StrangelyBrown

5 for me. Good players signed and a lot of players who needed to go have gone, but key fundamental problems haven't been addressed: striker, keeper and a proper on field leader.

I am, but getting bored already. How Gashford gets in the England team is beyond me...

My view is this is just down to formation. He looked his best in the 23/24 season in a 2 playing with Bednarek, whereas in a 3 he looked like a fish out of water. In a 3 there seems to be confusion around who is doing what - i.e. who is marking who and as a consequence THB often looks like he's waiting for someone else to take responsibility. Stephens does this all the time too. In a 2 the responsibilities are super clear and I'm confident THB would look significantly better provided he's not paired with Stephens who is a liability regardless of formation.

I've said it a few times now there is something suspicious about us playing 3 at the back... We started doing it regularly when SR first came in, Rasmus spouted some bollocks about it when he first came in (related to what a genius he was at Brentford or something) and we seem to relentlessly stick to it despite it not suiting us apart from when we did ditch it under Martin and went on the unbeaten run. Our players aren't intelligent enough to do it properly too. It's all very odd ...

I don't think we'll be chasing Middlesbrough (or West Brom for that matter...) come the end of the season. The important points gap is between us and Leicester, which is only 4 points.

We really need to move on from the players who have been ever present through our demise - AA, Stephens, McCarthy - they've been here too long and don't offer much either. Moving on all three would give us space to address our three biggest problems: GK, Striker and leadership at the back

Another excellent signing! Welcome Tom!

Welcome onboard - really good signing for where we are right now. Hopefully he can grow with us!

I'd go further. SR came in with promises to move us forwards and we've gone backwards. They've FAILED - why shouldn't we be angry about it? While Spors might have almost got some very good deals over the line it doesn't look like he's going to fix our 2 biggest problem areas, GK and Striker, despite having signed players there. At GK no matter who we choose we have one of the weakest GKs in the division and we as yet none of our strikers have scored a league goal. Why shouldn't we be disappointed? SR and Spors have much to do to prove themselves.

Still a bit early to judge, but so far a mixed bag... Got rid of some deadwood for good money - Sulemana and Onuachu Got rid of ABK for a season Bednarek gone for a decent fee I wasn't expecting Ramsdale or Dibling to be here this year and we got good deals for both Mads looks like a decent signing. Azaz is a good signing if we can get it over the line. Otherwise, the new keeper isn't what we need - we need someone to push Baz not help put cones out in training. Quarshie isn't at the level we need him to be Downs just looks lost, not the new striker we needed Potential new wingers are a bit unknown so who knows BBD, Aribo, Smallbone, Edozie all need to go this window I fully expect Fernandes to go, but if he doesn't then we've done well

Matski!!!!!!!!!!

This aged well

Jeez we look properly shit at the back

I'm still not sure why anyone thought Spors was going to be the 'man'? His record hadnt been decent for quite a while.

Sounds like the Japan national coach has done us a huge favour!