Malky Mackay needs loans before window closes:

Great little blog put together by Twitter's "Roathboy" Scott Johnson, of Bluebirds banter!

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By Scott Johnson on Mar 19, 12 01:12 PM in Cardiff City

Anyone expecting to see any transfer activity at Cardiff City this week? No, me neither.

With Haris Vuckic returning to Newcastle and the forthcoming closure of the loan transfer window, this is a week that could make or break Cardiff's season. My expectations may be low, but the available options are encouraging, amongst the bloated ranks of the Premier League elite.

Malky is believed to have been in contact with both Arsenal and Chelsea in recent weeks, they certainly boast some excess attacking options that would be worth considering. Arsenal's Park Chu-Young is free of national service obligations and would add energy to Cardiff's tired side, while fellow South Korean international, Ji Dong-Won of Sunderland, is also an option.

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Lucas Piazon has yet to appear for Chelsea, but they paid £5m to acquire his services from Sao Paolo in the summer. After scoring two hat-tricks for Aston Villa's reserves, Andreas Weimann netted his first senior goal in the recent 1-0 against Fulham, the Austrian also spent time on loan with Malky at Watford last season.

Cardiff missed out on the signings of both David Goodwillie and Marvin Sordell this term, both of which have played a minimal amount of football for their new clubs and may be worth a phone call. Simon Vukcevic arrived at Ewood Park with an impressive reputation forged with Sporting Lisbon and the Montenegro national side. He has yet to force his way in to the Blackburn side but is an impressive creative midfielder.

Simon Cox netted a hat-trick against Cardiff earlier in the season but remains on the fringes of the West Brom side. Graham Dorrans was their creative fulcrum in their promotion season but has struggled with a series of injuries since, we would be a very shrewd acquisition. QPR have 10 forwards to choose from, so the likelihood is that the likes of DJ Campbell and Tommy Smith, a recent target, will be shipped out. Jay Bothroyd anyone?!

Everton boast the likes of James McFadden, Magaye Gueye, Apostolos Vellios and Victor Anichebe, a pool of attackers that appear infrequently. Ross Barkley is one of the brightest prospects in British football, a loan spell may aid his development.

Liverpool's Raheem Sterling is also very highly regarded and is believed to be frustrated by a lack of senior football, Jonjo Shelvey may also return to the Championship after a successful spell at Blackpool earlier in the season.

Fulham are a team on the rise and are developing an array of attacking talent. Kermi Frei has impressed on the wing in brief cameos, while Pajtim Kasami and striker Orlando Sa compete for regular football. Former Welsh international Simon Davies has also returned to fitness recently and could represent a calculated risk.

Ricardo Fuller was already out of favour at Stoke, before receiving a red card against Chelsea, which is likely to further restrict his first team opportunities. A powerful presence with second tier experience, he would certainly beef up Cardiff's front line. Manchester United and Spurs have a wealth of promising youngsters, including Paul Pogba, Ryan Tunnicliffe and Will Keane at United, plus Danny Rose, Jake Livermore and the out of favour, former Barcelona prodigy Giovani dos Santos at Spurs.

Premier League clubs will be weighing up the advantages of player development versus retaining cover for injuries and suspensions at this stage of the season. Championship clubs have to speculate to accumulate in the next few days, as an injection of energy and enterprise may prove to be the difference between automatic promotion, the play off's or mid-table obscurity.

The final few weeks of the Championship season tends to resemble crabs in a bucket, hopefully Cardiff can do the necessary business to finally clamber out of the division.

I agree - we need more in

Well there's plenty for him to enquire about there wouldn't you say!

f**k his employment dossier rules - It's only 9 games and we couldn't have played any worse than we did yesterday could we?

Well there's plenty for him to enquire about there wouldn't you say!

f**k his employment dossier rules - It's only 9 games and we couldn't have played any worse than we did yesterday could we?

Three days to go untill it shuts maybe are one month loan player was are seasons effort to go up this year I see merlin your saying things now i was saying FOUR+ months ago how times have changed with some posters who wouldnt be seen dead posting certain things FOUR+ months ago and even tore in to me for saying them with abusive comments, every dog has his day i guess

We need more new players, but we also need old ones to be shipped out permanently to accommodate. Any volunteers please???

I'm afraid we got what we got until next season.

One in, one out. That's how it is.

Last edited by RICK+CCFC on Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Difference is mate, I'm not bothered if we don't go up! Many are, but being a fan since 1992 means I've waited this long for top flight football, what difference is another year going to make!

There are lots of things that bother me, and others that i'm pleased about. I just tend not to put certain things/feelings on message boards. Everyones different I suppose. It's obvious that we need loans in to freshen up - I've always said that, but I've got to be honest I thought Malky would have had at least 2 new players in by now! and it's got to the point where it's so desperate if they want to make a push for it this season, that I'd take any of the players named above if they wanted to come here on loan. Can't say I've ever verbally abused you for any posts, that's not my style, But there have been posts where I haven't agreed. But thats what MB's are all about - Voicing opinions.

Don't expect anything to happen. We didn't bother in the January window when the deals needed to be done. Not being negative but I think it is too little to late. With only 9 games left and a team very low in confidence it would need something major to turn it around. I know its been discussed many times but when your 1 point off automatic and you do not strengthen like your competitors you wonder whether City have tried to do it on the cheap. This current loan period has been open for sometime and again there has been no movement. If we were mid table at the time and we finished mid table theres no problem, but when your at the top your got to take your opportunity.

I don't think that Malky will bring anyone in this week, but I feel that the summer will be very busy indeed.

some great names listed there and probably the parent clubs would be happy for them to play first team football for the remainder of the season..

there probably wouldnt even be much of a wage contribution needed at this time of the season either...

Great way of showing our impatient fan base who want everything now. Sorry guys its not that easy. It has and always will take time and it's probably not going to be this season.

Frankly you were deluding yourself if you thought it would be this season.

some great names listed there and probably the parent clubs would be happy for them to play first team football for the remainder of the season..

there probably wouldnt even be much of a wage contribution needed at this time of the season either...

Thats the big question though isn't it! Money?

Difference is mate, I'm not bothered if we don't go up! Many are, but being a fan since 1992 means I've waited this long for top flight football, what difference is another year going to make!

Speak for yourself i have been a fan since 1969 and seen us blow it then and a few times since and enough is enough!.

lets be honest the only player we want/neeed is a centre forward who can score/play along kenny, no time left in season to have young talent, defenders, wide men! just plain centre forward for last nine game simple as that anyone else would be a waste of time

Cheeky bid for Mr Beallamy

Cheeky bid for Mr Beallamy

Yea like the supposed one before the season kicked off