I don’t think there is any danger of that, do you?

B+ from me. Great season ahead.

Perhaps the club hope Banks will fill that role before too long. Or they feel they can wait till January or next summer now that Andros has shown a bit of form again and we have Eze on the left.

Edited by doombear (16 Oct 2020 11.21pm)

By my estimation this is now our squad, roughly in order of strength. I've left out youth players like Kirby who have yet to fully break through.

GK - Guaita, Butland, Hennessey, Henderson
RB - Clyne, Ferguson, Ward
LB - Mitchell, Van Aanholt
CB - Cahill, Tomkins, Dann, Kelly, Sakho
CM/DM - McArthur, Milovojevic, Riedewald, Kouyate, McCarthy
AM/WF - Zaha, Eze, Schlupp, Townsend, Ayew, Meyer
FW - Batshuayi, Benteke, Wickham

Positives: I think we've evidently strengthened some key areas of the team, particularly at right back and in the goalkeeping department, with Butland a much better deputy than Wayne.
Eze must be considered the signing of the window for us and will hopefully, if used properly, either exploit the space created by teams concentrating on Zaha or take some of the attention away from him altogether to allow Wilf to thrive.
At 29.8, we had the oldest squad in the division and, with an average age of 25, our new signings will bring that down slightly.
Keeping Zaha obviously a major win.
Our net spend was, again, not far off the lowest in the division so hopefully we can plug any further holes in January.

Negatives: I'm slightly concerned that Butland has been brought in as a replacement for Guaita, not Hennessey. In an ideal world he signs a new contract and we ship out Wayne in January.
We were crying out for another winger/forward and a centre-back but didn't land either. Half-hearted bids for Sarr at the last minute, a pursuit of Benrahma who damningly preferred to play under David Moyes and the dildo-salesmen, Brewster opting for Sheffield United over us can all be marked down as missed opportunities.
The striking situation which, let's be honest, has been shambolic since we were promoted, still isn't a lot clearer. Do we have an option for Batshuayi next summer? If so is that next summer's business already done? Conor Wickham is still here and must go down as the worst signing in the history of the club, in terms of how much he has cost us. Whoever gave him a contract extension, even on reduced wages, needs flogging.
Our aging central defenders will have to muddle through again and I just pray that two of them remain fit enough so that I don't ever have to watch Sakho needlessly scythe someone down or slice the ball into the path of the opposition striker again.

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

Banks doesn't count for those window, was last year signing. But you're right, is promising.

I think that there was still excitement as Roy said that we needed another striker and we all waited in hope to see who would arrive