No Money? No need...

[BoyWonder2]

Hasn't Bennet gone to Brentford?

Not as yet, they are still hoping of signing him, but he hasn't signed on the dotted line as yet so fingers crossed.

 

[BoyWonder2]

Bit misleading all that! No good saying "we dont have to spend any money" then list players that are clearly out of our wage bracket like Harding, Sodje and Duberry (do me a favour!).

If any players like this WERE to drop to League 1, then there is now a queue a mile long of 'better' clubs than us. Even given the financial situation, would you rather play at Roots Hall or St Mary's?

Unfortunately, I'm resigned to the fact that probably Tilly keeps aluding too. We are just going to have to sit it out and wait to see who's left come July/August as we cannot attract anyone decent.

I predict we will make probably 1 permanent signing at best - which will be a centre-half. Come August, we will probably pick up a left back and another CB maybe, on a free and probably a loan deal for a winger.

Other than that, dont expect anything in the way of decent incomings.

But having money available for transfer fees and wages are two completely different things and are budgetted differently.

The budget for transfer fees would include signing on fees but not wages, where as on the wages front with Clarkey going its taken one of our highest earners off the books.

As maninasuitcase has said the likes of Sodje, Duberry and Harding may have been earning top dollar at their old Clubs, but come the start of July they are unemployeed and earning nothing. They are going to have to drop their wages to find new Clubs, just look at Michael Owen for example he wont be picking up the £100K odd a week he was earning at Newcastle at someone like Everton or Villa.

Don't get me wrong, those 3 players are more than likely out of reach financially for us, but the whole post was to show an example of the types of players out there that are still available.