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PRESTON SEEK FINE BALANCE BETWEEN STABILITY AND AMBITION

by
The LeaguePaper Team
11 October 2020

ALL fans dream of promotion to the Premier League – and that will be just as true for supporters of my old club Preston North End.
The difficulty, of course, is the money that a club like Preston have to spend and the teams they’re competing against in transfer windows.
I’d have loved to spend £4m on a player, and I’m sure Alex Neil would as well. But Preston haven’t got that sort of money. What they do have is stability, and an owner in Trevor Hemmings who puts a lot of money into the club every year to keep it afl oat. It’s debtfree, which must be...

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