We’re now fifth in the table and still in some cup for rubbish teams. I forget the name.

Pretty good, right?

Yes, as far as it goes, but I’ve got a problem. My wage bill is too high. Oh sure, it’s currently showing as being £1,000 below the limit, but as soon as the new contracts kick in it’s going to be far too high. Which is why I tried to sell some players during the transfer window. Unfortunately, I failed. I got a couple of offers. Someone bid £0 for one of my strikers, Millwall bid £30,000 for my Nigerian striker, who’s worth almost twice that. I tried to negotiate, but as soon as I asked for more money the other clubs ran away.

So I’ve got a huge squad who are costing me a lot of money. I’m not quite sure what to do. I have applied for the West Ham job, but I’m not sure I want it and I don’t expect I’m going to get it. And I don’t really want to leave Oxford, I just want to stay within financial targets.

Maybe I shouldn’t have signed quite so many players, eh?