Rundown of the latest Crewe Alex Accounts:

Club lost £428,000 for year July 17 - June 18. The year before losses were £595,000.
The club's bank loans and overdrafts were up to £832,500 from £735,000 and directors loans rocketed from £160,000 to £475,000.
However, the accounts do show £234,000 cash in the bank.

Some other highlights:

Dario was paid £27,000 despite being suspended although this was down from £51,000 the year before.
There was a £300,000 increase in money owed to the club from 'trade debtors', which is likely to be the George Cooper transfer fee.
Brad Walker cost us £40,000.
Spending on wages remained around the £3m mark, as it has done now since we dropped out of the Championship 14 years ago.

Summary:

Given these figures are almost a year old and there has been no significant sale since we are desperately in need of some transfer cash this summer. I would love Ng and Kirk to stay, but we need the money.

Norman Hassall:

The £390,898 the directors consider Norman has taken from the club, which they did open legal proceedings over last year, has been wiped from the accounts. As far as accounting goes, this money is no longer considered as 'owed' to the club.

This now takes the total Norman has had from the club (completely legally), to around £2.2m.

Hassall's only non-CAFC company, European Brand Trading, which has been embroiled in a row with HMRC for almost 10 years over unpaid import tax, ceased its legal action due to financial constraints.earlier this year. He has since applied for the company to be liquidated with debts of over £350,000.

The good news is that it does seem Hassall is settling some of his affairs, but he still unfortunately holds all the cards where ownership of the club is concerned.

All we can do as supporters is to keep supporting the team on the pitch knowing the board are doing everything they can to resolve the Hassall situation and move the club forward.

Up The Alex!