Quite right, it's not a one-man show. Mike Lomax and Stuart Middleton do a HELL of a lot, investing their money into the mix and paying toward the club's wage bill.

MD, I think your choice of the word scapegoat is bang on mate. The lad did renegotiate a better deal as we all would, Stains bettered our deal by quite some way, but cross words have led to scapegoatism being used. The lad has been peeved at the lack of game time hence the current stance from both sides. Personally I think under TS he would flourish he does have a great attitude and Powell may be on to a winner.

We offered Savelio a good deal but he wanted to stay Loyal to saints. His relationship with Cunningham has broken down and its only been a matter of time until he left.

Savelio as signed with Cas on loan for rest of season,as for us going him for us again I guess it depends on how teed off the club is when they tried to sign him last season, it could be he was just using us to get a better deal at Saints as its already been alluded to.

I would wait and see how he gets on at Cas, not sure if he's a scapegoat or just not been putting in the effort in the Reserves to warrant a call up.

In simplistic terms, none of the person named above will put their hand in their pocket along the lines of "here's £100k towards the signing of xxxxxxx". What tends to happen is there will be discussions at board level where players might get mentioned and a board member might say something along the lines of "well, if xxxxxxx is signed, then we (most likely via commercial body) will sponsor them". From the point of view of the funder, its additional advertising expenditure and for as long as they get something out of it.....even if that "something" is the satisfaction of helping the local team ..... it will continue.

You may also have the situation that a "wealthy" director might lend the company a sum of money. This will be included in the company's accounts as a creditor (ie..it will have to be paid back at some point). However from a cashflow perspective, its possible that the company can make plans on the basis of it being unlikely that the cash will actually be laid out.

The only people who really know what is happening regarding finances at the club are those people are those sat around that board table at the directors meetings.