The brutal truth is that we're at the bottom (or near the bottom) of the professional club food chain at the moment and we have got to come to terms with it.
Also our model seems to be to try to attract young players to develop and sell on so we can hardly complain when this happens. It's just a shame that several have gone at the same time when one per season would have been preferable.
The big concern is that we've failed so far to unearth a goalscoring number nine who would be happy to stay with us for a good while.
Two or three positive forward signings in the next couple of weeks will see us okay and I believe Parky has this in hand. 🤞
Great post - especially around losing players to higher up the food chain - we'd better get used to it.
We won't rely on loanees in future seasons as much as we have done this one; it was just necessary for the transition and it's given us some great times (esp with CCC).
I'd be more worried if we had a shed load of dead wood that we were struggling to move on.
We haven't heard the last from a recruitment point of view; I'd rather the management took their time to locate the right targets, even if it takes a week or two longer.
I suspect, as suggested before, that we're waiting for the football league window to close.