Posted by Trickster on 4/3/2020, 12:23 pm, in reply to "Re: If I told you"
Yep. This talk of history, tradition, fan base, all of it is secondary. In fact none of it matters if all you can offer is a part time wage and training 3 evenings a week. Footballers have got bills to pay, partners and kids just like everyone else. They aren't going to drop all of that just for the chance to kiss the badge in front of the Cheadle End. I thought this kind of nonsense had stopped at this point, we've just spent 6 years missing out on players we wanted because there happened to be another part time Conference North club a few miles closer to where they live. We learned the hard way that players will take the best deal on offer with very little regard for anything else, we seem to have forgotten already.