Vancooten would have been released by Reading at the same point as Dom Hyam, guess he played in the same youth teams.
Other lad is from Leicester and previously played for Nuneaton.
They might be OK at this level, after all a quite unfancied Stevenage have just been promoted.
Their wage bill on promotion was not far off 3 times what ours was. For reference ours was £6.5m compared to £16m for them. They've added to it subsequently, albeit they employ 10x as many administrative staff as we do.
£6m according to Transfermarkt spent, doesn't include a fee for Jack Clarke, Spurs spent millions on him in 2019 so I'd assume no less than £3m. They are big spenders compared to most at this level.
How does a team that has finished in the top half of the Championship in the last two seasons lack Championship quality. Just because a player once played in League 2 it doesn't make them a League 2 player.