Right additions will see Notts County challenge next season, insists defender Matt Tootle – Nottingham Post

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Matt Tootle believes Notts County will challenge for promotion next season if they make the right additions in the transfer market this summer.

The Magpies are hoping to be challenging at the top end of League Two under boss Kevin Nolan who is already in the process of making new signings.

He will look to build on the brilliant work he has carried out since January when he inherited a Magpies team that looked dead and buried.

Ten straight league defeats had seemingly made the prospect of non-league football a real possibility given the lack of form.

But Nolan inspired a wonderful turnaround by going on an incredible run of just one home defeat since he took over, and it helped the Magpies secure safety with considerable room to spare.

Defender Tootle now believes the club can build on their brilliant second half to the campaign as they finished it as one of the form teams in the division.

Matt Tootle believes the club can challenge next season.

And with Magpies owner Alan Hardy ready to back Nolan in the transfer market by giving him a top-seven budget, Tootle is excited about the possibilities about what next season has in store for everybody at Meadow Lane.

"When I signed here last summer I probably looked a bit of an idiot to some people because I said we would get promoted," said the former Crewe ace.

"We were third at the start of the season even though we weren't playing very well.

"But the class we had in the team, and the players we had, we knew we weren't playing to our ability.

"But we were winning games because we had that experience and that bit of quality was coming out now and then.

"Then something went wrong over Christmas and I don't know what it was.

"I believe if we still had something to play for then we wouldn't have lost two out of the last three.

"The Pompey game would have been different too if we had been closer to the play-offs.

"So looking at next season with the right additions I think we will be up there.

"I won't look stupid this time by saying it.

"Every team we played, the opposition would say that our team on paper was ridiculously good.

"If we can continue what we were doing and keep sticking to how the gaffer wants us to play, we will challenge I am sure of it."

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