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Kelvin Langmead kommer in från Preston North End. Det blir, i alla fall i början, en månads lån.
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Gary Peters has made his first signing of his Town career bringing in 6"1' Kelvin Langmead on loan from Preston North End.
Preston's official website describes Kelvin a battering ram who brought the brute force to PNE's successful youth side. Kelvin has spent time on loan at Tamworth, Carlisle and Kidderminster, he impressed Carlisle manager Paul Simpson so much he tried to take Kelvin on year long loan. Kelvin spent the start of this season at loan at Kiddy and took part in Town's 1-0 win at Aggborough.
He comes into the Town side to add some more options for Peters, though the Town manager is quick to stress that Langmead is coming in so he can have a look at the 19-year old: "Kelvin's a young lad from Birmingham that I know from Preston when he came in as a 15-year old.
"He's a 6'1" striker who's spent time on loan at Carlisle last year and did very well there and was with Kidderminster this year and did alright there.
"He's a lad I've got eyes on for the future as well so it's not just a loan period, it allows us to have a good luck at him to see if he's a lad who can take us on further.
"With him being a Birmingham lad Shrewsbury will be good for him.
"I don't want people thinking that we've signed someone who is the ready made article. He's an honest lad and will work as hard as anyone and do everything we want him to do.
"Hopefully he can come in and make us stronger, he's something we haven't got, he's a big 6'1" centre-forward, holds the ball up and brings people into the game and gets into the box.
"He's on contract still with Preston and has another year to go, Preston are assessing whether he's Championship level."
Kelvin joined up with Town this morning and met up with his new team mates for the first training session at Sundorne. Peter's is keen to stress that Kelvin is one for the future and it would be wrong to make changes to the side that beat Swansea 2-0 on Saturday: "We didn't do too bad on Saturday so the players who preformed so well last week would get the wrong message if I was to change the team this week.
"It'll be very hard to make any changes and rightly so, if they perform like that every week then I won't change the team between now and the end of the season.
"You get things like bookings, suspensions and injuries which can affect things so it's good to have Kelvin here if needed."
With Town's forward line not scoring as many goals it would have hoped the addition of Kelvin puts a bit of pressure on the lads to perform, and gives Peters another option up front: "We haven't been scoring as many goals as we'd like and that's something we need to address.
"That might take a bit more time to address than the immediate change we've had, this is down to closing down, making it very hard for the opposition to play and to play quickly on the break when we get it."
Kelvin Langmead will have squad number 28.
