Shrewsbury Town transfer news: Paul Hurst will be busy up to the deadline
Paul Hurst is expecting Shrewsbury Town's January business to extend deep into the transfer window as he continues the search for additions.
Salop yesterday sealed their sixth arrival of the month as 19-year-old Fulham striker Stephen Humphrys checked into Greenhous Meadow on loan until the end of the season.
But Hurst is still keen to strengthen in a couple of positions ahead of Tuesday's 11pm deadline.
The boss said: "I'd ideally like a couple more and that won't change until we fail to do that or the window closes.
"We'll keep trying until the deadline. I think there'll be a lot of football clubs, managers and agents pleased and the agents can probably look forward to a holiday for a while.
"At least when it shuts you definitely know what you've got and you can concentrate on them 100 per cent, no distractions.
"I'd like more options in a couple of areas of the pitch than we currently have. Other than that I'll let people guess in terms of an exact number, but I have got something in my head that I'd like."
Humphrys, who is the Premier League 2's top scorer with Fulham's reserve side this term, forced his way Slaviša Jokanovi?'s first-team thoughts and has appeared three times for the Craven Cottage outfit.
He joins Toto Nsiala, Alex Rodman, Freddie Ladapo, Tyler Roberts and Bryn Morris through the door at the Meadow.
And Hurst is now content with his attacking selections after hinting further reinforcements will come elsewhere.
"In that area we're now probably done," added Hurst. "Tyler, Stephen, Freddie are three loan players and with Louis (Dodds) and AJ (Leitch-Smith) – once he's back fit – we've got some options available to us.
"We hope Stephen will score goals. He's got a little bit of physicality about him, good pace and work ethic so we want all of those things brought to our team and squad.
"He could be a real asset for us and we need competition. That's been heightened further with the names I've mentioned.
"Hopefully they can rise to the challenge and worse case come off the bench to contribute from there.
"We all want to start games but certainly in today's football, it is all about the 14 players that you use and overall the squad.
"Everybody's got to be ready to take that chance."
