Robbie Stelling on Hartlepool United's transfer hopes

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.