All we are saying is give Greece a chance

Worrying about the future of our club is only natural. It's the same for every single football supporter up and down the land, regardless of who you support or where you are in the league. Well, with the possible exception of Chelsea. But even the likes of Arsenal and Manchester United have their worries; phone in shows will tell you that everyone from Birmingham to Bognor have their troubles.

Agent just out of shot

Now, this has been a difficult transfer window for us. First of all we lost badge kissing Nigel Quashie to our local rivals. But let's look at the facts here - he asked for a 75% pay rise or else threatened to leave. Now I'm not denying that he certainly deserved to get paid more than he was at the time, but if we do cave in to his demands was sort of a precedent does that set? That anyone can turn up with their agent, demand more money or else they're off? £2.1m was a fantastic fee, as far as I'm concerned. The departure of Amdy Faye followed, and to be honest I was quite surprised to hear the fans complaining about this one - he's hardly been popular here and had already failed medicals at Fulham and Villa before his move to Newcastle. Finally, David Unsworth moved on but the fact he's hardly played and has been hugely outspoken in his support of Harry Redknapp, and the fact his agent has been in the media trying to drum up a move to Southampton, means that as a disruptive influence he's probably best out of the club.

Now perhaps we could've got away with selling these players more easily if results on the pitch had been going our way. But for one reason or another, it's now been over a month since we last won. But what we've got to realise is that we're in a transitional period - a lot of clubs would've sunk without trace if they lost their entire management and coaching staff, and it's credit that we're actually still playing well. Some of the results over the last month haven't been good, but the performances have. Admittedly points win prizes, but there is certainly something to build on. And let's not forget, we always do badly around this time of year - even in the promotion season, we dared to (gasp) draw a few games around the turn of the year.

But my biggest bone to pick with the public today is about the new players we've signed. Other than Chalkias and his over-enthusiastic debut, we haven't seen them play. We can't judge whether they're good or not. The fact Milan was prepared to pay £1,000,000 for Skopelitis would lead me to believe that he must have something about him. Rodic has scored goals for his country and in the Champions League - against Monaco no less, hardly an easy task. And yet people seem to want to give these players a hard time before they've even played. Alright, so they're not massive well known names, but are we in the market to compete for those huge names?

Velimir fan

Last season, Velimir was invited to spend a week with Arsenal to examine their coaching methods. During his time there, Arsene Wenger was apparently blown away by the sheer depth of his knowledge about almost everything to do with the game - tactics, fitness, players - there seemed to be nothing he didn't know. And as Milan said when he was appointed full time, he has a whole system of recording every single detail of every single player he's ever come across, including going out and scouting players in his spare time. The point I'm making is that Velimir is not going to have gone out and brought in players for one of the toughest leagues in the world if he doesn't think they're not good enough. He's played at the highest level, he's been involved in coaching at the highest level - he KNOWS what is needed. He's not going to go out and buy a couple of Eastern Europeans just because he likes them.

I just hope the fans are patient. Like any other player, they're going to need time to settle in to the Premier League and get used to life at a different pace in a different country. Yakubu, Kamara, Fuller - all players who had to settle in. These guys are no different, so let's give them a chance.