Shrewsbury Town boss Paul Hurst ready to be flexible

Hurst has just nine senior members of the Salop squad remaining in Shropshire after eight players were released last Saturday afternoon.

Six players have been offered new deals, but only time will tell if they will sign them.

And so, Town are facing a huge rebuild this summer as they try to assemble a squad that will be able to compete in League One next season.

And Hurst says that while you have transfer plans, you don’t always get your first choices, and when it comes to doing business in the market, Town must not be deterred by that.

“You have to have plans, of course,” he said, when asked if patience is required.

“But I must admit, you look back and think about a lot of planning and a lot of ideas that you make, but when it comes to it, how many of those actually come off?

“You then have to go to your next option and the one after and the one after that.

“You hope you are not on your 15th option, but you have to be adaptable and understanding of the market and perhaps your positioning in terms of, respectfully to ourselves, appeal and finances.

“Sometimes things work, in terms of logistics, or maybe you have worked with someone before, but we have not got too many obvious advantages.”

League One is set to be a competitive division next term with Wrexham, Stockport and Mansfield Town looking like strong teams to come out of League Two.

Rotherham are always competitive when they drop out of the Championship, and so will the other two clubs who come down from the second tier.

And Hurst says having spoken to people involved in what you would describe as big clubs, they feel as though they might struggle to get their targets too.

He said: “Yes, of course, you have your idea about how you want to shape the squad and what you want that to look like.

“What I would say is I perhaps spoke to someone from a club who will have ambitions to be promoted, and you would think would be in a fantastic position to bring people in, and they are concerned they are not going to get what they want.”