Lee wrote:I understand the need to balance the books and ship out one or two players (five or six if I had my way) to free up some funds, but surely GFH can allow McDermott to get his targets in now and work on getting the wage bill down during the rest of the transfer window.
Easy to say, but if players and X and Y can't be shifted now, there's no guarantee they will be later in the transfer window, and I wouldn't borrow money now on the basis of paying it back when that happens.
It's frustrating, but if we are with the exact same squad come September 1st, I'll still consider it a progress on previous seasons, based on the fact that we've kept our best players and added something to them. Granted, not a lot, but something.
I've said it before, in the absence of any obvious signs of better, rich owners out there, we appear to be in the position of just a club that needs to build steadily and through its own means. It seems the next transfer will depend on more investment or commercial deal being secured, and as long as everything else about the way the club is run looks sensible (ticket prices, treatment of fans, commercial strategies), that is fine with me. It's not pleasant, but it's where we are.