As last season neared its conclusion, Rotherham’s head of recruitment, Rob Scott, and his team were monitoring more than 110 potential targets.
Some were earmarked as League One signings should the Millers miss out on promotion and stay where they were in the 2022-23 season. Others were potential Championship recruits, while the rest were players Scott and Co felt would work in either division.
Incredibly, the club with League One’s lowest budget defied the odds to go up automatically, and since promotion was confirmed the weeks have passed in a haze of phone calls and meetings for Scott and Rotherham boss Paul Warne.
