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Fair enough that's a reasonable comment. I agree.

Well then I don't think expressing disappointment at an area of the squad that some believe needs more strengthening whilst also praising the recruitment team for the rest of their acquisitions is dwelling on the negatives.

I'm not sure you can accuse me of dwelling on the negatives in this instance given my earlier post that ranked the areas of the transfer window. I have our defensive acquisitions a 9 or a 10 and overall gave us a 7.5-8 which certainly isn't negative. I wouldn't say it's over the top either but I'd prefer to look at the positives and negatives together in order to reach an overall conclusion. Getting overly excited about our amazing work recruiting at the back obscures some issues elsewhere.

Yep I can see it! I presume if we had got a striker in, the people making all manner of excuses now would be bemoaning that we aren't keeping the pathway clear for dibling or that it could upset Adams? Or that our squad is too bloated?

Ralph has repeatedly mentioned how in need of a striker we are. The manager has obviously believed it was an important piece of the jigsaw. I believe him.

Weirdly that's what a forum is for.

That's pretty much how I feel. You'll receive some flack on here for it but it's an entirely reasonable view.

Ridiculous thing to say given I have rated the window a 7.5-8. I've laid out clearly what would have made me happier.

Surely he's the bednarek replacement and he must be better than him surely.

Sounds like we are done then according to the Athletic. Quite hard to rate the transfer window as a whole without looking at the three areas of the team. Defensively we have had an amazing window. We've pretty much sorted the defense and strengthened in every area. I'd be tempted to give it a 10 but certainly a 9. In midfield we have made some decent signings and have made a real upgrade with Lavia. Shame we couldn't offload a few more of the deadwood but superb that we kept jwp for another year. I'd give us an 8.5-9 Attacking wise we've bought in Mara who looks promising and Aribo who looks quite good but maybe a bit inconsistent. Overall we are weaker in this position and I can't be the only one who is very disappointed that we couldn't get anyone else over the line. We probably won't get relegated but we won't do as well as we could have done with that extra signing which imo is a missed opportunity. I think I'd give us a 6.5 or 7 in this area and I think there will be games like united where we rue not getting someone in. I expect the mood would have been very different had we not had such a good start to the season. Overall probably 7.5-8 which is still really good but then it probably needed to be given where we were at the end of the season. I wonder if we tried for anyone else after Gakpo fell through.

I never liked him.

One to go then unless we do something surprising and leave everyone smiling.

Barcelona you mean. Boo.

Given his inside knowledge I don't think you can say with certainty that there was no implied knowledge.

Just tuned into sky sports news. Its so dramatic and cringe.

The other two are obviously coming in. Crossing my fingers that Blackmore isn't on a wind up.

Hmm. Not going to happy if this is a load of bollocks...

Any idea what he's like? Assumes this is a good signing based on the experience of our head of recruitment.

Pleased with this signing. With another cb in that will be the defence sorted for this summer.

I wonder if we have even attempted an attacking signing after Gakpo fell through yesterday.

I think we all do! Hope slipping away...

I agree. I think you would have heard something more definitive if we weren't trying to bring in an attacker.

In my opinion we need a quality attacking signing. It's not just about numbers.

Yes but we need more.

Still think there could be a pop up out of nowhere type signing. I've been burnt before with that type of thinking though.