The club decided to invest about £160,000 in integrating SIS grass hybrid technology into the pitch for the upcoming season in order to help ensure the surface lasts the entire campaign, so Swindon’s budget for that season will be lower than it was this year.
As the club held meetings to start planning for the upcoming season, Holloway previously stated that he would be finding out his precise budget this week.
Holloway stated that the circumstances he will face this summer are not ideal prior to the Good Friday trip to Grimsby Town.
He said: “Yes, [I have clarity on the budget]. It is very disappointing, but it does not matter as it is about getting value for money.
If you look at the money they were spending before I arrived and the production they got out of it, I would say it was about where the budget is now.
“Our budget is 12th, something like that, and I think that we are 13th now, after the start that we had.
“I did say all along that I felt they were much better than we were playing, so did they have long enough to become a group?
“We keep turning them out and spitting them out, but hopefully we can get some stability within that group and see if we can make a run at things.
“It is about what you can get out of your horse; the favourite horse in the race does not always win.
“Money does matter, but it probably starts to matter more in the next division up, if you look at what happened in that division with somebody smashing it out of sight with their fan base, new owners, and where they are going.
“Then you look at Wrexham and what they have managed to do very cleverly. It is monumental what you can do if you have the drive, the know-how, and the patience.”
Holloway went on to say that the club’s predetermined position for the upcoming season was what was particularly disappointing him, not the budget.
He added: “I would like the biggest budget in the league, but what I am saying is that I would have liked the autonomy to do whatever I wanted this summer.
“I have got 13 players who have already been decided.
“What I am disappointed with is what I have inherited and how far back we are from where I want to be on the scouting network.
“A club our size should have a scouting network that we can build on, not just our scouting network, with regional scouts all around the place and watching the under-21s.
“Where is most of the value going to come from? They either go from the under-21s into Non-League and then come bouncing back up, but we don’t even watch the under-21s. Luckily, I know people who see these games.”
