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Richard Money blames sale of Walsall's best players
RICHARD Money has admitted Walsall's promotion quest has been hindered by the "demotivation factor" at the sale of key players.
The Saddlers' play-offs quest, fading ever since defenders Scott Dann and Danny Fox were sold to Coventry in January, was killed off once and for all by a 3-1 home defeat to Bournemouth.
And Money acknowledged that the departure of the two defenders at a key stage of the season had an impact on the players left behind.
"It has been a real effort since the two players went to Coventry," Money said. "You can't help there being a demotivation factor in the dressing room. It's been hard.
"But it's the job of the management team to keep spirits as high as we can and I think, in the main, we have kept things going pretty well. It's only recently that we appear to have hit the wall."
Much comment was triggered by Money's assertion, last Tuesday, that he will seek "certain assurance" from the board in the summer.
That, no doubt, remains the case. But on Saturday he sought a conciliatory tone.
"The reality is that we will get to the end of the season and I am sure the board will do their very best, as they have done since I have been here, to give us as much as possible," he said.
"I accepted the club's financial position when I came here and I accept it now.
"We might have to go through another rebuilding process in the summer. But we will start this summer in a much stronger position than last year."
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