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Fair write up in the Guardian today. We have not improved our squad from last season's team and without improving the squad we are favourites to go straight back down. That's the opinion of RJ a long standing baggies supporter. Sounds spot on tbn.

Not sure I totally agree with this, firstly and most importantly even if you accept the statement is correct, it is missing that word 'yet' between not and improved, a tiny word which means a lot.  Also we have to remember that we were untouchable for much of the early part of last season until Grady got injured and from that point on we did not have a full first team choice available out until the lockdown.  We have to remember that the staff are professionals if we can draw this conclusion then I am sure they will be aware of it and will do something about it, personally I can not think of players I would rather have signed than the ones we have so far, that would (a) sign for us and (b) we can afford.  It will all come good.    

Salop some excellent points within your post. The "yet" being quite important. I agree 100% the early part of the seaon we were head and shoulders
above the rest of the teams in the championship. Diangana's injury certainly upset the balance of the team and we struggled to recreate the early form.
The signings have been more then we would have expected IMO and we are still waiting for Bilic to announce his new gem ?
A couple of new loans and we could be more of a threat then others realise.

I am also intrigued by SB's comment that the players are better equipped to the Premier than they were in the Championship e.g. more space to play and display skills.

To me it is pure spin but I'd like to be proven wrong.

Krov, Grady, Pereira and Robinson (hopefully) are all same squad as last year. But Kipre is net new and hopefully we will at least get another striker (Grant) and defender.

I would be very happy with this as a squad - it stands a chance.