[Thurnscoe_OWL]

Just going back to Antonio for a second, yes he was brilliant for us but he had started to stagnate and for the good of him and us he needed to move on. MM knew the takeover was off and we were woefully short on numbers. By selling Antonio it paved the way for 4 players in and I think the rest of the money will be there for SG to strengthen further if needs be (a CAM would be nice)

That doesn't stack up on finances. We received £1.3m for Antonio & paid £800k for May so we have a £500k surplus on those deals. We have already saved over £40k per week by releasing Taylor, Gardner, Reda, JJ, Prutton & Llera which more than covers the wages of the new players, Westwood, Lees & Dielna.

How does it not stack up. I already said we have money left to reinvest.
Westwood and Lees were here before Antonio so I won't count them as the new players (bet their wages add up to £30k a week though). We bought May and have £500k left, he'll be on £7k, Dielna will be on £5/6k (so already we've spent that £40k a week and we're into Antonio's wages), we'll be paying some of Drenthe's wages (he'll be on a fair whack) but then we'll not be spending much on Hope. That doesn't leave much of the "saved" wages. Any new payers & you can bet that our wage bill will be higher than at the end of last season