' TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8th 2015 CCFC UPDATE '

I love the bit where slade is told we don't need anymore midfielders!!!
Who the hell told him that? He is the person who knows what he needs!!

Totally agree. I assumed the idea of us loaning players out was so we could free up some spare wages to bring in this centre midfielder Slade wanted, but obviously not! What a disappointment!

I think we have all been surprised how well the midfield has been playing and the captain of Iceland can't get on the pitch and the likes Kennedy can't get in the squad. Can't see the need to bring anyone in right now and it's a long window

I'm more than happy with Gunnarsson, but Kennedy isn't a centre midfielder. What if Whittingham gets injured? We can't move Ralls from the left side of midfield at the moment as he's playing so well there, tucking in to boost our centre midfield and covering to allow Malone/Fabio to bomb forwards. So if Whittingham gets injured, we only have Gunnarsson and O'Keefe to step in, two holding midfielders.

I'm more than happy to play with two holding midfielders in the centre away from home to keep us solid, but at home we can do with another centre midfielder to burst forwards, penetrate and be a goal threat. Gunnarsson can do this to an extent, but if we could use the wages we've freed up from loaning out Doyle, Adeyemi, Kiss, John, Healy etc plus offloading Guerra to bring in Kevin Nolan - a leader with the experience, quality and character to give us those extra goals and points; I would then believe we have a squad good enough for automatic promotion.

I was thinking of Gunnarsson and Ralls as additional cover for midfield right now with Noone, Ameobi and Kennedy to fill in out wide. I would love Nolan but can't see him leaving London nor us paying his wages. All I was suggesting was that the need for an extra midfielder wasn't as urgently needed as first thought although that could of course change at any time especially if we lose some games

I don't disagree with you about the balance of our current squad. We do have enough depth in centre midfield but we only really have Whittingham and Ralls who can create and threaten. Slade's budget would have been agreed at the start of the season. With the players we have loaned out plus Guerra being let go, we must be currently well under budget.

Slade was told he can only bring players in if he shipped players out first. Slade has done this but it seems the board haven't stuck to their promise. I think Slade being told he can't bring in the player he wants after shipping players out with the obvious intention to replace them with the centre midfielder he wants to strengthen us further is bizarre to say the least.

I believe signing a Kevin Nolan would give us that extra we are lacking. Nolan would bring us the leadership, character, professionalism, worth ethic, grit, quality and goals from midfield to win us games and carry us to promotion. I think it will be a huge shame if after our promising start, Slade isn't given the opportunity to strengthen our squad further to give us that extra push.