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!

We look light at left back!!

I think having a goal scorer ‘scouted’ is completely different to having a deal and personal terms agreed. It will be immensely difficult to get a purchase through and if the player is on the market we will likely face competition. I’m completely against these kind of panic buys at the end of a window. I’m pretty sure the owners and staff see this and won’t sell, but it’s far too late to be scavenging in a sellers market to replace first team players. We have more than enough deadwood - focus attention on getting rid of that.

Not sure that kind of approach is what we need now. We need to stay competitive on the pitch and balance the books. No more forced sales of first team regulars - get the deadwood out and go for promotion for me. I just can’t see us signing and myegrating players of the requisite quality at this stage.

I think both are highly effective at this level and no guarantee we get players in who can be as good. Time will tell, but I fear selling two starting players at this stage is a huge gamble. Kel for me is so effective in his all round game, we just look so much better when he’s on the pitch. I think that will prove very difficult to replace. very happy to see Daka, Tim, Souttar, Ward, Soumare, Kristiansen go - just don’t want to lose these two.

This is terrible news - if we sell Wilf and Kel we are asking for trouble.

Ok - having not been to the game, but read, listened, watched highlights and tried to form an opinion, my take away is…. We’ve still got goals in us and we will play on the front foot this season and try to control games. unfortunately, we don’t seem to have the players in central defence to play a high line (even if swapping in Souttar for Vest would be better it wouldn’t change much in terms of vulnerability to defending speed on the counters). Therefore, I think we’ll play some really good stuff this year, but we’ll ship some goals and drop a fair few points as well. All part of the rebuild I guess and I think some further reinforcements will help a lot. Longer term we need to really rebuild the defence and get some pace in central areas. Great to get some points on the board esp v that lot!

It’s worth noting that we will have lost around 12 senior players as well though. Not sure how many Burnley let go in comparison

Am I missing something - it’s not a credible source and the numbers seem very unlikely, but people are saying they don’t want him to stay if he wants to leave, even though there is no indication he does want to leave!!

But we didn’t just win the league? We won the FA Cup, two top 5 finishes, UCL quarter final and a community shield. I don’t think that’s just luck, do you? The title season obviously had some luck to it. You don’t win a title at 5000-1 odds without luck. However, the owners deserve a lot of credit for funding and overseeing the most successful period in the club’s history. They have made mistakes since, but they’ve also invested significantly (in the squad and club) and written off a large amount of debt. My argument is that they have done a lot of positive things and our judgement on them should reflect that. Whilst also holding them to to account for errors that have contributed to the relegation. I’m not a KP cheerleader, just an LCFC fan who feels fortunate to have experienced the highs of recent years and wants the best for the club.

At least we have the FA Cup goal, but he’s definitely tarnished his reputation.