Stephen Pearce says he was pleased with the quality that Derby County brought in during the January transfer window, but he would have preferred to see more players join at the struggling club.
Derby completed the winter window with four new signings: Sondre Langas and Lars-Jorgen Salvesen from Viking FK, Matt Clarke from Middlesbrough, and Harrison Armstrong on loan from Everton.
The team also attempted to make further additions on deadline day, but aside from Armstrong, the search for more firepower was unsuccessful.Derby County can now sign free agents as they have only registered 22 players for a potential 25-man squad with the EFL.
Derby Chief Executive Officer Pearce denied that the club was complacent during the transfer window. In an interview with RamsTV, he stated, “No, absolutely not. I wouldn’t say we were complacent in that way.
“We went into the January window looking for a midfielder, a striker, possibly a right-back and maybe one other attacking option. At the start of the window, Ryan Nyambe had progressed so well that we weren’t necessarily looking for a right-back, but then you get an injury to Kane Wilson and you have to think again.
“In terms of the centre-backs with Curtis Nelson getting his injury, which nobody could have predicted, we didn’t expect Brighton to come back in for Cashin. We’d always planned for that.
“Sondre Langas was not somebody that had just come on the radar a couple of days before. It’s one that we’ve been looking at and monitoring for a while. It was the same with Lars-Jorgen Salvesen,who was on the radar since the summer.
“There has been a lot of planning and work in place, but as I said before with what we did in the window, we were happy with the quality, but in terms of the numbers, we’d have liked to have done more.”
