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There are now less than two weeks to go before the transfer window closes and as far as I can tell Hull City are no closer to getting any deals done.

It’s a situation that is disappointing if not surprising given the club’s record of doing business late in the last few years.

The trouble when you leave it late is that you can end up with the deals that were well down on your list of priorities and you bring people in simply because you haven’t done any or enough business by that stage.

If you’re going to get your signings done early then you usually have to pay money for that pleasure and the City owners have come out and said previously they’re not going to spend money given their plans to sell up and leave.

Which is exactly why I’m not surprised we’ve not seen anyone, but I wish I had been wrong because what City needed was new faces in early this month.

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The longer you leave it the longer it can take for players to settle into their new surroundings and time isn’t a luxury City have at present.

They need results now and they need a lift. The fans need a lift too and some signs of encouragement and it’s them I feel sorry for.

If the club could have got a couple of deals done early in January it would have given everyone a lift that feels like it is badly needed right now.

I’m still hopeful we will see some new players through the door, but I doubt if that happens we will see them in the City line-up until the Preston game at the earliest and that match is in February.

City could have done with fresh faces for Reading last week and the huge game with Sunderland this week.

There will still be time for any new players to make an impact, but it just feels like an opportunity missed once again.