With a victory over Carlisle on Saturday’s last day, Derby County earned automatic promotion and are now getting ready for life back in the Championship.
Plans for Derby County’s summer transfers
At Pride Park, Paul Warne has assembled a seasoned team, many of whom are familiar with the requirements for success in the second division.
Fortunately for the Rams, this means they won’t need to make drastic adjustments—rather, they can focus on sprinkling in some quality instead.
Still, there are a few obvious problems with the club, and most people would agree that they need to score more goals.
Macaulay Langstaff was formerly of interest to Derby County.
Macaulay Langstaff, a striker for Notts County who has had another fantastic season with the Magpies, is one guy who could accomplish just that. It has been reported that Derby were keeping an eye on him during the January transfer window.
The 27-year-old scored 28 goals in the fourth division after helping the team return to the Football League with 42 goals.
Transfermarkt: Macaulay Langstaff’s Notts County Record – League Only
Time of year
Split Up
Looks
Objectives
2022–2023
League of Nations
47
42
2023–2024
Second League
46
28
It goes without saying that Langstaff’s ability to handle the enormous leap to the Championship would be questioned.
Is he a player Derby should aim for after promotion, though? Here, our writers express their opinions.
Chris Gallagher
It makes perfect sense. Derby would make a great profit off this.
Langstaff is clearly a cause for concern, and some detractors will correctly note that he has achieved his aims in League Two and the National League. Those who have watched him play, though, will notice that he possesses excellent instincts in and around the box and exhibits genuine composure when given the opportunity.
This summer, Warne has to be shopping for at least two strikers since Derby may struggle to score goals if they return to the Championship.
The Rams shouldn’t, and we already know that they won’t, be able to spend enormous quantities of money this summer. Rather, they will try to find possible deals and provide players from lesser tiers an opportunity.
Langstaff, who is 27 years old and ready to start right away, fits Derby’s ideal candidate profile. He would also undoubtedly welcome the opportunity to transfer to Pride Park. Thus, it appears to be a mutually beneficial agreement for the athlete and the club.
Benigno
Derby will undoubtedly need a new striker this summer because all of their alternatives at that end of the field are past thirty.
For the majority of the last two months of the season, Paul Warne stuck to his tried-and-true wing-back lineup, which resulted in Nathaniel Mendez-Laing being converted into a striker. However, Derby’s star player isn’t as effective through the middle, and with Conor Washington the only other player currently signed to the team for next season, more reinforcements are required.
This is where Langstaff enters the picture again. He has demonstrated his ability to score goals for Gateshead and Notts County over the past three seasons, and he seems to be
