Finances

[MikeSB]

I didn't actually ask MSB to respond but, I suppose, it was inevitable. However, the answers to that predictable response are straitforward enough. The costs of the academy over a year, when balanced against the savings on graduate salaries amounts to very little. The amounts involved are certainly not significant in terms of comparing it with having to recruit all our players from outside the club.

Unless you know something we don't or I don't then you cannot possibly answer that question. Dario said we needed to sell a player each season for £760K. So the last big transfer away was Powell which was 12 years ago and so how is the club funding itself? Loans? The Chairman said we would break even if we won the play offs and had a good season in L1....McGarry should have asked him how much money are we losing now and how are we funding it? The rest of the last two replies are just nonsense and are just reiterations of points you have made before...Virtually all the clubs in L1 and L2 won't go near a Cat2 academy and yet they seem to sign players on transfer fees and wages and yet we can't at Crewe? Please tell me why? Our players are going to other clubs in the same league on more money....The academy was to sell players for millions in the PL....What happened next?

We will go down hill if something is not done with the presumed debt we have..I have recommended some changes, what have others offered here? A great big nothing!