Well, at least we know that they’re working on it.
Although I still would have preferred that they did the whole thing a lot sooner, but you can’t win them all.
So the waiting is finally over, and Blues are getting ready to play their first competitive game of the season against Cambridge United, and with that comes Aitor Karanka’s first press conference of the campaign, and given the time of season, attention wasn’t purely based on our opponents.
The head coach also revealed that the club are not done in the transfer window, pointing out that he still intends to bring in another goalkeeper and another centre-forward:
“The intention is to bring in another one (goalkeeper). I am pleased with Zach (Jeacock), but I don’t think he is ready to play Championship. Yes (We are looking for another striker… it is true (Lukas) Jutkiewicz can’t play again another 50 games alone. We are not in a hurry, we have four, five, six weeks to bring players in and to send players out.”
So it’s a step in the right direction, I just hope that it isn’t a little too late to start doing all this. He says that we aren’t in a hurry, but we really are.
Even though there is a month still left in the transfer window, that isn’t the deadline we should be working to, it should be the first game of the league campaign against Brentford. In a division like this, every point counts (and as our poor form at the end of last year showed, a great start can really save you later on).
Whilst he might not be in a hurry to get the deals done, he might come to regret that mantra later on in the month and even the year if things start to go the wrong way for us.