I've got no doubt that we will sign 2/3 players but it seems as though it's going to be right at the last minute and feel a lot closer to the January window again than anything really inspiring.

Of the absolute highest priority is a couple of central midfielders because at the moment Puncheon, McArthur and Williams are woefully underwhelming options to sit in front of Milo.

If we can sort that out and have some luck with injuries we should survive, though frankly we need 4/5 if we're going to actually push on.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...