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I dont think we will find out anytime soon what funds we have available. I did wonder if with Sheridan joining Swindon on a permanent basis it cancelled his pay off. If not you would have thought we would be struggling for funds to sign anybody. The viewing figures for Pembertons last game in charge were only just over 1K so they haven't be making a fortune from game streaming. It might be better now but cant see them getting more than £25k each home game. The emergency funding for the National league seems to have benefited the smaller clubs so god know where we are getting cash from.
Maybe its the mysterious Chinese influencers.

Two countries who are buying clubs in England are China and America so we could probably end up being bought by a Chinese investor or an American investor who wants to take the club to the dizzy heights of the Football League.

Does anyone else think the Wrexham takeover is a publicity stunt or is actually genuine?

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Yes, I know we are spending small ........ but like you Dancing  I'd understood we really had no cash to spare. Apparently Carson is across social media telling all and sundry we're going broke, if that's so social media isn't all he should be put across.

The problem with competitive professional sport is that you can't just pull up the drawbridge and wait for an economic upturn. You have to find ways of moving forward. All I can see for us is recruiting players like Kane Drummond as soon as they come to light. If we don't take that small gamble someone else will. And if we can't afford that kind of gamble then I can't see what the future can hold for us. There has to be a level of player we can afford to recruit, between school leaver and fully-fledged player. Schoolboy into pro' is an expensive, long-winded and failure-laden process, which in terms of the club's development has always been insufficient. Similarly it is very expensive to recruit only fully-fledged players from other clubs, in competition with all our rivals. We do need to pitch some
recruitment between those two levels, but even that is not cost-free, and if you find those players you have to have something to do with them. We can't rely on sign them and loan them out, and whatever answer you come up with it isn't going to be cost-free.

What I've always wanted to see is openness in our dealings - transparency - so that we are not left to speculate whether we can really afford to sign an ex-public schoolboy from Weymouth, whether the Trust can survive, whether the club has a real future or whether the last few weeks have simply been a chimera. I realise it is very difficult for them, income is almost zero, but literally thousands of fans have raised their voices to express their anger at the way the club has been allowed to decline in the last few years. Surely one way forward in these straitened times is to open up to those who love the club and seek their help with even greater urgency. Sponsoring Asante's strip is fine and people will respond, but fans will also happily contribute if they can see EXACTLY where their money is going. The problem in the past is we all believed transfer money and any other money raised didn't go towards improving the club and team, but was being trousered by men we certainly didn't trust. If the Trust can build trust then maybe we can survive as a community club. Do you think?

It is possible Dev to build a team solely on free transfers and only pay wages. The biggest problem for the club is having no fans in the ground at matches, there is the streams at £10 a game but it won't cover the revenue that they are losing by not having fans in the ground.

Do you not think we need a supporters trust to buy shares in the club as well?