Folkestone Invicta’s long-serving defender Josh Vincent joins Faversham Town; Manager Sammy Moore also brings in Mo Kamara and Sam Hasler
05:00, 04 May 2023
The Faversham Town rebuild is well under way with some exiting additions heading to Salters Lane.
Boss Sammy Moore wants leaders and winners as he plots an immediate return to the Isthmian League following this season’s relegation to step five.
Josh Vincent has left Folkestone to join the Lilywhites rebuild after playing more than 600 games for the Seasiders while Moore has also landed midfielders Mo Kamara and Sam Hasler. A number of other deals are in the pipeline.
The arrival of 33-year-old Vincent is a huge one for the club.
“What he has done at Folkestone is incredible,” Moore said.
“Playing more than 600 games for the club, that just shows the loyalty of the man, what he is about, how respected he is in the football world.
“He was someone I knew was interested if we could tempt him away from Folkestone with a new challenge.
“We want to bring winners into the football club, more importantly good lads next year that are good enough for that level that we can bring on a journey here.
“It’s an incredible signing and he can play right-sided centre-half, right-back, he can be versatile. He is the type of character, a leader, that we need.”
Kamara - a box-to-box hard- working midfielder - has played in National South with Concord Rangers and Potters Bar in the Isthmian Premier Division while Hasler has recently been at Hastings United.
“Two unbelievable signings,” said Moore. “A lot of people this year will look at us and say, ‘they are throwing money around, doing this and that’, but we’re building a project at the football club. This is a journey, we are getting the right players and the right people onboard.
“We want to build a community club, a family club. They are top players, not just for this season but for two or three seasons. We want to be winning leagues, winning titles.
“I know the ability they have got, they will be hungry to bounce back as the management team are. Good players want to play with good players.
“The signings we have made are top drawer and I am excited to work with these guys, make them better and more importantly the football club are getting proper people.
“We have made some outstanding signings, probably signings that this football club could have only dreamed of three or four years ago. It just shows how far this football club has come in a short space of time.
“I am working closely with the chairman every day, his ambition and his drive matches mine. We have a clear vision, a clear goal of where this football club wants to be in three or four years.
“We have identified these players, not just a week ago, these are people we have identified three or four months ago.
“We have had a list (of targets) and we are working through that list and at the moment we have made some real good signings.
“These are winners, there are leaders, these are unbelievable characters in the dressing room and next season they will be at it every game, whatever cup we are in, the league, we want to win everything.”
Moore has also been busy signing up the players he wants from the current squad. Ollie Gray, Matt Parsons, Jacques Kpohomouh and Kieron McCann have agreed to stay, as has goalkeeper Bailey Vose. The club are also in talks with Kieron Campell.
Youth hasn’t been forgotten, either. Harry Codd is the first of the under-23s to have signed for the senior side and a couple more are likely to join him.
He’s already played nine times for the first team and has been described by Moore as “one of the hardest-working youngsters I’ve seen and worked with”.
Mark Taylor, the club’s under-23 manager, has left with Faversham saying he has gone to “pursue a career outside of football.”
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