Did anyone else scratch their head at this signing? Johnstone has done well last season when he played and so this season he has been decent.

It makes sense to have Whitworth as no 2 he is a capable number 2. But the Henderson signing did not make sense considering how well Johnstone is playing.

Or, looking at it another way - why did Henderson sign for us?

Reportedly, he is on big money (£100k per week) so that must be a factor. But he must surely also have expected to be playing week in, week out? He has England ambitions and is a very well thought of keeper. I can't believe he joined us expecting to back up keeper.

Maybe, Johnstone's form has surprised the "powers that be". I think he has been outstanding for us this season and when he played last season.

Henderson may have been thought of as an investment. That his value would go up whilst playing for us and becoming an established England international. But that can only happen if he starts regularly for us.

Even if they were both fit, I would not start him ahead of Johnstone at the moment. I don't know how far away from being fit to play Henderson is but it could be a while.

I guess one of them will leave at the end of the season. If it is Henderson then I doubt it will be for a profit.

I would really like SP or DF to offer an insight but that is very unlikely to happen.

As good as Sam has been I do think that when fully fit Henderson is the better keeper, plus he's a few years younger. Whether we need two excellent keepers is the question though, especially when we didn't replace Zaha, need to invest in new fullbacks and have questionable strikers. Holding seemed an even stranger signing to me though. £4 million to make up numbers in training.

Henderson Holding Franca. Three very strange signings for all the reasons already well covered on other threads here.

When we really needed two wing backs and another striker.

Nearly all our budget spent (which we never really had) on these three.

Very very odd........

The concerning thing is that this season teams seem to have cottoned onto the fact that our fullbacks are probably the weakest area and so have on occasion ruthlessly targeted them by creating overloads. If Gala don't make it through their CL group then I say throw money at them and try and get Boey. He's going to be a star.

Ha, yeah, Wilf at right-back, Bolasie at left-back.

Getting the band back together! (this is a joke before anyone takes me literally)