Colchester United have secured the services of winger Ashley Vincent on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee, as well as tying up goalkeeper Mark Cousins to a new deal.
The 24-year-old scored once during his six games on loan from
Cheltenham last season, and is delighted to make the move permanent.
Vincent told BBC Essex: "I liked what I saw last season and everything the manager does is geared towards winning. “
Cousins, 22, has signed a new two-year contract after playing 13 games for
Colchester last season. "It was a good opportunity for me to commit for another two years," Cousins told the club website.
"Last season showed the manager has faith in me and I hope to get more games under my belt next season," he said.
The duo are manager Paul Lambert's first transactions since the season ended. Vincent added: "The club is ambitious and I want to play at the highest level possible. Colchester have only been out of the Championship for a year and I feel I have a good chance of getting up there with this club."
Leyton Orient
Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn has launched a broadside against clubs who enter administration and has called for stiffer punishments from the Football League.
Crisis clubs
Southampton and
Stockport will both start the League One season on minus 10 points in August, but Hearn has likened clubs who go into administration to drug cheats in athletics and insist they are cheating.
Hearn told the People: "We should sling them out for going into administration - minimum of one division, possibly two, and then no one will cheat any more. Clubs who go into administration are guilty of cheating in the same way as an athlete who is found guilty of taking drugs.
"They're running a business with money they don't have and buying players with money they haven't got. To my mind, that's cheating.”
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