It is still unknown when we will see Cardiff City out on the pitch again, so, in the meantime, we have to create our own fun.
Transfers always generate good talking points among the fanbase, so we've delved into the history books to look at the best - and worst - transfer decisions ever made by Cardiff City. Yep, we could be here some time...
This by no means an exhaustive list, so if you have any suggestions, let us know - tweet us at @CardiffCityLive
BEST
Signing (and keeping hold of) Peter Whittingham
By any yard stick, Peter Whittingham is one of Cardiff City's greatest-ever players.
What makes his stay with the Bluebirds even more special, however, is that he really could have gone anywhere, such was his incredible talent and the wizardry that left foot produced.
Former City boss Dave Jones even told Kenny Dalglish to sign him at Liverpool, he thought he was that good.
How Cardiff managed to keep hold of him, while playing all bar one season in the second tier, is a mighty, mighty effort.
You can read the touching words of his former team-mates and managers here.
Selling the dream to Kav
When Graham Kavanagh signed for Cardiff City back in 2001, he already had Premier League pedigree.
With the Bluebirds having just been promoted to the third tier, and 'Kav' wanting to get back into the top flight, it took a huge amount of persuasion from Sam Hammam and Alan Cork to get him to Ninian Park.
“Sam was very persuasive,” Kavanagh told WalesOnline.
“Corky wanted to make me captain, too, and an integral part of what was going to happen moving forward.”
What a decision that turned out to be. Hats tipped to both Cork and Hammam for this one, because, let's face it, Kavanagh could easily have signed for a club higher in the footballing pyramid than Cardiff City at that time.
An outstanding footballer who was a crucial part of the team who earned promotion to the Championship. A leader who had real quality as a player and was named in the PFA team of the year five years in a row.
Eddie May's Christmas presents
You speak to any Bluebirds player from the early 1990s and they will tell you that Eddie May never got enough credit.
Yes, he was loud, often irascible and a disciplinarian, but his tactical nous was second to none.
While many brand his squad of that era the Darling Buds of Eddie May, owing to the wealth of promising youngsters coming through the ranks, it was his huge double transfer coup in 1992 which turned the tide for that season.
The signings of Phil Stant and Kevin Ratcliffe that winter were strokes of genius in that season and, ultimately, proved the deciding factor in Cardiff's memorising run to the end of the season, which saw them win Division Three and the Welsh Cup.
Incredibly shrewd business from May.
That season remains many Cardiff fans' favourite.
In search of Cardiff City's most loved team: The class of 1992/93
They were the Cardiff City team that defined a generation. A group of players who sparked something within the Bluebirds fanbase few others have been able to replicate since.
In 1993, Eddie May's side delivered promotion for his barmy army at the end of a season those who were there will never forget.
This was the team of Dale, Stant, Blake, Searle, Pike and the rest. It was the year of that glorious, iconic kit.
Over the coming weeks, WalesOnline will be tracking down the men who became heroes 27 years ago to hear their stories of yesteryear and discover what became of them.
- You can read about Carl Dale, the cult striker who became an electrician here.
- Here, we tracked down Derek Brazil, the Man United kid who became a Bluebirds hero.
- Chris Pike spoke about his days as a Bluebirds goalscoring machine and the moment he knew his 11-year-old nephew, Gareth Bale, was going to be special.
- Read about our search for talismanic striker Phil Stant and what happened when we tracked him down.
- Cohen Griffith speaks about his life before Cardiff City as a hospital dark room technician and a payroll clerk, as well as what he's been up to now.
- Here we found Nick Richardson, the former midfielder who enjoyed immense highs and crushing lows at Cardiff City.... before becoming an IT whizz.
Dave Jones and the Bluebirds' best striking duo
Now, if the manager above knew something about transfer strategy, so did Dave Jones.
The decision to pair up Jay Bothroyd and Michael Chopra proved a masterstroke in 2008, with the pair enjoying an extremely fruitful three years leading the line together.
Chopra had, of course, been at the club earlier, smashing goals left, right and centre to earn a move to Sunderland, but bringing him back, initially on loan before signing him permanently the next year, was arguably the best decision Jones ever made.
There was an incredible chemistry between the tall, strong and skilful Bothroyd and the sniping, deadly finisher Chopra. A match seemingly made in heaven.
They had an excellent relationship, too, although off-field problems with Chopra's marriage saw the relationship become a little strained at times, owing to the closeness of their partners, but that never affected their performances on the pitch.
There were 108 goals in 282 appearances and an England cap between them.
The big bargain buys
Neil Warnock had his troubles in the transfer market (we'll come on to that later...), but telling Sol Bamba and Junior Hoilett to hold out for him to join Cardiff City back in 2016 proved an excellent decision.
