'A good start': Shrewsbury Town transfer view after early business completed

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Ollie Westbury and Jonny Drury discuss Shrewsbury Town's early transfer business. Salop have moved early in the transfer window, to bring in defender Tom Anderson and experienced midfielder Sam Clucas. They look at Salop's good start and whether they can continue in the same way for the rest of the window.

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00:00Oli Salop have done a little bit of early business in the window after their relegation

00:06to League Two. Tom Anderson comes in from Doncaster Rovers after turning down a new

00:11contract at the club. And they've also made a move for Sam Klukas, former Stoke man, has

00:17come in to the squad. Michael Appleton looks to rebuild ahead of the League Two season.

00:23Are Salop fans maybe right to be buoyed by this little bit of early business? Is it a

00:30potentially things to come, Oli? I must admit, the Tom Anderson one is an experienced

00:35campaigner. It seems like Shrewsbury have really gone away. Had to think about potentially

00:40some of the things that went wrong last year in terms of not having enough leaders in their

00:45side and look to address it really early on in the summer window, getting a couple of

00:51experienced heads in. Obviously, Tom Anderson, very experienced campaigner. Obviously, being

00:58around a long time, was one of the EFL's longest serving players at a particular club, I think,

01:01how long he'd been at Doncaster. Obviously, he turned down a contract to stay there after

01:06they were promoted last year. I think he made, in mid-twenties, roughly starts, didn't play

01:12all season. Obviously, he was heavily involved in a promotion winning League Two side and has,

01:20of course, been there for quite a long time. So, he's a very experienced player. And at the

01:25age of 31, he's probably just the kind of calibre of dominating, domineering centre-half that they

01:31need, having, you know, perhaps lacked that bit of something over the last couple of years.

01:37You know, not a couple of years, probably not quite got a replacement for Shea Dunkley.

01:42So, interesting that he comes in early. I think you consider that one, you know, as a pretty good

01:47acquisition from Shrewsbury. And then Sam Glukas. I mean, I choked on my tea when somebody from the

01:53club told me that we were signing Sam Glukas. I was kind of surprised because, obviously,

01:59I've seen him play for Swansea and all in the Premier League. And then, obviously, he's a veteran

02:04of Stoke and Championship at that level. So, I was a bit kind of, you know, I was taken aback by

02:12he's a real name. Obviously, he's been sold for, you know, a deal up to 16.5 million in the past. So,

02:19clearly, a talented football. I didn't quite realise at the time that he was 34, soon to

02:25be 35 when the season starts. So, obviously, the sceptics, you know, will go to that. And

02:33I can see why. Because, obviously, they're giving him a two-year deal. I would imagine they have to

02:38give him a two-year deal to convince him to stay, to enable him to buy into the project. I suppose,

02:43if he's going to play a big part this season, then they'll have to build the team around him.

02:46And if they're going to play a more possession-based style of football, then you need players

02:50with that ability on the ball. I don't believe that the reason that he didn't play too much

02:55for Lincoln last year was injury-related at all, though, to be fair. I think it was,

02:59you know, based on the fact that they had a ton of midfielders. And, yeah, he didn't quite

03:06make the appearance that he wanted. But he will be another very experienced head. The idea

03:13and the ambition for Shrewsby is that he will help those young players, the likes of Isaac England,

03:18the likes of Jack Loughran, develop after they kind of came through at the back end of last season.

03:23And they need some kind of experienced players in there to lead the way for the others in the

03:27dressing room. You heard Gareth Ainsworth talk at times about not having the generals

03:32in the changing room. So hopefully that addresses that inadequacy from the last campaign.

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