Expensive Exercise with Loan Players - Turner

In his weekly interview with Jamie Griffiths, the Hereford United manager spoke about the expenses required to compete in League One.

"Leeds made a profit of £4.5 million but at the same time Millwall reported losses of £6 million that follows a loss of £5 million the previous year," Graham Turner told the Official Website.

"We're in with some very big boys, some high finance. I've only got to talk to clubs about signing the quality of players we are looking for - the wages are frightening.

"But I've said all along this season we have to survive. It has been an expensive exercise with the loan players who are been out for so long. We have to pay the wage bills.

"We would have been quite happy to have invested the money to get the players in just to survive.

"We've worked every so hard to get to this level. And we're prepared to gamble, within reason, to stay there."

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