No. But on CMs, Kayal's injury might be somewhat of a blessing. It gives him plenty of time to reflect on just how much of the past x seasons he's been out injured, and think that might prompt him to sign a new contract. With Stephens, I suspect we'll need to get promoted to keep hold of him...
I'm going to disagree with you now (although I do recognise that you've qualified this suggestion): we don't need another CM in January. That's just eating up wages, which could go on another striker. Our recruitment team is good enough, and we'll also act quickly if Stephens and Kayal run down...
If Manu goes, I think we might need two strikers. Perhaps one proven, one for the future. If Harper had come anywhere near living up to the hype, or if Hambo managed to string eight or ten starts together, and started scoring, I might say something different. But if one of those four strikers...
If we win our next two, we'll really be in a strong position. It won't just be the six points, or that we've reached 37 from 17, but that we're beating teams that are expected to be in with at least a shout for the play-offs.
Both Bruno and Stockdale made two mistakes for that goal:
-- Bruno, the badly misjudged back heel, followed by the panicked miscontrolled back pass
-- Stockdale, 'chesting' the ball with his right nipple and then, bizarrely, running towards our bench, rather than blocking the goal.
It was most...