We went inti the summer transfer window last year with everyone and their dog saying we had to buy a striker. We ended up buying one (who the manager at the time knew little or nothing about as he described it as a “club signing”) for a seven figure fee and promptly loaned him out to our owner’s other club where he barely featured. Someone mentioned the strange case of Godfrey Ingram back in 82/83, but at least he scored three first team goals in the six weeks or so he was with us - Simic has to be the oddest signing we’ve made in the time I’ve been supporting the club and probably for the whole of our existence and, with Erol Bulut washing his hands of the matter, all of those involved in this signing are still with the club and playing a part in our recruitment plans!

Two months ago, everyone it seemed bar one person was in agreement that the club was desperately in need of major structural changes, yet all we’ve seen is the appointment of yet another manager/head coach. To be fair, there are those who think Brian Barry-Murphy is a shrewd appointment, but he has an enormous task because we’re still a Tan knows best club with all of the huge drawbacks that brings - if you told someone pretty well acquainted with EFL about the Rocco Simic transfer and asked them to guess the buying club, I guarantee that Cardiff would be one of the first three guesses they’d make - Omer Rica used to claim Yousef Salech was his signing and I for one believed him because Tan, Dalman, Choo, Deboys etc would never have found him.