I never know where I am with Ashley but I was surprised when we spent so much on Cisse in January. Yeah, we had a lot of the Carroll money left but we were going well in the league and I presumed he'd be happy for us to consolidate at best, much like the previous January when he sold Carroll without a decent replacement. To give a bit of balance we did take a massive risk in one position (centre half) and I still massively believe we were lucky to get away with that. Would have been disastrous if Coloccini got injured / Williamson continued with his crisis of confidence. We even had Perch emerging at that point, which just shows everything seemed to be going right.
Touch wood, I can't see us making any big sales and can see us bringing one or two in. It's not as ambitious as I'd like but considering the rubbish we've been watching for most of the last decade it's not exactly that depressing. If we sign nobody at all though then it will feel like a missed opportunity and will probably work out that way.