Holloway keeping quiet on Blackpool transfer activity
Ian Holloway has begun life as a Premier League manager by assessing talk over his player signings as “pure fantasy football”.
In the aftermath of his side’s playoff win, Holloway revealed he will need to strengthen his squad in order to compete in the Premier League. The Seasiders boss has already been linked with players such as DJ Campbell and Stephen Dobbie, who were both on-loan at the club last season. But Holloway has warned the Tangerines fans to take the rumours with a pinch of salt, as he will be keeping the thoughts of player signings to himself.
"I won't be telling people who I'm going for and I won't be letting anyone tell me who I should be going for,” Holloway said
"So just for the record Andy Reid, Richard Chaplow, Shaun St Ledger and Kirk Broadfoot - if any of them were in my plans I wouldn't be telling anyone and it wouldn't be in the papers because I haven't brought anybody in yet.
"I can't understand how people are linking me with those players at the moment, and I mean that with the greatest respect to every one of them because they are all fine players in their own right. But how anyone can say Blackpool are going to get one of these players, it's like fantasy football.”
Holloway also revealed that he will not change his criteria when searching for players.
“I want someone who wants to play for me the way my lads want to play for me. If they don't want to then they can sling their hook because I'm not interested,” Holloway added.
"I am not going to bring in some big-time Charlie, who is more concerned about what his hair and clothes look like than what sort of shift he will put in for me."
It seems as though the bright lights of the Premiership will not change Holloway, and rightly so.
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