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This is utterly irrelevant IMO.
It is about what we are left with from last season, not the difficulties everyone is encountering in the market.
A team that has a solid squad with good balance between goals and defence can afford to make the "but the market is shit" argument.
Cardiff have done fairly mundane business and now declare they'll be doing no more.
But they can afford to because they have more than enough to be competitive as they are.
Only the fantasist end of the optimists on this forum believe the squad we have left over from last season's debacle is good enough to remain in this division. I note that not a single person on the forum seems to harbour any hopes of the team actually pushing on from being relegation battlers.
It really, really doesn't matter what the realities of the market are; the club's past disasters mean that they have to make things happen in the next 3-4 weeks or they will be responsible for our third term in tier 3.
No "realities of the market" can counteract that simple reality.
"It really, really doesn't matter what the realities of the market are; the club's past disasters mean that they have to make things happen in the next 3-4 weeks or they will be responsible for our third term in tier 3."
So we are going to get relegated unless we sign players but the fact that Clubs do not want to do business yet doesn't really really matter!
The realities of the market do matter, they matter a great deal; its not an argument as you put it or an excuse, it is a fact driven by the incredibly poor financial state of many clubs.
"No "realities of the market" can counteract that simple reality"
The simple reality you allude to is nothing more than a simple opinion.
Don't lets kid ourselves here, this is not about a relegation battle; its about not signing the players to get us into the play offs, and no amount of wrist slashing can disguise that fact.