Already the wrong side of 30, and having jumped to a different club every other year until then, supporters could be forgiven for being sceptical about Bamba, but they were glad to be proven wrong. The decision by Leeds United to terminate his contract, just hours after the summer window closed in 2016, was the Bluebirds' gain.
He was a colossus in the promotion-winning season of 2017/18 and was one of City's shining lights in the Premier League campaign, scoring four goals in his 28 appearances before that horrendous knee injury curtailed his season in March.
Importantly, though, he has ingrained himself in the fabric of the club and, with plans in place for him to progress to the coaching staff when he hangs up his boots, he will be around for some time yet.
Hoilett, meanwhile, was practically unplayable in that promotion season, practically spearheading the Cardiff City attack from the wing.
City fans hope there is a lot more to come from him yet, too.
Big bucks for Zohore
Some fans couldn't believe their ears when Cardiff City managed to secure a whopping £8m transfer fee for Kenneth Zohore at the start of the season.
Warnock himself admitted he couldn't believe the sum City had recouped for the striker, given how meagre his goal return was in the Premier League.
He had fits and starts at the Bluebirds, but nothing pointed towards an £8m price tag. It has to be said, that must be up there with one of the best bits of negotiating the club has ever done.
Especially as he has endured a pretty ordinary season at The Hawthorns, despite the team's league position.
Gazumping Swansea City
Roger Johnson was just one day away from signing for Swansea City back in 2006, who had tabled a £100,000 bid to take him from Wycombe.
"I spoke to Kenny Jackett and it was, well, I'm not going to say it was done, but I am a man of my word, I was on my way up there," he told WalesOnline.
"I'm sure it would have happened if Cardiff didn't hijack it. I had a call from my agent and he told me about Cardiff, I said, 'Cardiff? Are you going mad? You said it was Swansea the other day?'
"He said, 'No, no, Cardiff have joined the hunt!'
"So, obviously, Swansea were in League One at that time and Cardiff were in the Championship, so it was an absolute no-brainer.
"I was due to go there (Swansea) the following day!"
What a decision that would prove to be. Johnson went on to win two Player of the Season awards in three years at the club and was named in the Championship Team of the Year, becoming a huge fan favourite in the process.
It just makes it that bit sweeter for Cardiff fans that they took him under Swansea's nose. A phone call right in the nick of time.
WORST
Rick Wright's firesale
It is widely acknowledged that Cardiff City's Division Three-winning squad of 1993 could easily have gone on to conquer the division above.
The quality coursing through that side would have struck fear into many teams in the old Division Two. But, for former chairman Rick Wright, that was not the objected.
Wright was transparent when he took over the club, he wanted to get promoted, make money and sell up. And he stuck to his word.
The magic of that 1992/93 dream under Eddie May slowly ebbed away with the sales of many key players, such as Kevin Ratcliffe, Chris Pike, Paul Ramsey, Gavin Ward and, of course, our very own Nathan Blake.
It was a huge source of disappointment for not only fans but the players, many of whom believe the club could have gone on a wondrous journey with that squad, but it wasn't to be.
The Norwegian nightmare
Magnus Wolff Eikrem, Mats Moller Daehli and Joe Inge Bernet, three names that make many City fans shudder even to this day.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's reign as Cardiff City boss is considered a disaster by all who witnessed it. His tactics, squad rotation and, above all else, his transfers were enough to leave you bald from head scratching.
The Norwegian trio, all of whom had been at Solskjaer's previous club Molde, were unmitigated disasters.
Eikrem was once named in a Manchester United Champions League squad, bizarrely, but he was more poodle than Wolff while at the Bluebirds. He lasted from January to December, making only six league appearances before Russell Slade terminated his contract.
Bernet got one start in the FA Cup in an defeat at Wigan in February 2014 and came off the bench for 10 minutes in his only taste of Premier League action, a humiliating 4-0 home defeat at the hands of Hull a week later.
Daehli was the pick of the bunch, especially under Solskjaer, but was barely used when Slade came in and he was quickly shipped off to Freiburg in Germany the following January.
The Joe Ledley fiasco
A big bone of contention still for Cardiff City fans is the manner in which Joe Ledley moved to Celtic in 2010.
There was a cloud surrounding Ledley's Bluebirds exit owing to a bitter contract dispute between the midfielder, who had been at the club for 14 years, and the Cardiff top brass.
Then just 23, Ledley, who had even been entrusted with the captain's armband by manager Dave Jones, was a crucial part of that exciting, promotion-challenging City side of a decade ago.
With stardust sprinkled on that squad, Ledley was the homegrown academy product and the heartbeat in the middle of the park, but a contract row belied his blossoming Bluebirds career.
With both the player and the club at an impasse, and with just one year remaining on his contract heading into the 2009/10 season, he was stripped of the captaincy and Mark Hudson took the armband.
