Look. It's easy to get lost in the sky super duper transfer deadline day bollox. Fact is that we have signed a number of good players for key positions and also cleared our lines. People forget that at the point when rodgers took over we had a squad with little depth but high wages. To rebuild you need to clear the wage bill and take it in steps.
Tottenham have signed a number of decent players today, but they have also lost van da vaart and modric. Have they got stronger, weaker or stayed the same? I guess time will tell. They look to have lost Moutinho, which would explain the late Dempsey move. That smacks of desperation.
Newcastle haven't really strengthened massively. They've held onto that fine squad from last year, but can they repeat the success?
Arsenal have gone backwards. They've sold more of their key players and the replacements are unknown quantities.
Chelsea and Man City have strengthened massively, but then we were never going to compete financially with them.
Man U have only made one big move and that was for Van persie. Could be an amazing signing, or he could get injured tomorrow.
I look at our central mid options now with Sahin and Allen, adding to Lucas, Gerrard, Shelvey and Henderson and I think we have improved massively on Adam, Aquilani and Spearing.
Our attacking options which now truly include Sterling, Assaidi, Yesil and Borini adding to Downing, Suarez and Cole is decent business. It's not perfect, and the loss of Carroll is a major gamble, but it's not the "sky is falling" situation many are claiming.
On the whole I think we've had a very good transfer window. A poor final couple of days, but we shouldn't be judged on that.
