I heard this on the talksport's sports bulletins every half hour and don't understand how anything could have changed so dramatically that we are now all of a sudden skint.

The Sturridge wages were "paid" for the Roberts fee and everything else is the same as from last summer's budget would have been adhered, the budget having been in place a fair while before being spent.

The only motive I can see for doing this is that the poor staff who will be given their p45's don't kick up a fuss when they know that the beloved club is skint and needs for them to go quietly.

I don't believe, that it is to alert other clubs to our players being available, as their agents having already started that ball rolling, as evidenced by the Jonny Evans £3m relegation release clause being out there for public consumption.

When I think about who is to blame for all this mess, it is one person Jeremy "life long WBA fan" Peace.

The greedy sod spent nowt on the ground, meaning our matchday infrastructure is essentially the same as under Paul Thompson (who sanctioned the East Stand), little on the team, and made the statement that we were a mid table championship club.

No Jeremy we weren't but your penny pinching and sale to "someone who would have the best interests of the club at heart", has made your "inspiring" statement a long term reality.

Whilst local talent like Redmond, Gray and Butland ended up at Norwich. Leicester and Sjoke respectively, Peace ensured the aging Mozza got another 2 year extension to sit on the treatment table, before selling us to Lai, who looks like he's too young to get Laid, let alone run a prem club, so "took" JP's wise advice (well wouldn't you after he'd just raked in £180m after putting in very little) and gave the jobless Williams and Goodman jobs to run our great club like JP did, so he could take about £10-20m a season out as dividends from the prem riches.

Fans are entitled to blame whoever they like but, Peace is the C*** that has put us where we are.