Bruce needs to mix it up a bit...everything he says can't be negative...Even the chary Benitez is learning that he can't do that all the time
Why didn't bruce signed geovani dosantos, he would've brought nuff pace creativity and ball movement in the midfield. now he gone all the way in turkey when he could've been @ sunderland.
Its hard to tell what was / is going through Bruce's mind he certainly is seeing things differently to me. Here is my guess at what went on in the transfer window.
He wanted a LB from Wigan, the deal was fell through last day in teh summer window, Bruce thought it was just a matter of time and price, didn't bother looking elsewhere it didn't happen left a big hole with no back up.
A RB was 2nd had no one in mind so had a few options, left it late spoke to 3 and got Hutton on loan.
The Kenwyne thing was done to death, but tried to get Kurangi (sp) and probably would of sold Kenwyne, Liverpool are skint and tried to get Kenwyne on loan as short term stop gap while trying to sign someone else for next season who is out of contract in the summer on a precontract.
Bruce constantly went on about defenders and a forward never mentioned midfield all January, we were linked very late on with teh Egyptian who had on trial in the summer either this was the players agent trying to drum up a sale which is quite common or he had an afterthought left it too late and couldn't agree a deal, if I was a betting man it would be the latter for me.
The galling thing for me is that Malbranque & Richardson haven't performed all season and we are just relying on Reid who isn't going to be in form all season. In addition we have Henderson who is just a kid whose form is always going to vary, but has also been played in CM to cover for the injured Cattermole and he isn't a CM. So Bruce had no interest in strengthening midfield where we only have 2 CM's (1 injured most of the season) and 2 effective creative players 1 of which is a kid. Reid had an injury (hence the afterthought above), but now Henderson is out for 2/3 months leaving only 1 creative player.
Very strange and as I said not teh gaps I would of filled or rather tried to fill more gaps, don't understand him tbh.