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It's a long season. It was needed. And I applaud it. Just a shame the deals had to be done so late in the window after the season had started. The squad as it is, with a pre-season and Still's favourite formation, may be flying high in the table by now. Let's hope we click quick post International break.

Guehi is playing for Palace today, doesn't mean he'll be a Palace player in 24 hours. The line up shows he played as a 10 which is interesting. Incidentally Heidenheim lost to Leipzig yesterday and Romulo formerly of Goztepe scored.

Welcome Ellas. We needed a full back and now we have one that can cover both sides. Bree or Taylor out then?

My bad. Well if he stays he'll remain our 4th choice CM but I still hope the club upgrade.

Well Goztepe then! (OK I haven't been following Valenciennes, sorry Christoph!) Anyway we're in for a fun deadline day with these late links.

Downes has been playing, Smallbone and Aribo haven't even been picked for the bench. I think that speaks volumes for who would be replaced. Though if both stay, we probably won't bring another CM in but for our sake I'd rather take our chances on this fella than Smallbone, even if we know little about Doumbia. Unless the plan is to send him to Goztepe/Valenciennes...

I would shit a brick. I mean, I probably will anyway because I just ate a huge roast, but even more so.

Possibly. They've also been heavily linked with Jordan James (who I'd take if chance came...) but he's now been linked with Leicester. There could still be more transfers where one leads to another which leads to another etc.

Numbers-wise I still want another CM as I think we're light with 3 but beyond Scienza and Jelert, we're there. That's numbers-wise, not quality-wise, where we can all see the positions that can be upgraded. However our recent transfer activity does at least show that our transfer decision making has got better. You can only look at Spors for that. Hopefully come January we have one or two lined up that improve the team and that aren't panic signings.

We need a left winger as competition for Jay and Fraser (who can also play on the right as back up for Fellows), and we just loaned out BBD and will shortly sell Edozie. We've also been heavily linked. I can't see why this wouldn't happen.

Assuming Jelert is done, IMO we need one more left winger/AM and I think we need another CM as I mentioned during the game. 2 signings to make the squad whole. Ship out Aribo, Edozie, Smallbone, Bree and BBD. 5 out. Yes we need upgrades in a few positions but that will have to do until January.

No chance of either sadly. Baz is our number 1 or we wouldn't have brought Long in and we already have 5CBs. With Fellows, Jander and Azaz and hopefully one or two more we will get a change in formation so hopefully by the end of the International break we can see if Still has sorted it.

Respect the point lads...

So there's no gender bias for our female posters...

We go again...

Jeez

New meme unlocked.

Well done Ryan. Now hold tf on.

Nuns was losing it's charm. Could try sexy redheads in honour of our new manager...

Well Ipswich are losing so there's that

Work still to be done. Respect the point.

Damn, didn't last long.

Burnley equalise against United. Lol

I'm obviously assuming Aribo and Smallbone leave. If it doesn't happen we're hoping we don't get ravished by injuries or suspensions or we're using youth. A loanee CM would be low risk and provide cover. Jander, Downes and Charles will be a good 3 to have, I just think the fact Sesay didn't get on the bench today when we had no other CMs on there may show Still thinks he's not ready to make the step up. We'll see. Should be a lot of action over the next two days.

Even with him we're light