Blackpool boss makes admission on potential departures in latest transfer update amid links with ex-Lincoln City man
The Seasiders have recruited seven players so far this summer, but haven’t been forced into selling anyone yet, with the departures only involving those out of contract.
Last week, Elkan Baggott and Elliot Embleton both made the move to Blackpool, while the Fylde Coast outfit have also been heavily linked with Danny Mandroiu – who is a free agent following his departure from Lincoln City at the end of June.
“We’re talking to Danny (Mandroiu) because he’s a free agent, but we’re in discussions with others. There’s a few weeks to go, we do our work vigorously behind the scenes every day.
“It’s not ideal that the window closes after the start of the season, because people can have their heads turned, but it’s the same for everyone.
“The squad might look slightly different in the next few weeks, we’re still working. Regardless of results at the start of the season, it’s our intention to improve and be stronger than we are at the moment.
“Elkan (Baggott) and Embo (Elliot Embleton) have strengthened us, so we’ll continue.”
BARROW-IN-FURNESS is one of English football’s outposts. It sits in the north-west corner of the country, is surrounded by rather attractive countryside on the fringes of the Lake District, and takes a heck of a journey if you’re an away team from the midlands or south. It’s an industrial town of 55,000 people that is indelibly linked to shipbuilding, notably submarines. The UK’s first nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Dreadnought, was built in Barrow in the late 1950s. Then town is characterised by row-upon-row of red brick terraced houses, originally built as homes for the workers in the shipyards and other industrial locations. They are very proud of their industrial heritage, and rightly so, and there are reminders all around town. There is also a statue of a footballer on the corner of Abbey Road and Holker Street, but he never played for Barrow. It is none other than Emlyn Hughes of Blackpool, Liverpool and Wolves fame – and a Barrovian.
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