Adam Randell and Plymouth Argyle the perfect fit in the Championship

Getting midfielder Adam Randell on a new long-term contract could be the best bit of business that Plymouth Argyle do this summer.

The Pilgrims are soon expected to embark on a signing spree to bolster their squad for the 2023/24 Championship campaign – and beyond.

So there are likely to be some very talented players, and probably more of them younger than older, arriving at Home Park in the next few weeks.

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It promises to be an important period in shaping the destiny of Argyle’s return to the Championship after a 13-year absence.

Yet, there can be no under-estimating the significance of signing Randell on a new – and well deserved – contract until the summer of 2026. Make no mistake about it, the midfielder from Plymstock is a future Argyle captain in the making.

Even at the age of 22 he already has all the attributes – unquestioned ability, a calm authority and the respect of his team-mates.

Randell would not be new the to role of skipper either. Just weeks after making the move up from the under-18s to the professional ranks in the summer of 2019 he was chosen by Ryan Lowe to lead out Argyle for their pre-season game at Truro City.

The following year, early into a successful season-loan spell for Randell at Torquay United, Lowe predicted the academy product would be a future Argyle captain for ‘a long time’.

Nothing that has happened since then would suggest Lowe was wrong in that assessment. The opposite in fact. It now seems very likely given the new long-term contract he has just signed.

His development from the Argyle academy to this stage in his career has been textbook. After stepping up into the senior ranks he gained valuable first team experience with Torquay in the National League in 2020/21.

Over the next two seasons he gradually established himself in the first team and there is no doubting how highly regarded he is by Steven Schumacher and everyone at Home Park.

Randell, as a boyhood Argyle fan, also has a close connection to his hometown club which made their promotion as League One champions in May extra special for him.

In the immediate aftermath of Argyle clinching the title with a season-ending 3-1 win at Port Vale, he told Plymouth Live: “It doesn’t get much better does it? I honestly don’t know what to say, it’s just incredible.

“You always have the belief that you can go to achieve things but when you actually go and do it, it’s something different. I’m so thankful to the staff and the lads for all the effort they have put in – along with me – to get us back where we belong.”

Randell was a young aspiring footballer the last time that Argyle were in the Championship for a six-year period until 2010.

Now he is going to get the chance to play at that level for the Pilgrims and Schumacher has already stated he believes Randell will be ‘a key player on and off the pitch’.

Given the progress that both Randell and Argyle have made in the last few years they seem a perfect fit going forward into the future.

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