We got Ayew, Cahill, and McCarthy for around 7m last summer.

The summer before we got Kouyate, Guaita, and Meyer for 12m.

Unless, of course, you mean spending big. Thank god we’ve avoided that after bringing in Benteke and Sahko. The costs of those two have, in essence, hamstrung the club.

We are clearly looking at younger players give the ones for the future who have arrived, and the one whose medical is problematic. That is the way forward for a club like ours, and given some of the injury problems we have had it seems reasonable to be concerned over a failed medical.

If it's true that we've let Wickham go on line, I am truly flabergasted. Best striker we've got, coming int some fitness....no real replacement or alternative....and we let him go?

Madness.

The question isn’t are we going to complete the Nathan ferguson signing , the real question is will dazza show up before 11pm this evening ?

If this is Wickham coming into some fitness then I shudder to think what he'll look like when he's knackered.

Not being injured isn't the same as being match fit. He's rusty as a junkyard.

Edited by TheBigToePunt (31 Jan 2020 7.06pm)