1) With hindsight, we should have made Newcastle pay more if we were going to b*gger about wasting time not being prepared to fork out the extra few hundred thousand it would've cost to get our supposed first choice targets. The whole Murphy deal was poor planning however you look at it. If he did want to go, we should have sold him earlier in the window to give us more time to find a replacement, or, to cover the ironic excuse given, allow other teams to find replacements to then sell us someone etc. Look at Barnsley - lost good players but moved quickly and decisively to bring in necessary replacements.
2) The loans are uninspiring but do point, in my opinion, to Mick leaving in the summer - we're just getting bodies in now to do a job until the end of the season then someone else will take over. If they like the look of the loans then they might try and get them in permanently, if not, so be it.
3) Really not sure what the club are doing with Chambers. Really does enforce the view that Mick's good patch is the only thing that's stopped Evans' tenure from looking poor. Back to the Jewell days of having unsettled, unsure players running their contracts down.
Mick looks and sounds more and more like a defeated man. I think he knows he's used up his magic in the last few seasons and can't do any more with what he's got. He can't escape the blame though - he has a hand in incoming transfers and he hasn't sufficiently shown signs of adapting to life without Murphy. |  |
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