Transfer Window Review: The Gerrard pull in full effect

In two words our review of the transfer window would be thus:

Thoroughly depressing

• Olsen

• Augustinsson

• Bednarek

• Dendoncker

Perhaps unfair to include Dendoncker in there but you get what we are saying. Not only is this not what we were promised by Purslow and Gerrard, it's also not what we've been used to having.

Wind back to the early summer months and the arrivals of Kamara and Carlos suggested a window of reinvention. No-one could have predicted just what Gerrard would reinvent us as.

Going back further we have

• Coutinho

• Digne

• Chambers

But despite them being "his" players Gerrard can't get them to perform.

Then there's the ones he refuses to play:

• Steer

• Guilbert

• Sanson

• Nakamba

• Archer

Or the ones he's shipped out on loan:

• Jaden

• Traoré

• Hause

• Iroegbunam

• Hayden

Or the one's he's binned entirely:

• Targett

• Trézéguet

• El Ghazi

It would be funny if it wasn't so serious.

Welcome to journeyman FC.

• 19 Senior professionals.

• Two new signings from clubs expected to be in the bottom half and who have deemed the pair surplus to requirements

• A 37 year old,

• One with one appearance in six months,

• One with no appearances full stop,

• [At least] One desperate to leave.

As for Gerrard:

He can't attract players

He can't motivate players

He can't build team spirit

He can't set up a team tactically

But he can sure destroy progress.

Villa have made a huge mis-step. The one saving grace is we didn't lose any more players meaning the new manager can reintegrate the banished into the squad.

But the best we can say is maybe, just maybe the section of the fan base who just love to tear Mings, Konsa and McGinn apart will get to see how the other half live. It might shut them up for a while.