Former Carlisle United pair join Grainger at Morecambe

Hallam Hope and Tom White have signed for the League Two club ahead of the 2024/25 campaign.

They are part of a 15-man influx to the Mazuma Mobile Stadium after a transfer embargo was lifted.

Forward Hope joins the Shrimps after a spell with Oldham Athletic, while ex-Blues youth captain White has signed after leaving Barrow.

Hope and Grainger, who is now Morecambe's assistant manager, were team-mates during their respective spells at Brunton Park.

Both the Barbados international and midfielder White have signed a one-year deal with the option of a further year.

Tom White, the former United youth and Barrow midfielder, has joined Morecambe (Image: PA)

The other dozen players announced by Derek Adams' Morecambe are the returning Jordan Slew, Yann Songo’o, David Tutonda and Callum Jones, along with Luke Hendrie, Ross MIllen, Max Taylor, Jamie Stott, Adam Lewis, George Ray, Harry Burgoyne, Paul Lewis and Ben Tollitt.

For Hope it is the latest move in a career which saw two spells at Carlisle between 2015 and 2020.

The 30-year-old, initially on loan and then permanently, made 148 appearances and scored 36 goals, before joining Swindon Town in January 2020.

He had been with Oldham since 2021, leaving Boundary Park at the end of last season.

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White was a youth team player at Brunton Park but did not make the step up to the professional ranks, instead moving on and building his career at Gateshead and Blackburn Rovers, then having loan spells at Barrow, Bolton Wanderers and Hartlepool United, then joining Barrow permanently in 2021.

The new Morecambe signings plus former United skipper Grainger will go up against their former club at least three times in the new season, with the Shrimps facing Carlisle in the Bristol Street Motors group stags as well as twice in League Two.

Grainger joined the club earlier this summer after leaving his post as Workington Reds manager.

Morecambe, amid financial issues, were this week fined £5,131.82 and issued with a one-transfer window fee restriction - suspended for two years - over "failing to meet its payment obligations in accordance with EFL Regulations" regarding HMRC payments.