Rate the Transfer Window

[Colinjb]

Ok. I'm going for a 7.

This has been positive, wholesale changes in personnel that have been desperately needed for a long, long time. But, let's not forgive past neglect, this has been needed! It is not surprise and delight, this is finally doing the spring cleaning.

The players that have come in, Downs and Quashie are raw...... But on the whole, they are adding what we need. It did involve us selling the crown jewels to do though. Robinson apart, the cupboard is now bare...... So these guys HAVE to come good. But, the signs are there that these guys will give the manager what he needs. Jelert, Jander and Roerslev look very exciting to me.  

We still have weaknesses though, and, worryingly, it could be the spine of the side, Jander aside we have focused on adding width. Questions remain at GK, CB, CM and CF. 

All digits crossed that these additions unlock ability in and enhance our existing talent. But, I reserve judgement a little.

 

[saintant]

I think Will Still quickly realised that he needed to be utterly ruthless in removing the linger of Russball from the squad and he's done that in a clinical manner. It had to be done although I never thought we'd see so many out of the door. He now has the chance to put his own stamp on the side with players brought in to fit his systems and I can imagine he's very excited about that. We'll know after about ten games whether this root and branch reset is going to work but I have high hopes that it's going to revolutionise us in a good way.  

[woodsaint1]

Fuckin hell. Just score the window as you see it. Don't need to score it in the hope of digging this post out in 9 months time to say 'Ha I told you our recruitment was average'.

Im scoring it a 8.5 total

Incomings 8/10

Azaz, Fellows and Scienza look to be the exciting, creative players we've been crying out for.

Jander looks an excellent prospect and could displace Downes if his wee tummy isnt up to it.

Quarshie, Roeslev and Jelert look like solid young additions who will focus on defending first. For too long we've relied on 'defenders' who didnt do much defending.

Downs I think just needs time. His finish in pre season showed that theres plenty of quality there, although it will be tough beating out Archer, Stewart and AA for one spot in 4231. Plenty of competition which hopefully brings out the best in them.

If I'm being greedy, I would have liked a new starting GK, as Bazunu and McCarthy have plenty of flaws. That being said we got promoted with them both before, and we wont be as defensively wide open this season under Still.

Outgoings 9/10

Genuinely believed we would have kept Fernandes, but if he wanted out then we needed to cash in. To get over 80m for him and Dibling after the season we just had is great business.

Better still, to get rid of the likes of Sulemana, Onuachu, Bednarek, BBD, Smallbone, ABK Bree, Taylor (and likely Edozie and Aribo), and some for sizeable sums is impressive.

Yes we can all pick a 'deadwood' player who is still here, but we were never going to be able to completely clean house in one window. It will take a few.

We need to build a PL team between now, January and next summer and this has been a good start

Edited 3 hours ago by woodsaint1

[CSA96]

Well, I am going for an 8, as much for getting rid of the vast amount of **** that we have cleared out, as the acquisitions. I think it might actually be a 7.5 because I wanted a new GK and the striker position is a bit of a question mark still. I'm also a bit surprised that for Spors and Still's comments on adding physical profiles, aggression and more athletic players that we didn't add a unit to the midfield. Maybe Jander is good enough to make me forget about that, but let's see

Overall though, it's nice to have a squad that is the right size (!!!) and has the right profiles for the way the manager wants to play. My feeling after the Watford game was that we were a playoff team, but that was without Jelert, Jander, Fellows and Scienza involved and Azaz had only just started learning people's names. Flynn was messing around with his chicken again and missed out also. So that's as many as five starters missing. Let's see...

I am just glad to see it freshened up though, as that group last season had built a lot of ill feeling and made us all feel unenthused towards our football club. It was important to freshen it up on the pitch and likewise, to freshen up the dressing room. We've definitely done that, so credit to Johannes and Rasmus (!)

Over to you, Will...

Edited 1 hour ago by CSA96