After a great away win at play hopefuls Blackpool on Saturday, Reynolds was dealt the news that one of his star strikers Kolbeinn Sigthorsson wanted a return to the dutch top flight with Ajax. Within hours of the news filtering through Ajax had lodged a bid of just over £8.8m, only a few weeks ago Reynolds went on record as saying promotion relied heavily on both strikers being fit and scoring. After some negotiation and some talks with the player the club decided to cash in leaving their boss "lost for words" and seeking a replacement. The decent cash return would give Reynolds some needed funds to certainly try and add more depth for what was left of a promotion push.
That replacement was identified as Stephane Sessegnon. Although not a try out and out striker he could certainly drop off and would be seen as an ideal partner for Babacar. A fee of £4.845m was agreed with Junior FC and Sessegnon was a Posh player. Along with Sessegnon, Sergey Parshivlyuk was signed from Spartak Moscow for £4.710m, was the Russian international seen as the regular to fill the right wing back role. The piece of business was the young defender Barbosa Marlon coming in for £2.15m, Barbosa is seen to have a bright future and Reynolds described him as a "young ball playing centre half".
Sessegnon hoping to fill the void left by Sigthorsson
Away from transfer matters Posh still currently lie in 2nd spot, 4 points clear of the chasing pack with 10 games left to play. It is sure to be a tough and exciting conclusion to a good season so far for the Posh, can it conclude in promotion????
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