bracksroyal10 At the end of the day everyone can speculate as to whether we have enough quality to compete in the PL with our current squad or not. However if I remember correctly AZ has said he wants to establish this club in the PL and also outlined some of the big plans he had in store such as upgrading the facilities and expanding the stadium.
I am pretty sure if he is willing to shell out for this he will be more than happy to shell out for new players in January should we find ourselves in trouble by then.
On the other hand you also have to look at our squad from last year that won the npc. Probably wasn't the best looking squad on paper in terms of individual ability. Yet we still won the league and the same applied most definetley when we finished so well in our first ever PL season. As the years go by the PL is becoming more and more competitive outside the top 6 or so like the Championshp in the way that if you go on a run of three victories or so you could find yourself 16th one minute and then suddenly in the top 10.
I personally think we needed to offload a striker or two and bring in another one would of liked to see Zaha as I do believe he will only get better and would add to what we have. Klasnic would of been a great free signing for us too even if it was for a year only. However Roberts still hasn't had his chance yet neither has Churchy who was on fire for us during pre season. Think the PL might bring the best out of Church like it did with some players during our last PL campaign players such as Stephen Hunt who was always the bench boy before then.
Its too early to judge our position in the PL I think by October/November we will all have a very good indication of what needs to be done in order to ensure our PL status for next year.
Simon Church was NOT on fire for us in pre season. He scored a hattrick agains AFC Wimbledon, an AFC Wimbledon that had trialists playing at CB. I saw him at AFC Bournemouth and he was terrible, and that was against League One defenders. I have been a supporter of Churchy over the last couple of seasons but he needs to go to get better, he's getting worse here.
