It's been quite the season for Cardiff City.
A brand-new squad, a manager sacking, a transfer embargo and another looming relegation scrap on the horizon. It's never dull in this small corner of the world, is it?
With all that to consider, it is perhaps understandable that striking new deals with players heading out of contract has hit the back burner. That being the case, the transfer embargo — which the club insist they are confident of getting out of — should in fact hasten decisions over those whose contracts expire at the end of the current campaign.