The size of the squad

[Godo]

I don't want to stir up pro/anti sentiments but the injuries to Dicko and Wilko made me think critically about who we have in the squad. This made me think - could it be that the apparent activity in January is masking a problem?

This time last year we had in addition to the current squad:

Russel
Hoefkens
Higgo
Fortune
Hill

all solid first team players

We have replaced them with Cresswell, Cort, Shawcross and Pugh, again all good players.

It is very positive that Diao and Griffin are now permanent instead of on loan but purely in terms of numbers of first team quality players that are available to Pulis it appears that we are actually down on last season!!??

I am delighted with our league position and yesterday was an excellent point. No one is doubting that Coates is bankrolling the team BUT looking at the relative wage bill to this time last year and the net profit from transfers perhaps his ambition isn't as extensive as our optimism had persuaded us is the case?

Let's hope that 3 major additions to the squad over the next couple of weeks make the concerns in this posting redundant.