Was glad that we secured a convincing win against newcastle last saturday but was previously puzzled to witness the first loss for the club during the match against fulham which was only the second match of the season. hello, 3 down, 35 games to go?

Despite the much 'faith' about the squad and the potential that each of the youngsters have shown, they have yet to shine, who has so far? except perhaps fabregas? I am one who is not prepared to take the fact that we can totally rely on them. It is one thing to give them time to grow and develop themselves but it is quite another thing to 'trust' them to bring in the silverware. With such an talented exodus of hleb, flamini and gilberto, midfield is obviously lacking in depth and quailty despite eboue,denilson covering and nasri coming in. It is just not good enough. It is a gd thing to bring in silvestre, can cover for senderos. Think in attack, adebayor and van persie can provide the goals provided vp does not get injured easily. If not, it'd be difficult for ade to operate alone.

We have shot ourselves in the leg by not buying more players with the transfer dateline on monday. And I believe that we will go back to the same cycle of 'starting well and finish as usual', this season will be tougher for a top-four finish with a better-form liverpool, man city, everton, portsmouth n tottenham. Statements will again surface, 'we have the potential but becos of injury, we can't secure the win'. Do hope miracles can happen for the squad provided we have minimal number of injuries and we can do good to secure wins, not a large no of draws we had last season. Then, we stand a chance to break the silverware drought.