![]() ![]() Technician Reece Brown, meanwhile, extends his loan stay from Huddersfield to partner the all-action Jack Taylor, an inspired January recruit from Barnet, behind Siriki Dembele, a box of tricks between lines.įrankie Kent offers ball-playing qualities on the left of a back-three in which Nathan Thompson and Mark Beevers bring leadership, though unproven defensive stand-ins could be stretched – goalkeeper Christy Pym hopes to add consistency in his second League One season. Toney, though and Bristol City loanee Sammie Szmodics were just two pieces of Posh’s promotion-pushing puzzle – and Cheltenham recruit Ryan Broom can just as easily be a driving midfield force or tough wing-back competition for selfless Joe Ward and delivery specialist Dan Butler. Manager Darren Ferguson expects Toney to land an expensive move away, so the club must already be lining up replacements: a well-rounded front-man is required ahead of poacher Mo Eisa and speedster Ricky-Jade Jones. Ivan Toney was by some distance League One’s best striker last season, showing strength, mobility and persistence alongside 24 league goals – nine more than any other player. ![]() □ "It's revenge season, we wanna win the league"īarry Fry is ready for the season to start for Peterborough /fk8CwkuSdw The club’s “revenge season”, as boisterously coined by ever-animated Director of Football Barry Fry, will likely begin without their star man. There were valid grounds for the EFL to make the decision they did in unenviable circumstances, yet there are equally valid grounds for United to feel deeply aggrieved. Yet the Millers were handed automatic promotion with Posh denied so much as a Play-Off berth. ![]() They finished just three points behind Rotherham and in exceptional form from late-January. Peterborough United were arguably the biggest victims of the EFL’s call to decide last season on points per game. Regardless of Dickie’s future, Oxford will enter this season with a stronger squad than the one with which they began the last – so with the right final touches in the loan market, the club could emphatically end it’s 22-year wait for second tier football. The movement of James Henry and Mark Sykes, contenders to play to Taylor’s right, will encourage their corresponding full-back to overlap and underlap respectively, while other wide options include quick, strong Derick Osei Yaw and Joel Cooper, called up by Northern Ireland. ![]() Matty Taylor was also on loan last season from Bristol City and, crucially, the front-man returns permanently to his boyhood club, though the athletic Daniel Agyei is a capable squad striker, as he showed in the Play-Offs. Liam Kelly arrives on loan from Feyenoord to potentially challenge Gorrin, whose defensive work hands extra freedom to newly contracted dynamo Cameron Brannagan and tidy technician Marcus McGuane, who joins on loan from Nottingham Forest. The Yellows rear-guard boasts one of League One’s most reliable shot-stoppers in stalwart Simon Eastwood but a more recent addition, Alex Gorrin, does an outstanding job at the base of a three-man midfield. Robinson hopes the physical Elliott Moore, the mature Rob Atkinson, the experienced John Mousinho and perhaps one more could thrive in Dickie’s absence, while Sean Clare signs from Hearts to bring much-needed quality from right-back. The former MK Dons boss has a reputation for developing talent in English football and that is furthered by the development of centre-back Rob Dickie, who’s star performances see him linked with a bigger move. Though the Yellows lost the League One Play-Off Final 2-1 to Wycombe, the campaign has allayed any doubts that he’s the right man for the job. Last season, Karl Robinson oversaw Oxford United’s highest finish since 1998-99. ![]()
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