It may have taken a while, but the overall outlook is now looking more complete for Torquay United as they prepare for life in the National League South.
At the end of last week, left-back Liam Davis agreed a new deal with manager Gary Owers to stay at Plainmoor, where he has now been joined by his former Oxford United teammate Asa Hall.
Following on from securing the signature of Olaf Koszela on a pre-contract agreement. Koszela, 16, progressed through the Football Development Programme of Torquay Academy, where he is a pupil, and through the Gulls' Junior Premier League side. Koszela's deal will be upgraded to a full professional contract on his 17th birthday.
This news was then followed over the weekend with the arrivals of right-sided defender Ben Wynter, formerly of Crystal Palace, and one-time West Bromwich Albion starlet Samir Nabi.
Wynter, 20, whose brother Alex faced United last season for Maidstone, started out at Selhurst Park before joining Bromley at the start of the 2017-18 campaign, and was part of the Ravens side that beat the Gulls 3-1 shortly before Owers was appointed as manager.
After leaving Hayes Lane, he dropped down to the National League South to sign for Hampton & Richmond, who he helped to reach the end of season play-offs, where they lost out to Braintree Town in the final. Wynter looks set to fill the vacant right-back slot.
Nabi, 21, who hails from Birmingham, has already had a career which the phrase: 'have boots, will travel' could easily be applied to. He started out at West Bromwich Albion, where his brother Adil and Rahis, who he netted four goals for the Baggies' youth side - which also contained former Gulls loanees Andre Wright and Joe Ward - in an 8-1 win in the FA Youth Cup win against the United counterparts on the date of his 18th birthday. He then headed to the Indian Super League to join Delhi Dynamos.
On his return to England he signed for Carlisle United, then managed by former Gulls player and manager Keith Curle, and made three appearances for the Cumbrians before he was released at the end of last season and looks set to partner Asa Hall in the United engine room.
All that is missing to prevent the Gulls from fielding a full starting eleven is a goalkeeper and Owers is believed to be looking to secure a keeper from a Football League side on a season-long loan deal, as well as possibly one other.
