Given our very limited cash availability for both fees and wages we need to be incredibly efficient and staggeringly lucky in the remaining 25 days. Finding ways to raise cash/ remove wages (Gray, Holgate, Gbamin, Gomes) is just as vital as strengthening attack and central defence.
In the last 12-18 months we have identified and largely failed to land, for a variety of reasons, some very impressive targets. This suggests our scouting/analysis has started to improve but that our lack of financial clout and dreadful on-field performance makes it hard to convince reluctant sellers to sell and good players with other options to join.
We know we really need 3-4 more players but if and when we under-meet need again we have to remember it is not Thelwell and Dyche being useless. It is our owner and “revered“ Chair continuing to reap the sparce harvest of their cumulative failure to plant the seeds of sustainable growth.