Have we built our hopes up?

This transfer window is turning out to be a frustrating affair with no real news forthcoming about extra additions to the team.

We started off like a proverbial house on fire by signing three players in just over a week, but I believe that this is the cause of most of the frustration amongst fans.

People want more, which is entirely understandable of course, but it takes time and there is plenty of that left in this transfer window. I've mentioned before about the three players coming in being ones that were sought after or that needed sorting quickly, but for the rest it will take time.

There hasn't been much action at all so far in this transfer window with the transfers of Phil Jones and Jordan Henderson representing the biggest moves thus far. It will change though and things will heat up, but for the moment the window is simmering rather than boiling.

I keep hearing people saying how it's quiet on the transfer front. So what? Take a look around and you'll see that it's exactly the same everywhere else. Don't get me wrong, people will quite rightly expect that team and squad to be strengthened, but I feel that getting Demba Ba, Yohan Cabaye and Sylvain Marveaux in so early in the transfer window has left us kind of spoilt. We made our first moves a lot quicker that I thought we would in fairness, which has brought about high hopes and expectations for the rest of the window.

Unfortunately that takes us back to the general transfer scene though. As I mentioned earlier, it's quiet, everywhere, with rumours being the main source of anything at the moment. The press are full of people "understanding" and "hearing", but in the end it's all just rumours.

So next time you bemoan the fact that things have gone quiet at NUFC, just take a look around - not many clubs are doing business currently. It's quiet everywhere.

When does this domino effect come into play?