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Director
Following today's story in the Echo that we could not afford to take Paul Benson on loan for two months as we would have exceeded our budget I really am clueless as to how the budgets are set, can anyone help me?
I appreciate that the club would have it's own budget but if I am correct, it sounds as though it is the football league budget than we are close to exceeding.
I understand that the FL budget is something to do with a % of the club's turnover, so how is this worked, do they consider debt etc?
To me, it seems the likes of Swindon, Crawley etc spend a small fortune and are always signing new players despite them already boasting larger squads than us and also paying the top wages in this tier of the football league.
Personally, I feel that we are desperate for a striker and don't buy Paul Sturrock's spin that he did not wish to disrupt the winning squad by signing Yannick Boli and now Paul Benson. What manager would not want more of a selection.
Saturday's match (Despite dominating) was screaming out for a fresh attacking option, our only change was Anthony Grant. Ideally, you would want a different forward or creative playmaker/wideman to come in to the match.
Just confused, even more so that it looks as though Benson is no going to Swindon who will pay his wages in FULL.
I appreciate that the club would have it's own budget but if I am correct, it sounds as though it is the football league budget than we are close to exceeding.
I understand that the FL budget is something to do with a % of the club's turnover, so how is this worked, do they consider debt etc?
To me, it seems the likes of Swindon, Crawley etc spend a small fortune and are always signing new players despite them already boasting larger squads than us and also paying the top wages in this tier of the football league.
Personally, I feel that we are desperate for a striker and don't buy Paul Sturrock's spin that he did not wish to disrupt the winning squad by signing Yannick Boli and now Paul Benson. What manager would not want more of a selection.
Saturday's match (Despite dominating) was screaming out for a fresh attacking option, our only change was Anthony Grant. Ideally, you would want a different forward or creative playmaker/wideman to come in to the match.
Just confused, even more so that it looks as though Benson is no going to Swindon who will pay his wages in FULL.