SIGNINGS CAN MAKE-OR-BREAK A CLUB’S SEASON

Sam Allardyce

WHEN it came to signing players in the January transfer window, I was either very good or very lucky – and probably a bit of both.
At every club I ever saved from relegation, survival hinged on the players we signed in the January.
At Sunderland, we signed four players – Jan Kirchhoff, Lamine Kone, Steve Harper and Wahbi Khazri. At Palace, it was Jeff Schlupp, Luka Milivojevic, Patrick van Aanholt and Mamadou Sakho.
Everton needed less work, but we got a good goalscorer in Cenk Tosun and Theo Walcott, who had more...