Cheltenham Town manager Michael Flynn has confirmed Yeovil Town’s interest in bringing central defender Tom Bradbury to Huish Park.
Speaking after the Robins’ 2-1 defeat at Walsall on Saturday, Flynn told Gloucestershire Live reporter Jon Palmer that the interest was the only the club had received on EFL transfer deadline day last week.
Players can still join National League clubs outside of the EFL window and, asked if there was still an opportunity for Bradbury to move, Flynn said: “Possibly. We will have to have a look.”
Bradbury played 13 times for Cheltenham in League One last season but is yet to appear for them in their League Two campaign this year. The 26-year-old spent a season at Huish Park in 2019-20.
Yeovil boss Mark Cooper played ‘a straight bat’ to questions about the 26-year-old after the Glovers’ 3-1 win at Boston United at the weekend, which saw centre-half Jake Wannell sent-off for two bookable offences.
Declining to comment specifically on Bradbury, Cooper added: “We are trying to sign a centre back, we’re trying, but we’ve got to get the right one in, now the [EFL} window is shut and things are settled down, we will see which players are available who can’t go into the league, but can come to the National League.”
Wannell will definitely miss this weekend’s trip to AFC Fylde and there is a good chance Yeovil will also be without Morgan Williams, who sat out the Boston match with concussion suffered in the Bank Holiday Monday defeat at home to Rochdale. On loan Bristol City defender Raphael Araoye, who has been filling in for the injured Alex Whittle at left-back in recent games, also went off in the second half at Boston with a dead leg, making him a doubt for the Fylde game.
That leaves Cooper with only summer signing Finn Cousin-Dawson, who made his first start in the win at Boston, as the only recognised central defender available to him.