Should you not be watching your team in the cup rather than talking s hite on here?
 
Just over an hour left of the window. I hope Speakman is currently scouting strikers for Everton so we get Simms back.
 
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