Curle: We want players with hunger and quality, not 'journeymen' after a 'payday'

Keith Curle insists he will not make any further additions this window unless potential signings have both the right quality and character to fit in with his current squad.

Curle, who’s targeting a striker and a centre-back prior to the deadline on October 5, previously stated Town were ‘handily placed’ to add to the 10 signings already made this summer, but he’s warned that it’s not a ‘foregone conclusion’.

Midfielder Jack Sowerby was the club’s most recent addition when he joined from Fleetwood Town on a two-year-contract last Friday, but Curle is in talks with two further players.

However, if he is to bring in another player or two, they must tick all the boxes, including financially.

“Even when we identify someone, it’s not a foregone conclusion that we’ll sign them,” Curle warned. “We make a final decision on finances with the football club and if the figures don’t tally up with myself and the club, then it doesn’t happen.

“If the character of the player or the quality of the player doesn’t fit with me and how I see him fitting into the group and the dynamics we want here, then it doesn’t happen – and that’s a good position for ourselves to be in.

“Yes, we’re able to compete financially, but we’re also able to bring in players that are willing to face and accept challenges and the demands what we will put on them here because we need to be competitive so we want to that competitive mentality.

“We don’t want journeymen and we don’t want people coming for a payday

“We incentive contracts so people come here and they can earn good money but to do that they have to be successful. If they’re being successful as individuals, as a football club we’re being successful.”