Ollie Westbury sat down with Jonny Drury to discuss some of the latest topics surrounding Shrewsbury Town.
Salop head back to pre-season later this week and the numbers available to Paul Hurst are limited.
After players were released and others turned down new deals, Salop have just 11 senior players on the books and no senior goalkeeper.
Ollie and Jonny discussion the current situation and why there is no need for fans to panic.
Salop head back to pre-season later this week and the numbers available to Paul Hurst are limited.
After players were released and others turned down new deals, Salop have just 11 senior players on the books and no senior goalkeeper.
Ollie and Jonny discussion the current situation and why there is no need for fans to panic.
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00:00Oli, Shusby assigned three players, but in terms of sort of overall senior player numbers,
00:13Paul Hirst has got quite a small amount heading back into pre-season. Started this week, there
00:18was 12 on the list. Roland Ido has gone out on loan to Scotland. Jack Price has been offered
00:25the chance to train and prove his fitness with Salop. We're not 100% sure if that has
00:30sort of been taken up and he will be training with Shusby at the moment. Is it slightly
00:35concerning at this stage of the season? Obviously the transfer window only officially opened
00:40around sort of 10, 11 days ago. I think it was the middle of June and Shusby have made
00:45a few moves. But in terms of sort of more moves, is it concerning to you? Did you expect
00:51them to maybe do a little bit more business by this stage? Will Paul Hirst and Mickey
00:56Moore be a little bit concerned on numbers or will they be quite relaxed with obviously
01:00we've still got the rest of June, July and August to go?
01:05Personally, I think it's a fan thing more so. I think the fans get kind of a bit worked
01:11up about the lack of transfer activity and perhaps the lack of even a transfer rumour
01:15that's knocking around out there at the moment. And I think they kind of get a bit edgy and
01:21you kind of think about, well, what are we going to be able to do? And you know what
01:23it's like with players, like you sign a player and then you get fans tweeting to the Shusby
01:28account saying, admin announce another one. And obviously it doesn't quite work like that.
01:34I mean, I spoke to Graham Turner last week and he said that, you know, although they're
01:39short on numbers and they're short on players at the moment, that come August the 10th,
01:43they will have a competitive squad with the right squad depth in place, you would have
01:47thought. And I kind of echo those thoughts. Yes, it's not ideal and you'd like them in
01:54there for the first day of training, which is going to be later on this week. But ultimately
01:57these are evolving situations and would you rather them sign players early but sign the
02:02wrong ones or would you rather them try and stick it out, try and get the ones they want
02:06that can really hopefully make some form of an impact?
02:12So yeah, I mean, that's kind of where I'm at with it really. I kind of think that by
02:18the time the end of the season starts to come about, they will have a competitive squad
02:22in place. It just, it does look a bit messy at the moment. You know, there's nothing else
02:27that can be said about that. But I don't think it's the kind of thing that needs to be panicked
02:31over too much. And I know you get that a little bit in football, don't you? Because I think
02:35especially when you see other clubs signing lots of players, but they've got a couple
02:40through the door. I mean, they need a goalkeeper. There's absolutely no doubt about that. I
02:43mean, currently, can I have Brian Jenson kind of sat in the canteen on Friday because there's
02:50going to be nothing for him to do, is there? Because we haven't got a senior goalkeeper
02:53in the squad. So they need to get a goalkeeper in as quickly as possible, really, because
02:59they've got friendlies coming up, haven't they? Early in July, I think the first ones
03:02on the 13th of July. So, you know, they do need to try and get some form of a move on
03:07that is for sure. But yeah, it's one of those things. But it's not something at this stage
03:13that I'm too concerned about. But granted, it'd be nice if we could get some players
03:21through the door.