Step 7 side pull off incredible double coup
WESTFIELD’S audacious coup in signing former Premier League stars Charlie Daniels and Dan Gosling is ‘no PR stunt’, chairman Jack Stapley has insisted.
The Mid Sussex League Premier Division club – part-owned by QPR defender Steve Cook, an old team-mate of both Daniels and Gosling – announced the sensational swoop for the ex-Bournemouth pair on Thursday.
Left-back Daniels, 37, is best known for an eight-year spell with the Cherries between 2012 and 2020, where he made over 250 appearances for the club. He retired from the professional game in January 2022 following a spell at Colchester.
Midfielder Gosling, 34, made almost 200 appearances at the Vitality Stadium between 2014 and 2021 and was most recently with League Two Notts County, leaving when his contract expired in January. He also turned out for Everton and Newcastle United.
Both are coaches at Watford and neither have any prior link to the Westies, unlike 33-year-old
Cook, also a former Bournemouth favourite, who grew up in the Hastings area and took over the club in June 2022.
The move is sure to send shockwaves through the Step 7 division but ambitious Westfield chief Stapley, who still plays for the first team himself, claims the signings are no hollow gesture.
Media frenzy
“I won’t say they will play every match but we’ll see a reasonable amount of them,” he said when asked about the duo’s availability.
“We’ll see them a couple of times in pre-season and it’s the early stages right now but I believe we will see enough of them. It is certainly not a PR stunt. I’m sure our players will want to learn from them and soak u
