Close the door on your way out

What looked like being a quiet day for City has become quite the opposite with several fringe players leaving the club, aiding Adam Pearson's quest to slash the club's wage bill. Peter Halmosi, Tony Warner and Daniel Cousin have all left the KC, either on loan or permanently. Having seen off Wolves's attempts to sign Stephen Hunt earlier in the day, Transfer Deadline Day looks like being a successful one for the Tigers. Hungarian flop Halmosi has left the club on loan to sign for unpronouncable Hungarian side Szombathelyi Haladas until the end of the season. We had high hopes for Hungarian Halmosi having (aliteration!) brought him to Hull from Plymouth in the close season of 2008, but he didn't show the sort of form that caught the eye whilst plying his trade in the green of Plymouth Argyle and nobody at the KC will really miss his presence on the bench. Another disappointing signing was Daniel Cousin who has, as reported earlier joined Greek club Larissa on loan until the end of the season, with a view to making the deal permanent should Cousin bother his arse to put some effort in. Warner, meanwhile, leaves the club having made only two first team appearances in 18 months. The Scouse shot stopper never really looked like replacing Bo Myhill as number 1 or Matt Duke as number 2 and so City were happy to cancel the rest of his deal.

Whilst we're talking about players who spent disappointing periods plying their trade in black and amber, Scottish flop Darryl Duffy has signed a three month loan deal at Carlisle United. Duffy, who is permanently contracted to Bristol Rovers, signed for City in January 2006 as Peter Taylor put together a Little and Large partnership of him and Jon Parkin, and later departed to Swansea City, after scoring just 3 times in 24 outings.

Larissa Explains It All?

Striking enigma Daniel Cousin continues to be linked with a move to pastures new as City look to reduce thier wage bill further, following the release of both Bryan Hughes and Tony Warner. IMScouting.com reports that Cousin will seal a move to Greek outfit Larissa this afternoon.

But with Phil Brown stating on Radio Humberside that this deal had fallen through and with Cousin looking to be lining up a move to an unnamed Turkish club instead, i this just lazy journalism? Yeah, probably. And afterall, when dealing with Cousin, lazy journalism is probably appropriate (budumtish!). I don't expect to see him sign for anyone today, and I think he'll be hanging around in the reserves until he goes somewhere new in the summer. Shame.

In other news, former City right winger Jason Price has left Millwall, signing for Oldham on a month's loan. I wouldn't fancy playing at Oldham for any longer than a month either. Boundary Park freezing at the best of times.

Edit: I've just read on the BBC's excellent Transfer Deadline Day page (which you can find here) that BBC Radio 5 live's senior football reporter Ian Dennis has just said made the following the report on air: "I understand striker Daniel Cousin will be leaving Hull City with Greek side Larissa his likely destination." Let's hope he's right!

Transfer Deadline Day

City fans celebrate the news that Stephen Hunt isn't going anywhere!

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It's difficult to avoid the cloud of hyperbole, hype, disappointment and wasted time that is transfer deadline day. Thanks to Sky Sports News we know all about every deal that might be about to happen, has happened, won't happen, they want to happen and we love it don't we? I couldn't tell you why, but it's ace. Managers hate it, agents love it and the fans, starved of transfer activity for most of the season can't get enough of it. City have so far only done one piece of business of note, with Zaki joining the ranks and their only involvement on deadline day so far has been to allow Will Atkinson to extend his loan at Rochdale (link) and to tell Wolves to stick their £5 million offer for Stephen Hunt up their arse (link). Great news for the Tiger Nation. Selling Hunt would've been a hammer blow to our chances of survival, with the diminutive Irish winger scoring 6 goals and providing assists for a further 4. City have scored only 22 league goals this season, with Hunt critically involved in nearly half of them. The facts speak for themselves don't they?

I'll be posting throughout the day on any City related news or just on stories that catch my eye. Reaction to the frustrating draw with Wolves and a preview of tomorrow's game at Chelsea will follow later on tonight.