What Is The Clubs Transfer Strategy

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Can those who were lauding our transfer policy this summer explain to me how we have managed to end up with such a slow squad? If there actually was a plan then surely you assess the squad and look to add to qualities we are lacking?
There wasnt that much pace last season, we relied on both full backs, we desperately wanted a bit of additional speed from forward players especially since our style was to play on the break. One of those full backs has departed and we recruited a load of pensioners, It was glaringly obvious to me that we were deficient. It showed last night, we poured numbers forward but it was just so pedestrian we never stretched the opposition defence.
Please dont tell me Mighten is the answer, Yet again its the bloody recruitment.

The biggest mistake in the last 6 months, was sticking with Sabri through the summer, giving him the players he asked for, and then sacking him.

He should have gone straight after the Stoke game.

I’m sure we would have had a very different squad, had Hughton come in with the close season to shape the squad.

I think the epicentre of the current crisis is last winter's transfer window. We desperately needed a backup senior striker to ease the burden on Grabban and and we got no one. We also needed another winger, maybe two, and we got Diakhaby who is the worse player I can ever remember seeing in a Forest shirt. We needed a replacement for Carvalho, say a Freeman or a Tomlin, and again nothing. So Sabri soldiered on, and the load was too much for the squad and we faded. In fact, looking at it in hindsight we fell off a cliff after the Leeds win.

Then, there was no real pre-season to get players rested and fit and some of the new players who came in hadnt played for a while and suffered with fitness. Key players in Watson and Cash left, and there was no time to integrate the new players. Meanwhile the players, nursing the biggest hangover form the capitulation, are looking at Sabri thinking he's a dead man walking.

This exactly! This is the point I've been trying to make, they tried to do two window's worth of business in one go which made it harder and led to more mistakes!

Yep, I think so. And I also think the answer this January is not to go out and buy more players. I would stick to Grosiki coming in, assuming he's interested in playing in a relegation threatened team, sorting the Grabban situation out preferably by getting him fit & firing, or allowing him to go and replacing him with a senior pro (easier said than done). We should extend Knockaert and I'd stick with that.