Neil Harris has claimed the deadline day transfer scramble is a made-for-TV event that prevents more deals going through than it smooths. The Cardiff City manager is still to make a single signing in January with more than half the month gone before deadline day on January 31. Harris says he wants to add three players to his group to enhance the Bluebirds’ chances of launching a play-off surge, but says the window is geared towards television drama, rather than actually trading players.

Christian Doidge aims to give Ryan Giggs a gentle elbow in the ribs on Friday night to remind the Wales manager not to forget him ahead of the Euro 2020 finals. Doidge will line-up for Hibernian at home to Rangers in the Scottish Premiership as the newly crowned Ladbrokes Player Of The Month in Scotland following an impressive few weeks. The Newport-born striker has struck seven goals in his last seven matches, a rate that has propelled him up to sixth place in the current scoring charts in his league and made him an increasingly talked about threat in Scottish club football.

Wales and Hungary meet tonight in a winner-takes-all clash for Euro 2020 qualification in Cardiff. Hungary won the Budapest reverse fixture 1-0 in June but Wales have gone five games unbeaten since that defeat. These are five of the talking points. Handling the pressure Reaching the semi-finals of Euro 2016 and the emergence of another talented generation has raised the expectations of Wales football fans. But Wales were suffocated by the Republic of Ireland when a 2018 World Cup play-off place was on the line. Wales lost 1-0 and Chris Coleman’s reign was all but over. This time the pressure is on Ryan Giggs to get it right – and a sell-out Cardiff City Stadium expects nothing other than victory. How Wales cope with the pressure will determine whether they qualify for a second-successive European Championship.

Former lifeguard Kieffer Moore can be the man to pull Wales up from the depths of their Euro qualification pool, according to manager Ryan Giggs. Moore scored on his competitive international debut, even though the striker’s opener was not enough to give Wales all the points as Slovakia made it 1-1 in Trnava. The Wigan striker headed Wales into a first-half lead before Juraj Kucka equalised after the interval to earn the Slovaks a point.

Kieffer Moore is one of seven new faces called up by Ryan Giggs for Wales’ training squad ahead of next month’s Euro 2020 qualifiers against Croatia and Hungary. Barnsley striker Moore – who was born in Torquay but who has a grandmother from Llanrug, near Caernarfon – joins several other unfamiliar names at the Algarve training camp from May 22-28, but injured pair Aaron Ramsey and Ethan Ampadu both miss out. Juventus-bound Ramsey has not played since April 18, when he suffered the hamstring injury which prematurely ended his Arsenal career and sees him miss the Gunners’ Europa League final date with Chelsea.