Adi Yussuf got off Wrexham team coach on motorway to sign for Chesterfield

The striker, 28, was announced as a Spireites player on Tuesday night, joining on loan until the end of the season.

He was travelling to Eastleigh on Wrexham’s team coach on Monday when Chesterfield’s interest in him emerged.

With the forward on loan from League One Blackpool, a decision had to made quick because of the 11pm transfer deadline that night for Football League clubs.

"I was on the Wrexham coach on the way to Eastleigh, we were staying overnight,” Yussuf explained.

“I got a phone call from my agent saying everything has been agreed.

“I had to get off the coach and say my goodbyes to the Wrexham boys because obviously I was only on loan from Blackpool.

“I was literally asleep on the coach at 4-5 o’clock and then everything just progressed within the space of an hour.

"I had to get off the coach on the motorway at the service station and get a taxi to Chesterfield, three-and-a-half, four hours away.”

Wrexham boss Dean Keates said he would have liked to have signed a striker before allowing Yussuf’s loan from Blackpool to be terminated so he could join the Spireites.

Chesterfield offered Yussuf and his young family ‘stability’, Keates said, and that in the end he had to sanction the move because he had to think about the player’s ‘mindset’ if he blocked the deal.

“I spoke to people at the football club and we came to an agreement that he could get off the coach and wait at the services and then if anything happens he could get a taxi up to Chesterfield or a taxi down to Eastleigh,” Keates said.

The Wrexham boss said he then later received a phone call saying Yussuf was at Chesterfield.

He added: “So then I have to think about the group, Adi’s mindset.

“This is not me knocking Adi at all.

"The fact he had gone there, signed, his mind was turned from being at the football club so then I had to think about my changing room because if said ‘no’ then you have to think how is his mindset going to be? I had a decision to make and I had to sanction it.”