Cardiff City

Neil Warnock reveals why they didn’t sign anyone on transfer deadline day

Cardiff City head coach Neil Warnock has told Wales Online that a mixture of the Financial Fair Play rules and the fixture list was why they did not sign anyone on transfer deadline day.

Before the end of the transfer window, Cardiff had been linked to a few players including the likes of Liam Feeney, Jonny Hayes and Matty Taylor. However they faced stumbling blocks in all of these deals and none of them were completed before the deadline on Tuesday night.

Now as Warnock prepares his side, without any of the big signings some of the other Sky Bet Championship teams made on deadline day, for their match against Norwich City on Saturday, he has told fans why they weren’t able to sign anyone. He blames not only the constraints put on them due to Financial Fair Play but the fact Cardiff were forced to play on deadline, something that thought was unfair when several other teams were going to play the next day.

He said: “If we hadn’t had a game on the night, we would have got a target in,”

“We just couldn’t get it done with the clearance and complications but if we’d been working at it from 4pm or 5pm we would have got it done,”

“It was unfair some (clubs) played the next day. In that afternoon, in an hour and a half and 40 calls, they don’t understand what goes on. The people who do the fixtures should sit with us on deadline day to see what goes on.”

“Even at the death there was one we could have had, but the international clearance with the FAW makes it more complicated,”

“I always said I didn’t want to spend silly money and I don’t think we’ve spent a penny in the end. I think everyone behind the scenes will be happy — I imagine Vincent will be!

“But we’re in a situation with FFP that we have to make sure we’re right for the summer. The club have got commitments to players long since gone which is not helping the cause.”

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