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Bristol Rovers head coach Darrell Clarke(Image: Kieran McManus\/EFL)<\/p>\n
Bristol Rovers<\/a> are extremely close to confirming their 10th signing of the summer, Darrell Clarke has revealed with the Gas boss exclaiming that he is “99 per cent confident” that the addition will be in before Saturday’s lunchtime trip to Chesterfield.<\/p>\n Clarke has previously gone on record to share that he would like to see another four players signed before the end of the transfer window on September 1, in the form of two midfielders and two central defenders.<\/p>\n Eight of Rovers’ nine signings to date this summer have now started at least one competitive match with back-up goalkeeper Brad Young the only exception.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Bristol Rovers to support local non-league club after vandals drove onto pitch at home ground<\/a>READ MORE: Chesterfield receive mixed midfield injury update days before Bristol Rovers visit<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking ahead of this weekend’s trip to Chesterfield, the Gas head coach revealed: “99 per cent [sure] one is going to be done before the weekend, so that’s a positive. Hopefully we’ll get one done and then hopefully we get a few more done next week.<\/p>\n “Everyone’s working really hard to make sure we get that, but it’s important, and I mentioned this after the game, is that we want better players into the club. We don’t want to be putting average players into a club that becomes squad fillers for me. I’m looking for players to come in to start, to push and to get into the starting 11 because that’s what we need.”<\/p>\n As well as targeting four additions within the final two-and-a-half weeks of the window, Clarke has also admitted that further outgoings are possible too.<\/p>\n Join Bristol Rovers Live’s Whatsapp community for all the biggest Bristol Rovers stories sent straight to your phone<\/strong><\/p>\n Bristol Rovers Live<\/a> is now on WhatsApp and we want you to join our community.<\/p>\n Through the app, we\u2019ll send the Bristol Rovers news, live match coverage, team news, transfers, fixtures, analysis and more straight to your phone.<\/p>\n To join our community you need to already have WhatsApp. All you need to do is click this link and select \u2018Join Community\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Bristol Live<\/a> team.<\/p>\n We also treat community members to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out at any time you like.<\/p>\n To leave our community, click on the name at the top of your screen and choose \u2018Exit group\u2019.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n Click here to join our WhatsApp community.<\/a><\/p>\n Since the end of last season, 19 players have left the Pirates with midfielder Kofi Shaw and defender Connor Taylor the most recent departures, joining Brighton and Hove Albion and Wycombe Wanderers respectively, both for healthy fees.<\/p>\n On trimming the squad further, the Rovers boss said: “Yeah, listen, you’re always player trading. I think I said this in pre-season. We’ll be player trading to the last of the window for different reasons. With the way the window goes, the way one or two players need to quickly get into that\u2026well I’d say the players that have been here before need to get quickly into that rhythm to find that, because if my gut is saying I’m not going to get that response, we’ll probably have to look at different angles.<\/p>\n “We’ll be player trading right to the end window, but players have [the] opportunity to come in and perform [and] change mindsets.”<\/p>\n READ MORE: ‘Let’s hope so’ – Darrell Clarke shares transfer hint as Bristol Rovers target fresh additions<\/a>READ MORE: Darrell Clarke details what he said to Bristol Rovers players after ‘painful’ Cambridge cup exit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Rovers are extremely likely to have a new signing confirmed before their trip to Chesterfield on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,2707,748,46615,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-344174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-rovers-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-darrell-clarke","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115027811107919441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_WhatsApp-Phone.jpg\")
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