Northampton Town have signed striker Jake Robinson after he was released by Shrewsbury Town.The 24-year-old, who moved to Shropshire from Brighton in July 2009, ended the season on loan at Torquay.

"He is a fantastic signing for this football club," boss Gary Johnson told the club website.

"He can play anywhere across the front four, he is full of pace and he is just the sort of quality player we are always looking to bring to the club."

Robinson hit nine goals for Shrewsbury in 2010/11, including

a brace against Northampton in the 3-1 win in September,

and found the net a further seven times during a 22-game loan spell with Torquay in the second half of the campaign.

The former Brighton frontman told his followers on Twitter he only found out from the Shrewsbury website

that he was not being offered a new contract.

In what has already been a busy summer for the Cobblers, with 10 players leaving Sixfields, Robinson joins Adebayo Akinfenwa, Seth Nana Ofori-Twumasi and Byron Webster in signing for Johnson's new-look Northampton team for the 2011/12 campaign.

Source: BBC Sport