As others have said, the thing that has disappointed me is our failure to strengthen in certain key areas that really needed to be strengthened, and I simply can't believe that we are starting this new season with Danny Simpson as our first choice right back, inexcusable in my opinion. I hope Pardew sees sense and Perch becomes first choice in that position at least. Before people give me grief for picking on Simpson it's not that he's that bad, it's just that he's a blatantly obvious weak link in the side.
I'm very pleased with the signing of Anita though and the position we are in when it comes to young players such as Abeid, Bigi, Tav, Vuckic, Campbell etc not to mention first-teamers like Santon who will kick on further. I'm also very pleased we managed to hold on to the likes of Krul, Colo, Benni, Cabaye, Tiote, Ba and Cisse when everyone and his dog thought we'd lose them.
We might not do quite as well as last season, who knows, but it should still be a good one and I reckon we might be spending a little bit of money in January - wouldn't be surprised at all to see Debuchy arrive then (unless he went to Madrid or somewhere last night and I missed it ).