Alan Hardy said, "The concern before the deadline was that we would be forced to sell some of our promising young players. But everything stayed fairly quiet and we've managed to hold our squad together, certainly until the next transfer window in January. The pressures might be different in a few months' time, but at the moment we have a strong squad and hopefully we'll have a good first half of the season. If the team is in a similar position in January we might not consider offers anyway."