OsloRover

Very promising start for McLoughlin. Alebiouso and De Neve mixed. Henriksson looking lost so far. We have no creativity up top, which is the most worrying for me

If you are talking about Henriksson it's every Scandinavian footballer's dream to play in England. Fans follow English football too and don't begrudge their players that oportunity. Besides, a move to England usually give their clubs a significant cash boost.

Probably happy to retain his wages and not get them cut by relegation

Simply must get a player or two in who can play right wing. Hedges is first choice and Mullarkey-Matthews his only backup. Frightening really, and I’m not even the biggest Hedges critic

Tavares on for the first time, for Tronstad I believe

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We don’t have anyone else who can play in that position

Lovely Kargbo curler!

Yeah we’re not beating this lot

Montgomery gives away a blatant penalty

Agreed. That would require the capacity to plan.

I would not. In fact I would be hesitant to sell him for anything less than 4-6 million right now. Feel this will be a good season for him, I’m worried who we’d get in to replace him with, and also he is the club’s grip strength champion apparently.

But how??

Sorry, but you misunderstood the point of my post completely. I was asking the question if the previous transfer windows left our squad stronger or weaker, not if the windows got us what we needed or not. We can all agree it is too early to judge the current window.

Touché. My mistake, but it doesn't weaken my argument.

Dennis was a loan

I'm questioning the "our squad gets weaker every window" narrative, so I decided to do a little analysis of our past three transfer windows. I've not considered loans, nor youngsters with barely any first team minutes. SUMMER 2024 IN: Balázs Tóth - Goalkeeper Danny Batth - Centre-Back Todd Cantwell - Attacking Midfield Andreas Weimann - Attacking Midfield Yuki Ohashi - Centre-Forward Makhtar Gueye - Centre-Forward OUT: Leopold Wahlstedt - Goalkeeper Sammie Szmodics - Attacking Midfield Sam Gallagher - Centre-Forward Semir Telalovic - Centre-Forward Analysis 6 players in for 4. We might not have known it at the time but with hindsight there's no question that we improved both goalkeeper, defense and strikers in this window. Szmodics is the only (although obviously big) downgrade but we did replace him with two good players. JANUARY 2025 IN: Augustus Kargbo - Left Winger Yuri Ribeiro - Left-Back Adam Forshaw - Central Midfield OUT: Arnór Sigurdsson - Left Winger Kyle McFadzean - Centre-Back Analysis Three players in for two. Sigurdsson probably better than Kargbo but injury-prone, too early to call. Ribeiro a very solid signing. McFadz not playing much by this time and Forshaw is Forshaw. It's hard to argue the squad got significantly worse this window, I'd actually say better with Sigurdsson not that big of a loss. SUMMER 2025 Too early to judge yet, but so far we have IN: Sidnei Tavares - Central Midfield Dion De Neve - Left Midfield Sean McLoughlin - Centre-Back Ryan Alebiosu - Right-Back OUT: Joe Rankin-Costello - Right-Back Tyrhys Dolan - Right Winger Andreas Weimann - Attacking Midfield Dilan Markanday - Right Winger Danny Batth - Centre-Back Analysis 4 players in for 5. Although I'd personally have liked to keep Markanday, he hasn't contributed much. Batth and Weimann both did very well here but will they do the same this year at their age? McLoughlin is a solid, younger Batth replacement. JRC handy but wouldn't start in front of Brittain anyway. Alebiouso should be able to replace him. Dolan is the big one that hasn't been replaced, so I hope we see some more action there. So far this window, it can be argued we are weaker, but it is far from finished. Add to this any academy graduates coming up, which looks more likely this year than last, and I just don't believe our squad is consistently getting weaker. In fact you could argue it's getting stronger, younger, and more financially sustainable. At least I'm sure that's what Gestede is thinking. Edit: Woodrow didn't belong in the list as many have pointed out. Removed.

Yep, 10 unbeaten. 8 wins I think. Preseason is preseason, but winning is still better than losing

Gueye had found his level. Now we only have to get into a European competition

1-0 Gueye

Yes. But not in a useful manner sadly.

Surely not. Maybe reds.

Yes, quite different than the championship, can’t really tell if Elche are any good or not. I guess they must be if they are to have any hope of surviving in la liga

5-1 Kargbo tapin after good work from Montgomery and Gueye

4-1 Tyjon header