Newly-appointed Notts County head coach Luke Williams says the club won't fall into the trap of signing players in the summer transfer window just to fill squad numbers.
The former Swansea City assistant was confirmed as the new head coach at Meadow Lane on Tuesday, with Ryan Hartley arriving as his assistant. He has previously worked as head coach at Swindon Town and with the youth teams at Brighton and Hove Albion and Bristol City, and now arrives at Meadow Lane.
Williams' appointment comes after the exit of Ian Burchnall, who left the club back in May to join new League One side Forest Green Rovers. He is now tasked with getting the Magpies back to the Football League following their relegation from League Two in 2019.
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The 41-year-old is not ready to tear up the current squad and embark on a massive rebuilding project to achieve that, though. With the team "in a good place" he plans on getting the best out of what he has and adding quality where he can.
“I think the most important thing is that we get the right players and we don’t panic and try to fill the squad up just to feel comfortable, we want the right players that we can identify that have the capacity to grow with the project and take us to the next level," Williams said.
“We don’t want to do things in a short term manner to maybe try to get over the line and then suddenly we have to rebuild everything and start again, that’s not really the idea, so, more or less, depending on the players available to us or players that we think we have to get, if there’s less of those, there’s less. If we have to find more players like that and we’re absolutely convinced that they’ll help us then yeah, they’ll be more movement.
“The squad is in a good place already, there’s not a complete exodus, so we’re in a good place.”
Williams also outlined his vision for how he wants to see Notts play next season by using American sports as a comparison. He plans on turning the team into a "dominant" unit, controlling games and imposing themselves on the opposition.
“Football is dynamic, very, very dynamic," he said. "You take a sport like NFL for example, it’s stop-start, it’s easy to manage the game, there’s lots of pauses. Football can be so fluid, but somehow we want to try and control as many aspects of the game as we possibly can, so hopefully we can see a dominant team, trying to create chances, more than the opposition, trying to deny chances.
"Basketball football is fun, but not for us, we want to be in control, so I think it’s fair to expect to see Notts County being dominant on the pitch and taking the game by the scruff of the neck."
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