Kevin Russell

I distinctly remember being underwhelmed with most of MO’N’s signings - only for them to prove me completely wrong! Ian Marshall and Tony Cottee to name but two of them! I agree - although I think the latest signing has genuine potential (all be it far from a guaranteed success) to really kick on with us. Ayew, DCR would be classic MO’N signings!

I was making comments on what I see - I was positive about the majority of signings and stated that I’m not convinced on the other two. I have an opinion, you don’t agree and that’s fair enough. I hope they both turn out to become great players for us. Not sure what else I can say here.

I must admit I’ve dipped in and out over the years - I do struggle with the negativity, but I genuinely feel this hasn’t been a bad window.

I completely agree that our only chance of getting back to where we were is to make astute signings of plays with a ‘high ceiling’ let’s hope he works out. He looks to have serious ability, the test will be how he adapts to the intensity of our top flight.

Well he has been playing full games for the U21s so I based it on him not being deemed ready. Like I say I’m not writing him off at all. I was actually trying to post something positive but balanced about the window overall.

I hope so, certainly far too early to write him off, but from what I’ve see to date he’s been a underwhelming. Many players have been indifferent to start with and then improved though, so let’s see.

I was just trying to give a balanced view on all the signings, from what I’ve seen of Okoli and looking at his stats etc I’m not seeing much. I really hope I’m wrong and he turns out to be a good signing. Golding I was hoping we’d have a player deemed good enough to make the bench in the first round of the Carabo Cup, so I’m a little bit disappointed, but who knows he might turn out to be a gem.

He was never going to be a signing that got us all excited, but watching him you can see how he can get on the ball and impact games. Perhaps he will help bring the wingers into the game. If we are to stay up I think we need to get the best out of Abdul and Stef

This is a really promising signing, we’ve seen these kind of signings be brilliant and some that haven’t worked out, but overall I’m happy with this. We have a lot to be unhappy about at the moment, but it’s good to enjoy positive news like this. Unpopular opinion, but it’s actually not been a bad window overall. I think Ayew is better than I thought, Skipp is clearly a decent addition, the lad from Brighton looks class. Okoli and Golding don’t look to be much use, but otherwise we’ve added to the squad well. Get a bit of money in for canon and get a couple more out on loan and it will be a pretty good effort (obviously u can’t fully judge a window until you see how the players perform over the season).

Anyone who follows anything about attacking play will see that his overall attacking play is very strong across all areas. It’s no myth that he doesn’t press well though!!

97 mins per goal in the Championship - so glad we kept him. Never understand the people who focus on a mid controlled pass rather than all the goals and creativity. Not always orthodox, but he makes things happen.

Lovely to see Kel play like this - also love to see him continually proving people wrong!

His overall game is really good, he definitely allows midfielders to score more. I hope he can add some goals too 👍

Thankfully - the owners saw sense!