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Their is only one correct way to look at this transfer winow:

Absolute shocker of a summer. Many of the justifications given have some weight to them but if you had asked anyone at the start of June how many first team players we will sign most of us would have said 2-3, some might have cautioned realism and said 1-2. Absolutely no one would have thought zero first team signings. No more point crying over it I suppose. Over to Howe to provide more miracles, and pray absolutely pray that we dont get injuries to Isak and Bruno because if that happens we are a mid table outfit.

Fact we left it till the last day was a bit desperate wasn't it? It could have clearly gone tits up which is why Gordon was being touted. I get why we had to move along Minteh and Anderson, probably the best we could do in the circumstances, but the last day scramble just shows you we aren't as sorted out as we'd come to expect.

Aye, this was evidenced by the last minute PSR scramble, and now the same thing is repeating on deadline day. Didn't learn much in 2 months did we, you just hope they get their act together from here on. First time since the takeover you feel like we've gone backwards.

Personally I think we'll Elinger on it too long

You can think the shitty window is justified or perhaps inevitable, might not be correct but of course you can think it. But you can't expect people to be happy about it man Its okay to whinge once in a while, let the steam out That of course, as always, excludes the Twitter numpties who are not worth the time whatever the situation.

And yet you wonder why we think he's a cant

PSR, some players don't want to leave, some dont want to come, for some positions there maybe aren't such great options. All valid points to an extent yet all clubs operate in the same market and have made moves. It's also hard to believe that we're not signing people just because there's noone better available when you've got the likes of Almiron, Murphy, Longstaff, Krafth regularly featuring in the first team Leadership turmoil has been clear to see this summer; from Eddie voicing his frustration to the shambles of a manner we dealth with PSR last minute. It has clearly cost us. If we dont sign anyone tomorrow its a clear failure and perhaps the first backwards step under this ownership. I'm not saying that by itself would be a crisis or cause to panic; just disappointing. We'd have to pray for great luck with injuries to have a chances at Europe; I think we can safely write off a CL challenge if the squad stays the same. Far cry from all the talk of trophy challenges and CL pedigree.

Thats conjecture from Craig freaking Hope though All summer we've been hearing that we have a list of targets and backups for Guehi that we are preparing to move on, now it's suddenly that he was the only one? Riiiiight

We keep coming back to this but exactly what the hell can they do unless PSR changes? Hire Klopp and say "We'll likely be selling Gordon and Isak this summer, but don't worry as we'll get you Burnley's reserve goalkeeper and that defender Leceister don't want. Good luck winning the league" Howe can't be held accountable for transfers, if this window is a failure Eales and others are to blame whether it's PSR mismanagement or failing to land top targets.

Same feeling here, I really did think we'd sign 2-3 players in the last week but there's barely a day to go and we've not done shite. You can talk all you want about PSR etc yet all teams above and below us have found ways to strengthen while we have sold our best young players. Some look for the project this.

Joelinton man

So many players still looking a shadow of their former selves. Onto the lottery now, fingers crossed this turgid summer isnt capped by a freaking 2nd round cup exit.

WE SUCK. Okay?

And we can't keep possession either. So we really are as shite as we look at the moment.

At this point they might do it purely out of desperation as we dont seem to be close to anyone else and we certainly dont seem well placed to sell the players we've been trying to sell for the last 3 years to fund another signing. As has been said elsewhere the club really needs to pull something out of the bag here; not just for strengthening the squad but for the optics of the 'project'.

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Hopefully we find a way of keeping him and shipping out Dubravka.

A lot of the goodwill he has is based off Euro 2020 in which he was brilliant but has he performed consistently at club level? I'm more disappointed about missing out on Mamardashvili for 30M when all our targets seem to be goalkeepers.

Some of it was tactical tbh, like Kelly for Hall must have been to counter Semenyo's physicality and Hall is just a bit iffy defensively still. Tripper has obvious issues plus might not be fully fit. Willock definitely didn't seem match fit. Not that the rest of them looked much better, Joe and Gordon miles off it too. You've just got to hope these games have helped with match fitness etc because take the intensity factor out of this current squad and we will struggle to get into Europe.

I hope we get to see Hall start again and play with more maturity, I thought the lapses might have been knocked out of him by now and that's why he started the opening game. But he was really poor defensively at times. We look so much more fluid at the back when he plays though, especially when Burn and Krafth are playing and average defensive forward ball playing capacity is about 3 metres.

We're probably reading too much into that sort of thing at this stage tbf because of the little bit of agitation that the club is in at the moment. A signing or two could quickly fix that. Start Barnes and Gordon imo, Gordon on the right is far better than Murphy or Almiron. A decent performance is all he'll need to get going, let's not forget how good he was last season.