Huddersfield Town worry issued after summer transfer activity - Lee Grant may have "difficulties" | OneFootball

FLW Fan Pundit Graeme believes Huddersfield Town should have sought to move more players on from the club during the transfer window.

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Huddersfield Town have enjoyed an impressive start to their League One campaign, with the Terriers looking to bounce back to the Championship after some ambitious backing of rookie boss Lee Grant - and there's been plenty of transfer activity to boot.

The West Yorkshire outfit collapsed towards a mid-table finish in the third tier last season, and a gamble was taken by owner and chairman Kevin Nagle over the appointment of Grant as the new head coach at the Accu Stadium.

However, with the transfer window now closed and full focus on their form in League One, it has been a very impressive start by Town as they seek to put the wrongs of last season right - but should more have been done in the transfer window when it came to refining the squad?

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However, as positive as everything is at the club for the moment, there are still a couple of issues left unresolved after the window, and primarily they revolve around fringe players still hanging about.

After investment both last summer and in the winter, as well as their major overhaul this summer, Town now have what does appear to be a bit of a bloated squad and that could become a concern for the club, according to FLW’s fan pundit Graeme Rayner.

Graeme told FLW: “I think that, probably, we could have done with moving on a few more people.

“We are now quite heavily loaded in the striker and central defensive positions, and there are probably a few players now that are on a decent wage that seemed to have fallen quite a way down the pecking order.

“For their own career’s sake, as well, they ought to have found other clubs or at least moved on, or even just sent out on loan.

“Bojan Radulovic, for example, and Freddie Ladapo up top, and certainly Radinio Balker at centre-half, none of those players have really been involved. Radulovic came on in the last minute away to Sunderland in the EFL Cup, and did score his penalty.

“Other than that, they haven’t really been involved and I can’t see them getting much game time, certainly in the more meaningful competitions.

“It isn’t necessarily about who has or hasn’t come in, but more about those not going out really. My hope is that doesn’t create any difficulties in training or behind the scenes.

“Lee Grant seems like he has a good grip of it, but these things can change of course.”

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The lack of outgoings could become a concern because it has made Huddersfield’s squad a very big one as they head into the rest of the 2025/26 campaign.

That is because of the amount of signings that Town have made, which began early on with the arrivals of Marcus Harness and Ryan Ledson on free transfers.

Defensive additions have been aplenty, with Joe Low, Sean Roughan, Josh Feeney, Murray Wallace, Jack Whatmough and Lynden Gooch all signing, as well as goalkeeper Owen Goodman arriving on loan from Crystal Palace.

Midfielders Marcus McGuane and Leo Castledine joined from Bristol City and Chelsea respectively, whilst in attacking areas, the marquee addition of Alfie May from Birmingham City was joined by the loan pairing of Will Alves and Zepiqueno Redmond from Leicester City and Aston Villa on deadline day.

That has given Town a squad of 28 players, and given you can only name 18 in a matchday League One squad, that is far too bloated for Grant to be dealing with.

Injuries and also some overseas markets being open still may see that number reduce, but as of now, the squad is overloaded, and there's going to be a number of players that will likely not be that enthused over a lack of game-time in the coming weeks or months.