Reading the exclusive interview with David Gold on WHUFC.com and it was interesting about his take on players leaving the club:

There have been a couple of stories about players going out in January. Do you need to sell players or are there prospects that some players might go out?

You could put the questions the other way around. Can we afford to bring in new players? All new acquisitions will have to be paid for by David Sullivan and myself. It’s not our intention to burden the football club with any further debt. It’s important that we reduce debt and not increase it or at least hold it to its current level.

Do players have to go? It’s not a question of ‘do they have to go’; we don’t want them to go. We want to keep our best players, we’ve got a very tough four months to go and we’ve got through the first half of the season and we’re in good shape as we’re equal top as we speak. There was a massive closing of the gap on Monday and I know that we felt that we might struggle to beat Coventry but if their keeper hadn’t had the best game of his life we’d have probably won the game two or three nil. We don’t want to lose any of our best players.

It’s very difficult for a Chairman of a football club to say ‘That’s definitely not going to happen’. No supporter wants to lose any of their good players and we want to keep our best players as our focus is 100 per cent on promotion and you don’t gain promotion if you start selling your best players.

So lets hope that none of our best players decide they want pastures new!!