The Sentinel

VALE CLOSE IN ON ELLIOTT DEAL, BUT ASPIN EYES EXTRA STRIKER

- Michael Baggaley

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PORT Vale boss Neil Aspin says he needs to bring in another striker in addition to the club’s likely move for Danny Elliott. Elliott, aged 23, warmed up with the Vale squad before Saturday’s 3-0 home defeat by Colchester and is expected to complete a move to the Valiants this week. The forward is from Nottingham and was in Nottingham Forest’s academy before moving to play university football in the United States and then having a spell with San Cristobal, who play in the regional fourth tier of Spanish football. Aspin says Elliott has done well on trial, but it wouldn’t be fair for the club to pin their hopes on a player who still needs experience in the Football League. He said: “We can’t put our future in the hands of a lad who has just come on trial. But he has done enough to warrant giving him a chance. “We need to get more experience­d players in, people who have played at this level and that is what we will be trying to do, but everybody else is trying to do the same.” Aspin is trying to bring in a striker and also working on a deal for a left-sided defender. Meanwhile, Dior Angus is set to go out on loan to a National League club. The 24-year-old scored 14 goals on loan at Nuneaton in the National League North during the first half of the season. Aspin doesn’t see him as an immediate part of his first team, but a loan in the National League, just one division below Vale, would give him regular games. The manager explained: “He is going to go on loan because he can’t afford to have a few months where he is not playing football. He was on the bench the other night and he wouldn’t have been starting (against Colchester). I am hopeful I can get somebody in next week who is a striker.” Meanwhile, Vale will assess Tom Pope (hamstring) and Mitch Clark (calf) after both were forced off on Saturday.

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