It’s easy to be wise with hindsight. But ultimately I’d argue even more than not signing a striker was selling off players to make our squad as thin as it was. Smith Rowe, Vieira, Nelson and dare I say it even Nketiah would have been some considerable use to us.

It feels like the only justification for selling them (I assumed that it was more about FSR compliance) was to create space in the squad for the likes of Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly. Well frankly with the injuries we’ve had, actually likely those two would have come through anyway.

Nketiah I was as keen as anyone to get rid of him, but what can’t be denied is that he has an excellent cup record with goals and it would have avoided playing Havertz into the ground.