Ozan Tufan sale adds to Hull City's huge summer transfer task

It's the summer of big change at Hull City with just a week before the Tigers return to Cottingham for the start of pre-season training under new boss Tim Walter.

Already, manager Liam Rosenior has gone and along with the 39-year-old, a flurry of players have moved on as last season's squad becomes a distant memory.

Walter has come in and will get a first proper look at his players on Monday week when they trudge back to the training ground for seven weeks of gruelling work before the Championship season gets underway.

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Having seen the likes of Liam Delap, Fabio Carvalho, Noah Ohio and Tyler Morton depart for their respective parent clubs, Aaron Connolly, Adama Traore, Cyrus Christie and Greg Docherty were released, and this week alone, goalkeeper Ryan Allsop has been sold to Birmingham City.

Ozan Tufan has sealed a move to Trabzonspor as another member of last season's play-off nearly boys moves on and brings an end to two years in East Yorkshire.

Tufan's exit will help City's finances and give the club more room to manoeuvre in the transfer market this summer. It's expected City will recoup a transfer fee in the region of 2m euros for the 29-year-old, who enjoyed a career-best scoring season last term, netting 10 goals in the Black and Amber, but was out of contract next summer, though the club did hold a 12-month option.

While owner Acun Ilicali is keen to spend money to bolster the squad, he's also acutely aware that the club are on the cusp of their financial spending and in order to boost the budget, moving players out for money obviously helps, and Tufan going to Trabzonspor will aid that cause.

The bigger concern for City is that the number of players they need is growing, and that's never an easy task. Bringing 10-plus players in every summer is tough and because of the nature of the window, the Tigers will be forced to wait close to the deadline to complete their business and that's not ideal. It's a reality of being a club in the Championship and one without the benefit of parachute payments, and one they must stomach.

It's hard, at this stage, to see City starting the season with a stronger squad than the one that finished the campaign, and that makes the failure to reach the play-offs with such a talented group all the more frustrating and puts added pressure on their recruitment in the coming weeks.

Walter's task will not be an easy one, he will have to integrate a large number of new players and will only have a short period of time to do it, and knitting all that together in the space of a few weeks is no mean feat, so he'll need all the help - and good luck - that could possibly come his way.

For City and those responsible for signing the players, the pressure - and focus - is well and truly on.