S-Clarke

I don't believe anything that bloke says to be honest. Absolute bollocks.

Let's see how Mara and Edioze integrate into the team. I'd certainly have liked to have seen more of a 'seasoned' pro attacker brought in though, not necessarily an out and out striker but someone with genuine ability who can open teams up. Maybe Edioze can be this years Broja, albeit in a slightly different position. Our attack does make me very nervous though.

No idea how to get onto their Telegram, like you my invites expired and they're not forthcoming with new ones. Emails to them just get ignored, which is frustrating as you can never be sure if they're having problems or if it's your own end. It was a bit better today though, but it does feel as if it's on it's last legs similar to the SportsMania end.

Edioze and Mara? That's pretty much what we're pinning our hopes on for sure, one of those is going to need to be a Broja for us, otherwise this is going to be an incredibly infuriating season.

No one really stood out today, quite a tough one. KWP probably? gave us a decent attacking threat, but it wasn't a game full of much fun.

This was my fear really, in the PL against most teams you don't ever get many chances (especially against Wolves), so when you do get a chance you need to be clinical - but we don't have clinical players sadly, and that has been evident for a long time now. It was a good performance from us in terms of the control of the game, we defended against them pretty well and limited their out and out opportunities, but against Wolves our own chances will be few and far between but we had a couple of good ones. That miss by Adams was just diabolical but sadly this is what he does, he's good for between 5-10 goals a season but not much more, as he spurns chances like that. Elyounoussi in an attacking sense was diabolical. We were much better with Armstrong in that position. Moussa added some directness to our game as well, Aribo struggled a bit as the game went on. Diallo was as expected out muscled in the middle of the park really, that pairing never works. The positive is that we look tighter, we have better recovery pace throughout the team, but my fear remains - we don't have a game changing attacker to turn tight games like that.

Yeah you can't blame Bazunu, sadly the nature of the shot makes it look bad but it took an almighty bobble and just wrong footed him. He was already set at the near post, which to be fair it was going to head for had it not taken the bobble.

This game sums up the problem with Elyounoussi, the reason he was in the team against Chelsea was his off the ball work, which is ironic for an attacker really. When we play teams you'd expect us to have more of a go at, potentially on the break, he is not the right player at all. He's only really worthwhile for his off the ball work, but in games like this you also need an attacking edge which he just doesn't have the ability to provide (hopefully he proves me wrong). Aribo our best player in attack, but it's not too hard to win that accolade to be fair!

They're still around, but they've had an absolute nightmare with the service. We will see if it's any better today, as it was unusable the last time I used it on a Saturday. They don't seem to respond to people either, only as an acknowledgement of payment - so they're still there, but not offering any kind of support or status updates.

MOTM pickford, easily. You can quite clearly see Everton's style this season. Block, tackle, sit deep, hit teams on the break. Painful to watch, but it may work

That was a good read, thanks for sharing. We really wanted to totally revamp the attack by the sounds of it, even comments in there about us being happy to move Adams on at one point. I'm sure there's frustration that we're still kind of the same in that area. Those are always the most complicated and expensive transfers though! Hopefully next summer, with less to do, we can double down on our focus on the attacking third. Let's just hope we've got enough goals in us this season.

Yep, big blow. Really bad hamstring injury by the sounds of it. I reckon we'll see him back Arsenal home game at the end of Oct. Looks like AMN is going to get a lot of games early doors!

This wouldn't have happened had Leicester not grabbed Glover, but I wonder if this is another George Burley situation where we were happy to take the interest in him and grab the opportunity to change with a guy who seems to fit exactly what we are trying to do. Maybe the apatite for Leicester to sign Glover has been his ability to work on scraps in his few years here, as it seems like they're in that position now.

