More than a little surprised.

[Joey66]

Completely disagree with this- for us and our spending prowess he was spot on with his transfer dealings.

£2m- Arteta
£1.7m- Cahill
£2m- Pienaar
£5m- Lescott
£6m- Baines
£4m- Jags

Even AJ was sold at a profit. He did a phenomenal job in the transfer market at the level we had to shop at.

£2m- Pienaar Sold him to Spurs and paid more for him back here - yes some good signings yet some woeful ones as all Managers do - Kaldrop - AVM - James Beattie - McFadden 2nd time around - Billy - some of them were big money signings including the Yak who he gave to Blackburn for a mere million and scored for fun that season but could not score under DM??????

 

[Toffeelover]

I'm not so sure. Come the end of the season, we will have lost Fellaini, Anichebe, Lukakua, Delafeuo and Barry. Our forward problem and a creative midfielder issue will still be present come the end of the season. Having said that, I do hope this window has given Martinez the time and space to work towards rectifying these issues.

I think barry will be given a short contract on lower wages, after all he will be afree agent. There could be more loans or loan extensions. But what of other young players who may break into the senior ranks by then.

 

[charlatan]

Bobby may turn out to be a let down, but at the moment hes like a breath of fresh air.

Haven't looked forward to a season so much for years after years of dull hoof ball and a starting 11 you knew days before the game, and a backroom staff of yes men and arse lickers that we have finally got rid of.

Best transfer window for years as we have gotten players we need instead of old gingers square pegs in round holes philosophy.

 

[Nicolas Hill]

I'm not so sure. Come the end of the season, we will have lost Fellaini, Anichebe, Lukakua, Delafeuo and Barry. Our forward problem and a creative midfielder issue will still be present come the end of the season. Having said that, I do hope this window has given Martinez the time and space to work towards rectifying these issues.

Not really bothered what happens at end of the season...we know from past experiences that from a players point of view this club grows on you...look at the effect it had on donovan...point is, nothing is set in stone regarding the loan players and its quite conceivable that all may be with us longer than originally thought.....hopefully

 

[deipnosophist]

we have to always think how to improve...so important

 

[obc]

I'm fired up after the window. Stopgap might be stopgap, but stopgap beats no gap. Who knows. Lukaku might want to perform at Ski now, but them stockpiling strikers and some success (hell, even time on the pitch) at EFC might adjust his loyalties.

No one know what the future holds.

As a dumb Yank I was hung over yet fired up to see the Blues take on Cardiff. I'm now salivating to see the new look squad's next (US) televised match.

 

[Jags..class]

At the end of this season Chelsea will sign Rooney(who will be about to enter the last twelve months of his contract at that time).
I would not be surprised if Lukaku does not have a long term future at Chelsea,what are they waiting for ? He is already physically strong and mature,has premiership experience and a good goalscoring record.
s very
They signed an ageing Eto'o , have a useless Torres and Ba who hasn't ever been given a fair chance at Chelsea. I thought this was going to be Lukaku's year at Stamford Bridge.

But,let's all wait and see what he does for Everton before we contemplate anything,but at the moment it's very exciting.

Its seems that Rooney is now after a new contract, he also trying to win the fans over by putting pictures of him in a man u shirt on his facebook pic and twitter. Maybe all this was to try and get a new bumper pay deal, he did this last time to Man u. He a greedy get.

 

[bluestevon]

I'm fired up after the window. Stopgap might be stopgap, but stopgap beats no gap. Who knows. Lukaku might want to perform at Ski now, but them stockpiling strikers and some success (hell, even time on the pitch) at EFC might adjust his loyalties.

No one know what the future holds.

As a dumb Yank I was hung over yet fired up to see the Blues take on Cardiff. I'm now salivating to see the new look squad's next (US) televised match.

if you wanna see our games mate their all live on vipsport usually a good few streams their you can get a good quality link off

 

[bluestevon]

Not really bothered what happens at end of the season...we know from past experiences that from a players point of view this club grows on you...look at the effect it had on donovan...point is, nothing is set in stone regarding the loan players and its quite conceivable that all may be with us longer than originally thought.....hopefully

Another way to look at it, if lukaku comes in a starts smashing them in for fun, then come the end of season, any forward we go after will look at us not as a team who cant feed the striker, but as a team where a good striker gets the service, would make a huge difference to some thinking their gonna be the next lukaku rather than the next jela, beattie, hohnsone, anichebe etc

 

[Joey66]

I really thought that David Moyes had assembled the strongest squad during his tenure last season.
I always felt that his biggest strength was getting in good players at little cost...and this is what he did very well.
I thought it would take serious money to improve on what was already there and of course we know there was very little chance of that happening.

What has happened has left me a little stunned.
Yes,we have lost Fellaini in particular and also Anichebe. But, Martinez recently said that we would finish the window stronger than when he started and he certainly has been right.
Last night I picked and A versus B game and the reserve team was surprisingly strong and both Jelavic and Gueye didn't start in either team. For the first time ever we have genuine depth where the biggest task the manager has with the players is keeping the one's not getting a game happy.

Maybe but the players are all aging -he left us with a dads army squad then raided us for are star players! Got one but thanks for your loyalty Bainsy!

 

[BoysInBlue]

I am not surprised by the fact we've brought in 4 players who were at Wigan last season and the fact there's a decent chance we've overspent on them. We have been fortunate that apparently we've had money to spend that was independent of incoming fees this summer and have spent over £20m on new players. It would have been pretty hard not to come out of this window stronger, in fairness.

It doesn't matter that they came from Wigan. People keep using this as a stick to beat him with, 'they came from Wigan, therefore they are crap'. Yes they got relegated. Of the 4 we signed, 2 of them Robles & Alcaraz hardly played any games and will realistically hardly play any games for us. They are reserves/back up. Of the other two, Kone scored 13 goals last season, more than anyone in our team. You'd have to be a fool to blame Kone for their relegation, he did his bit. McCarthy - yeah, okay, there's a question mark over him. But he is a highly regarded talent and is only 22 with lots of time to improve and grow. Was he over-priced? Probably, but when buy young British players that is the going rate.

This 'they came from Wigan' - it's utter folly to judge how good a player you're signing based solely on where they came from. Wigan got relegated yes, they also won a Cup. Jagielka came from Championship Sheff Utd where he'd been relegated. Baines came from Wigan. It's how players develop that is what matters.

 

[Goat]

Buying/Picking up 1 player from a relegated team is alright, getting 4?

LOL

 

[BoysInBlue]

Buying/Picking up 1 player from a relegated team is alright, getting 4?

LOL

2 of them were and are reserves.

 

[Goat]

2 of them were and are reserves.

Robles was first choice and the only reason Alcagash didnt play is cos hes injury prone.

 

[BoysInBlue]

Robles was first choice and the only reason Alcagash didnt play is cos hes injury prone.

Robles played 9 games for them last season, he was hardly first choice. He was on loan, initially he was 3rd choice. He ended up playing 9 games because Al Habsi and Pollitt both got injured. Robles kept several clean sheets including in the FA Cup Final.

Alcaraz isn't injury prone. He played 30 games in 2011/2012, and was suspended for 3 games. He missed 5 games through injury that season. Last season, he had one bad injury that kept him out for 6 months, and made 14 appearances. When he played, Wigan kept 6 clean sheets.

Saying Alcaraz is injury prone is like saying Jagielka is injury prone, just because Jags missed 6 months with injury in 2009.