We are thrilled to inform that the fantastic player has joined the club on a permanent basis from Bradford City for an undisclosed amount.
Darragh MacAnthony, chairman of Peterborough United, has stated that he asked about signing Carlisle United goalkeeper Harry Lewis while he was still with Bradford City.
The Posh have had a good season under head coach Darren Ferguson and are presently 10 points clear of seventh place, implying that a finish in the play-offs is likely before the conclusion of the season. Nonetheless, Fergie’s players are still in contention for the top two, trailing Derby County by seven points with a game in hand.
Peterborough are not a club with the biggest budget in England’s third tier but MacAnthony has done well to create a squad capable of competing with the likes of Portsmouth, Derby and Bolton Wanderers. In fact, according to Transfermarkt, Ferguson’s team have the highest market value in League One at £17.49 million.
The club’s transfer business in recent seasons has been admirable. The likes of Kwame Poku, Ephron Mason-Clark and Ronnie Edwards were signed as promising, young talents with a high ceiling who will either leave or are leaving for big transfer fees in the future.
Speaking on The Hard Truth Podcast recently, the chairman gave an insight into another player whom Peterborough United enquired about during the summer transfer window — goalkeeper Harry Lewis. MacAnthony also revealed why a deal never came to fruition with Lewis’ then-parent club Bradford City [quotes via the Peterborough Telegraph]:
“It can be tough for us to get a player. We enquired early in the summer about the Bradford City goalkeeper [Lewis] and I suspect because it was us the price went up. I bet we were quoted more than what they eventually sold him for.
The 26-year-old finally left Bradford during the winter window, signing for Carlisle United for an unknown amount, while his market worth is estimated at £300,000 by Transfermarkt.
This would have been an unbelievable move for Lewis, given Peterborough United’s high chances of gaining promotion to the Championship next season via the playoffs, or perhaps automatic promotion.
However, the English shot-stopper is now almost certain to return to League Two as Carlisle sit 16 points short of safety with only eight games remaining, after signing a two-and-a-half-year deal with the Cumbrians. If Peterborough were interested in signing him, he could be too excellent for the fourth division right now.
