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As last season neared its conclusion, Rotherham’s head of recruitment, Rob Scott, and his team were monitoring more than 110 potential targets.

Some were earmarked as League One signings should the Millers miss out on promotion and stay where they were in the 2022-23 season. Others were potential Championship recruits, while the rest were players Scott and Co felt would work in either division.

Incredibly, the club with League One’s lowest budget defied the odds to go up automatically, and since promotion was confirmed the weeks have passed in a haze of phone calls and meetings for Scott and Rotherham boss Paul Warne.

“It feels like you’re spinning a lot of plates,” said Scott. “I have a database of players with over 110 that we’re looking at. I’d never put that many in front of the manager because it would blow his mind, but they are scored and that whittles them down to a top 20 in each position.

“I sat with the manager and we had a good discussion about each position and the top 20 we have got. It’s spinning plates on all of them, speaking to agents, getting feedback to what they might cost, whether there’s any interest from the player’s perspective to come here and either writing them in or out.

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