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The sensible thing to do with that money (plus the parachute payment which I think is another £500K) is to spread it over 2-3 years.  If we blow it all in one season and fail to get promotion then you have to rebuild after one season because you can't sustain the team you bought - unless you get into debt which we must avoid at all costs.  Spreading it out means you can build a team that will last 2-3 years (which is as much as you can hope for under any circumstances unless you're a rich club).   

We should also try to blood more youngsters.  Penrice and McCarthy ought to be standouts in the lower division (Penrice already has been with Livvy) and since we'll be one of the stronger teams there it should be easier for us to play some of the other young players  even if it's not full games or against  the weaker teams.  Had to search to confirm this but it seems in 2016 the Weirs gave Thistle £500K (on top of a previous £750K) to sustain the youth development (see: https://www.scotsman.com/news/partick-youth-academy-boosted-by-500k-donation-from-weirs-1-4141614 according to this for 5 years from date of article)  so with the wee bit extra we must have got from selling Lindsay that aspect of the team should be secure for another three years.

Obviously you need some experience in any team (so if we could keep Doolan and Erskine and maybe someone like Woods - or a properly fit Bannigan - that would be ideal but wherever possible we should look to bring in players who are still relatively young and ambitious and can be improved.  Incidentally does anyone know what happened to Sean Welsh?  He seems to have hardly played since he left us.  Injury problems again??

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7 hours ago, laukat said:

The article reads like a summary of points made on this forum nothing new. He's correct about prize money full breakdown is here https://stv.tv/sport/football/1411762-spfl-announce-record-prize-money-for-2017-18-season/

I know we have to watch the money ,but the difference in  prize money in the leagues just shows how costly relegation is going to be.And that is not taking into account the loss in other revenue streams.

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