" Cardiff City are working as much as anyone to bring in "

Steve Morison says Cardiff City are working 'as hard as anyone in the Football League' to sign striker before deadline



The Bluebirds were toothless in front of goal once again in the defeat by Luton Town



By Glen Williams


Steve Morison says Cardiff City are working as hard as any other team to bring a striker into the club before Thursday's transfer deadline passes.

The Bluebirds looked unthreatening once again against Luton Town, save for a long-range Romaine Sawyers strike to halve the deficit late on in the 2-1 home defeat.

It was a poor result and one which will be viewed as three points dropped, no doubt. For all of Cardiff's impressive play in the first two thirds of the pitch, they still look short of a Championship-quality forward when they get to within 20 yards of the opposition's goal.

And when asked if the defeat accelerated the need for a striker before Thursday's 11pm deadline, a defiant Morison replied: "Yes. Do you think I'm not trying? It's not that I'm not making those decisions. There is not anyone in our remit at the minute that's available.

"Sam Surridge is not available. Liam Delap is someone we looked at, he picked Stoke over us and West Brom. Ellis Simms was someone we looked at but he picked Sunderland over us.

"We have been close. We just haven't got one. The words people going on about, we have been working our behinds off since April last year, hence why we have got the amount of players we have got in.

"Summer holiday... what was a summer holiday? Holidays were sitting up at 4am in the morning, talking to the board while I'm in America, trying to get a player through the door. To keep using the phrases people keep using about us in our hunt for a striker is a bit disrespectful, because we are working as hard as anyone in the Football League to bring someone in.

"If they do, then great, if not then we crack on because that is life."

While the manager claimed "nothing is close", he still believed he had time in he window to change that.

When asked if he was interested in signing any other players in other positions, he replied: "Only if someone went out we would have to be reactive and had to move then we would. Nothing is imminent, unless I turn my phone on and something we have been working on has gone through there is nothing coming in at the minute."

On the game itself, Morison said: "It was disappointing because we dominated the game from start to finish. "We gave a couple of chances away and they took them; the second one was offside but that's life.

"As a team we didn't finish our moments of good play off and they did. There are lots of ifs, buts and maybes but the only thing we know for sure is we lost the game."

"Theres not anyone in our remit"
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Sadly, we all know your remit Steve. Free, cheap, out of contract and someome from the lower leagues.

The regime has undone ANY decent work it alproved this window by slamming the door shut without us actually having a striker of note.

"Working as hard as any other team"? What other teams owners allow a team to be built without strikers?

Hard to disagree with anything SM says in that interview. We are a good footballing team in desperate need of a striker of Championship quality. Would have loved to have Surrodge here ( but in all honesty even a fit Zahore would be better than Watters).

Hard to disagree with anything SM says in that interview. We are a good footballing team in desperate need of a striker of Championship quality. Would have loved to have Surrodge here ( but in all honesty even a fit Zahore would be better than Watters).

Id even say an 'unfit' Zahore would be better?

One minute Morison says I got every player I wanted, I got backed etc then he says all this, then he criticises everybody but himself.
Never his fault.
They don’t listen to his plan.
Now suddenly saying he has no money etc

Personally I don’t like him as a person.
He was cheap , but his inexperience is showing big time and always blaming players .
Terrible attitude about Nathan Jones.

Get Hugill in. Get balls into him and flood the box. Problem solved.

Think Morisons doing a great job.. this season was always about building, and we have to be patient. This is much better than hoof ball, and will take time.

Which we have plenty of, because we're not going up or down.

Think Morisons doing a great job.. this season was always about building, and we have to be patient. This is much better than hoof ball, and will take time.

Which we have plenty of, because we're not going up or down.

Do you honestly think Morrison is doing a good job. This is a genuine question. We haven’t scored more than one goal in a single match this season. We are four games without a win and have drifted down from fourth in the table to sixteenth in the table. I would agree with you there is no chance of getting out of this league by being promoted but on our current form we are heading towards a serious relegation fight.

Just as well Morrison is doing such a good job otherwise we would have problems.

Think Morisons doing a great job.. this season was always about building, and we have to be patient. This is much better than hoof ball, and will take time.

Which we have plenty of, because we're not going up or down.

Its frustrating because given decent goalscorer we will be up near top... but the consequences of not getting in such a player could mean relegation because if get results like we have had this season it's hard to go up league if cant score do run risk being dragged into bottom section of league..... getting 3 points out a possible 9 throughout season is asking for trouble.

Think Morisons doing a great job.. this season was always about building, and we have to be patient. This is much better than hoof ball, and will take time.

Which we have plenty of, because we're not going up or down.

Do you honestly think Morrison is doing a good job. This is a genuine question. We haven’t scored more than one goal in a single match this season. We are four games without a win and have drifted down from fourth in the table to sixteenth in the table. I would agree with you there is no chance of getting out of this league by being promoted but on our current form we are heading towards a serious relegation fight.

Just as well Morrison is doing such a good job otherwise we would have problems.

Yes, he’s doing a great job considering the mess we were in.. if we’d won 2-1 against Luton, this board would be completely different. He knows we need strikers who can score. It’s up to the board to fund Morison, and that’s out of his hands.

Think Morisons doing a great job.. this season was always about building, and we have to be patient. This is much better than hoof ball, and will take time.

Which we have plenty of, because we're not going up or down.

Do you honestly think Morrison is doing a good job. This is a genuine question. We haven’t scored more than one goal in a single match this season. We are four games without a win and have drifted down from fourth in the table to sixteenth in the table. I would agree with you there is no chance of getting out of this league by being promoted but on our current form we are heading towards a serious relegation fight.

Just as well Morrison is doing such a good job otherwise we would have problems.

Yes, he’s doing a great job considering the mess we were in.. if we’d won 2-1 against Luton, this board would be completely different. He knows we need strikers who can score. It’s up to the board to fund Morison, and that’s out of his hands.

How? He has been told there is money there for a striker, he said so himself, this it's never his fault is wearing thin with a lot of fans and he needs results.

I’m not sure he’s said that.. he’s a young Manager learning his trade, and needs time. My mate hates the new style of play.. but he has no patience. That’s his problem.