well, something no one else seems to have aluded to in any detail...if these expected/hoped for transfers come off (and i am not counting my chickens by any means) it says a lot about the new recruitment team, i mean, it cannot be the easiest task in football to persuade an agent that his client will benefit more from a move to a 3rd division club than staying 'safe' in the premier league, maybe the young lads are also looking at the players in front of them and deciding a move is best for them but still, for a 3rd division club to even interest these lads is damn good going.
aiming for players to fit a system has been tried before but was still a bit of a scattergun approach with 'friends' involved, this time it seems more focussed...there is, of course, no guarantee that a move will work for any number of reasons but i am getting the feeling that given time we will get the players we want/need, while us mere fans are getting a little bit of a fret on, those who can make a difference are doing just that, nice and quietly behind the scenes.