"The deal for Marc Pugh joining Shrewsbury Town is almost done and dusted, discussions are going on at a higher level at the moment.  Both sides are happy with what has been offered and it should go through within the next few days."

"We are watching the David Nugent situation and we all hope that he moves sooner rather than later.  We don't want people to get carried away with that because we will be paying off certain things and a small percentage of it will come towards the playing side."

"Gary Simpson arrived here on Thursday and people know that I have worked with him for a long while.  He's a good coach and a good scout as well as doing an awful lot of work behind the scenes that will be very useful to this football club."

"Alan Bent has also stepped up to be the first team physio and he's done some good work with the centre of excellence and the youth team, he's also worked well with the FA over a number of years, its something the manager wanted and we are delighted to be able to offer him the job on a full time basis."

"We do have a fair few trialists here at the moment.  Whilst I have been a manager it pays to have a look at players before you offer contracts.  It's something that everybody has to get used to.  Myself and Chris have discussed it and we will get as many players in as we can.  We will look at them and see if they have anything they can offer us.  At the moment, we have seven or eight with a few more to come."

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