I think roughly we will see a difficult next few months with players returning from injury, a lot of new faces and a new tactical approach needing time to bed in, and youth being given a chance. I suspect the team that plays the majority of games in December will look very little like the team that plays Chelsea in a couple of weeks' time.

Assuming by Christmas, everything has settled into place and we know our new strongest line-up and key depth, I expect the January window to involve a fair few departures. Luka, Kouyate, and a few others fit the profile of players we need around for the next six months but may become surplus to requirements once Viera's plan begins to really take root.

I don't know about others But I feel a bit sorry for Roy. Yes we played Dire football but I feel he used the players we had the best he could.

He was given no funds and had to try to use the Solorth's, Jach and Rakip of this world bought by DF. I wonder if these funds and younger players had been given to him our style would have been different.

He has been attacked for not using our u23 players but how many who have left us have made it in EPL? Some of current crop may make it but they are not EPL standard yet but remember these youngsters and improved academy were developed during Roy's time.

Roy would have played these new players after about 4-5 months of training and reprogramming into defending for 80 minutes and never going too far in front of the ball. How long before we saw RLC? What did it take to play AWB? AWB was hardly prepared, was he? He followed the ball/player into the centre circle several times and didn’t know where to hold his position. He got away with it but you could tell it was an emergency and never in the planning. Roy with this many changes this season with unproven and unknown faces would’ve even interesting. Or would he just name 1 or 2 subs and not select any of them?

Hopefully his days with us are numbered