ANother window which shows us again what is the point of this club we have no ambition but to survive every year so why bother?

If we was doing this and generating lots of money to store or go towards things I could understand but now over a decade in the Prem and we are still happy to operate like this.

This again show we need new people in to control the club.

Spending 25m on a youngster who has done 0 in professional career and is injured already is not good business (It shows we do have some money and wasted like this)

Next spending 20m on a GK when we already have another 3 with it looking like none have them even left the club in the window either.

Buying yet another CB an area we have so many people that can play in madness.

For years we have needed cover on each side yet still nothing.

The most annoying thing is when you look at the other transfers a lot of those names we could have gone for and not cost a lot of money either.

2 out of 10

Amateur club everyone else has no issues with multi signings but we take forever and do not even use loan system.

The only way things will change is if the likes of SP goes he has done well but we need to move on and are stuck with him being in charge its a business not a family gathering.

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Biggest plus keeping Eze, Olise, Guehi, Andersen & Doucoure.
Lerma seems to be great business.
The Jury is out on Henderson, Holding & Franca, the latter has a back problem that sounds like it will keep him out for months.
Front line is extremely weak & needed reinforcing.I would like to dream this is the season Eduoard & Mateta step up & score goals but I will not hold my breath.
The lack of pace in the team is a worry as especially against the better teams it’s how we competed.
The positive is teams like Luton, Sheffield U , Burnley, Everton, Wolves have not really strengthened.
Let’s see how we fair against Wolves, this will be a good barometer for the season going forward.

We somehow kept all our key players apart from Wilf who we’ve replaced with Franca. The jury is out on that one obviously.

We have replaced Luca with Lerma. I think that’s a proper upgrade.

We replaced Guita with Henderson, another upgrade, and one that was forced upon us- probably blowing up our plans to finally replace Benteke.

And yes we had to do it given how important that position is and the fact that Johnston is injury prone.

We still need full backs

A solid 6 out of 10

Agreed with your fans assessment.

The Parish assessment laughable.

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Players are only easily bought when their contracts are nearing an end. There was no pressure to sell any of our top players as they are all on decent length contracts and in all cases they have not reached their value ceiling. It is not a victory holding onto these players, it is straightforward business sense. I fully expect one if not two will go next year and a new manager will replace them with his own players.

What this window does not excuse is the failure to fill the glaring holes in the squad with loans, nor does it explain the prioritisation of spending as we have on a keeper a young injured kid and a bang average CB where there were pressing needs elsewhere.

Your last paragraph adds nothing to your comment.

Not a window to push on to the top 10 but one for a sensible mid table finish.

Keepers: strengthened a bit and Henderson / Johnstone should be a good for several seasons to come.

Central defenders: strengthened a bit. Holding probably a better option than Tomkins.

Central midfield: Lerma in, two great players well past their best, Luca and Jimmy Mac, out. Definite upgrade.

Wide positions and striker - a poor window. We just have to hope Franca turns out to be good and that Olise fully recovers.

The squad is thin, any big injuries to key players and we will struggle.

Next summer will be a massive test as we are bound to lose one or two of our big names. Let’s hope we are better prepared than we were for the loss of Wilf.