Matt Hamshaw is one of three or four reported targets from relegated Mansfield. A pacey right winger, Hamshaw signed for the Stags in 2006 from Stockport County, having spent only one season at Edgley Park after signing from his first club, Sheffield Wednesday.
A local lad, Hamshaw had signed professional terms for Wednesday in 1998, and in 7 years with the club made only 74 league appearances, 39 of them coming from the bench.
His one season at Stockport saw him make 39 league appearances, and despite being captain for the season engineered a move back to a local team, Mansfield.
He has enjoyed two relatively successful seasons, making 85 league appearances.
Hamshaw has never really struggled with serious injury problems, and at the age of 25 should soon be entering his prime as a footballer.
This would mean he would not come cheap, as usually we sign players at the start or end of their career, but just like Danny Schofield, signing Hamshaw would be a real signal of intent. However, with N’Guessan, King, Warlow and Lenny on the books, do we really need to be looking at another winger, alongside Danny Schofield? In my opinion, King and John-Lewis may well end up operating as strikers, and Warlow as a left back. This leaves only N’Guessan to fill both wing roles, so perhaps signing both Schofield and Hamshaw would not be too much at all.
Overall, I cannot see us signing both of them, if either of them at all. Out of the two, I would rather see Hamshaw, but if signing either of these two means we cant afford a quality defender or two then I would ignore them completely.
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