Hull City fail to obtain a result yet again.

The challenge facing Hull City in the transfer market this summer was always going to be an uphill battle given some of the work the club did last season.

City‘s eye-catching capture of Fabio Carvalho set the bar ludicrously high and that level was unlikely to be reached this summer, not least because last summer coupled with the recruitment in January was a big financial burden, and so the dial had to be adjusted this time round, and also, a player of his calibre was unlikely to become available again.

Frustrated Tim Walter bemoans Hull City’s defeat at Leeds united over the weekend.

Expectations were raised after signing a player of his calibre, and whatever followed was always going to feel a little bit after the Lord Mayor’s Show, which is a tad unfair to those who would inevitably follow.

That said, after selling Jaden Philogene and Jacob Greaves fairly early in the summer, City have left it late to assemble a squad capable of competing at this level, but it’s still some way behind the level that finished last term, and that squad wasn’t able to get into the top six, albeit the league was distorted somewhat by the top four having those places boxed off from fairly early on.

Now the dust is beginning to settle on a window which saw more than 20 players leave and 15 arrive, the club’s recruitment staff will be having a debrief, and so too, will the supporters, as they look to grade the work done. Understandably, messages from the club’s hierarchy about certain profiles of players coming in raised those expectations, and ultimately, some of those have not come to fruition which will cause frustration on both sides.