Mawene: PNE have strength in depth

The 30-year-old former Lens and Derby man is a veteran of four managers and three play-off campaigns at Deepdale, and he believes Alan Irvine's side is primed for a promotion push. He told Preston's official website: "It's the strongest squad we have had since I've been here definitely. "Even going back to the time when I arrived and we had Claude Davis and Chris Lucketti, back then we had a good team but the squad was kind of weak on numbers. "That is not the case now. The seasons are long and you are going to need a good number of players."

Source: Team_Talk