Another loan for Lesley will more than likely be the case, not a chance he drops to the Championship though. I think he's developed quite well this season, looked lost for the first 3 months or so but seems to have found his game more in recent months.
Can't see us bringing more than 1 or 2 in. Our squad is already a proven Championship contender. Assuming Lesley returns to Chelsea I'd like to see a dominating CM in his place, other than that no position really needs filling at this point.
The immediate job is to gain promotion from the Championship, nothing else matters at this point. Cooper has the experience to be successfully return us to the top division, will he have the players to do so?
Talks a good game, interesting bloke to listen to.
If we had stuck with him, knowing that we're going into the Championship, I would've felt confident that he had the right experience to take us back to the Prem.
This window should just be about recruiting to gain promotion. The type of player needed who would be available to sell to a Championship team and who would manage the jump to the Premier league are pretty fucking rare these days. Recruit to promote and then bin them off.
Wolves at home tells you everything you need to know on whether IJ is a good prospect for us going forward, if there was any doubt beforehand. We've put up with some surprising shit this season but fuck me everything about the Wolves games left me asking why?? It was like the football manager's equivalent of a fucking suicide note - someone please put him out of his misery!
To be fair all the previous DoFs have fucked off at the first sniff of a bigger club being interested. Not replacing JW was a definite error, one they've hopefully corrected for the better.
The excitement an hour and a quarter before kick off… I’ll always be grateful for that, never truly knowing what fucking hare brained selection / line up we were about to see.