No, I'm not happy. After selling Hernandez, and loaning Januzaj, we only brought in Martial who is unproven and not ready to make a contribution right away. The thinking after our outgoing transfers yesterday was that we had replacements lined up. Turns out that other than Martial, we didn't sign any replacements for our forward line or wing depth. With an out of form Rooney who looks to be in decline, and a lack of goals already, there is serious cause for concern.
I was at least very entertained by the DDG situation, even if I'm not sure how it's going to turn out. If we somehow get another season of DDG here (and he remains professional), that would be great. If Real get hit with a transfer ban next year, that's even better. The DDG situation is something that we've to wait and see how it turns out. It might turn out great for us, or we could have an entire season of Romero at GK, and lose DDG for free next summer.
On a lesser note, we also failed to sign any CB, after selling Evans and loaning out Blackett. While I'm glad to see Evans, and Blackett go, we're also now short on CBs, and two of them are very injury prone (Jones specially). Blind has been ok, but not a long term solution at all, and waiting to be exploited by stronger sides. We could have signed Laporte or Otamendi, maybe even Stones, but we never even made an attempt. A lot of people are going to blame Woodward for this transfer window (especially the media), but I think LVG had Woodward chasing big name targets all summer, and was never interested in settling for less. We were looking to sign Bale, Muller, Hummels, Ramos, none of who turned out to be available. Instead of settling for other targets, we didn't sign anyone. After a great week during the window where we signed our midfield & Darmian, we've had a pretty horrible transfer window IMO. We turned down Pedro, who was available at great value, and would have been a starter here right away for the short term, until we sign a big name replacement next summer. Instead of blaming Woodward, we should be looking to blame LVG for chasing the wrong names imo.