I think those fee's are even better than that, those are the headline figures if they achieve x amount with us - but Aribo for example only cost us £6m up top. I think Lavia was more around 8m and Bazunu 10-11 with add-ons. One thing that has impressed me as well has been the physical profile of our additions. They're all big, strong, athletic lads. We went down the road a few years ago of signing players because they could 'pass the ball', but often at the expense of being strong and quick etc. But at the end of the day in this league you need power and athleticism first and foremost, we went away from that with Elyounoussi, Boufal, Vestergaard, Hoedt etc - but we seem to have a side which can hold it's own now.

It was that January window where they had a bit of meltdown and signed Davies from Preston, who then never played a game and was sold to Rangers this summer. They got Kabak as well on loan, who was pretty shit as we saw at Norwich too. I don't think Marseille were looking to loan out Caleta-Car at that point, but he has been on the radar of top clubs for a few years now. In some ways this has similarities when we signed Lovren on the cheap.

I don't think anyone ever saw him as a CB, but he did a job there to be fair. But we couldn't go into the future with him as an option at CB or RB as we needed much better. I've never ever been impressed with him at RB though, and that was his supposed natural position which was a bit odd. What made him handy in a back 3 was his mobility and pace, but his actual technical and positional sense often left a lot to be desired. It's refreshing that for once we are able to move players on that we know aren't good enough, rather than keeping them around ''just in case we need them''.

It's been a great window really, I don't think many of us expected this level of change (not just on the playing side, but backroom as well). SR have really started to put their stamp down after many years of this club being left to flounder on scraps. I'd give this window overall an 8/10. The 'game changing attacker' signing would have made it a 10/10 without question, and that is still an area which worries me massively. The club clearly wanted that one attacking player who could make a difference, so I would say there is a sense of disappointment internally today as well. But overall if the investment we have made in CM, GK and Defence can get our goals conceded totals down then maybe we can absorb what I feel will be a lack of goals in the final third.

These things happen in life, not just in football. You make what looks like a positive change but the grass isn't always greener for reasons only visible after the event. By all accounts he's a shy lad and very young, sometimes people are just happier being 'close' to home and around familiarity, but you only find that out after you've made that move. Not sure how the 'getting him back' works in all honesty. I assume we got a small comp fee from Chelsea for him, would think we just agreed to give that back.

Hopefully that's the last we hear from that Rik, a really irritating reporter who loves the sound of his own voice!

Apart from when he didn't want to play for us, as he was focusing on Poland.

Leicester fans seem like they're about to explode. Rodgers has just thrown the club under the bus by saying it's hard to compete when the squad has had 'no help'. But then in the next interview, to the local press, he throws Soyuncu under the bus by saying that he's no where near the level required which is why they've been playing NdidI at CB. No mention of Vestergaard. They are in a right old mess, but it was coming. They lived a bit of a golden period, more than any of us could dream of. They're just going back to their norm.

Agree, I think Edozie is here to make an impact now.

Huh? I don't know what point you're getting at. You're in the total minority here!

I would say we're still that 'game changing forward' short, that's my biggest disappointment from it all. It is a worry because we're now relying on Adam Armstrong and Che Adams to hit the goals for us, which they've never really done before. Or the two kids in Mara and Edioze turn out to be superstars, which is of course possible. Onto the good things, we've got rid of so much lingering un-wanted players which has been as much of a positive as our signings. Stephens, Valery, Bednarek, Long, Forster. We've refreshed each of those with better and younger versions, so it's impressive. Very sad to see Romeu leave, but I can see why. AMN coming in provides us extra quality given we have Lavia in there too, who is going to be a superstar. So, GK, CB, CM...absolutely top work done, evolved those areas so well with much better players. Attack - Aribo, Mara, Edioze - additions there for sure, but we need Edioze to have that Broja impact ideally! 8/10 window for me. If we'd have got a game changing 'experienced' forward over the line it would have been a 20/10.

I can't understand why clubs were flapping around trying to take our trash in Bednarek, when this fella was up for grabs for a nominal fee by all accounts. I think we've won this one. He has much better pedigree than Bednarek.