Apologies for mentioning before but with this thread title it's interesting to look at the last three jan transfer windows before this one:
Jan 2020
Team was faltering but still in a very good position. Were 6th and just 6 points off 2nd when winning 3-0 at Barnsley on 21st Jan. Davies, Pearson, Barky were all in good form and a long way from moving.
Yet Sinclair was the only player signed when a bit more backup and proven quality was needed in certain areas, Rafferty started at LB that night for example and Nuge came on as late sub.
Jan 2021
Team miles off top 6, AN basically demotivated and silently serving his notice.....so all of Iversen, SVDB, Whiteman, Evans, Lindsay, Cunners and Molumby and Gordon on loan were all signed!
You give a manager all that when he was pretty much begging to be sacked compared to 12 months previously when half of those options could've been enough to get time in the top 6.
Jan 2022
Bambo was only player signed this month but Lowe only been in charge for six weeks and squad was pretty bloated so that one can be excused apart from not really planning for the long term.
At least this one has seen a few attackers come in and Onomah might be amazing but just confirms the scattergun approach of last few seasons and no real logic to how active club is compared to league position or whether the manager even wants to be here.
Give me the Grayson era back when there was a fantastic mix of youth and experience in the signings made most windows and an actual plan of how to utilise them and then eventually sell them for a good profit. It's like a completely different board were running things back then rather than just the benefactor passing on.
