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League 1 summer transfer thread 2021

Crewe
6 Out / 5 In

Out:
Defender:
Tommie Hoban, 27 RETIRED

Having signed for Crewe from Aberdeen a few weeks ago, injury-prone Hoban has decided to retire from playing.
 
Crewe
6 Out / 5 In

Out:
Defender:
Tommie Hoban, 27 RETIRED

Having signed for Crewe from Aberdeen a few weeks ago, injury-prone Hoban has decided to retire from playing.
That's sad to hear.

Credit to Hoban, presumably he could've sat on that new contract taking his earnings from the treatment room.
 
Ben Knight (Man City) who came on as sub in the Community Shield has signed for Crewe Alex on loan for the season …. a decent signing for them.
 
Their wage bill must be astronomical. Huge fail if they don’t go up.
Their wage bill for 2019-20 was £12.85m against a turnover of £10.20m (for 185 employees, 116 of whom were on the playing/management side). In other words, their wage bill was already big, not helped by the legacy of Championship wages (£19.25m in 2018-19). It will be interesting to see their 2020-21 accounts to see where they were last season, but it is quite possible that the release of those legacy players in the summer has actually produced a lower wage bill despite the number of incomings. That seems to be what Mr Cook is saying.
 
Wigan's re-signing of James McClean gives them six new midfielders/wingers:

James McClean, 32 (Stoke City)
Tom Naylor, 30 (Portsmouth)
Max Power, 28 (Sunderland)
Jordan Cousins, 27 (Stoke City)
Gwion Edwards, 27 (Ipswich Town)
Jordan Jones, 26 (Glasgow Rangers)

Some fantastic choices there, but good luck in keeping them all happy.
 
Sunderland apparently in for Vito Mannone from Monaco. Probably a better keeper option than what they had, I think he was there when they were Premier League?

Assume he has an affinity with the club but can't imagine he'd be on peanuts either.