Transfer Deadline Day can be a frustrating time for a manager as Kevin Nolan found out when one of his targets 'forgot' to sign the paperwork.
Northampton Town managed to bring in midfielder Kyle McAdam and defender Ben Hammond on loan from Nottingham Forest.
But two forwards – both unnamed – that Nolan was pursuing on Monday to help in their fight against League One relegation slipped through his grasp.
Having agreed a deal, one of the players in question was not able to travel to Sixfields or the club's Moulton training ground in time so was sent forms via DocuSign to complete, which he failed to do.
"We were gutted. One was because a Premier League club didn't want to let their lad out and one forgot to sign the DocuSign we sent," he told BBC Radio Northampton following Tuesday's 2-2 draw at Barnsley.
"We weren't able to get the extension [of the 19:00 deadline] so you can imagine that was unbelievably frustrating."
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Despite the double setback, Nolan insisted he had real belief in the squad of players who must now see them through to the end of the League One season.
"I've been in successful sides and you've got to share the goals," he said.
"At Bolton, Newcastle and West Ham we shared the goals among everybody and it was really pleasing to see a full-back and centre-half scoring a goal [against Barnsley], we want to have goals all over the team."
Northampton are at home to Stevenage on Saturday and will then face three in a row away – an EFL Trophy quarter-final at AFC Wimbledon followed by league trips to Exeter City and promotion-chasing Lincoln City.
McAdam and Hammond took the total of new faces brought in during the window to four following experienced Elliott Moore and young Leicester striker Jake Evans.
And Nolan believes signing McAdam and Hammond was a "coup".
He said: "I feel they can impact the squad in the immediate future and we get first option on them [in the summer].
"They've come here with a little bit between the teeth to try and earn something.
"I've watched them a lot of times with being from the Nottingham area so when we took [Jack] Perkins in the summer, McAdam and Hammond were always ones going to be ones we were going to keep an eye on as well."
