Yesterday morning we opened the day by sharing a few articles form previous years the day after the closure of the January window.\u00a0 They were from 2022, 23 and 24 where the reports (linked at the end of this report) talked about the nature of the window just passed and the poor activity from the Swans.<\/p>\n
It set the tone for what we always believed was going to be a totally underwhelming day in SA1.\u00a0 \u00a0After all, the evidence pointed to that being the case and the fact that everything was being left to the last minute told us all we need to know that we had no coherent plan and the only real hope was that we did not do anything monumentally stupid in the closing stages of the window.\u00a0 \u00a0Thankfully we don’t appear to have done that last part so we have to – given the nature of the way we approach things – be grateful for that small mercy at least.<\/p>\n
About halfway through the day it was a BBC article that caught our eye – it was from November 2023 where Andy Coleman – master of the “plenty of bluster but no action” mentality – talked about the ambition of a Premier League return.\u00a0 \u00a0 Andy talked then and said\u00a0“We have the ability here to move very quickly and make those decisions to improve this football club.<\/p>\n