When folk put 'Out' next to players names I can only imagine they're thinking of taking Martin Kelly to the beach then driving off and leaving him there.

These players would need to be bought by someone. No obvious reason to think any of the first team squad will be sold, if only because there's no obvious reason to think anyone will be interested in paying transfer fees for the ones we would consider selling, if indeed there are any given the size of the squad. I'd be concerned if any of the senior players were sold this summer.

As far as further signings goes, we will probably end up going to the wire, and may or may not be successful. The reason for this approach remains the same as it has since transfer windows were introduced, and the refusal of football fans the world over to grasp it continues to baffle: The transfer market is largely an auction, not a shop.

Whether the squad needs further drastic surgery is still unclear. Of course we'd be better off with better players, but it's far too early to say whether the current players can achieve this seasons aim of staying up whilst playing a different style. It wasn't long ago that most of us were in agreement that we should expect one step backwards to begin with in terms of results, especially given the fixtures, so I'm not sure that the limited evidence of three games should bring about drastic alterations to the clubs medium term plans.

Would love a left back. Mitchell isn’t that great and young players go through spells of losing form. To have no backup there isn’t great.

And yes of course another striker is needed but I do think if we could do something radical and cross the ball more than once a game, we might see benteke score!

Given the swiftness of the signings we have made, and the bleeding obvious need for a striker, I'm confident that there is work going on behind the scenes. Good strikers are always harder to get in the door.

surely we need a right sided winger too as we haven't replaced Andros.

Zaha could (should?) play there but rarely does and i suppose Olise, when fit, could also play there but ATM we look unbalanced on that side of the pitch.

If PV wants to play a 433 formation i'm not sure a striker is the priority. Someone to create and add pace seems a must. We look slow and predictable going forward

Agreed. We don't even have a full squad and people want to reduce the limited resources we have. We are NOT going to complete the transition during this window given the sheer size of the task. We're not going to spending £100m plus this window to replace those we've let go.

The first thing is to review where we are next Wednesday after the transfer window closes.

Then it's how things look once our 3 longer term injuries are up and running.

Despite the disappointing failure to put away our chances on Tuesday, the build up play was promising. I believe Vieira and his team will be able to change the players' mentality when it comes to playing in the final third.

There really is no need to panic.

Rather strong and desperate language. Let's remind ourselves who we got rid of.
- Wickham and Sakho = regular absentees through injury and/or whatever. So no loss there as far as their contributions last season go
- Dann and Cahill = slowing up all the time and replaced by superior players in Andersen and Guehi
- Hennessey expensive 3rd choice keeper not needed as replaced by Butland last season
- Henderson - replaced by Matthews
- Woods - didn't feature so won't be missed
- McCarthy - injury prone and of limited value. We have a far superior upgrade having loaned Gallagher
- Batshuayi sent back to Chelsea having produced little last season
- We are left with PvA and Townsend. We could do with replacements for them both. However, Olise should be an adequate replacement for Andros once he's back (probably next month).

So catastrophic if we don't sign anyone else? I don't see it as that bad.