No. I am moaning about something where being in such a vulnerable situation with 1 striker and a lack of quality in the squad to cover our long injury list, I am moaning about where negotiations should of begun a long time ago with signings through the door by now. Are you that nieve that you think clubs only start speaking to played from January 1st - Do you really think that?

Edited by Medway Eagle (09 Jan 2018 4.13pm)

As many people as cynical as I am about the transfer window.
Expect 3 weeks of talks with Liverpool about Danny Ings, for us to buy him on deadline day as our only signing.
He'll then be injured by the middle of February.

i am an optimist and am pro parish etc but even I feel we of all clubs should be the first out of the clubs to get signing in considering how thread bare we are all over, but mostly up top that has been a problem for some time.

So even if we end up purchasing 5 by end of January, ones gotta say why not sooner, considering how threadbare we were, with months in advance to tie up at least that second striker quickly.

I know its difficult, especially to find a decent striker, but on this particular occasion, I think we should be out there quickly remedying things before we play our next January match.

if we have niasse in place by Friday i'll shut up.

Is it not the case that sometimes simply it is like buying a house, whereby the selling club needs their new player before they will let the other one go? Also, Parish alluded to the fact that sometimes it is the players or their agents that are checking their options before committing, with last minute deals often putting them in the strongest position in terms of contract negotiations.

Personally I really hope we are quicker off the blocks this time, but without knowing the true picture it is hard to judge.

Quote from comments made by manager this morning

"We have got to find to find the solution to which player or players we want to bring in, and in which positions.

"That's something that the chairman Steve Parish and our sporting director Doug Freeman are working enormously hard on.

"I am waiting with bated breath to see who comes through the door so I can get the chance to start working with them.

"At the moment we are still sifting through the candidates and they will be put before me."

Part of the problem I think in last window was FDB he didn't like who was identified probably including Sakho. Reading between lines I think this was one of reasons SP acted so fast. We were losing games and he didn't like the players he was offered

Id like him actually yeah, thought at selhurst he was very neat.

But I hope we go after two strikers though