Newcastle United winger Rolando Aarons remains Huddersfield Town’s top transfer target with a failed summer deal likely to be revisited in the January window, chairman Phil Hodgkinson has told Examiner Live.
A lot can change in 120 seconds – just ask Aarons.
According to the Daily Mail, the one-time Newcastle wonderkid had dotted the Is and crossed the Ts ahead of a deadline-day move to Yorkshire. However, the deal collapsed in heart-breaking fashion after the paperwork was filed a mere two minutes after the 5pm cut-off point.
A man who has started just two league games in Newcastle colours since the start of the 2016/17 season now has little choice but to wait until January, with ten more weeks in purgatory ahead.
Fortunately for Aarons, Huddersfield are already planning another approach.
Let’s hope they get fire up the fax machine a little earlier next time.
“I think we want to make sure we’re signing the right players that make us better and we believed Rolando would do that,” Hodgkinson says.
“Unfortunately, we couldn’t get it done and that’s life and it happens, but we still are confident he’s the right player.
“He’s our top target, he remains so, and what we’d rather do is get through the next ten weeks to January and get it done then rather than bring in somebody who maybe doesn’t tick all the boxes Rolando did.”
With seven points from their last three games, including eye-catching victories over Nottingham Forest and Swansea City, Carlos Corberan’s Huddersfield revolution is starting to take shape.
And if Aarons can stay fit – although that’s an ‘if’ the size of Everest – he’ll add a touch of class and creativity to a Terriers front line that lacks bite.
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