Another One Bites the Dust

For a club with home attendances even lower that ours, Livingston seem to have embarked on a series of exotic foreign signings as though income through the turnstiles did not matter.

A sad Pat Nevin contemplates administration.

What on earth were they doing engaging a Brazilian manager? They seem to have made the same disastrous error as Dundee – they spent the bank’s money with no realistic chance of recovering it. Yet again Motherwell fans have to be grateful that John Boyle’s failed experiment at Fir Park was funded by his own millions and that he is minded to write off.

The main casualties are, yet again, not going to be those players who have their contracts terminated but the backroom workers. The number of players who are to be shown the door remains open to speculation.

Motherwell terminated nine contracts early and Dundee offloaded fifteen. No doubt we’ll be reading tales of woe from ex-Livi players who are cut off from collecting thousands of pounds a week. Sorry, no tears for them.

Will Livi be the last club to suffer in this way? Probably not. The bankers seem to have awakened to the risks of letting wannabe football supremos pour money down the drain.

The sooner the football industry realises that income and expenditure must balance the better. Let us concentrate on producing home grown talent and accept that they can only earn wages which clubs can afford.