Botchie
Striker
All first choice targets. The Sterling loan wasn't a last minute thing apparently and been going on for a while. We got Dunne early on and made our first bid for Grigg on the 7th. Leadbitter would have been in earlier, but supposedly the hold up was him sorting out the Boro end of things. With Morgan we were waiting on Celtic signing players before he was allowed to come. When you look at like that it makes some of the comments from the last few days pretty embarrassing.The whole season was decided at the last minute with the signing of Grigg. We left it late and paid over the top, but we can't say Ross wasn't backed.
A midfielder who captained a top 5 Championship club last season, a striker that has an average of 21 goals/season for the last 3 seasons at this level plus one of his favourite players from his former club.
There's no excuse for finishing lower than top 2, let's be honest (IF the Grigg deal goes through).