Patience may be the key for the Terriers this summer
BY the time the Huddersfield Town squad reported back for pre-season testing 12 months ago, the club had already announced five new arrivals.
Within a week of that, signing No.6 was announced as Levi Colwill was unveiled
Chelsea.
It’s a different story for the Terriers so far this summer.
The majority of Carlos Corberan’s squad are set to return to Canalside on Friday – with those who have played international football over the past few weeks set for a delayed return – and the only new face to
on
loan
from greet the head coach
Will Boyle’s.
Head of football operations Leigh Bromby has spoken previously about the importance of giving the players as much uninterrupted time on the training pitch with Corberan as possible, saying in January of last summer’s window: “Our preference in a perfect world is to have all new players in on day one of pre-season because of the way Carlos works.
“I think it took Danel [Sinani] a couple of months (to adapt) and he’s a top player but if he’d been here before he would have hit the ground running.”
Bromby went on to acknowledge that getting business done early that
will be way was not always possible, however and so it is proving this summer.
But that was no less than the club would have expected this time around given how different their priorities are from last year. Twelve months ago Town were focused on defensive recruits, with Jordan Rhodes the only one of the six June announcements who was not a defender or a goalkeeper. This time, the focus is on improving their work in the final third and those kinds of signings are generally harder to get done – they tend to be more expensive, command higher wages and bring much more competition for their signature.
That is the pattern across the division, where a combined 23
The looming spectre of a mid-season World Cup may mean we see fewer loans from the Premier League this season