(25-11-2020, 03:55 PM)Sniffer Dog Wrote: You see, there is something there I don't agree with Alf.
The players we let go. I presume you are talking about Cash and Watson right?
Well in my opinion we didn't 'let' any of them go. Once Cash reached PL standard and PL teams came sniffing there was absolutely no way that we could keep him, it was impossible. Watson, we offered him a deal but he wanted to go back to London to be with his family, he was out of contract and wouldn't sign another so how could we have kept him? We couldn't.
I think we had a chance of keeping both, far less so with Cash obv, but my point was really that with all those players not available this year, we were a significantly weaker squad. So even if we'd made some great additions, we weren't gonna be particularly much strong.
My original assessment of this window was that it was more of a side-step than a step forward, but with undoubted MUCH needed progress & depth in the frontline.
The real crime for me was not capitalizing on the momentum we had last year, by signing well in Jan.