Owen Dale Loan Ends 10th January

[Wartman]

Will Dale be in our squad on Wednesday, I doubt it very much. I think that it will all drag on and because of the situation, strangely Blackpool seem to hold most of the cards. Who else would be prepared to pay £500,000 and what's been made plainly obvious is that Dale doesn't want to play for us. Be prepared for a cut price transfer, aswell as one for Tommy.

I made reference earlier in this post to Crewe’s history of cut price transfers, and I would not be surprised if we only get £500000 for the 2 of them, however I would say at the end of the season we will get next to nothing for them. It is irrelevant what we get for them because the first team will see none of the money invested into it.

[Wartman]

I made reference earlier in this post to Crewe’s history of cut price transfers, and I would not be surprised if we only get £500000 for the 2 of them, however I would say at the end of the season we will get next to nothing for them. It is irrelevant what we get for them because the first team will see none of the money invested into it.

It is extremely disappointing that despite us finally getting rid of Normal Hassall from the club we appear still to not be able to provide other than an absolute pitiful first team budget that compares to a mid table league 2 side at best. I understand we area developing club and I fully support that but surely we need the first team to be playing as high up the pyramid as we can and therefore it extremely short sighted by the board to continue in this way. We have to massively increase the budget by means of wages and transfer fees the recruitment this year has been nothing short of pathetic considering we had a successful league 1 campaign last year.