Jude Arthurs has come to Crawley Town with a bit of a fanfare, but more importantly, title-winning experience.

The 25-year-old joined the Reds following a hugely successful spell at Bromley where he helped get the club promoted to the EFL for the first time in 2024 before helping them win the League Two title last season.

The Ravens offered Arthurs a new contract in the summer but he elected to join Colin Kazim-Richards’ Crawley Town instead.

It may look like an odd decision on the face of it, but Arthurs clearly has similar ambitions as Kazim-Richards and wants to take Reds up the table.

Jude Arthurs is held aloft by Bromley fans after winning the Vanarama National League Play-Off semi final between Bromley and Altrincham in 2024. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)

placeholder image — Jude Arthurs is held aloft by Bromley fans after winning the Vanarama National League Play-Off semi final between Bromley and Altrincham in 2024. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)

The former Gillingham midfielder started in the 2-0 win at York City in the Preliminary round of the Carabao Cup and looks set to be a key part of Kazim-Richards’ side this season.

As like many of his teammates at the LNER Community Stadium, Arthurs put in superb display and showed what a good squad Crawley have put together this summer.

"When I first signed here, I said that my ambition for the club sees what the Gaffer sees as well and I think the fans can kind of see from that performance on Monday night that hopefully we're going to be all going in the right direction and be up and running at the table this year,” said Arthurs.

But he knows there is a lot of hard work to be done yet. He said: “Of course, it's still very early days. We've only played one game, we're not going to get ahead of ourselves.

“And the one thing I can take from last year [at Bromley] is that nothing's ever done, nothing's ever over until the final day and the final whistle has been blown.

"It's been very good and very positive so far but we're only going to keep building on that and keep getting better. It's a lot of positives to take, but we've still got some improving to do.”

A lot of people are seeing Arthurs as Reds’ flagship signing this summer following his achievements with Bromley, but the p[lay himself says he doesn’t feel that pressure.

"I don't feel pressure. I don't really feel a type of way about it at all, really. If people want to say that, then that's good on me because I like to go out and perform and I feel like you're only going to perform better when there's a bit of pressure on you,” he said.

"Like last year being at Bromley, every game was a pressure game because we were up there and coming towards the end of the season in them big moments and then big games, I think can only hold me in good stead for this season.”