Shrewsbury chief executive issues defiant Salop message

And when asked how he has found his start to life at Salop, he feels everyone from the management team to the supporters has worked together.

“It has been the fastest eight months of my life,” he said.

“It has been amazing. From the second I walked through the door everyone has been so welcoming and supportive.

“I think they have understood the challenge that we have got in front of us, the one we had, and the one still working on.

“I feel like we have pulled together as a club as a management team, as a supporter base.

“I feel like we have all connected a lot better over these last eight months and hopefully that is a good guise for the future.”

Town have made no secret of their desire to try to get back to being sustainable, and players on good wages have left the club following the conclusion of the 2023/24 campaign.

Dooley has said Town are expected to make losses again in their accounts for last season, but despite that, he feels they have a team in place, led by Micky Moore and Paul Hurst, that can build a competitive squad for League One football.

He continued: “I think if we want to address the financial situation properly, which we do, you have to look at a football club and think where is the biggest cost base.

“That is always going to be players. That is not a Shrewsbury Town problem that is a football problem, so we have to make sure we cut our cloth accordingly and make sure we make the right decisions in recruitment in order to be as competitive as we can on the pitch within the framework of Shrewsbury Town Football Club.

“Where I think we are in a good position is with a director of football in Micky Moore with lots of experience, and a head coach with lots of experience in and around this area, we are hopeful that we can put a squad together that even though we are potentially not overspending anymore, is competitive on the pitch.

“And as we have saw from the second half of the season, plays more attractive football. Gets people excited, gets bums on seats and again reunites the club so we can get more money through the door so we can expand and be more sustainable and have bigger budgets in years to come once we have got through the tough periods that we are in at the moment.

“The league is going to be difficult, it is a tough league full stop, with clubs coming up with big budgets and coming down with them too.

“At the same, we are trying to run as we think a football should be run and that is as a sustainable business.”