We needed to strengthen this summer with a number of signings from defenders to forwards and for Pardew to get his act together if we wanted to challenge for top 8 this coming season.
To be honest, I actually had high hopes of that happening…
We will still bring you the odd transfer ‘story’ if we think it is worthy of some attention, otherwise you can just rely on our daily service bringing you a round-up of all the rubbish transfer rumours.
I have seen Alan Pardew’s recent assessment of what has went wrong this season and I don’t agree with all of it but I do agree with one point he made. The lack of experience in our team is evident.
I can’t get my head around the bizarre possibility that for a match that could decide our Premiership survival, we could end up playing a player who the club have washed their hands of and made next to no effort to keep, instead of an international high profile signing who a major investment has been made in, at least in part to help ensure we stay up this season!