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Windsor FC’s founding director Kevin Stott insists the club is not living beyond its means following the recent captures of the likes of Jake Parsons, Andrew Fagan and Michael Chennells.
The trio of players were all key parts of the Windsor & Eton side when the club went bust in 2010, with debts running into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
News of their return has raised eyebrows among the local football community, especially as Windsor beat the likes of Slough Town and Chesham United to the signing of Chennells last week.
But Stott insists the budget he set at the start of the season has not been raised and that the players have not returned to Stag Meadow for financial reasons.
He said: “Inevitably I can see why people are talking but I can guarantee we are not paying any of them what they were being paid last time (at Windsor & Eton).
“They have come back because they want to be part of what we are trying to achieve here, it’s not because we are throwing money around.
“I set a budget at the start of the season and I haven’t raised that budget. Keith Scott is working within it and the players who have come in are prepared to work within it as well.
“It’s the vision of the club and the ambitions we have for it that they are buying into.”
When Windsor FC was formed in the summer, Stott always said he wanted to stay away from a business model which saw one benefactor putting money in to ensure the club stayed afloat.
Self-sustainability has always been the long-term goal and the club has plans to install 3G astroturf pitches and a gym at Stag Meadow in the near future.
And Stott insists that is still very much the case. He said: “I always said I would fund the start up costs and that’s what I’m going to do.
“But I don’t have any grand designs to be the sugar daddy of a football club, that doesn’t work.
“So if we’re not given the go ahead to develop the ground and do what we want to do, I’m not going to be doing it again next season or the season after next.
“That doesn’t mean we won’t have a football club next year, we just won’t have a budget that we could sustain in a higher division.”
Windsor’s founding director added: “But I would be gutted now if we don’t manage to pull off what we’re trying to do, I think it’s a model for non-league football.
“We’re trying to do something different, not repeat the same mistakes. We’re on the road to self-sustainability.
“I don’t want to be just another football club who had a dream, drew some pretty pictures but then saw nothing happen.
“We want to take the club forward and we’re all working very hard to make sure we do it in the right way.”
– pulling away from OCN who were frozen out at Witney - the two are due to clash on Friday 30th December 
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