00:00Oli, a busy week for Salop last week. Fans have been waiting for signings for a little
00:14while now since the season ended and players have gone out the door but no one had come
00:17in until last week. Three moves, Toto and Siala comes back to the club. Harrison Biggins
00:23and George Lloyd have also been brought in. What's your initial thoughts, obviously numbers-wise,
00:29it certainly helps with the players that have gone out the door. But have you been impressed
00:33by the business that Salop have done in recent days?
00:35I feel like it always happens, doesn't it? We wait ages for some news and then finally
00:39when I'm actually away on holiday it all seems to come across in one week. I don't really
00:45know. I suppose I've got mixed emotions on the Shrewsbury signings. They're hard, aren't
00:53they? I can't say we know a lot about them. I think it perhaps tells us a little bit about
01:01what we can perhaps expect to see over the coming few weeks and months as Town start
01:09to begin and put their squad together for the new season. Obviously Toto and Siala is
01:1632 and he's been given a two-year deal. I don't know a lot about him. Shrewsbury fans
01:22seem pretty happy with it. Obviously he's been at Fleetwood and Burton Albion in the
01:28last couple of years and George Lloyd is a relatively unproven striker from Cheltenham
01:35Town, a side who obviously got relegated last year. I suppose it feels like it's going to
01:44be a challenging summer for Town. Perhaps the days of signing, citing big names are
01:52perhaps behind them and more realistic expectations with regards to budgets and player expenditure
01:59is something that is needed.
02:02It seems that from these three signings we can maybe gauge that last summer they went
02:07for untested players. We know they brought in a few from the League of Ireland, a few
02:13players who played briefly in the Football League. These players have a bit more Football
02:18League experience, whether that be in League Two or in Siala's case with Shrewsbury in
02:22League One. Do you see that as the way forward for Shrewsbury, looking at more players that
02:29have got maybe a little bit more EFL experience rather than those young players, unproven
02:35players that came to the club last year?
02:39It seems that way a little bit, doesn't it? It seems that that's the way they might try
02:42to get around it, to get some form of experience. Are they going to be able to sign players
02:46from the likes of Shea Dunkley who have come from levels above any more? Unlikely. It looks
02:56like we're looking down the leagues, trying to recruit well-spot talent and make ourselves
03:01better in that department. I would have said that the more League One and League Two experience
03:10of English senior football, the better. I imagine that when it comes to it, and I don't
03:15expect these to happen too soon, but the loans will play a massive part too. The loan market
03:21is going to be incredibly important for Shrewsbury and they need to make sure that they get that
03:25right because it didn't quite work out for them last season at all.
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