Charlie MacDonald has left Boreham Wood to join National League South side St Albans City on loan for the rest of the season.

The 34-year-old striker only joined Wood in the summer after leaving Conference champions Barnet.

However, he has fallen out of favour under Luke Garrard and will spend the remainder of his contract on loan at Clarence Park.

Director of football Ian Allinson said: "It hasn’t quite clicked for Charlie in his time with us.

"He is a great guy who just wants to play football and now he’s fit, he wasn't getting the game time with us that he had hoped for.

"With that in mind we have decided to subsidise Charlie’s wages while sending him to St Albans City on a long term loan. Hopefully it will help Charlie to get his season started."

Chairman Danny Hunter added: “We, of course, wish Charlie well but it has been clear for some time that we needed to freshen things up in the forward areas.

"Charlie simply wasn’t in Luke’s plans and as such we felt it the best solution for all parties to agree to this loan.

"We do not have a game this weekend but have a big game at Barrow on Tuesday night to plan for. Charlie was not in those plans and at 34 needs to be playing.

“Our goals for column shows we just needed to freshen up our forward line in this transfer window.

"As such there will be two or three player departures and three or four players coming in to balance off the squad.

"We have already secured two of those in the permanent signings of Anthony Jeffrey and Jordan Chedozie and our supporters can now expect an announcement from us regarding two or three new arrivals in the next week or so."

MacDonald made 19 appearances in all competitions for Wood, scoring twice.