Out-of-favour So­ca War­riors de­fend­er Os­ei Teles­ford was one of four play­ers signed by Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League debu­tants Cen­tral FC?yes­ter­day as they seek to bol­ster their club for the rest of 2012/2013 sea­son.

Teles­ford joins the club af­ter a long stint with US Soc­cer League club Puer­to Ri­co Is­landers.

The oth­ers signed by the club fol­low­ing the open­ing of the mid-sea­son trans­fer win­dow on Mon­day in­clude Di­recTV W Con­nec­tion mid­field­er Ren­nie Brit­to who has made the short move from Savonet­ta to Cal­i­for­nia, Cou­va, and Na­tion­al Su­per League's Stoke­ly Vale duo Omar Charles and Ron­dell Win­ches­ter, who no doubt caught the eye of many dur­ing the club's re­cent run to the semi­fi­nals of the Toy­ota Clas­sic and T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion FA quar­ter­fi­nals.

Com­ment­ing on the sign­ings, Kevin Jef­frey, as­sis­tant coach of Cen­tral FC "Sharks," said, "We al­ways planned to strength­en the squad in De­cem­ber." We start­ed from scratch so we knew we would need to make im­prove­ments mid-sea­son. One of the ar­eas of con­cern was our lack of fire­pow­er, and bring­ing in Ron­dell means we have an ex­cit­ing young strik­er who has been scor­ing reg­u­lar­ly in the Su­per League." Win­ches­ter has bagged eight league goals this sea­son and proved that he can al­so in­fil­trate Pro League de­fences when he scored against De­fence Force in Wednes­days FA Tro­phy 2-1 win by Stoke­ly Vale.

"It was nice to leave with a goal," said Win­ches­ter. "I'm go­ing to miss every­one at Stoke­ly Vale, but I'm grate­ful to the club for sup­port­ing me and al­low­ing me to move to Cen­tral FC."

Win­ches­ter said that there were oth­er clubs in­ter­est­ed in him but he was im­pressed by Cen­tral FC's ap­proach. "San­cho came over to talk with me and my fam­i­ly and spent a cou­ple of hours an­swer­ing our ques­tions. My par­ents and I are con­vinced that the club has my best in­ter­ests at heart, and we felt this was the right move for me."

The Sharks Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor, Brent San­cho, said " We feel we have made four great sign­ings in key ar­eas. Tal­ent­ed young­sters like Ron­dell and Omar are key to the club's de­vel­op­ment and we've been watch­ing them for a while. Ob­vi­ous­ly, we've seen Ren­nie a lot in the Pro League and we feel he can bring some cre­ativ­i­ty to our mid­field. Of course, I've known Os­ei for quite some time now, and when his sea­son end­ed with Peur­to Ri­co, I con­tact­ed him straight away. I have to give ku­dos to the Stoke­ly Vale man­age­ment who nev­er stood in the guys' way and, in fact, were very sup­port­ive of their move, de­spite the fact that they're still in the FA Tro­phy. This kind of will­ing­ness to put their play­ers' fu­ture in front of their club's am­bi­tions is very re­fresh­ing and they should be ap­plaud­ed for set­ting such a pos­i­tive ex­am­ple."

San­cho said that Cen­tral FC are de­ter­mined to see more of their play­ers join goal­keep­er Mar­vin Phillip in the na­tion­al team. "With the Gold Cup ap­proach­ing, this is the per­fect time for play­ers to push for a place in the squad, and with the cur­rent na­tion­al coach­es ac­tive­ly watch­ing Pro League games, we're telling our lads that this is a great op­por­tu­ni­ty." In the Sharks squad are sev­er­al play­ers who have al­ready rep­re­sent­ed the na­tion­al team.