Robinson wants six signings
Stafford Rangers boss Phil Robinson is hopeful of adding half a dozen new faces to his squad before the Blue Square Premier season kicks off. Stafford Rangers boss Phil Robinson is hopeful of adding half a dozen new faces to his squad before the Blue Square Premier season kicks off. Rangers have so far only made two signings this summer, snapping up Ritchie Sutton and Djoumin Sangare. Robinson ran the rule over another batch of trialists against Albion last night, including former Crewe striker Pav Suhaj, Marco Adaggio, Ramon Marach, and Jemiah Peters. The flood of trialists passing through Marston Road has affected Rangers' build-up to the new campaign. But Robinson, whose side only have one friendly left at Newcastle Town on Saturday, is hopeful he's close to making a breakthrough by adding permanently to his squad. "We're still looking for five or six new faces," said Robinson. Read the full story in the Express & Star.
Rangers have so far only made two signings this summer, snapping up Ritchie Sutton and Djoumin Sangare.
Robinson ran the rule over another batch of trialists against Albion last night, including former Crewe striker Pav Suhaj, Marco Adaggio, Ramon Marach, and Jemiah Peters.
The flood of trialists passing through Marston Road has affected Rangers' build-up to the new campaign.
But Robinson, whose side only have one friendly left at Newcastle Town on Saturday, is hopeful he's close to making a breakthrough by adding permanently to his squad.
"We're still looking for five or six new faces," said Robinson."It's not been ideal having so many trialists and we haven't been able to do too much work on team pattern and team shape because of the different faces that have been coming in.
"That's just the way it's worked out this summer - it's been hard work for all of us.
"Hopefully over the next 10 days we'll start to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
"We're in negotiation with a number of players and we're hoping to clinch some of those deals before the season starts.
"But as we've found so far things can change very quickly and you can miss out on players."
Robinson admits it's so far been a frustrating summer in his bid to strengthen the Marston Road squad after Rangers survived relegation on the final day of last season.
"It's been a difficult pre-season because we lost a lot of players during the summer and it's been difficult finishing deals off,"
added Robinson.
"A lot of players have come and enjoyed training with us and wanted to stay, but actually completing deals has been difficult for us this summer and we've missed out on quite a few players.
"There's still quite a lot of business that we need to do before the start of the season but we're hoping to do that in the next couple of weeks before the season starts.
"We may still be looking to recruit when the season starts as well."
