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Simon Grayson: January window can be the difference for EFL promotion chasers

What happens in the transfer market over the next month or so can make or break your season, as Simon Grayson knows all too well.
Jermaine Beckford’s goals helped fire Simon Grayson’s Preston North End to promotion

What happens in the transfer market over the next month or so can make or break your season.

When I was trying to get Preston North End promoted from League One in 2014-15, we signed Jermaine Beckford on loan from Bolton at the back end of November.
They were in the Championship at the time and were managed by Neil Lennon, who’d I’d played with at Leicester.
I’d actually rung Neil about a different player and he said, ‘No chance – but you can have Jermaine if you want’.
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I jumped at the chance, and what a signing that proved to be.
Jermaine scored 18 goals for us in the second half ...

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