Long before the season ended, in April, Ferguson was talking about looking at next year's team implying a lot of early activity for good players from top clubs.

He has dropped Keegan, McCormick, Pugh, McSheffrey and Taylor-Sinclair. In addition he has saved on salaries for Evina and Lund, and now he might do a deal to clear Etheridge off his books. That's 8 players potentially gone, with additionally Middleton still to find another club. He is a good player and no reason why a league two club won't want him.

So far we have Niall Mason, Danny Andrew, Alex Kiwomya and Ben Whiteman in. That's a shortfall of 4 or 5 players. I see a lot of activity in the transfer market but not much for Rovers.

May, Mandeville and Beestin may be out of their depth in league one, Williams dried up last season and Marquis is playing hard ball over his contract and could yet go.

Is it not time to see some constructive activity in the transfer market or has Ferguson's budget run out already? I know there is plenty of time to go until the window closes but aren't the best players being snapped up by our competitors already?