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Frankly its nice to have our first summer in our entire period in League One to be not severely disrupted by major change away from the playing field. This will be the first summer in forever that a manager, a chief scout and a technical director will be able to get together and properly recruit the right people, rather than poke around and leave everything too late once they know what their budget is

 

I'm glad he has come out a nipped that one straight away. Get the plan implemented and let's go. Looking forward to this summer rebuild

When does pre-season usually start?

 

First game is 7th August - and its usually 6 weeks for pre-season I think. So looking around 21-28 June?

 

Oooo, less than a month. Busy busy busy.

 

Sorry to pick ya brains here marra, what do you feel of his ownership group comment? I know he is the majority shareholder and chairman so ultimately the final say is his

 

Not sure when the summer transfer window opens.
Players contracts run out 30th June so assume the window starts 1st July.
So pre season could start before the window opens, not sure I've got that right anybody out there able to clarify for me please.
Whenever it is it's going to be busy at SAFC, can't wait.

 

Hopefully a home game in there somewhere to test the new pitch out.

 

On football manager it starts on 7th June if that's anything to go by.

 

Professional and bound by legality.

It is an ownership group. He has to say that. However, the simple fact of the matter is that KLD is the man with the power and makes all the decisions.

 

That’s a great point. Close season for the last few years has been horrific. Takeover talks and managerial changes, the whole place hasn’t just stagnated but gone backwards. There is a team in place now who have a full pre season and full transfer window to give it a real go. Unfortunately, Covid may hamstring the build a bit due to the amount that KLD is having to bail us out until things get back to normal, but by the looks of the stadium and pitch work he’s going to give it a real go. Let’s hope that the manager is up to it.

 

Yeah LJ made mistakes..which manager doesn't?
But the players continually crumbled and made a catalogue of basic schoolboy errors at big moments. They took the credit when we went on the good run, they carry the can now. Weren't up to it.

 

His family is well behind him on this, his mam being at the game Saturday as-well looks exciting, and when he talks about owning a club he says (we have owned 2 football clubs)

 

I don't think there will be a massive overhaul, we need 2 strikers 2 big defenders, 2 midfielders, and 2 goal keepers. Lee might have to knock the size of the squad down though.

 

Fullbacks mate we need fullbacks

 

If Johnson is the long term choice of KLD I'll back him to the hilt ...

... anything else would just be self destructive.

 

That’ll do for me bonny lad