Dario Gradi has told the club's official web-site that financial constraints being imposed on Football clubs won't stop Crewe Alexandra doing in their power to improve our squad. Football has been hit hard by the recent recession and those clubs spending money they do not have are struggling badly.
Those clubs that have assumed they would receive a certain budget and spent lavishly before it has even appeared in the bank are finding it increasingly difficult to avoid administration or winding up petitions.
Crewe Alexandra's prudence with the money we generate usually through players sales means that Dario still has some funds available if needs be.
Dario told the club's official web-site: "I think everyone in football is becoming more cautious and careful with their money. They have to be and we have to be because we cannot keep on losing £1 million - £1.5 million every year. It is just not sustainable and players like Nicky Maynard just don't appear every year.
"Our objective is to keep the club as healthy as possible and we won't go out and jeopardise that. Supporters talk about ambition and I would like us to be a club back in League One and perhaps pushing for a place in the Championship. The most important thing is to stay in the league.
"I was worried about that first and foremost when I took over again because we were sliding. We were losing games and not playing our own young players.
"Getting back to where we were would be a tough challenge and I don't think it is viable to expect us to enjoy eight years at Championship level any more.
"It is a different league to when we were in there, because there are not the small clubs there any more. There are some big clubs not even in that league now.
"There will always be financial constraints at every club, unless you have a rich owner, who wants to spend his money. Saying that if I wanted to borrow a player then the board would find the money.
"Gudjon borrowed a number of players last season as the board thought it was worth a risk to try and stay in the division. It didn't work.
"If we can find a young player out there, who is worth an investment then we would still do it, but I am not looking to borrow anybody else's kids at the moment. I don't see the logic in that because we have a good nucleus of young players already here and playing in our first team.
"They are usually the ones we can move on for big money because they know the game and are technically very good. That has been the fact for many years here. "
