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Mike White, BBC Radio Humberside
What do Hull need?
They only need minor tweaks/additions to the squad if they can keep most of their key players fit, but as the first few months have shown, that’s a big ‘if’.
They will have to move players on to do that though and winger David Akintola is high on that list having struggled to make his mark in the Championship.
There is
Those gloomy financial clouds will hopefully begin to lift as soon as next summer. That’s because that huge loss from two seasons ago will be in the irrelevant distance from an accounting point of view.
Patel, who has covered the club’s significant debts since his arrival, also revealed in his June letter that Albion started the 2024-25 campaign with the highest payroll of any team not receiving parachute payments.
That
Portsmouth are down to a shortlist of players they are targeting when the January transfer window opens, says head coach John Mousinho.
Pompey are only one point clear of the Championship relegation zone as they prepare for Saturday’s match at Derby (15:00 GMT) with Mousinho looking to strengthen his squad next month.
“We are at the shortlist stage. We’ve cut down the long list to four or five players in
Southampton technical director Johannes Spors does not expect the club to be “extremely active” in the January transfer window following a busy summer of recruitment.
Saints were 21st and three points above the relegation zone when Will Still was sacked on 3 November after three straight defeats and just two wins from the opening 13 matches (D6 L5).
But they have won six of their seven games since then under
Norwich City board member Richard Ressler says the club will be looking for January reinforcements but suggests the biggest difference makers could lie within the squad they have right now.
The struggling Canaries have 11 first-team squad members absent due to injury, with midfielder Mirko Topic the latest name added to the treatment room list.
“We are [looking at] bringing in the strongest players we can,” Ressler said during Norwich’s
Phil Parkinson says Wrexham “are always looking” when it comes to recruiting new players but he does not anticipate making “too many changes” to his squad in January.
Having made 13 signings after securing promotion from League One last season, the Red Dragons have made a solid start to life in the Championship.
With 15 matches played, Wrexham sit 13th in the table and are just four points adrift of
Hull City have been handed a transfer embargo for three transfer windows – which means they will not be able to pay a fee for a player until January 2027.
There are concerns over the club’s finances after they were late making transfer payments to Aston Villa for the loan of winger Louie Barry last season.
That debt has now been settled but the delay was too long for the
Rashford has now made 11 appearances with six starts. The 27-year-old has three goals and has created 19 chances in 607 minutes on the pitch.
Malen’s Villa career has been more of a slow burner, but his confidence will be boosted by a fine performance as a substitute capped with a goal.
There was undoubtedly an element of gamble about Villa’s work in January, but it is paying off as
Plymouth forward Ryan Hardie, Leeds United winger Dan James, Portsmouth wide man Josh Murphy and Norwich City striker Josh Sargent are the four nominees for February’s Championship player of the month award.
Hardie only played 101 minutes across three league games for Argyle last month but still netted four goals, scoring twice from the bench late on in the 2-1 win over West Bromwich Albion and another double
Wolves forward Matheus Cunha said he did not consider leaving the club during the winter transfer window.
The 25-year-old had been linked with a move away from Molineux in January, with Arsenal, Spurs and Manchester United reported to have been interested.
However, he silenced transfer rumours by signing a new four-and-a-half-year contract earlier this month.
Cunha said Wolves had “opened the door” for him when they signed him, initially on