‘Wait until the end of the window before judging’
Okay. This transfer window has not been ideal. We’ve made some good signings and it looked like a change in the right direction but we’ve still made the same fundamental mistakes as last summer. In fact, letting Óscar leave without a replacement is a carbon copy of what happened last summer. I get it, players turn us down, fees can’t be agreed with clubs etc. but yet again we’ve only got two strikers until January at the earliest and neither fill me with much confidence. Bedia is alright but may take time to settle (how many times have we made that excuse for new signings recently?) and Burstow was absolute cack at this level last season.
This is after a whole lot of piss and wind from our over-excited owner about bringing in a third striker if Óscar went. It’s inexcusable, really. The club has had over two months to assemble a squad for the new manager and they’ve left him short in key areas. If both strikers get injured for any significant length of time and/or Zambrano gets banned, we are knackered.
Okay. This transfer window has not been ideal. We’ve made some good signings and it looked like a change in the right direction but we’ve still made the same fundamental mistakes as last summer. In fact, letting Óscar leave without a replacement is a carbon copy of what happened last summer. I get it, players turn us down, fees can’t be agreed with clubs etc. but yet again we’ve only got two strikers until January at the earliest and neither fill me with much confidence. Bedia is alright but may take time to settle (how many times have we made that excuse for new signings recently?) and Burstow was absolute cack at this level last season.
This is after a whole lot of piss and wind from our over-excited owner about bringing in a third striker if Óscar went. It’s inexcusable, really. The club has had over two months to assemble a squad for the new manager and they’ve left him short in key areas. If both strikers get injured for any significant length of time and/or Zambrano gets banned, we are knackered.