Walsall boss Mat Sadler has welcomed the signing of Burton Albion midfielder Charlie Lakin, who has penned a two-year contract at the Poundland Bescot Stadium.Lakin, who becomes the Saddlers' second signing of the summer following the recent arrival of AFC Fylde defender Connor Bennett, will officially join the club at the beginning of July.
Speaking via the club's official website, Sadler said: "I’m really pleased to sign Charlie.
"He’s a player that I really want to work with, he’s at a good age, he wants to improve and that fits massively into the culture that we want here.
"He had a really good second half to the season at Sutton, scored a lot of goals and started to fulfil the potential that I’ve seen in him.
"I’ve known Charlie for a long time having watched his career develop and I know there is a lot left that Charlie wants to achieve so I’m delighted that we were able to fend off the competition as pretty much the majority of the division had enquired about Charlie in the last month so we’re really pleased to secure his services.
"We’ve said going into this off season that it was never going to be one where we want to completely rebuild, we’ve got a real core group together that we’re building on top of, piece by piece.
"We’ll be strategic about the moves that we do and Charlie’s another really good piece to the jigsaw."