How about this for a wild & crazy idea... Wait for 11pm tomorrow night, if the players you want in aren't coming, start a thread and moan for an actual reason.

We've known for months that we desperately need a Right back, striker and goalkeeper since the end of last season why almost 24 hours before the window shuts haven't we signed at least one player in these three positions? Sakho will be a quality signing provided he is fit and provided we play a back four or he can adapt to a back three. There seems to be an awful lot of assumptions being made that by signing one very expensive player who played well for us in 8 games last season that we will transform overnight under a different manager to the same team we were under allardyce last season. Is there any semblance of a plan at palace?

62 days in the summer transfer window - so far we've spent £8M plus to loans - 2 very good loan signings IMO.

At the start of the window it was obvious minimum we needed was a keeper, CB and a striker - 61 days down the line we haven't resolved any of those issues.

Now with 30 odd hours left in the window - we still need what we required at the beginning of the window - how and why has that been allowed to happen?

Do we really believe that we will make these three signings in the last throws of the transfer window, if we do and the funds are available why wasn't it done before?

In the meantime whilst we've postured and procrastinated we're now 0 points from 3 games, 2 of them winnable games at home - how much that will cost us at the end of the season only time will tell.

I really hope we bring in what we require - finally, but if we do I am really struggling to understand the underlying strategy - why wait until you are "behind the 8 ball" to act?

Here's to the next 30 hours and hoping.

I'm guessing Jairo , pva and schlupp were a combined total of30 million or we could of picked up Kieran Gibbs for 7 million , I know who I rather have. There are bargains out there we just don't seem to pick them up