MOSSLEY have added to their forward options by signing striker Samuel Twist.
The 20-year-old began his career at Salford City where he was top scorer in their 2019-20 Youth Alliance campaign.
Since leaving the Ammies, Twist has had spells at Atherton Collieries and Ashton Athletic.
Manager David Fish has a luxury of choice up front.
For the recent Isuzu FA Trophy defeat to Dunston UTS, he had Andy Keogh, Oumar Camara and Mason Fawns as forward players in the starting line-up.
However, on the bench there were four further forward choices, Jack Bannister, Tyler Savage who has since left the club, Louie Potts and Twist.
Potts has returned after leaving briefly through personal issues as he has a young family with Fish explaining the club is helping him to manage them.
Fish admitted he may have too many strikers and the issue is providing them all with game time.
In a bid to manage the situation, Fish is considering allowing several to leave on dual registrations which will allow them to play elsewhere while remaining Mossley players.
While Mossley have an abundance of choice at the top end of the field, that is not the case at the back where they have had issues.
And it reached the stage where they played different goalkeepers in each of three successive games.
First-choice Dale Latham still has issues with the abductor leg muscle injury troubled him last season and which is not helped by a double hernia for which he is awaiting surgery.
The search for a back-up ended when they signed 18-year-old Jake Parsisson whose father contacted the club after he was released by Cheltenham Town.
Parsisson was handed his debut in the 3-1 loss at Ramsbottom United where Fish, himself a former goalkeeper, concluded he was not ready for Northern Premier League football.
The teenager was given the option to remain and stay with the club but opted to move on.
Fish’s enquiries resulted in teenager Tom Watson being brought in from Wigan Athletic on an indefinite loan.
The 18-year-old Watson has had one previous loan at Pilkington FC.
Joe Rothwell and Savage have left Mossley in search of regular first-team football having become frustrated by their lack of game time.
Rothwell signed from Prestwich Heys late last season, but this season has faced competition from Jack Grundy and Will Shepherd for the right-back spot.
Savage was in the academy at Derby County and did a scholarship at Burton Albion and arrived at Mossley early in the season following trials at Macclesfield FC.
The departures of Rothwell and Savage has provided scope for Fish to bring in a couple of players and he was looking to add pace to the side.
Mossley ended a run of four straight defeats in league and cup with a fabulous 2-0 victory at Witton Albion as they remained third in the table with four wins, one draw and three defeats from their eight league matches.
October’s fixtures see Mossley at home to Clitheroe and Prescot Cables and away to Kidsgrove Athletic and Skelmersdale with four of the month’s five opponents in the bottom half of the table.