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With a good manager it wouldn't be beyond the realms of fantasy that the service from our midfielders improves and Cisse and Bent score goals.... together. That's just the problem though I suppose.

Jacob Maddox from Bristol City. Think Chelsea are signing him.

8mil for Ince seems slightly expensive imo also. The prices are high but the clubs are paying them. Going for it so to speak.

Quite a good summary of how poorly this football club is ran.

4 more weeks till Joe's back.

They'll need a good start with such a new set of players. At least they're are getting them in early enough to get some training time together. If results go tits up I wouldn't be comfortable with someone as volatile as Di Canio to try and sort it out amongst a group who are practically strangers. Huddleston isn't all he's cracked up to be either imo. The only player i'm envious of them signing is that Italian one who's name I can't spell. Mannone in place of Mingolet is baffling to say the least and Altidore has lots to prove. You could argue all their new players are risks. These always have one eye on us no matter what they do, it's why they persistently fail. They are enjoying the fact we've signed nee one rather than them signing loads.

The Thiago link to Bayern has been mentioned before, but still a bit odd if it goes through.

If we get a rake of crocks like last term, we'll see how good the squad is. All depends on how full the treatment room is. Best we can hope for this window is one striker and maybe a wide player. Two extra players. Squad depth to me is about seeing what the alternatives are to the problem positions. Now take away the player's we haven't got yet out of that list and then take away our key players. It all of a sudden looks extremely weak imo. It's all ifs and buts granted. I'd love to put faith in our kids and but they need to start showing something soon if they're given the chance.

I actually forgot who Alex McCarthy was. Had to google him.

Let's hope not

We'll have to agree to disagree on that then mate. Like I say if all our first XI plus one or 2 more are fit, then aye good team, but i'll maintain we have a really poor squad.

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The majority are happy with 2 or 3 signings as they know thats the most we are ever likely to get this summer, 3 is fantasy in honesty. If we actually reviewed the squad as a whole, after the first team it's a majorly weak team. Elliot, Tavernier, Williamson, Gosling, Jonas, Vuckic ,Obertan, Sammy & f***ing Shola are the players filling in if injuries occur. If you think that's a good squad then fair play but imo its shocking.

first team. the squad is rubbish. and that's not excluding Pardew from blame.

Think that was more down to us being completely gutless than the quality of the sides.

That's true, but it comes down to priorities at the end of the day. If we can only buy two players is it more important to buy a 3rd choice cb or a winger/forward? I would say it's more important to get some goals in the team which means ditching the likes of Jonas. Aye agree with you about that, but it's just one problem after another when you look down the list. Honestly, i'v no confidence we'll even get the bare minimum in of a striker. Pardew's comment about not wanting to disturb clubs preparations was just ridiculous.

I was relieved about Colo staying but we're an injury away from that department looking rather thin imo. Unless Good or Streete are pushed forward but then the same questions loom over them like it does all our fringe players. The leadership or lack of it is another massive worry that's hardly been touched on yet, due to the issues everywhere else. We can all yearn for some quality depth in this squad and purples galore but with this regime it's fantasy. The club is in major danger of being pegged further behind unless something out of the ordinary happens in the next month. Prem survival the best we can hope for, and that'll suit Ashley just fine.

The defence falls apart without Colo. MYM is loaded with potential but the best we can hope for is an injury free season for our captain. Saylor looks as clueless as any of them when he's not alongside Colo.

Spot on. Also if Kinnear is the one who has to beg Ashley to cough up, then help us all.

Have to say Van Wolfswinkel, Fer and potentially Alderwiereld are brilliant signings for a club of Norwich's size.

Not sure if Fer actually failed his medical with Everton. There was the discovery of a previous knee worry which put Everton off paying what they were originally going to, and also reassurances which Twente weren't prepared to give. They couldn't settle on a new price so they pulled the plug on the deal.

I sincerely hope not. our squad is far to small imo and as proved last season only a few injuries decimate it. That was more to do with poor coaching and tactics than the size of the squad..... we were still putting out teams that should be beating the likes of Reading, Swansea and West Ham at home. If our squad is small then around 60-70% of the league is too. We are coached badly aye, but we have no squad depth whatsoever either. Combine the two and it will end sourly. And if the rest of league have small squads, at least they seem to be trying to amend the issue this summer, whereas as we float along not urgently trying to sort the team out.

We need two strikers and some width / creativity desperately. That's 3 players straight away. You could argue we now need another RB as although I wasnt sorry to see the back of him Simpson leaving has left us short in that area. Still massive doubt's over Santon at RB and indeed his defending full stop. Tavernier, not so sure. In the rare event us having all our first team players fit and available, we're a decent side. it's just imo the ones being asked to fill in are nowhere near good enough, maybe harsh but I reckon it's right. This makes the selling of Perch all the more senseless as he was the one player who filled in well. This leaves us in a rotten position of not really having the luxury of selling all the tripe as the squad size is limited.

Granted - and then got sent off at QPR True, he's no Krul but he's more than capable imo.

We have to thank him for them saves at West Ham though. Arguably kept us in the league.