That clearly hurt him back then and now, a decade on, it still stings. He eventually left the club in the summer of 2010, transferring to Celtic on a free. It was a move that left many disgruntled, with the Bluebirds missing out on a big transfer fee as a result.
"I was disappointed because I gave a lot to that club," the Wales international said recently.
"People can have their own agreements or disagreements on what the situation was, but for me I thought I deserved a better contract, which they were supposed to offer me two years before I left and it didn't happen.
"When you're in a youth setup, they don't see you as... they don't want to give you the money that you deserve.
"I'm not saying I was asking for ridiculous amounts, but for me to be on the same level of the players that were already there.
"I was captain of the club, [we had been to] an FA Cup final and I wanted to stay. My wife was pregnant with my first child, but it just wasn't meant to be.
"I don't think they thought I was serious until the day I left."
The club's decision not to improve Ledley's contract essentially cost them millions in transfer fees.
Warnock's war chest woes
Neil Warnock was prolific in the transfer market while at Cardiff City. He made more than 40 signings, permanently or on loan, in little more than three years at the club.
The board recently claimed they spent around £100m on transfer fees while the former manager was in charge, a quite staggering number when you think about it.
Let's just reel off a few of the names you might have forgotten about, shall we? Rolf Feltscher, Ibrahim Meite, Liam Feeney, Yanic Wildschut, Lee Camp and Jamie Ward.
There were far more hits than misses with Warnock when it came to transfers, but it just seemed there should have been far more scrutiny when it came to forking out so much money for so many players.
It worked of course, well, to an extent, with Cardiff reaching the top flight under Warnock. But, if you throw enough at the wall something is bound to stick.
It now means a knock-on effect for Neil Harris and his staff, who were told, even before the coronavirus pandemic, they are having to drastically rein in their spending in future windows.
Waving bye-bye to Bobby
Whether you were happy to see Bobby Reid leave the club or not, it cannot be denied that the manner in which he left the club was disastrous.
Bought ahead of the Premier League season after a prolific campaign with Bristol City, Reid showed glimpses of what he could do, but often found himself behind Victor Camarasa in the pecking order.
The final straw seemed to come when Rhys Healey replaced the Spaniard against Fulham with Reid sat gritting his teeth on the subs' bench.
But with Camarasa gone, it should have been Reid's turn to rip the Championship up this season, to burn through a league in which he had so much success with the Robins.
But, on deadline day last summer, a shock move to Fulham stunned all City supporters, many of whom reacted angrily at the time.
It left the Bluebirds with no real attacking thrust in behind the strikers, with Warnock opting for a flat, defensive midfield three and Lee Tomlin seemingly miles off the manager's radar.
Could that have been the real reason behind Cardiff's tepid start to the campaign? Did it ultimately cost Warnock his job? And did the subsequent results following his sale leave the Bluebirds with too much to do this season to achieve promotion? Time will soon tell.
Reid later said it was down to a mismatch of footballing philosophies, while City have recouped all £10m they forked out on him.
He started slowly with the Cottagers but, before this break, began to show signs of top quality once again. What might have been...
Andreas Cornelius
Andreas Cornelius’ tale is one of unfulfilled promise, poor timing and, thankfully, a happier ending once he left the Welsh capital.
It was the beginning of the Bluebirds’ striker crisis. Chopra and Bothroyd had both left two years before and City were desperately searching for a new marksman to carry the torch.
A series of hit-and-miss frontmen followed the fabled Chopra-Bothroyd axis, but, having forked out a club-record £8m for Copenhagen prodigy Cornelius, City fans were ravenous with anticipation when the Dane signed on the dotted line in June 2013.
But he will forever be bundled into the list of strikers who never made the grade at Cardiff City.
Whether that is down to player, mismanagement or the weighty expectation borne from a lofty price tag, we will likely never know. But everyone will certainly have their own opinion.
Is he Cardiff's worst-ever signing? Well, let’s first and foremost caveat that by saying the weighty expectation was not the player's fault.
He didn’t ask to be bought for £8m and he was just a kid when City waved £45,000 a week in front of his face.
But there is no denying that zero goals in 11 appearances is a dreadful return for any forward... which leads us nicely on to our final signing.
Gary Madine
When we talk about failed strikers, it is difficult to look past Gary Madine, let's face it.
He tried and he tried, but the longer it went on, the back of the net appeared smaller and smaller in the eyes of Madine.
Warnock signed him from Bolton for a sizeable £6m back in January 2018, but failed to score a single goal in the 28 appearances he had in a Cardiff City shirt.
After a miserable two years, punctuated by a loan move during which he helped Sheffield United earn Premier League promotion, Madine was finally cut from his contract early this January.
Again, the transfer fee didn't help him, but for a man who makes a living scoring goals, not finding the back of the net in almost 30 games is frankly unforgivable.
A £6m mistake and a player who will not look back fondly on his time in South Wales.
Neither will the fans.
