I have the uneasy feeling that we only make positive moves in the transfer window when the fan site really puts pressure on the club... when a side with ambition is winning games it usually signs players to improve the team.

Although it is great news that our long term injured seem to be recovering... it does not guarantee them being as good as they were before the injuries. We still have a very inexperienced bench and even though we beat City comprehensively at the weekend, we are still stretched really thin.

All the top teams in the Premier League have strong squad players with experience sitting on the bench to supplement the players and fill in for injury, suspensions etc. If we have players going through a loss of form (which can happen to anyone lets face it!!), we have no one to push them and provide competition for their place.
I hope that the club don't let our current form put all talk of team strengthening on a back burner.
I am hungry for real success not just safety and forty points.

And as far as Tim's wages are concerned I’d offer an educated guess that the great majority is ultimately paid by Sky... if you’ve got Sky then that’s your choice (and you’re part of the problem with modern football and modern footballers) but please don’t start with that ’we pay his wages’ rubbish.

Ultimately we all pay each others wages, unless you’re a top banker that is.

His work rate gives us the extra support to the main striker, but at the same time performing defensive duties not only up top, but across the middle of the park as well. It's valid for you or anyone else to take a pop at his lack of form and production in some games, but his workrate, to me, is consistently high, he never hides and his bravery , unquestioned. That's what I see anyway.

Chelsea’s bench on Saturday included Borini, Sturridge & Matic (who are these?), Arsenal’s had Merida, Emmanuel-Thomas & Coquelin (who again?). But they’ve got players in Africa and injuries you might say. So have we!

10 missing on Saturday, an average of that all season. Add that to Saturday’s squad and you’re leaving out 6 players who would be considered first team squad players — eg, my 6 would be Hibbert, Yobo, Rodwell, Gosling, Anichebe, Jo (if given that option right now that is).

Whether you like it or not, whether you think there should be plans in place in case, what we need is a bit of good luck with injuries. They’re not solely to blame for what’s gone wrong this season, and they are part and parcel of the game, we like any other team could cope with 3, 4 even 7 or 8 for periods. I don’t think any team would be brilliant with 13 players unavailable (as against Benfica).

Adding players to the squad costs money that we quite simply don’t have, and I would rather have a long term future for this football club than paying extra players just in case we have 5 ACL tears at the same time.

Charlie, Sky money is substantial, don’t know the exact figure but I would guess at least £25m. Whilst I understand your argument, it’s likely that money makes up one quarter to one third, if not more of our turnover, so I think you’re wrong on that.

He did a good job from what I saw and it's impossible for a player to play at his peak for eternity. Wake up and realise these players are humans and not machines.

Personally, I think our best option to move forward — is to spend big on a clever, pacey and skilfull right winger and let Bily take the Cahill role...