Peter Halmosi, Tony Warner and Daniel Cousin have left Hull City at last.
Well, not quite. Warner has been paid off - exactly why the Tigers needed a senior goalkeeper as third choice when a cheap and promising teenager would do is anyone's guess - but the spectre of Halmosi and Cousin will still hang around for a bit as they have merely left on loan.
Halmosi has gone back to his native Hungary and Cousin has gone to Greece. Just what percentage of their mighty wages will still be funded by the Tigers is not to be publicly consumed, but one can imagine that neither club involved - Szombathelyi Haladás and Larissa respectively - have the sort of riches that can be thrown at their new arrivals. One would assume that they would have offered City and the players permanent deals if so.
Still, if the bill has been reduced even by a small amount for these two it's a start, and added to Warner's departure and those of Bryan Hughes and Nathan Doyle over the last two weeks, it has trimmed the squad by the sort of significance Adam Pearson will have had in mind. One would hope that Halmosi and Cousin get a taste for playing football for money, as opposed to watching their teammates for money, and ask to be released in the summer. The only outcast still hanging around is Caleb Folan and, without wishing to appear cruel, it doesn't come as a surprise that nobody wanted him.
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