LATEST ADDITIONS

January 2012

INCOMING: A City return for solid netminder Vito Mannone, loaned from Arsenal until the end of the season ... Robbie Brady's half season loan from Manchester United is converted to a full season ... Brady is joined by another Manchester United tyro, forward Joshua King ... while further goalkeeper cover is secured by a one month borrow of Sunderland's Trevor Carson.

OUTGOING: promising youngster Sonny Bradley joins Aldershot Town on loan ... recently acquired midfielder Matty Mainwaring is loaned back to previous club Stockport County ... ginger haired defensive stalwart Paul McShane is loaned to Crystal Palace ... decent but perma-injured Austrian Martin Pusic is jettisoned after six months largely spent on the treatment table ... Will Atkinson is loaned to Bradford City, with a view to a permanent switch in the Summer ... James Harper is loaned to Wycombe Wanderers.

ELSEWHERE: crazy keeper Stephen Bywater signs for Sheffield Wednesday ... Ian Ashbee is released by Preston North End ... Richard Hinds joins Yeovil Town ... midfield workhorse Keith Andrews signs for West Bromwich Albion ... adept food consumer Jon Parkin wobbles his way Lincolnshirewards and signs on loan for Scunthorpe United ... after an improbable half-season of net bulging at Barnsley, Ricardo Vaz Te signs for West Ham United ... feckless trickpony John Bostock gets another chance, loaned to Sheffield Wednesday.

September 2011

Chippy non-crossing wideman and non-scoring striker Craig Fagan signs for Phil Parkinson's Bradford City ... overweight Barnsleyite Jon Parkin is loaned to struggling Doncaster Rovers, then Huddersfield Town ... midfield cruiser Bryan Hughes signs for Accrington Stanley ,,, wide flyer David Amoo is loaned to Bury.

Summer 2011

INCOMING: City's tendency to sign up Manchester United reserves continues, with rated left sided Northern Ireland U-21 defender Joe Dudgeon joined the Tiger fold ... experienced midfield dynamo Paul McKenna signs a two year deal after his release from Nottingham Forest ... experienced target man Dele Adebola also moves to the KC from the City Ground ... last season's impressive loan signing Jack Hobbs signs permanently in return for £850,000 in Leicester City's coffers ... loan goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi signs from Liverpool ... two footed wing-hugging prospect Robbie Brady signs on loan from Manchester United ... ex-Bristol City goalie Adriano Basso joins City on a one year deal ... Austrian wing man Martin Pusic signs a similar deal ... and on deadline day striker Martyn Waghorn is loaned from Leicester City.

OUTGOING: Peruvian superstar Nolberto Solano, unused as the 2010-11 season drew to a close, joins Hartlepool United as a player-coach ... released at the expiry of their contracts are Tijani Belaid, Matt Duke, Craig Fagan, Richard Garcia and Anthony Gardner ... youngsters out on loan - Liam Cooper will spend 2011-12 with Huddersfield Town while Marc Cullen will spend until the New Year at Bury ... not a youngster anymore, but Kevin Kilbane will also spend the the next four months on loan, at Derby County ... Will Atkinson is loaned to Plymouth Argyle ... after a protracted effort to flush him out of the club and save his massive wages, Jimmy Bullard is suspended, sacked and signs for Ipswich Town ... Jay Simpson is loaned to Millwall ... and Jamie Devitt is loaned to Bradford City.

ELSEWHERE: slap headed winger Kevin Ellison joins Morecambe ... aggression-packed forward Marlon King joins Birmingham City ... recently departed loan midfielder Hope Akpan joins league newbies Crawley Town ... another former loanee, David Norris joins Portsmouth ... Lee Peltier joins Leicester City ... Delroy Facey joins Hereford United ... Clayton Donaldson joins Brentford ... Steven Mouyokolo joins Sochaux on loan ... gnomic wideman Mark Yeates signs for Watford ... non-scoring goalscorer Jozy Altidore continues his world tour in Holland with AZ67 Alkmaar ... Simon Russell joins Lincoln City ... George Boateng returns from Greece and signs for Nottingham Forest ... Danny Coles signs for Exeter City ... Bryan Hughes signs for Icelanders IBV ... Boaz Myhill joins Birmingham City on loan ... Carl Regan signs for Shrewsbury Town ... Jason Price signs for Barnet and then quickly moves on to Morecambe ... Daniel Ayala signs for Premier League newbies Norwich City ... Keith Andrews is loaned to Ipswich Town ... Chris Brown brings his video camera to Doncaster Rovers ... Darryl Duffy joins Cheltenham Town ... Ricardo Vaz Te joins Barnsley ... Ibrahima Sonko signs for Ipswich Town ... Leon Cort joins Charlton Athletic on loan ... and Matt Duke signs for Bradford City ... Tijani Belaid signs for APOEL Nicosia.

March 2011

INCOMING: Brad Guzan signs for second loan spell as first team cover for the struggling Vito Mannone ... and with Mark Oxley also picking up an injury, Matt Duke returns from his curtailed loan spel at Derby ... meanwhile, midfield tyro Hope Akpan is signed on loan from Everton.

OUTGOING: Caleb Folan, City's first million pound man, leaves for a million fewer pounds than that, signing for Colorado Rapids in the USA Major Soccer League.

ELSEWHERE: feckless failed loanee Ricardo Vaz Te returns from Greece to sign a short term deal at Hibernian ... a crazy haired wingman Jason Price joins Hereford United on loan.

February 2011

INCOMING: powerful centre back Jack Hobbs, Leicester's player of the season last term under Nigel Pearson, is deemed surplus to requirements by Sven Goran Eriksson and joins the Tigers on loan until the end of the season ... flying wide man David Amoo is signed on loan from Liverpool to replace temporarily broken flying wide man Cameron Stewart.

OUTGOING: Paul McShane takes his flame haired crashbangwallopery to Barnsley for a two month loan ... Matt Duke is loaned to Derby County for the rest of the season.

ELSEWHERE: Stephen Bywater joins Cardiff City on loan from Derby, who in turn sign up Matt Duke from the Tigers ... Carl Regan joins Notts County on loan ... Kevin Ellison is loaned to Bradford City ... Nicky Forster is appointed player manager at Brentford.