Pray tell us more.
We're starting to see the effects of the disastrous summer transfer window. The bizarre allegiance to Knight, the pointless signing of Harewood, the lack of a RB with Mellberg forced to play there, and teams realising that is our weak point and attacking it, like Bolton did today.
He's not lost me, but I'd be lying if i said I wasn't a little concerned at some things.
you've quietly gone about building up a good squad of young english talent tho, moore, agbonlahor and young are three fine attacking talents that a lot of sides would love to have. and behind them there's some solid players like barry, reo-coker (who is back in form at villa) cahill, gardner, davies, carson. what i can't understand about O'Neill is his weird transfer policy of waiting till the last minute and making panic buys like harewood and knight, or ignoring blatant weaknesses in your side. also, since he reportedly has a vast transfer kitty at his disposal (from that american billionaire), why doesn't he go for better players than nobodies like maloney or petrov?
Maloney is a quality player, but he rarely plays him.
MON has a big problem with spending money, he always has (other than his first season at Celtic). Rumour has it that Lerner was exasperated with him in the summer window, having made a huge amount of money available when he failed to spend it.
You mention Cahill, and you're right, he is a quality player. But we shipped him out to Sheffield United on loan and then spent 4m on Knight to replace him. Baffling.
I see Cahill and Davies as our CB pairing for the future. Laursen and Mellberg should be the pairing now. Except we can't, as we need Mellberg at RB as we dont have a single proper RB at the club. We've also got just one LB of any experience.
Those are the problems we have. I really do think that one more botched window will do for him.
Don't rate Cahill myself but you know better as you see him every week.