See Gareth Barry got out sharpish once he got wind of Costa comingCan't attract a boss striker here on a perm so we're hoping to loan a want-away striker from Chelsea to patch over the gaping hole in our squad...
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Add 4 years....
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I love this place after a defeat
Achieved
We needed a top keeper
We needed at least one top center back
We needed more creativity
We didn't think we needed Rooney exactly but he's been our talisman so far this season
We needed to clear out some more dead wood
We needed to get a big fee and get Lukaku out early
Still remaining
A replacement for Rom
Another center back (left footed)
Sort out Barkley situation
Given how much business gets done right at the very end of every window I'd say we're ahead of the curve right now
What is this madness?
Run out of cash and now we've remembered we haven't signed a replacement for the man that funded most of our other deals.
We go with 60 midfielders and hope for the best.
We've still got that 60m Chinese credit card/overdraft haven't we.
Not sure the defeat was the problem , more the fact that we keep going to the top 6 and rolling over to have our tummies tickled......it smells like napalm..........
Buying a CF was the most important thing we needed to do. It should have been sorted from last Christmas when we knew Lukaku was gone.
While we have improved other positions, they weren't as important imo.