I guess he will be disappointed about the goalkeeping situation but we have managed so far with only two so let us hope our luck holds for the remaining games.

Spot on and also the comments about Roy and the new recruits who I'm sure will get the best out of them. Allardyce last year got in PVA, Schlupp, Luka and the Beast on loan so spent a lot more. Roy needs to be backed like that in the summer if we stay up.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Not really prior to us having a precontract agreement he was there player and they could ask whatever figure they wanted. After that was signed he only had value to us as we could be only buyer and we were buying out a dead contract ie early release. So at start of January that was 3.5-4 million Yesterday probably nearer 1. Today zero

Edited by Palace in the Blood (01 Feb 2018 8.23pm)

We badly needed a GK, we didn’t get one. This will come back to bite us in the arse for sure.

I think SP did the best he could, it was mostly down to the other clubs not playing ball. SP did get in sakho and said at the time we are pushing the boat out. We got 3 players in and 2 goalkeepers on the way in the summer so onwards and upwards.

This post has been merged from a topic called 'Swimming with the Sharks ' by Midlands Eagle

Having just gone through another mad January I thought it apt for a moment of balanced reflection ....
FOR
Man City are able to fish in their own private pond (so to speak) targeting a player months in advance and knowingly without virtually any fear of the deal being hijacked due to their wealth and the attraction of the manager and coming into a hugely successful team.
Coming down the water ways the rest of the top 4 have the next rich pickings some with competition but most of the time getting a free route.
Then you come to the likes of us going after many players for one position on the basis that they may have competition from numerous clubs and with it a bidding war and in January the risk of paying above the odds. The days of the likes of CP earmarking a player and conducting exclusive negotiations are IMO gone. It is now very much swimming with the Sharks and by that I mean AGENTS. It is not in their interests not so much their clients to have this situation as they want the best price possible as their % based commission rockets.
So we become one of a number going after the same players.
A set budget that was intended to cover say 4 players suddenly gets whittled to 2 as also the wages increase as well. The latter probably a bigger consideration.
How much our budget was I don't know but I feel that this maybe one of the reasons why we went into the sweet shop wanting a kilo of wine gums, only to end up with a couple of aniseed balls!
So I appreciate that the board and recruitment staff would have hard huge challenges.
AGAINST
As I have said previously dealing with us must be akin to pulling teeth and must put as at an initial disadvantage. I agree that we have to be watchful of our financial position but not at the expense of losing key targets. What happened to Guita the GK, this went on for the whole of January and in the end we allegedly have another in for a medical with it all going pear shaped at literally the 11th hour. Net result no new keeper.
From the outside our policy seems muddled and this has been the case for a few Windows. We have covered 3 positions which is a positive and barring more injuries I feel this will be enough to get us through.
Summary - in the.circumstances a decent job from the board but as always it won't please all.

Bring back Brolin