Express saying we’ve made a second bid for Ronnie Edwards

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I think we have maybe 14-15 players good enough for the first team and then the quality starts to dip, or there's a severe lack of experience.

In defence our only cover for Guehi and Andersen is Richards, Ward and Tomkins, one of whom is a makeshift centre-back, one who is quite inexperienced and one who is never fit. At left-back is Mitchell, with others really just being makeshift options.

In midfield we have more numbers but Jairo is not in contention, Luka is too slow and Hughes (for whatever reason) seems to have drifted away, while McArthur is always injured. If any of the starting three get injured we will probably look lightweight.

Right-wing we have Ayew, Olise, Ebiowei; left-wing we have Wilf and possibly Edouard; in the centre we have JPM and Edouard. We have options, so really just a case of whether Vieira thinks they're good enough.

If we have no significant injury problems we should be fine, but if we do (especially in central defence and midfield) then it could be a bumpy ride as we have a small first-team squad by PL standards.

Talk about 'swipe left on anything'.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I will be surprised if we sign anyone that’s ready for the starting line up or even the bench, we might get the P’boro lad over the line but that will only be beneficial to the U21s…. We will get we were closed to a couple of deals but couldn’t get them to work for one reason or another …. PV will tow the line with “I’m happy with my squad” …..

I really hope I’m wrong !!

I suspect you are right. The signing of Ronnie Edwards will be made to look like a wonderful bit of business, as SP announces that we tried desperately to get more deals done but the market is difficult at the moment, and that we are all happy with the squad that we have.

2-3 injuries to certain players and there's a good chance we are struggling.

To let Kouyate and Benteke go without replacements committed too, is gambling.

Seems we have thrown all our eggs in a Conor Gallagher shaped basket and we end up with just one first team started over a entire transfer window.

I said earlier, that I rated this window a 5 out of 10, I think now it's probably a 2/10. No point in signing players for the future if you don't have sufficient a squad for now. A look at our bench suggests we don't.

SSN is worryingly silent about any business whatsoever from Palace. We are definitely weaker down the middle than we were last season and I have grave concerns about our ability to compete if we get just one more injury.