Ian Holloway said that he is hoping to get ahead on Swindon Town’s planning for a “massive” summer window.
Swindon have enjoyed a fairly quiet January, having only brought in Tom Nichols and Joe Westley on loan with Rosaire Longelo heading off to Salford City.
Holloway referred to January as having been “the weirdest window I have ever known in my life” because of how the club had used up their entire budget in the summer, causing him to have to move players out to bring them in.
There are only five players in the current Town squad who are currently confirmed to be tied down for next season, meaning that the futures of many of the group are up in the air heading into the back half of the campaign.
As Swindon continue their strong run of form to move away from the immediate threat of the drop, there is the opportunity to think about the long-term future of the club and how they may be able to tackle the summer to avoid languishing towards the bottom of League Two as they have in the last two seasons.
Holloway said that he wanted to get Swindon into a position of strength to try and attack the summer window like a successful club would.
He said: “I am trying to focus on the matches, they have always been my go-to and my drug, so to speak, they are what I live for and they are what I had been missing, the feeling when it is starting, how nervous you get, and how alive you feel.
“All of that [transfer business] will take care of itself and I will be much happier when the window is completely shut.
“Hopefully we will then be in a better position to reassess who we have got in the summer, what we need to do, and get ahead of a window.
“That is what good clubs do, you get ahead of the window.
“You actually know where you are and who you are going to take by the end of it all and you have it lined up.
“The summer will be massive, absolutely massive as we have an awful lot of players out of contract and they are all trying to earn a new one.
“That is what is pleasing me. The way that they are fighting for their Swindon survival and to help Swindon be so much better than we were.”
