14 games to go

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With 14 games of our Premiership season left (and hopefully a few more FA Cup ties thrown in) and the transfer window finally closing and putting us out of our misery, I sit here on my second day off because of the snow (always a good time to be a teacher!) wondering what may lie in wating for us in the months to come.

Sigining Jo is a no-lose situation and there are reports today that we were in for Kevin Kuranyi until the very last minute they (Schalke) pulled the plug according to agent Barry Silkman.

It just reaffirms that Moyes is such a shrewd operator that this news wasn't in the public domain at all and that as we know, we should never read too much into the usual whisperings and murmurs we hear during the windows. We have a pretty nice run of games coming up in comparison to what we've just been through and of our boys can summon the energy to keep up our current level of performance then I see no reason why we can't just hang on to the current top 5 and maybe sneak up a couple of places.

I'm one of these people that annoyingly looks back at results and thinks "if we'd done this or won there or drawn here" and it just seems that until we have an added 3-4 quality players in our squad, we're never going to be able to have that season where we don't go 6-7 games without a win like we did and the end of last season and the start of this. The last few months have been fantastic but it's put in perspective when we see that West Ham are on;ly 4 pts off us having been in crisis themsleves, it's just we had our crisis before they did!

Jo will be given a chance and if he scores then great, how is it a risk to take a $20 million player for nothing for a few months. The real question is what we'll be able to so in the summer. Moyes has been clear in stating that in this window we've only been loking for loans, does that mean that come the summer that we might have a money to spend? The Moutinho link hasn't gone away and at the risk of wishful thinking, a summer of Moutinho, Kuranyi plus a few younger signings, Eagles or whoever then maybe come next August we could be ready for a real assault on the top 4.

Money talks, do we have any, will we have any? But I'm sure that with 14 games to go our boys will give it everything to ensure that our club becomes an attractive proposition for players and investors.
Niall Clinton, London     Posted 03/02/2009 at 09:48:52

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