Transfer Deadline Day: Hull's Marco Silva set to be the busiest of bosses in Yorkshire

Hull City’s need to make additions is the most pressing of all the White Rose sides at the end of a window that has seen Jake Livermore and Robert Snodgrass depart the KCOM Stadium with Andrew Robertson expected to follow suit today.

But Leeds United, Middlesbrough, Rotherham United and Bradford City are all chasing targets ahead of the 11pm shut-off to get deals done.

Sheffield Wednesday, too, continue to be linked with a move for Middlesbrough’s Jordan Rhodes as managers up and down the country look to finalise their squads for the rest of the season.

Of those who operate within the Broad Acres, Hull head coach Marco Silva is likely to be the busiest with the Portuguese wanting to bring in five or six new faces.

Robertson’s likely departure to Burnley for £10m will not make the task of staying in the top flight any easier, but Silva believes he can bring in players capable of helping the Tigers do just that.

A £3m fee is understood to have been agreed with Watford for midfielder Adlene Guedioura, while also set to arrive in Yorkshire today is Inter Milan defender Andrea Ranocchia.

His signing will be timely after Curtis Davies was last night ruled out for eight weeks with a hamstring injury.

Former Leeds United winger Max Gradel is also on Silva’s radar along with Marvin Zeegelaar, the Sporting Lisbon left-back. The capture of a left-back is a prerequisite to Hull allowing Robertson to move to Turf Moor.

Others to be linked with the Tigers, who have made four signings, include former Sunderland midfielder Alfred N’Diaye and Angers forward Nicolas Pepe.

Aitor Karanka may not have been looking to make as many changes as Silva this month, but Boro’s head coach is nevertheless frustrated at the club’s failure to land any of his main targets.

“The aim was to improve the club and we haven’t,” said the Spaniard after missing out on Snodgrass, Bojan and Jese. “Have we got enough to stay up? I will try my best.”

One deal expected to go through today involving a fellow countryman of Karanka is Leeds’s pursuit of Villarreal winger Alfonso Pedraza.

The 20-year-old has had his loan stay at second tier club Lugo cut short, with Leeds paying the £300,000 release fee, and he was due to fly into England last night for a medical.

Providing the loan goes through today, United will be able to buy Pedraza for £8.5m next summer if the club is in the Premier League. Garry Monk also hopes to tie up a loan deal for West Ham’s Ashley Fletcher, while Rotherham United are looking to follow up the loan capture of Cardiff City’s Semi Ajayi and Ben Purrington’s permanent addition from Plymouth Argyle with further signings.

“Realistically, I reckon I have probably got another three coming in,” said caretaker manager Paul Warne, who is tracking former Hull man Ryan Taylor and Coventry City’s Jordan Willis. “I think I need another defender, striker and, ideally, a wide man.“

Elsewhere, Stuart McCall wants a “minimum two new faces in, but in an ideal world maybe three or four” at Bradford.

The Bantams have triggered a £250,000 release clause in Charlie Wyke’s contract, but Carlisle United want more money for the striker amid interest from the Championship.

“As a football club, we are doing everything we can,” said McCall, who have decided against bringing Jamie Proctor back to Valley Parade from Bolton Wanderers.

In contrast to what is likely to be a hectic day at the KCOM, Elland Road et al, several Yorkshire clubs are in for a much calmer time with Huddersfield Town, Sheffield United and Doncaster Rovers understood to have completed any incoming business.

Town head coach David Wagner has brought in Collin Quaner and Isaiah Brown during the window, but perhaps his most important work has been keeping hold of loanee Aaron Mooy.

The Australian has been a revelation since joining from Manchester City last summer and his form has not gone unnoticed by either the Etihad hierarchy or rival clubs.

Sources have indicated that Mooy was the subject of a substantial recent bid from another Championship club, but Town’s prudent insistence of any recall of the midfielder by the Premier League club having to be in the first week of January scuppered any hopes of a deal.

It means Mooy, arguably the outstanding midfielder in the second tier this term, will remain at Huddersfield until the summer.

Chris Wilder is equally happy with his work at Sheffield United, while across the Steel City, Carlos Carvalhal believes Sheffield Wednesday’s name is being used to drive up interest in players.

“I think clubs and agents use the Sheffield Wednesday name to promote their players,” said the Portuguese.

“It is not just one player. Between the summer and now, we can talk about 12 to 20 players and they haven’t come here.”