LIVE: Championship transfer deadline day blog and Peterborough United should be pleased with their business
Long-term target Conor Coventry has been signed on a season-long loan from West Ham United and star forward Siriki Dembele is still at the club.
Ethan Hamilton has joined League One side Accrington Stanley.
All the signings made by Championship clubs are on the PT Blog below...
Posh transfer blog
Key Events
- Summer transfer window shuts at 11pm on Tuesday, August 31
- Posh are seeking a defensive midfielder and possibly a striker
- Posh players are expected to leave on loan
More signings
Blackburn have signed full-back Tayo Edun from Lincoln City for an undisclosed fee. Posh agreed a fee with Lincoln for him earlier this summer, but his interview with manager Darren Ferguson didn’t go well so the move didn’t happen.
COVENTRY SIGNS
Posh have their man. Posh have signed defensive midfielder Conor Coventry after a summer-long pursuit.
Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony reckons there will be no more transfer business from Posh today so Ethan Hamilton now set to stay as a fifth midfielder.
Colby BIshop update
My thanks to Gary Chapman (@Rutlandspinner on Twitter) for pointing out Accrington Stanley have just signed Jovan Malcolm, a striker from West Brom..
Does this mean Colby Bishop, a reported Posh target, is free to leave?
Two more signings
Championship clubs now beginning to announce completed deals.
Reda Khadra has moved on loan from Brighton to Blackburn, while Demeaco Duhaney has left Huddersfield for Stoke on a free transfer.
Harry Arter has left Nottingham Forest for League One side Charlton.
Berahino deal confirmed
One-time Posh loanee Saido Berahino’s transfer from Belgian club Zulte Waregem to League One giants Sheffield Wednesday has been confirmed.
Darragh on Twitter
Three little words uttered by Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony have sparked concern among the Posh faithful.
In response to the question: ‘any deadline day business?’ MacAnthony responded with ‘not likely nope,’ but he has been known to mess with people on social media.
Meanwhile there has been a third Championship signing as Middlesbrough have taken Andraz Sporar on loan from Sporting Lisbon. He’s a forward from Slovenia.
Berahino back?
Reports have linked ex-Posh loan striker Saido Berahino with a return to English football from Belgium. Sheffield Wednesday are believed to be closest to his signature.
Popular Darragh and Barry’s transfer deadline day tales
Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony will be live on Sky Sports News for an hour from 8pm tonight discussing deadline day business. Let’s hope he has something positive to talk about from a Posh point of view.
“Five outlets wanted me on,” MacAnthony revealed on his ‘Hard Truth’ podcast today. “So I said I’d go to ones who paid the most.”
Barry Fry is being trailled by a Posh website camera all day today for a little video feature. I did that many, many years ago on transfer deadline day and it was great fun.
Bazza got all excited when he though Ruel Fox might come and play for Posh, but it turned out to be duff info. One target rang Barry up and said he’d sign until he realised what Posh were offering was a monthly wage and not a weekly wage.
No panic at Posh
No matter how deadline day pans out at Posh they won’t be forced into panic buys.
Posh chief Darragh MacAnthony admitted his transfer task force did discuss signing a centre-back to cover Mark Beevers while he is sidelined by injury and a new striker.
MacAnthony said: “It’s easy to sign 2,3,4 new players, but its pointless if they don’t fit into the way you play or fit into the dressing room. That would just be panic buying.
“Beevers might only miss another four games and even if we play three at the back we have Kent, Thompson, Knight, while Dan Butler played there last weekend and was excellent.
“We haven’t got like-for-like cover for the way JCH plays, but good strikers are as rare as dinosaurs and we will hopefully have three very forwards in JCH, Marriott and Dembele when we start playing again.”