Gourlay quoted as stating that the club needs to fix the imbalance in the squad where we have too many defensive players and not enough creative ones (not that this is news to anyone after last season!). With this in mind it definitely looks like no return for Clarke.

With the addition recently of both Swift and Wallace plus Dike we are certainly better off this season going forward but, as others have already commented, we need to make sure our defence is shored up too and a DM would logically seem our next priority. Personally, I think its a pity we couldn't try and keep Clarke and get shot of some of the others instead, but that was always going to be easier said than done. With no real money to spend we need to sell a few to be able to afford to bring in new faces so unless we can do that -or else there are more decent free agents out there going cheap- I sadly doubt there will be much more activity on the transfer front for Bruce's Big Rebuild.