Doncaster Rovers transfer news: Transfer window? Completed it, mate, says Grant McCann
Grant McCann says his Doncaster Rovers squad is "complete"– or at least he hopes it is.
Rovers have been better than most at getting business done early in the transfer windows McCann has overseen and in Zander Clark, Neill Byrne, Darren Robinson, Bayley McCann, Hakeeb Adelakun and Frankie Okoronkwo, he has filled the positions he was targetting after a disappointing first half of the season.
Now he is just hoping no one throws a spanner in the works by coming to him asking for a move ahead of Monday's 7pm transfer deadline.
"To be honest with you I wish the window would shut tonight!" said McCann on Thursday. "I think that would be a perfect time to shut it. I don't know why they let it drag into the weekend and then into Monday.
"We've got a game on Saturday (at Bradford City) and then Tuesday (at Burton Albion) so the last thing any club wants is the merry-go-round of naming a team and then one of your players leaves in the space of a few hours or whatever it may be.
"A lot of managers may pick their team a day or even two days before a game and will do a lot of work on it. The last thing you need is a player being pinched away last-minute.
"From my point of view my squad's complete. We're happy with the group. I've had numerous calls from agents sending me players and also agents of some of our players phoning and asking 'what's the situation?' but the simple answer is no-one's for sale.
"No-one's available for loan unless someone in and around the first team at this moment in time are unhappy. And if players are unhappy I tend not to stand in their way."