The Chairman speaks...

If you happened to hear John Madejski on the radio before the game on Saturday you would not have been surprised to hear him repeating his favourite mantra, which goes something like this: player's wages are obscene, we don't have as much money as you might think even though the club is run on a good business model, we won't spend heaps of cash on players, and so on. Nothing new there you might have thought, but even after the trousering of some £8m odd in cash from the sale of Kitson and Shorey one could be forgiven for thinking that we might delve into the piggy bank and splash out on a couple of players. Well, it appears that this unlikely to happen, and let's face it this isn't really a surprise. It's admirable that the club has used it's scouting system well to seek out emerging talent to great effect, most notably with the signings of Kevin Doyle, Dave Kitson, Shane Long et al. That said with a windfall of cash and Premier League parachute payments you can't help feeling we should be looking to be bolder in the transfer market and look to proven Championship players rather than speculative loan deals or players from League Two. 

Who really knows what's going on behind the scenes, but it was Steve Coppell who said he wanted to be 'the predator' with regards to transfers, but has he got the backing of the chairman, and how far does that backing go? The chairman has made no secret of his desire to sell the club to a super-rich benefactor, but until that person comes along might it not make sense to invest in players to ensure we can get back into the Premier League and become a desirable club to actually buy? Let's hope so.