Yeovil Town’s latest signing Lewys Twamley drew praise from Mark Cooper when asked about the new recruit at the Fan’s Forum on Tuesday night.
The gaffer revealed that the Welshman didn’t cost us a transfer fee and ticked a lot of boxes for what he was looking for.
“We’re trying to cover all bases, one eye on players that have a good pedigree and come out of the football league… but also look a little bit lower,
We look at what he’s done, an awful lot of goals and an awful lot of assists, but we have to look at the level he’s come from, it’s two leagues below, the level in between us and that one, we murdered that level last year.
We have to look at it and think ‘is he one that can bridge that gap?’. It might not be now, but I just felt that it was something we had to act on.
…I just felt that it was something we had to act on.
It wasn’t an expensive deal for us, there’s no transfer fee, he had a clause in his contract which meant we could get him.
He’s an exciting player, when you watch him play, he’s small, he’s got a real low centre of gravity, and what we like is he can beat people, late on in games, especially attacking the Thatchers End, we saw a couple of glimpses on Friday [against Gateshead].
We’re always looking for those players, the little nuggets that we have to shine them up and try and make them into players.
But we wouldn’t be doing our job if we didn’t look at that level, and we have to take a gamble on one or two.”