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SHREWS’ ADMIRERS WILL SOON BE CIRCLING

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NO side in the entire EFL has over-performed quite like Shrewsbury. Tipped to struggle, Paul Hurst’s side lost none of their first 15 games and – even after a bleak November – remain second in League One.
It’s a wonderful story but, like Leyton Orient in 2014 or Tranmere a year earlier, it feels like a nowor- never deal. For all the fine work behind the scenes, Shrewsbury ain’t rich enough to reject allcomers.
Hurst will be in demand. So, too, players like Toto Nsiala and Jon Nolan. Even if January is successfully ne gotiated – and that is no guarantee &n...

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