[BaggieSteve]

Let's be honest with ourselves, despite all press and agent speculation linking us to some exciting young overseas, and occasionally domestic, talent, this transfer window will follow the others of recent years and provide us with a slew of completely uninspiring signings, ones that fit the Pulis mound of hard working, ageing, Premier League players who have either seen better days or are cheap because they've gone off the boil and couldn't score in a brothel. There will be no signings that will take your breath away or even excite you, just run of the mill journeymen, most likely from recently relegated clubs. The tactics next season will be the same as last season - defend, defend and then defend some more, cede all the possession going, pray that Fozzie plays a blinder and hope to nick a goal from a corner in the one attack we have late in the second half. Oh, and pay £30+ for the privilege of watching it. As long as Pulis is manager, this club I have supported since 1962 will play some of most boring, sterile football any of us can imagine, devoid of creativity or flair. Not losing and survival will be all that counts, some ambition. It doesn't have to be like this, clubs similar in size and stature to us make a better fist of it, have more belief, more courage. Who we sign and the efforts made to get them on board tell us a lot; right now clubs around us are being ambitious, are doing business. What do we do? We baulk at paying a reported £5milion for a young and, by all accounts, talented left back (a position we all agree we desperately need to fill), even though we have a £40million transfer kitty but will spend £12million on a non scoring, injury prone striker who cannot get into the starting line up of a club similar to ourselves. I know this is a very negative and I would dearly love to be proved wrong, at which point I will happily eat humble pie on this forum and admit my error, but right now I see nothing to convince me that this transfer window and next season will be any different to our recent history.