No change of approach from Posh - Ferguson

Darren Ferguson is in his fourth spell as Peterborough boss

Peterborough United boss Darren Ferguson says it will be business as usual for Posh in the new season despite the loss of some key players over the summer.

Defenders Ronnie Edwards and Harrison Burrows have been sold, Josh Knight moved to Germany and forward Ephron Mason-Clark is now with Coventry City.

Posh completed their pre-season build-up with 1-0 and 4-3 wins over Notts County in back-to-back games on Saturday.

"My message to the players and fans is we're going to keep playing the way we want to play and we know that if we get it right, we'll cause teams problems," Ferguson told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

"I think we've recruited well, I think we've got real potential. We knew at the end of last season, because we didn't get promoted, that some good players would be leaving and that's proved the case.

"Now we've got others in and have got to try and improve them as best we can."

Peterborough have reached the play-offs in both of the past two seasons without being able to take the final step and secure a return to the Championship, from which they were relegated in 2022.

Posh face a tough start to the new campaign at home to Huddersfield Town and, having already lost new signing Rio Adebisi for up to four months with a knee injury, they also have three further fitness concerns.

"(Ryan) De Havilland's had an operation on his cartilage which is a reoccurrence of an old injury, he'll be out for about two months," said Ferguson.

"George (Nevett) has fractured his wrist. In normal circumstances we probably could have put a splint on it and let him play but the risk is if he breaks it and needs an operation it'll be months - so he'll be out for three weeks.

"Hector (Kyprianou) is a harder one to put a timescale on because he had a little bit of swelling after the Colchester (pre-season) game. He's had an injection and the swelling's gone completely now, so it's a case of will it come too soon for him, Huddersfield? I reckon he's about 50-50."

Striker Malik Mothersille scored twice in the second game against Notts County but Ferguson said he was glad the warm-up matches were out of the way.

He added: "It feels like a hard slog at times, pre-season, even for me as a manager who's not doing all the running.

"It was difficult for the guys to wait and watch the first game in the heat, it got a lot warmer and the atmosphere went down. It's the first time I've done this two 90 minutes, I think, and I'm not sure if I'd do it again."