Forest are ridiculous and I hope they go down because of it.
We needed to strengthen though because it is necessary to keep moving forward in this league whether we like it or not.
Time will tell of course but going defensive against Brentford at home when leading and on top generally doesn't have a good look to it!

On the evidence of Oxford United, he's nowhere near ready.

It's been a telling 6 days for Palace, with 3 capitulations - 2 on the pitch and 1 in transfer activity. The optimism of last season seems to have quickly evaporated.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Assuming rules haven't changed there remains the free agent list, I am sure that even though it wouldn't be the place we would expect to be shopping many a bargain has been had over the years from salvaging someone's career - especially if we are looking for a specific type of player to do a job for a limited period of time (example midfield aggression - 1-2 seasons) -

Additionally - I would be looking at Sherwood forest player list, with all of the players they signed I would think that the possibility that some dont make their registered list of 25 players is quite high - again, whilst I know there will be some out there that say if they aint good enough for Forest why are we bothering ? Forest have upgraded on some of the players that they initially bought meaning there is a strong possibility of unhappy players - Think possible loan deal ?

There are probably other avenues out there to be explored

Just my tuppence worth -

To be honest Lefty, I don’t want us to struggle, I think like most fans I am frustrated at a half baked attempt of a transfer window. We all know there is a fine line between mid table and relegation, and this season could be ever closer. We haven’t stood still we have gone backwards due to a couple of players not being replaced but at least 3 others being older and unreliable. You only had to look at our subs bench on Tuesday night.

There were 3 months to identify targets and plenty of back ups. Sometimes you have to accept that you won’t get your initial target, especially if we can’t financially compete. However, to leave significant gaps in the squad is meaning a few injuries and we are likely to be struggling. Those around us and below have attempted to move forward, we have failed to do so.

Don't worry there are only 13 league games till the next window opens

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Exactly this. Only 11 games until the World Cup. Truth is that this squad is good enough until the end of the year and we don't want to waste a lot of money now not knowing what we will need in January.