Football League World
·11 Juni 2025
Exclusive: Port Vale, Doncaster Rovers & Northampton Town in Wycombe Wanderers transfer race

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·11 Juni 2025
Port Vale, Doncaster Rovers and Northampton Town have all tabled offers for Wycombe Wanderers star Brandon Hanlan, FLW understands.
Port Vale, Doncaster Rovers and Northampton Town have all made offers for Wycombe Wanderers star Brandon Hanlan, Football League World has exclusively been informed.
The League One trio are all looking to enjoy a strong summer transfer window, with the Valiants and Rovers aiming to secure their status back at third tier level next season.
Meanwhile, Kevin Nolan is leading the Cobblers into his first full season in charge at Sixfields, and will no doubt be aiming to finally get the club competing at the right end of League One in 2025/26.
Football League World has exclusively been informed that Port Vale, Doncaster Rovers and Northampton Town have all tabled offers for Wycombe Wanderers forward, Brandon Hanlan.
The 28-year-old is set to become a free agent at the end of June, with his contract with the Chairboys set to expire and with the club having announced he'll be leaving via their retained list.
Hanlan signed with Wycombe back in the summer of 2021, having spent the season prior as a Bristol Rovers player.
A product of Charlton Athletic's academy system, he made his professional debut with the Addicks in 2016, before going onto enjoy various loan stints with Bromley on two separate occasions and Colchester, before leaving The Valley on a permanent basis in the summer of 2018 to sign with Gillingham.
After spending two seasons with the Gills, the forward would then sign for Bristol Rovers for the 2020/21 campaign, but after just one year at the Memorial Stadium, he would make a permanent move to Adams Park.
He would quickly establish himself as an important player for Wanderers, but did spend a year on the sidelines between November 2023-2024 after suffering a nasty ACL injury.
Hanlan would make just 13 appearances in all competitions for Wycombe during the first half of last season, before spending the second half of the campaign on loan with fellow League One side Stevenage.
There he would make 16 third tier appearances, scoring two goals and being unable to provide any assists.
This summer feels like a sensible time for Hanlan to pursue a new adventure away from Adams Park.
He's enjoyed four years as a Wycombe player, but the second half of his Chairboys career hasn't gone the way he, nor the club would've hoped.
That's through no fault of anyone either, with an ACL injury being an incredibly difficult setback for any player to deal with, both physically and mentally.
So, with his contract expiring this month, and now seeing his Wycombe role reduced to that of a squad player, Hanlan will surely want to get back to playing regular football once again at this stage of his career.
At 28, he's still very much in the prime years of his career, and should he stay fit, he should still have a number of campaigns ahead of him in which he will undoubtedly feel he can make a big contribution to a team at League One level.
Therefore, as a free agent signing, Port Vale, Doncaster Rovers and Northampton Town could all surely do worse than to take a chance on Hanlan this summer.