Yorkshire football clubs are playing waiting game
WHEN it comes to marquee signings this summer, there has not been too much stardust sprinkled around the Yorkshire footballing landscape.
Granted, supporters of Doncaster Rovers are not complaining with many still basking in the glow of signing Swindon Town marksman Andy Williams, and the appetite of Leeds United fans has also been sated a little by this week’s capture of a crowd favourite Sol Bamba.
But scour across the rest of the Broad Acres and much of the activity has been piecemeal and with the end of June nigh, it is correct in assuming that it has not been a flaming-hot month in regards to transfer business.
Comparatively speaking, it was rather more frenetic this time last year. Up to the end of June, 2014, around 30 close-season signings had been announced and/or completed.
A colossal 11 deals, including nine last June alone, had been announced by Rotherham United with the likes of Jordan Bowery, Kirk Broadfoot, Paul Green and Frazer Richardson arriving in a whirlwind start to the close season for the Millers.
This time around, it has been a bit more circumspect at the AESSEAL New York Stadium, with just three new recruits arriving in defenders Aidan White, Joe Mattock and Lewis Buxton, released at the end of last season by Yorkshire neighbours Leeds United and Sheffield Wednesday .
The number of deals across Yorkshire clubs is roughly half of the 2014 figure at the same juncture last year, with plenty of pressing business transactions still to take place across a swathe of the White Rose.