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<TABLE cellSpacing=4 cellPadding=4 width=500 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=headerText>Blades confirm transfer budget</SPAN>
<SPAN class=dateText>20-12-2006 17:12</SPAN> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=4 cellPadding=4 width=500 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=bodyText>Sheffield United chairman Kevin McCabe has confirmed that manager Neil Warnock will have £7million to spend in the January transfer window.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodyText>The Blades have made extra funds for their manager available, with latest reports claiming they could be ready to make a double swoop for Helsingborgs pair Luton Shelton and Andreas Granqvist.</TD></TR><TR><TD><CENTER></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodyText>McCabe told the club website: "We've looked at who we can recruit and the list of players who are better than we've got before is pretty small. It's not easy.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodyText>"We are adding five million via the loan application, plus the budget, so it's somewhere round about £7m. It's a lot of money. I think personally that the squad is good enough now but every football team needs freshening up at some stage.
"We did it last year in the Championship with four or five players who came through in January, and you could look back and say we didn't need all of them but we got promoted so it worked. But don't ask me who!"</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodyText>Warnock added: "I'm looking to bring in another striker for definite, and possibly another midfield player. When we lose Danny Webber and Michael Tonge to injury, we lose creativity.
"We didn't envisage losing four centre-halves in one week earlier this season, so we have to cater for these situations arising. It's a matter of wait and see."</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<SPAN class=dateText>20-12-2006 17:12</SPAN> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=4 cellPadding=4 width=500 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=bodyText>Sheffield United chairman Kevin McCabe has confirmed that manager Neil Warnock will have £7million to spend in the January transfer window.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodyText>The Blades have made extra funds for their manager available, with latest reports claiming they could be ready to make a double swoop for Helsingborgs pair Luton Shelton and Andreas Granqvist.</TD></TR><TR><TD><CENTER></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodyText>McCabe told the club website: "We've looked at who we can recruit and the list of players who are better than we've got before is pretty small. It's not easy.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodyText>"We are adding five million via the loan application, plus the budget, so it's somewhere round about £7m. It's a lot of money. I think personally that the squad is good enough now but every football team needs freshening up at some stage.
"We did it last year in the Championship with four or five players who came through in January, and you could look back and say we didn't need all of them but we got promoted so it worked. But don't ask me who!"</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodyText>Warnock added: "I'm looking to bring in another striker for definite, and possibly another midfield player. When we lose Danny Webber and Michael Tonge to injury, we lose creativity.
"We didn't envisage losing four centre-halves in one week earlier this season, so we have to cater for these situations arising. It's a matter of wait and see."</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<DIV class=cap>Blades boss Warnock expects Bramall Lane outcasts to be in demand</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Sheffield United are prepared to let eight players leave Bramall Lane in the January transfer window. 
- T.K.
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