[Worldclassalbion]

Samaras should never have been signed.

I've said this on many occasions and sometimes I've been shot at. TP seems to agree with me though.

Hopefully that's the last of last years extraordinary transfer dealings, gone.

Lots of talk about us not signing anyone but for what positions are we short?

For me, key players are:

Foster
G Mac
Lescott
Fletcher
Yacob
Morrison
Brunt
Berahino

Where do people think we need to strengthen?

Tidy, for a start you have named 8 players as 'key' so we are missing 3 straight away. We need to strengthen at:

RB,LB  another centre half as GMAC and Lescott getting on now, 2 strikers, maybe 2 wingers., that's 7 I can think of and we need maybe more to have a good enough Squad because that's what the Premier league is all about, not the 11 but the entire squad. Some players we signed haven't been given a fair crack IMO but i don't watch them train day in day out so I have to trust TP's Judgement.

But your list of players certainly aren't going to set the league on fire without some quality added and unfortunately half of the rest of the current squad aren't good enough so need to be shipped out and replaced.

As for Samaras I'm on the fence to be honest, scored for fun in the SPL but I think I could to be honest so probably the right decision to get rid. Big Vic needs to go ,Sess doesn't fit and Ideye hasn't come up to scratch (Hoping we keep him and he does), I like Poco too and can't see what he did wrong to be honest, works hard, great tackler, can get forward, Gamboa not given a chance.

Out of your list my key players would be Jimmy Morrison, Lescott, Foster (although Boaz outshone him) Berahino. I'm not that impressed with Fletcher either, didn't do any better than Mulumbu (A mistake to let him go).

I'm rambling now but I could go on BUT just my opinion, we all see things differently