Last seasons club and Midland league top scorer Ruben Wiggins-Thomas has agreed terms and signed a new 1 year contract for the club. In addition the club have re-signed to new deals for all of our core group of strikers Stuart Hendrie, Ryan Whitehurst, Courey Grantham. In the central midfield area it was crucial to re-sign all our talented group which includes Josh Thornton, Robson Doolan who formed a brilliant partnership with also re-signed Lee Hendrie. With youngsters Jahred Russell and Joe Coxon putting pen to paper then great news. Defensively it was crucial to lock down the spine of the group so Saul Deeney, Rob Darkin, Fabian Smith , Dion Miekle and Dan Fletcher have all signed new deals . With youngster Jamie McNicholas off to the States on a football scholarship then United will look closely to recruit defensively for the new campaign, United will be hopeful to agree terms with Aaron Webster. Other new additions in additions to those not yet committed are in discussion, and hopefully will lead to announcements before the 1st team end of season trip to Ibiza at the end of May.
Manager Martin Carruthers is putting together a challenging preseason where all current and new targets will fight it out for starting positions.