Think Cresswell will be a pretty big loss over time.

Strujik was lucky to have broken into the lineup prior to Farke coming so he was used. Cresswell came in a little later and he was deemed "excess to needs" by the coach. I think the overall ability of both is pretty similar and I think Cresswell is more durable than Strujik. It's much easier to just go out a buy a retread than it is to give a youngster a chance to fully develop.

I always found it interesting that Cresswell was plenty good for Millwall who had a solid defense the year he played with them but not good enough to even play mop up minutes for us. Joffy was in similar position.

How bampuff keeps getting the training time and minutes when he's as old and fragile as he is defies common sense at time. He's also mentally fragile, lacks pace and misses easy sitters under pressure. Other than that he's good.

I am very concerned that if we get promoted we'll have a repeat of the signing extravaganza that orta executed. I have been impressed with some of the solid players we picked up under the 49's including Gruev, Ramananzi, Ampadu, Rodon and Bogle. However, the panic buying if we get promoted could really hurt us down the road.