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Re: The Transfer Window Rumours thread
It’s become popular to rate City’s transfer window out of ten, when it was done on Twitter two or three weeks ago and people were asked to respond with just a number to how we’d done up to then, I responded with “4”. Now, I accept that was a harsh judgment, I like a lot of the business the club has done and they surely must have pushed the boat out further wages wise (and probably in transfer fees as well) than many were expecting.
However, I was judging the club by the standards they had set for themselves, the standards their unofficial spokesmen on social media hinted very heavily we would be pursuing. Wherever you looked back in April and May, you were being told by these spokesmen and others in the media that the priority was a striker or, more accurately, two strikers because the lack of forwards of sufficient quality at the club had become a running sore dating back to the departure of Kiefer Moore (actually, it goes back to pre Moore days as well). I can remember it being said on social media that you would be shocked at the quality of striker City were pursuing.
I shouldn’t forget that we have signed a striker this summer and, you never know, Wilfried Kanga could become a twenty goal a season striker yet - I fully accept that it’s too early yet to judge him, but you look at what he’s done in a City shirt so far, his patchy career record so far, the fact that he cannot get into a Bundesliga 2 mid table side’s first team and that his stay here is only on loan, then it’s hardly a signing that shocks and awes us, it’s certainly not a signing that left us amazed at the club’s level of ambition.
Given the hype from the club’s unofficial social media representatives, I think it was perfectly reasonable for supporters to believe there was more, and better, to come and, in the event, there was and there wasn’t. On Thursday news broke that City had negotiated a move for a striker with Champions League experience at a more than reasonably rated club, a striker who is an under 21 international for a country that reached a World Cup Final six years ago and a striker who, we were told, was a prime target for the team that currently lead the Championship.
When our manager was asked about this new striker, he was light on details, but it’s hard to blame him really because, as he said, this was a “club signing” and he was going to be loaned out to Vincent Tan’s Belgian club for the season! How strange, but it must mean we’ll be announcing a better signing still surely?
Except it didn’t, we were informed that the club that sits at the bottom of the Championship were “relaxed” about the fact that, when you consider that two strikers currently at the club are out with long term injuries, you could reasonably argue that we are now worse off for strikers than we were last season!
I got it wrong when I gave a marking of four - after the Roko Simic farce, it’s a three. Typically, Cardiff City managed to turn what had been a good transfer window into a failure if you judge it by the standards they set for themselves. Not only that, they have, seemingly spent up to two and a half million pounds on a striker who could end up making his debut (if, indeed, he does make a debut for us) in League One.
It’s become popular to rate City’s transfer window out of ten, when it was done on Twitter two or three weeks ago and people were asked to respond with just a number to how we’d done up to then, I responded with “4”. Now, I accept that was a harsh judgment, I like a lot of the business the club has done and they surely must have pushed the boat out further wages wise (and probably in transfer fees as well) than many were expecting.
However, I was judging the club by the standards they had set for themselves, the standards their unofficial spokesmen on social media hinted very heavily we would be pursuing. Wherever you looked back in April and May, you were being told by these spokesmen and others in the media that the priority was a striker or, more accurately, two strikers because the lack of forwards of sufficient quality at the club had become a running sore dating back to the departure of Kiefer Moore (actually, it goes back to pre Moore days as well). I can remember it being said on social media that you would be shocked at the quality of striker City were pursuing.
I shouldn’t forget that we have signed a striker this summer and, you never know, Wilfried Kanga could become a twenty goal a season striker yet - I fully accept that it’s too early yet to judge him, but you look at what he’s done in a City shirt so far, his patchy career record so far, the fact that he cannot get into a Bundesliga 2 mid table side’s first team and that his stay here is only on loan, then it’s hardly a signing that shocks and awes us, it’s certainly not a signing that left us amazed at the club’s level of ambition.
Given the hype from the club’s unofficial social media representatives, I think it was perfectly reasonable for supporters to believe there was more, and better, to come and, in the event, there was and there wasn’t. On Thursday news broke that City had negotiated a move for a striker with Champions League experience at a more than reasonably rated club, a striker who is an under 21 international for a country that reached a World Cup Final six years ago and a striker who, we were told, was a prime target for the team that currently lead the Championship.
When our manager was asked about this new striker, he was light on details, but it’s hard to blame him really because, as he said, this was a “club signing” and he was going to be loaned out to Vincent Tan’s Belgian club for the season! How strange, but it must mean we’ll be announcing a better signing still surely?
Except it didn’t, we were informed that the club that sits at the bottom of the Championship were “relaxed” about the fact that, when you consider that two strikers currently at the club are out with long term injuries, you could reasonably argue that we are now worse off for strikers than we were last season!
I got it wrong when I gave a marking of four - after the Roko Simic farce, it’s a three. Typically, Cardiff City managed to turn what had been a good transfer window into a failure if you judge it by the standards they set for themselves. Not only that, they have, seemingly spent up to two and a half million pounds on a striker who could end up making his debut (if, indeed, he does make a debut for us) in League One.
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