Who did we miss out on that the club wanted...?

SP looks really poorly.

Has anybody else noticed?

He is really, really skinny and stiff. When I saw him the other day on the Zaha interview I thought he looked terrible and that he needed a good dinner, a weeks sleep and a shed load of medication.

Well hopefully with all the major negotiations and transfer business out of the way he's only a weekend or two in Ibiza back to being his old self

‘We all have our hunger.’

COYP

Previous windows have been mixed and usually it all happens at the last minute, but this time, most likely with Roy's advice, Parrish played an absolute blinder - I'm sure Wilf planned to stay all along and all the hints at going were a red herring so that other clubs didn't know if we were desperate or comfortable, which effects to what degree they will try to rip us off, keep them guessing and you're more likely to pay the real value/price for the player. Ayew as a loanee is prob a better deal than a buy as he needs to prove himself by applying pressure on Benteke and Townsend, you could not really hope for better replacements for Cabaye and RLC than Meyer and Kouyate, and with Meyer on a free the addition to the wage bill is set off substantially. Last window was p*ss poor, but credit where it's due, SP played his cards like Maverick this time imho.

You are of course right although SP could not have known that at the time.