Bright Osayi-Samuel at QPR has been playing well and we've already been linked with him.

Now I don't think he's quite yet in the same bracket as those others you mention but I do think he'd suit our style and provide immediate competition for places.

Precisely and a lot of our players are coming to their end with age and increasing injury, we have reached the situation where gambling is out.

What puerile statements. Hodgson is one of football's more intelligent managers and if Wilf goes in January, of course, he'll adapt to the squad he'll have at the end of the transfer window. We might still not be enamoured with the style of football chosen, however.

But we won't fall apart. As I've said previously. There's a big difference between Wilf being out for a couple of games and Wilf being gone permanently. The management team and the squad will adapt. It may take a few games to get things right but it's unlikely to spell disaster.

All clubs go through their periods of reliance on certain players, Blackburn would have been nothing without Shearer and Sutton, Henry at Arsenal, Lampard and Terry at Chelsea, us with Wright and Bright initially and now with Zaha. There are loads of examples of players that have had a massive impact on a team.

The measure of a continually successful team is how they manage the change from reliance on these players to evolving into a different team whilst still being successful.

Just look at Man Utd, they have never really recovered from losing Ferguson and the last of the academy boys that brought them so much success. Money doesn’t necessarily buy you success either as Man Utd in recent times and Everton and West Ham will testify to.

Putting this into context, it will be a tough ask for us to function without Wilf, how we deal with it though is vitally important to our future. Eze is a good start but we need another talisman as he can’t do it on his own. We play best with mavericks so I’m all for going for someone like Sarr and trying to persuade him to join us.

Ultimately there are some gems in the academy that top teams have already tried to poach. We need to start filtering those in and letting them learn off the senior pros a bit at a time. I don’t think we are finished without Zaha but it will take some prudent management and expenditure to keep us functioning effectively.

Is he off then? What a long drawn out saga! And here he is back on form, finding a kindred spirit in Eze. Best keep him till the end of the season, eh?

He showed his destructive petulant side in that loss at Wolves didn't he and that's why I feel some of the big clubs aren't really interested, but having said that he has improved also with it, I hope for him someone does because he really really deserves to win big time with the skills he has, it'll be awful for us obviously but he has done so much for us over the years he just deserve a chance, I'd like to see him at Arsenal and see how much they improve with him causing mayhem.