Along with about 5 others today including Original. They’re gonna have a bigger squad than Chelsea. I hope they go down with that tw@t of a manager.

Given the price tag it seems fairly obvious most thought he was a pile of s***e. Otherwise he would have gone for more.
People always want the big buys. It in reality we are dining at the bottom quartile of the top table. The likes of Lerma, Holding and Henderson are up grades on the players they have replaced in the squad. No idea about the injured kid but our record with the likes of Eze, Olise, Doucoure, Geuhi and Anderson can’t be argued with. So we hope he turns out to be a bargain as well.
It looks like a season where we will struggle against the top clubs but will be competitive with our peers. 12-15 place again me thinks.

He just scored a goal that Schlupp has never managed - and you might add Mudryk to that list

For a fee reported to be under £5 million, I can only assume his salary would have been too big or there are off-field issues. Otherwise, it looks like a bit of a mistake not to have been in for him

I would rather have Tommy Cooper.:'( -.-'

I still cant really understand why we were not in for him (unless we ere behind the scenes).

We knew at the time that spending the best part of £45m on a keeper and a kid was madness for a club of our resources/squad depth.

Just imagine if, instead of Hendo we'd picked up a 2nd string keeper for c.£10m, plus Traore and CHO.

Instead we are a few weeks into the season and jeff is our only first team wide man. What a sorry state.

He's always struck me as a player who may sporadically score great goals and has no lack of ability to perform consistently well however is equally likely to just not fancy doing so for periods.

When you look at the employment of the likes of Ayew, Schlupp, Wilf down the years and others in our team, perhaps the addition of another 'will he turn up/won't he' player was unfancied by all if not just Roy himself.

We already lack depth so perhaps the pennies that have been made/were available, a consistent performer was the requirement. Having said that, anybody would have been better than nobody but c'est la vie.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

If Franca was signed to play on the left then ultimately that is probably why we didn't sign anyone else for that position. Obviously him being injured is an issue, but we're too small a club to just go out and sign another player, especially one like CHO who I imagine is on high wages. Forest seem to be happy to stockpile players on big wages as they rush to try and establish themselves back as a big club. Personally I'd have preferred Elanga to CHO, but I'm just going to be optimistic and hope once he's fit Franca will prove himself. If Olise were fit then we'd still be a force with him right and Ayew left, but sadly his comeback has now been put on ice.

Firstly, I do think it was a mistake not signing another winger, I was just saying the signing of Franca was probably why we didn't go out and sign someone on big wages. CHO is supposedly on 100k per week at Forest. You're right that many players are on that but not in our squad and he hasn't earned that, it's only because Chelsea didn't want to lose him when they thought he was going to be a top player. Personally, I think it could have disrupted the squad. Maybe it would have been a risk worth taking, or maybe we would have been stuck with a disruptive player picking up the biggest pay cheque in the squad. Forest clearly have deeper pockets and would probably have got him over us on that basis anyway.

ahem, Henderson

Yeah, that's a good point. Sometimes I think I'm just trying to rationalise things, but that deal was odd. Having said that I think he'll be a fantastic keeper once he does get his chance.