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see todays Telegraph


Coley says that they will be carrying a smaller squad next season and will be including the 5 new Youth players in order to free up some extra wages to buy better quality players.

So you can bet that 5 players will be moving on to accomodate the young lads, plus extra to enforce the smaller squad, plus extra to make way for new players to come in. We're gonna lose about a dozen of the present squad by the second week of May!

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Smaller squad? Are we getting rid of the big players then?

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Logical way to go I think, really wasted some money this year on players that haven't been used, or weren't up to it.

Read an interview with Steve Coppell a few weeks ago about having a small squad, he stressed the importance of discipline, suspensions can really bite. Certainly need to cut out any silly stuff.

The close season may prove more interesting than the last few months.

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Watching paint dry would have been more interesting than the last few months :)

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In short this is a cost cutting excercise made to sound good.

What is should really say is I have 1st team players here who are not really good enough unless I sell I can't buy (or uness I get some off the wage bill, I can't even bring in free transfers), I get the 1st team players who I don't want off the bill replace them with what I do want for the same money and fill the squad with cheap youth players as we allready have too small a squad.

In short Coley will be given no money to invest in the squad.

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Trouble with loans is:

1/ Recalls.
2/ Numerical limits on loans, numbers of permitted loans on team sheet - 5 and on pitch - 4.
3/ If things don't quite work out they know their commitment to the club is finite ie they know won't suffer the Conference.
4/ Premiership clubs reluctant to let loans out - ask Chesterfield.
5/ Decent loan strikers like hens' teeth.

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This could be a cunning ploy by Eric to push one of the greatest football tacticians of the 20th century into walking out, thus saving him the trouble of firing him.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Eric's just happy being here (football lge) and I couldn't see there being a big scramble for Coley's job off proven managers if he went.