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** LATEST NEWS **
- 31 July - Trialist Ian Joy has made his move
to the club permanent. The former Tranmere, Stirling and Montrose
player has signed a two year contract. French defender Sall Abdou
is still in talks negotiating his deal.
- 27 July - Harriers entertain WBA tomorrow in a
game which will see the return to Aggborogh of Lee Hughes. Albion
have today confirmed that they will listen to offers for the striker
after failing to persuade him to accept a new contract. This is
good news for Harriers as there was a sell-on clause in the deal
that took him to The Hawthorns which entitles Harriers to 15% of
any fee.
Harriers are set to leave out all three trialists tomorrow, but
the good news is that Ian Foster may figure in the squad. No decision
has yet been made by the management as to which, if any, of the
trialists will be kkept on.
- 25 July - Jan Molby is set to make a decision
over which of the three trialists currently at the club he is to
keep. All three, left back Ian Joy, central defender Sall Abdou,
and striker Darren Middleton have all impressed during the friendlies
played so far. Molby told the club website, "They have all done
very well and have staked a claim for a permanent deal. Financially
I won't be able to keep all three so the upshot is I have a very
difficult decision to make".
- 24 July - Harriers' first home friendly saw Second
Division Bristol City visit Aggborough, and Harriers continued
their winning form as Stewart Hadley's fourth goal of the summer
gave them a 1-0 victory.
- 21 July - Harriers picked up their third win from
four games with a 3-0 victory at Redditch. No new trialists were
introduced, but Darren Middleton impressed creating two and
scoring the third.
- 18 July - Mark Blake, a 30 year-old midfielder has
joined the club. Having been released by Mansfield, he yesterday
signed a two year contract with the Harriers. Jan Molby has been pursuing
the plpayer for some time, and was understandably delighted to have
finally got his man. He told the club website, "Mark is a very
strong, versatile player and should turn out to be a fantastic
signing for us. He scored nine goals from midfield last year and
he has since told me he was disappointed with that figure! If he
can weigh in with the same tally again I'll be more than happy."
- 17 July - Harriers yesterday signed 17 year-old
striker Matt Lewis on a three year contract. The youngster was with
Marconi last season and was one of the leading scorers in the Midland
Floodlit Youth League with 25, in total he scored 52 goals in both
the Youth and First teams. Jan Molby told the club website, "The
kid has everything. He's tall, very quick... and has the ability
to pass the ball into the back of the net", he went on, "I wouldn't
be surprised if he is knocking on the First Team door before the
end of the season, he has the potential to play in the premiership".
- 16 July - Another convincing win as Harriers
trounce Halesowen Harriers 6-1 with goals from Middleton, Bird 2,
Shail, Shilton, Ducros. Again Jan Molby used 21 players, including
trialist Steeve Epesse-Titi, former Wolves and Exeter central
defender.
- 14 July - A comfortable win in the sunshine
at Bromsgrove, beating the Midland Alliance side 4-0.
- 14 July - Harriers travel to Bromsgrove this afternoon
to begin their pre-season programme. Jan Molby will make extensive
use of his squad in this opening warm-up, and trialists Darren
Middleton, Ian Joey, and goalkeeper Mark Westhead are set to feature.
Westhead has played for the Harriers before, making 4 appearances
January 1998 conceding 11 goals.
- 9 July - Pre-season training began again this
morning with all players reporting back fit, including Craig Hinton,
Adie Smith, Andy Ducros, and even Ian Foster. Also present were
a number of trialists: Darren Middleton, who had a couple of games
with the reserves last season, Craig Dean, who has been in America
and also played with Songdal an Manchester United, and Ian Joey
who has had a spell with Tranmere.
Adie Smith has signed new contract which will keep him at
the club for three years. The player had a year to run on his
existing contract, but Jan Molby wanted to reward him for his
performances last season.
- 6 July - Harriers trip to Macclesfield has been
put back a day to Sunday 7 October, ko 2pm, to avoid a clash with
England's World Cup qualifier with Greece on the Saturday.
- 4 July - Neil MacKenzie has become the second
player in a matter of days to turn his back on the club after agreeing
to sign. The midfielder has joined second division Blackpool,
telling their club website, "I'm joining Blackpool because they can
give me the opportunity to play at a higher level and they are a
bigger club than Kidderminster. I played against Blackpool last
season and know how good the team is and that was proved by their
promotion".
Also, defender Chris Hutchings has turned down a three year
deal to come to Aggborough in favour of a move to Southend where
he spent some time last season after being released by Bristol
City.
- 3 July - Harriers contine to build, Sam Shilton
has arrived from Hartlepool, joining for two years. The son of
former England legend Peter, is looking forward to the new challenge,
he told the Club website, "I feel my strengths are suited to attacking
football. Jan's 4-4-2 style of play will hopefully allow me to
get forward more."
- 2 July - Steve Jones has stunned the Harriers by reneging
on his agreement to join the club and gone elsewhere having had
a better offer, believed to be from Cheltenham.
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