LOANEE winger Remy Longdon has signed a permanent deal with York City.

Longdon's move to York until the end of the season sees him convert the short two-match loan spell he had served from parent club Lincoln City into a permanent switch.

The winger started for City in successive wins over Matlock Town and Alfreton Town.

The 24-year-old is due to return for tomorrow afternoon's Vanarama National League North trip to Kidderminster Harriers (3pm), having missed the victory over Slough Town through coronavirus.

The permanent arrival of Longdon comes after fellow midfielder Heaney was loaned out to Pitching In Northern Premier League premier division outfit Buxton until the end of the season.

Heaney has played 20 times for York, scoring twice, since arriving at the club during the summer under former manager Steve Watson.

Since the appointment of interim manager John Askey in November, the winger has made just two starts for City.

He becomes the second York player to make a mid-season move to Buxton, after striker Jason Gilchrist's permanent move to the Derbyshire club last month.

The news comes as Askey continues to reshape the City squad and turn the club's fortunes around after a poor first half to the season.

At present, York are 13th in the National League North, despite being ranked as promotion favourites by the bookmakers in pre-season.

"We’re still looking in various areas," said Askey, when speaking about new signings, adding that any deals would likely be loans until the end of the current campaign.

"We’ve got one or two (players) who we believe are due to leave but nothing is concrete yet.

“I think it’s slightly harder because teams, especially in the (Football) League where they’ve got a little bit more money, are going with bigger squads because of Covid.

“I think there’s been more injuries as well because of the Covid situation.

"Players come back too early and you don’t know what effect Covid has on them.

“There does seem to be a lot more injuries than there has been before Covid.

"It seems like there’s less players about coming from above.

“But we’ve just got to work hard and keep phoning people and eventually (in) people like Remy (Longdon) and Jack (McKay) and Maxim (Kouogun), you get the ones that you want.

“One thing that we won’t do is just bringing someone in for the sake of bringing them in.”

York resume their National League North promotion bid with a trip to fifth-placed Kidderminster.

The Harriers have caught the eye of many non-league fans through their ongoing FA Cup, which sees them as the only remaining Step 6 club.

Rewardingly, they host Premier League side West Ham United early next month.

"They’ve got a big cup game coming up," said Askey. “Whether (or not) that will be on their minds, hopefully it will be.

“The majority of their players will be thinking that they need to play well to be playing against West Ham, that will be on their minds first and foremost.

“The West Ham game is a huge one for them and it’s going to be shown on TV and the crowd will be massive. That can have an effect on certain players.

“For the majority of players, they think about the game coming up and don’t worry about the glamorous ones coming up. They know that they’ve got to do the job in hand.

“But that’s up to Kidderminster, we’ve just got to concentrate on ourselves.

“We go there fresh and they’ve played a lot of games. As Hereford showed, they’re beatable, as anybody is in this league."