We need some other teams to start suffering the kind of injury crisis we have experienced, where a full team is on the sidelines, players with serious long term issues….then we may see a few more dragged in.
Forest will spend in January, of that there is no doubt…and if they lose another couple before then will sack the manager as well.
That could go both ways of course in either boosting or making them worse!
Brentford could lose Toney….already have a few injured and after yesterday may also go in the kind of run that sees them drop backwards.
Everton will be fine, the points deduction has galvanised them all.
Palace have struggled, and it still angers me that we gave them a free hit at ours when playing them now would have been a probable 3 points. But if Eze remains out or moves on he is a big player for them, the other young attacking player is attracting interest so if he leaves they will struggle.
But being realistic…we too are still vulnerable to injury. Our high energy style that is needed to make us competitive is likely to have further casualties. We can make one or two changes in January but lack the spends to make a huge impact. We have conceded too many goals and given up 3 points in too many games that we would have been targeting now as wins.
The impact in a week has exceeded my expectations, we hope in a few more weeks the improvement can continue to rise and confidence will be high but I believe we will fall short and rue those first few months and horrendous performances where we surrendered with a whimper and boosted our rivals goal difference and confidence at the same time.