The logic of what you say is that we started the season with a squad that the club knew were too expensive to keep for the whole season / with certain players we knew we would have to sell during the season in order to comply with FFP, so the likelihood of us being weaker after January was...
That ignores the fact we'd just trousered £4 million from selling Bridcutt, Barnes and El-Abd along with the attendant drop in wages.
Oscar has stated that the window left us weaker, and this was also the view of Sky Football League pundit Peter Beagrie, who I recall said he was surprised at...
I think the Noelia Deniz statement fits in with what we already know but gives it a little more focus.
The key is how decisions were arrived at in the January window and what factors shaped those decisions.