Nahki Wells has dismissed rumours linking him with a move away from Huddersfield Town as “just typical speculation”.

The striker has been linked with a host of Huddersfield’s Sky Bet Championship rivals, including Aston Villa and Newcastle United, both of whom are believed to be considering £8 million bids for the Bermudian.

However, Wells, who scored in his first league game against Newcastle, and rattled Villa during midweek, said he has no interest in leaving the league leaders.

A 2-1 win over Barnsley at home on Saturday took David Wagner’s side to the top of the Championship, and extended the team’s unbeaten start to the season.

“I am happy here [at Huddersfield],” Wells told the Huddersfield Examiner.

“Clubs are always looking at the players they think have done well, but I am focused on Huddersfield. I am focused on playing my part and trying to score goals and I won’t let any talk outside the club bother me.”

With the transfer deadline less than ten days away, speculation is only going to mount, but Wells said that he would be concentrating his efforts on getting back to full fitness after a knee injury curtailed his preseason.

“I still feel like I lack some fitness in comparison to others,” Wells said.

“But I’m happy to be back and playing, and the more I play the fitter I will become. I feel comfortable and I was happy with how I played against Barnsley.”

Back in the starting line-up, Wells had two efforts saved by Adam Davies, the Barnsley goalkeeper, before he was replaced by Harry Bunn in the 76th minute with game level at 1-1 after Chris Lowe’s opener was cancelled out by Alfie Mawson, the Barnsley defender.

It fell to another Huddersfield substitute, Jonathan Hogg, to score his side’s winner deep into injury-time.

Wells, who was Huddersfield’s top scorer last season with 18 goals, wants to go two better this time around, but said the most important thing was for the team to continue to do well.

“The team is the important thing and we want at least a top-half finish and maybe a tilt at promotion,” he said.

“It is great to think we have got ten points out of a possible 12 and not many would have predicted it, but we deserve to be where we are.

“We don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves, though. We will just keep working hard and prepare to face Wolves [at home on Saturday].”

Still, while Wells was keeping his feet on the ground David Wagner, the Huddersfield head coach, was allowing himself a little bit of a celebration.

The German hailed his side’s togetherness after seeing another substitute score.

Huddersfield followed an opening day home win over Brentford with a surprise 2-1 success at title favourites Newcastle and a 1-1 draw at well-fancied Aston Villa, prior to edging out Barnsley.

“It’s a picture of the quality and the togetherness we have that everyone who starts and plays from the bench knows their job,” Wagner said.

“We’d like to keep it going, but we can never promise the result. We can only promise fight and a working attitude.”

In all four games, players have come off the bench to score vital goals, with Kasey Palmer, Jack Payne, Michael Hefele and Hogg making instant impacts.

“They normally don’t need time to come into the game, and read the game very well,” Wagner said. “Four games, four substitutions and four goals from them — and a goal from Jonathan Hogg, which is unbelievable.

“We are very fit and able to change the games in the last 20 minutes. The atmosphere is very good after the Barnsley game.

“We say in Germany ‘only the hard worker has luck’ and against Barnsley we had luck, but if anyone deserves it, then I think it is this squad.”

Elsewhere on Saturday, there was a scare for Carlisle United in League Two, after they had to come from behind twice to salvage a 2-2 draw away to Cambridge United.

Jason Kennedy and Charlie Wyke struck either side of half-time for the visiting side, after Leon Legge’s seventh minute header, and Luke Berry’s penalty shortly before the break gave the home side the lead.

Reggie Lambe had a quiet day upfront, and limped off in the 77th minute, moments after having a right-footed effort from outside the area saved.

In League One Rai Simons was again an unused substitute in Chesterfield’s 2-1 defeat away at Shrewsbury Town.

Jay O’Shea put the visitors ahead in the fourteenth minute, but that was as good as it got for Danny Wilson’s men.

Shrewsbury equalised ten minutes later when Junior Brown nodded in his team’s first league goal of the season, before Adam El-Abd, the captain, headed home the winner six minutes from time.