Time wil tell I guess. I remember when Thomas was uveiled that Burley said it was incredible the price you had to pay for an English centre back. Basically he was saying he was way over-valued, and so it turned out.
Quite agree for me he's our weak link. I still hope the club will bring in a new striker as a first choice partner for Lambert. If they do we'll have too many forwards. I was rather hoping Barnard was going to be the one to make way.
Compared to other clubs in League 1 we made very little use of the loan system last season. Given our current squad size and what's been said publicly by the manager and chairman I doubt if we'll be bringing in more than one or two on loan at most.