Quote Originally Posted by matt_magpie View Post
But that doesn’t mean we have the best budget as the owners set the budget.
The owners said in their Q&A and please correct me if I’m wrong as it’s not word for word.

We are slightly underperforming to where we expect to be (think we were 7th)

We are looking for value in signings

If we are not promoted league funding stops for academy and that probably means it becomes unfeasible

I don’t think these guys are throwing money at us. We haven’t got a massive squad at all and within that 4 or so young players on loan.
Also it’s the owners that sanctioned not offering Crawford or Bird contracts and also would appear did not sanction giving Osbourne a lucrative enough contract to convince him to stay. Ardleys not left to his own devices, they employ a football analyst reviewing all the players and basically assess if they are getting value and if not they go to market, now whether this is the right approach is up for debate.