Alnwick is nowhere to be seen amid City's flying start to the campaign

CARDIFF City's summer transfer window seemed to go pretty smoothly - eventually.

- GLEN WILLIAMS

While Bluebirds fans were fretting over the lack of signings right up until the end of August, when Cardiff brought in Gabriel Osho and Omari Kellyman in the final throes of the window, the club made great headway in shipping out a vast number of players who were deemed surplus to requirements.

The thinking was that Brian Barry-Murphy wanted a small, extremely competitive squad, packed with young players from the club's well funded academy to populate the first team.

By and large, that has been mission accomplished, with a flurry of youngsters bursting through and even turning out to be some of the team's best and most consistent performers.

Older heads are thin on the ground, now, meaning their experience is invaluable.

One of those leaders from last season, however, is nowhere to be seen at the moment.