[Slick_Footwork]

Chuffed with the Johnston deal.

Never thought in a million years we would be able to keep him after his form last year. At times, it felt like he single handily dragged us into the playoffs. Honestly can't get my head around how we've managed to get him for £3m given his age and quality, when players who were not as good have been going for 8 figures. If he can repeat last years form, we've got every chance of being back up there. Worst case, we have a £10m+ asset on our hands.

I've been very critical of our transfer policy for years - probably since the Tony Pulis era - but I think our wheeling and dealing has been excellent this summer.

Obviously the window isn't closed so there's still time to lose players, but the fact we've been able to move on worthless lower league dross like Townsend and Thomas-Asante for money and use that to sign quality like Johnston is excellent work.

I think Racic is an excellent loan signing to replace Yokuslu. And while I don't know a lot about Heggem, Cole and Frabotta, I'd be gobsmacked if they're not at least as good as Townsend, Reach, BTA and the like. Lewis Dobbin who hasn't been mentioned much comes with some Premier League pedigree despite being only 21, while Diakite looks like more than adequate squad cover based on what we've seen so far.

Ideally we could do with a bit more cover at right back and up top, but I think that bar a lot of departures at the 11th hour, our squad looks stronger than last year despite us being skint.