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Cash shortage hampers Pools rebuilding

Danny Wilson
By Clarence Rode June 19 2008
Hartlepool United’s close-season squad strengthening exercise is being hampered by a lack of cash. That’s the only conclusion to come to after manager Danny Wilson’s comments on his progress so far in the six weeks since the League One season ended. Wilson has managed to sign midfield player Alan Power after he was released by Nottingham Forest, but so far there have been no other breakthroughs.
However, player contracts don’t usually expire until the end of June and Wilson doesn’t expect the market to warm up until then and the European championship finish.
Then the transfer merry-go-round is expected to start in earnest, but Wilson has told the Hartlepool Mail: "We can only bring in what is available to us. We have got some targets but whether we can bring them in or not is all down to money.
"We are trying to do our things quietly and discreetly with the amounts of money we can afford."
So, reading between the lines, Danny has little or no cash to spend on transfers, and if that’s the case his hopes of signing former Stockport striker Anthony Elding or Scotland under-21 international forward Robert Snodgrass, who wants to leave Livingstone, look dead in the water.
Leeds want £100,000 for Elding, while Livi expect at least that as compo for Snodgrass.
However, there are others in Wilson’s sights, and in the current clime not many other clubs in League One have a lot of cash to spare either.
Owners IOR point out that it costs a canny bit to run pools, but last season the gate receipts were poor because results were poor and that was reflected in the size of the crowds at the Vic.
They run Pools as a business and refuse to court the sort of trouble clubs like Luton and others have got into in the last year.
So which is right – the theory that you have to speculate to accumulate or the “no-risks” policy Pools appear to be adopting?
Meanwhile, Wlson has made it clear he has no need to sign former Pools defender Graeme Lee, released by Doncaster, while ex-Vic full-back paul Arnison has signed for League Two Bradford City after being shown the door by Carlisle.

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