Chairman of Peterborough United Darragh MacAnthony has revealed the signing of an incredible player from……
The Posh have had an excellent season so far under head coach Darren Ferguson and are now ten points clear of seventh place, meaning a finish inside the play-offs seems like by the end of the campaign. Nevertheless, Fergie’s men are still not completely out of the race for the top two, sitting seven points behind Derby County with a game in hand.
Peterborough are not a club with the biggest budget in England’s third tier but MacAnthony has done well to create a squad capable of competing with the likes of Portsmouth, Derby and Bolton Wanderers. In fact, according to Transfermarkt, Ferguson’s team have the highest market value in League One at £17.49 million.
The club’s transfer business in recent seasons has been admirable. The likes of Kwame Poku, Ephron Mason-Clark and Ronnie Edwards were signed as promising, young talents with a high ceiling who will either leave or are leaving for big transfer fees in the future.
Speaking on The Hard Truth Podcast recently, the chairman gave an insight into another player whom Peterborough United enquired about during the summer transfer window — goalkeeper Harry Lewis. MacAnthony also revealed why a deal never came to fruition with Lewis’ then-parent club Bradford City [quotes via the Peterborough Telegraph]:
“It can be tough for us to get a player. We enquired early in the summer about the Bradford City goalkeeper [Lewis] and I suspect because it was us the price went up. I bet we were quoted more than what they eventually sold him for.
