Summer Update – Transfer (Lack of) News

By: Matt | August 1st, 2009

Not Looking Good
Please forgive me for not being sufficiently positive about Summer 2009. In fact, its been downright worrying. The Tigers have done just about zero to strengthen their squad, which at the end of May was deemed an absolute must if they were to survive round two of their Premiership adventure.

I can’t decide whats worse at this stage, the fact that no one wants to come to Hull (as so eloquently put by Mr. Darren Bent in 140 characters or less), or the fact that the players who don’t want to come are rubbish in the first place. Daryl Murphy? Bobby Zamora? Are these really the men who will keep us in the league come May? No. All respect to them, but a resounding no.

So why doesn’t anyone want to come to Hull? I’m not really sure. Maybe its the location, perhaps images of Phil giving the lads a dressing down at Man City lingers, or maybe players already view Hull as on the way down. It’s hard to say what it is.

Another viewpoint is, perhaps players DO want to come to Hull, or at least would want to, but we haven’t been going after them? In my last post I brought up the fact that Man City now have about 27 strikers on their books, and chances are if you weren’t signed in the last two weeks, you aren’t going to be playing this season. Since that post, Ched Evans? Gone (Sheffield). Bojinov? Gone (Parma). Caicedo? Gone (Lisbon). We couldn’t have grabbed one of them on loan? We still can’t grab Benjani (who we were linked with at one stage, in fairness)? It is beyond understanding as to why we are going after players like Murphy and Zamora when A. They will not keep us up. B. They aren’t better than what we have already. C. There are better players available!

Even someone like Oba Martins, who was shipped off to Wolfsburg, would have gotten 9-12 goals for the Tigers this season, guaranteed. Yes maybe his wages were a bit high, but surely to remain in the Premiership he would have taken a pay cut. I’ll cease ranting at this stage, but as you can see, things aren’t looking great for the Tigers. Hopefully they’ll turn around in the next few weeks before we meet Chelsea.

Highlights of the Tigers 3-0 loss to Spurs in Beijing.