SWINDON Town manager Michael Flynn says his current squad is still a couple of players short with around a week of the summer transfer window remaining.

Including Lewis Ward’s recent arrival, Town have brought nine new players to the club under Flynn while waving goodbye to 12 others on either permanent or season-long loan deals.

Defender Mathieu Baudry retired in the summer, taking the overall number of County-Ground exits to 13.

Despite the high turnover, Swindon have begun brightly in the 2023/24 campaign and appear set to compete in the top half of the League Two table.

Flynn believes his current crop would certainly be able to survive until January, but he still wants one or two more players before the window shuts at 11pm on Friday, September 1.

Speaking after Town’s EFL Trophy clash with Arsenal Under-21s on Tuesday night, the Town boss said: “I’m still trying [to bring more players in], but it’s going to be a lot of moving plates now.

“Some of those Arsenal players we faced will go out on loan now. They’ve been held back in for now, and that’s why this game was brought forward, I presume, so we’d play before the window shuts.

“If everybody was fit, I would be fine with the current group. But everybody is not fit. There are two long-term [injuries].

“If everyone was fit, I wouldn’t be over the moon, but I could accept it. But we still need a couple, we’re still short.

“It will all depend on who becomes available and whether we can get them or not – it’s as simple as that.”

Town’s midweek opponents featured plenty of exciting talent which would certainly improve the Robins’ squad.

But asked whether any of them could realistically end up signing for Swindon over the course of the coming week, Flynn shared a knowing smile as he highlighted a few of the faces he would love to bring in but will be unable to lure over to Wiltshire.

Flynn said: “I’ve seen one I’d like, definitely. He was the best player on the park by a country mile. I don’t think we’ll get him.

“It was the one who came on, [Marcelo] Flores. I think he’s in the Mexican national team and was on loan in La Liga last year, so I doubt we’ll get him.

“There are a couple of others training with the first team – I doubt we’ll get them. But we’ll have to wait and see.

“I’m going to speak to [Arsenal coaches] in a minute. They’re one of the best academies in the country, Arsenal.

“It’s a club that I admire in the way they go about things. I’ve always admired them, except from in the 1989 when they won the league against Liverpool.”