Maguire: There's been stories around about City's 'challenges'

FOOTBALL finance expert Kieran Maguire says he and his colleagues in the industry had been picking up whispers of cash flow problems at Hull City for weeks ahead of the club being hit with a transfer embargo.

- By JAMES SMAILES

The Price of Football podcaster, author and lecturer says the news of a transfer embargo and subsequent punishment by the EFL for failure to meet payments in a 30-day period, underline what he had suspected - that the cash flow situation is not as good as it should be.

Maguire was speaking in the wake of the Tigers being handed a transfer fee restriction punishment by the EFL for non payments, which leaves the club unable to sign any players in this transfer window for a fee or loan players with a fee attached.