Wise and Keegan will know exactly how much the squad now needs bolstering, even purely in terms of numbers, and will have impressed this strongly onto MA and the rest. They’ve said today that bids for Milner are being resisted, which either means “up your bids or sod off”, or that they genuinely want to keep him. If we did get Lennon (and Keegan thinks he can teach him to produce crosses and goals), maybe they would be thinking of switching Milner into the middle? He played there at times for Leeds and may be more suited to the position?

Either way, the papers know nothing, absolutely nothing, so I’m happy to sit back and wait to see who actually signs on the dotted line.

But honestly, I think that by the time the window closes, we’ll have a squad that we’re happier with than the one we have at the end of last season. If not, the board will have no one to blame but themselves when the fans kick off (which they shouldn’y do until that point). I don’t think we’ll have a star studded squad, but definitely a better, leaner, more skillful and more competitive one.