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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Quakers To Exit Admin And Name Manager

Veteran manager Colin Todd is set to become Darlington's manager and the club will exit Administration before the end of the week, a local paper claims.

The Northern Echo reports that the former Bolton, Bradford, and Middlesboro manager has offered Dean Windass the no.2 role with a takeover of the club, believed to involve ex-Chairman George Houghton, due to be completed within days.

But the club could face further sanctions after their accountants released the accounts for the 2006/7 season - and showed the club paying 110% of it's turnover on wages. The accounts, to October 31st 2007, show the club to have a balance sheet that was over £5million in the red and spending nearly £300,000 more than it's total earnings on wages. The wage bill worked out at over £55,000 a week during the year in question.

The Football League are to investigate the figures, with staff salaries - including all players and office staff - not to exceed 75% of turnover under the same rules that prevent players' wages being more than 60% of turnover.