Where will Walsall target in the transfer window?

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Jonny Drury sits down with George Bennett to talk about Walsall's transfer window plans. Connor Barrett has arrived at the club from AFC Flyde - but who will come in next? They look at the positions that need strengthening - and how Walsall will go about things.

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00:00George, transfer window is now officially open. I think it's been open sort of four

00:11or five days. It'll probably take clubs a little bit of time to start doing some business

00:15and the Sadlers fans will be keeping a keen eye on what Matt Sadler is going to be doing

00:19down at the Poundland-Bescott Stadium. One area where there's no doubt they will recruit

00:25in the summer is up front. Obviously, lost players that were on loan last season. Douglas

00:32James Taylor has gone over to Ireland. The likes of Danny Johnson are still there. How

00:38do you see it going this summer, George? Is that an area, among others, that Walsall are

00:43going to sort of target more than others, maybe?

00:45Yeah, I think centre-back and centre-forward are the two areas where Walsall need most

00:49improvement. The midfield is pretty full in terms of options. I can't really see there

00:55being too much movement there other than maybe just one addition there. So, yeah, I feel

01:00centre-back and centre-forward are the two main areas and going on to the forwards like

01:04you asked. At the moment, there's Danny Johnson, there's Jamil Matt. James Taylor's gone to

01:09Ireland so it just leaves them with the two options. Jamil Matt, albeit an important player

01:13during the second half of the season, has question marks over whether he can remain

01:17fit consistently. He was kind of in and out of the side at times. Danny Johnson hasn't

01:23been given the game time so there's two forwards there. Are they going to be reliable in terms

01:28of we know Danny Johnson can score goals but he's clearly someone that Matt Sadler has

01:33reservations about because otherwise he would have had a regular run of games for Walsall

01:39last season. So, yeah, I feel probably Walsall need at least two centre-forwards. I mean,

01:48we've seen with the success of Freddie Draper on the loan market, if Walsall could pick

01:53up anyone that could kind of produce a similar impact that he had, that would be ideal. But

01:58it would also be nice to see Walsall maybe look at getting a striker in permanently who

02:02can be a reliable and regular provider of goals, which would be a really good investment

02:10for the club as well. So I feel like they definitely need at least two centre-forwards

02:14because the two they've got at their disposal, there's kind of grey areas around both of

02:19them and it would be good to have that competition as well.

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