Wycombe Wanderers manager Matt Bloomfield believes the squad depth his club now posses is ‘driving’ his players to ‘be the best they can be’.
The Chairboys were very active in the transfer window this summer, bringing in 15 new players – 10 on permanent contracts.
He believes the large roster will ‘motivate’ his side as the season progresses, with the club aiming to improve on their 10th place finish in League One last season.
“With the competition that we have, it drives standards in training, it drives motivation to be the best you can be, and the boys have trained really well for two weeks now.
“In the autumn of last year, we had around 11 or 12 players out injured and that really impacted us.
“Second half of the season, we had a squad that was ‘at it’, but it did leave me to have some very awkward conversations about leaving people out, but when we went Saturday/Tuesday, we had a fresh squad and that showed in our results.”
Up next for the Chairboys is a trip to Sixfields to take on Northampton Town, just one month after the two teams faced each other in the EFL Cup, which Wycombe won 2-0.
It’ll be Wanderers’ first game this month, after their home fixture against Mansfield Town on September 7 was postponed.
It was the fourth season in a row that Wycombe’s league match in the second week of September had been called off.
The match was cancelled due to some of the Stags’ players receiving international call ups from their respective nations.
He said: “I don’t think anyone really wanted a break, but Mansfield were well within their rights to postpone the fixture.
“For us, we would have preferred to have kept the ball rolling with games but every cloud has a silver lining, as it’s given us extra time on the training ground and it’s allowed us to integrate new faces into the squad.
“These include players like Cameron Humphreys and Aaron Morley who had brief training sessions with us, and we’ve had Sham, Caleb and Fred join us since.”
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