Robbie Stelling discusses Hartlepool United's transfer hopes and why patience will be key this summer.
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00:00 What's your overriding view on Poole's position transfer-wise?
00:04 And no need to panic just yet, but I imagine the players will be back in training in about
00:07 three or four weeks, so they could probably do with, what do you reckon, maybe 10 signings
00:11 before the start of the season?
00:12 Yeah, I think you summed it up pretty well there.
00:15 I think people use the Euros comment as a stick with which to beat him.
00:20 I don't think Sal was saying that the Euros is why we haven't signed any players.
00:24 He was just saying that it means an elongated summer.
00:26 It is an unusually long summer, so there's definitely no need to panic.
00:31 You look at some sides, like Barnet, they've made eight signings, Woking five, York four.
00:38 That can only be a good thing from their point of view.
00:42 If Poole had signed four or five players, we'd be sitting on here saying,
00:45 "That's fantastic.
00:46 They're getting their business done really early.
00:49 That's going to bode well."
00:50 And of course, you want to have at least some of your business done before the players return
00:55 for pre-season, if possible.
00:56 As Poole's fans, you don't have to look too far back to remember some incredibly chaotic
01:03 pre-seasons, and like Poole Hartley, when they had seven or eight players.
01:06 That just doesn't bode well for success.
01:09 You want new players to have time to settle, get to know the way the manager works, get to
01:14 know how your teammates work, and so on and so forth.
01:18 And of course, there's a little bit of a...
01:22 Fans are a little bit sort of...
01:23 They're itching to get something over the line because they're worried that all the
01:26 best players are going to get snapped up at this stage.
01:29 That's not quite how it works.
01:30 I mean, if you look at last year, probably the two most...
01:33 Well, I think definitely the two most successful transfers Poole's made, Manny Desirie and
01:37 Anthony Mancini.
01:38 They were both signed in July.
01:40 So it just goes to show that there's plenty of good business that can still be done.