Prolific for Rochdale and Nottingham Forest, Holt is an impressive capture for a League Two outfit and will be expected to score plenty
A powerful forward with a more than respectable strike-rate, Holt joined the Shrews in June 2008 for a club record £170,000 from Nottingham Forest after being deemed surplus to requirements at the City Ground.
Released as a teenager by hometown club Carlisle, Holt spent the early years of his career trawling around non-league with Workington, Halifax and Barrow – and spending a four-month, 14-goal loan spell in Singapore with Sengkang Marine – before being picked up by Sheffield Wednesday in March 2003.
Goals were not forthcoming and in January 2004 he moved to Rochdale and really made his name. In two years at Spotland he bagged 34 league goals in 75 starts, earning a £300,000 move to Forest.
Holt plundered another 17 in his first full season for the Reds – winning the supporters’ Player Of The Year award – but failed to maintain that form in 2007/08 and scored just three times before ending the campaign on loan at Blackpool.