That and missing out on signing Barco after vesting a lot of time and interest so failed to get cover for Pervis - we tried but lost out on CB Mykola Matviyenko ( although we could go back for him in January or Summer). It was not a great transfer window for us - despite record transfer fees...
Sorry but when you have a squad that’s largely bloated out with young inexperienced players and players near retirement, you can’t expect to absorb injuries from key players and for it not to have an impact. In terms of Club size we are punching right to the upper edge of our weight, it was...
Gilmour still such a lightweight, competent but a lightweight and no where good enough to make up for the loss of Caicedo - we look too vulnerable in MF and the back - our Forwards are just not getting in the game - where is our flow?
With our MF looking so weak, I’m almost thinking Everton sitting deep now might work in our favour - they are looking far too dangerous playing attacking football - and we are striker strong - wouldn’t be the RDZ ball that we’re used to though.