If we can't get a striker then perhaps signing a goal-scoring right-midfielder/winger might be an alternative. Eze has goals in him and having Andros and Schlupp as options from the bench would give us options. Bright repeatedly talked in his commentary about getting more goals from our midfield and how hard it is to get a goal-scoring striker, so perhaps this could be our focus?

When you look at the dribbling ability of Zaha, Ayew and Eze, if you throw in another player that can do similar on the right and we could be a nightmare for defenders and win lots of free-kicks and possibly penalties. Riedewald's passing range is also looking very good, if he gets to keep his place (which I bloody hope he does after his preseason performances), which could help to unlock defences and help us to counter quickly. On the defensive front we can't really afford to sign more defenders unless we get rid of one and unfortunately it may just be a case of patience while everyone works to get fit again.

The positives at the moment are:

- we finally signed a new right-back
- we finally signed a creative midfielder
- Riedewald is finally starting to look like the player we hoped he could be (so almost like a new signing in itself)
- based on preseason Wilf looks like he's ready to put last season behind him and get back to terrorising defences

I'm sure there are other positives too. I'm feeling mush better about this season than I did last summer and if we could just sign one more creative player or a striker then I would be happy.