Holy forking shirtballs, what a couple of days!!
So following up on my post yesterday - the Browne signing, couple with the Woodburn extension means we now have five loanees in (Holland, Kelly, Browne, Taylor, Woodburn).
Under EFL rules, you can't have more than five loanees in a matchday squad.
So I suspect that means this is the last of our loans in.....with Woodburn coming back, it would seem extravagant in the extreme to be leaving one of the above five at home.
That's unless KR thinks Thorne brings so much to the dressing room that he's willing to pay Derby a few pennies to have him in the building as well.
So, assuming we do bring in a RB, that now should be a permanent signing.
Love the Atkinson signing as well.
Implies to me that we're probably going to sell Dickie in the summer (not unreasonably - he's good enough to be a fringe Premier League player, will be entering the last year of his contract, and could net us serious money), but I imagine KR is now expecting Moore to step up and replace him as our defensive leader, while Atkinson becomes the 'new Moore' i.e. a solid reserve and excellent prospect finding his feet at a new level. It's a brilliant forward-thinking pipeline approach.
And good luck picking a team out of this lot now, Karl! Options all over the place.
Wonder if Agyei might go out on loan? Seen enough from him to think there's raw talent there and he could be effective. But he needs a bit more seasoning. Reckon HCDAJF someone day in-day out in League Two.