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January window can be difference

by
The LeaguePaper Team
21 December 2025

Simon Grayson
FORMER EFL MANAGER

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 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’.
I jumped at the chance, and what a signing th...

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