Transfer Deadline Day, Jan 2017
Another deadline day is here and as we nearer the end (it’s nearing 3pm as I write this), there is little evidence the biggest gap in the team is going to be filled. A proven striker/goalscorer who will take the place of Daryl Murphy who departed Town for Newcastle 6 months ago. Of course this window hasn’t been without signings, and we did get a striker - Kieffer Moore. Now no disrespect to the guy, he is hopefully one who in time become a great player for us, but he doesn’t bring experience at this level which we desperately need in a league that is getting tougher and tougher to compete in.
Other signings include Steven Taylor on a short term deal until summer, same goes for Jordan Spence and the most exciting signing - Danny Rowe. He is on a long term deal and should provide some much needed flair when Tom Lawrence goes back to Leicester at the end of the season. We also have the loan signing of Toumani Diagouraga from Leeds until the end of the season. I think this alone sees the end of the Skuglas partnership, and Douglas looking likely to actually leave the club.
But still we wait for a striker replacement. And whilst we wait patiently for that, we hear the rumblings that captain Luke Chambers is currently in talks with his former club Nottingham Forest. As most Town fans know, he has the option of a further year on his current contract but that is up to the man at the top to trigger.. and he has not. We may well have seen Chambers for the last time, but there’s nothing concrete as yet.
For now we all wait, hold our breathes for some kind of official information from the club on what to expect for the rest of the day. Oh, and we play Derby tonight which I’m pretty sure more people have forgotten about. The atmosphere may well be toxic if things go badly over the next few hours.
