LEE Richardson updated SPIREITES WORLD about he latest news from Saltergate. Read the highlights of the interview right here

Well Lee it's a busy time offering contracts, what's happening at the moment at Chesterfield?

We have offered four existing players contracts and three have agreed terms and will be signing in the next few days. Barry Roche signed yesterday. We have also signed Josh Law from the Youth team. I am talking to numerous players about coming to Chesterfield, but I won't tell you who they are at the moment.

Barry Roche has signed so why Barry surely there are lots of keepers about

Barry's done very well in the last few months. We were disappointed with him up to Christmas and he lost his place. But he responded well and towards the end of the season he was showing the kind of form we hope he can maintain and improve on in the future

So Alan O'Hare and Janos Kovacs have agreed terms?

Yes, and we are hoping to hear from Michael Jordon this week that he will also agree to sign.

Two players are on the back burner, Colin Larkin and Paul Hall, what's happening there?

We have given Paul Hall a few more days and we have opened discussions with Colin Larkin via his agent. So we will see where we go from that.

Every club has a player that fans have a go out and Colin Larkin was a target last season, so they will be wondering why you are considering offering him a contract.

Colin had a disappointing season by his own admission.  Although as a club we didn't score enough goals, I think it is unfair to make Colin a scapegoat for that. But we will have to wait and see as he's not currently a Chesterfield player after June. We won't be wanting him to take too long considering his future because we want to finalise the squad.

So what else is happening, four unnamed players have been offered contracts?

We look like we have lost a player whose name was linked in the media with a move to Saltergate. I believe, thanks largely to that publicity, it alerted the other club and we think he's agreed terms there. So until something is signed sealed and delivered I will not be mentioning names. It's a cut throat business at this time of year as we are in competition with other Clubs to bring in quality players.

Even at League Two there are Clubs with higher budgets than Chesterfield

That is a fact of life. The playing fields levelled a lot in our favour, but there will be Clubs that will play higher wages. But we have to get on with it and we will be trying to bring in the quality players we need.

But Chesterfield now have a 60% budget limit in League Two which again comes back to our turnover, which is based mainly on the old chestnut of supporters through the turnstiles.

It was brought in to stop Club's overspending. But we have to improve our turnover so the move to the new ground is paramount. Currently it's a vicious circle of results and performances bringing in crowds, which is the only real way we have at the moment to boost the turnover.

Season ticket sales are going well and there seems to be a large number of new season ticket holders.

It's encouraging and that's what we need. But we also obviously want last year's season ticket holders to renew their tickets, and to get the average attendance up toward that 5000 mark, then we will have an even better chance of bouncing back.

Some supporters will no doubt be waiting to see the signing's before parting with their money before the June 16^th early bird deadline.  So can you excite them with a 'wow' signing?

I hope so, that's certainly the intention with one or two. My focus though is to assemble a squad that will bounce the club straight back.

A few more friendlies have been announced

We have to cater for all the teams at the Club, the first team, reserve team and youth teams.  We have a few testers with Sheffield Wednesday and Hull City at Saltergate. So that should give us opportunity to give us some good match practice. The players will return to training on July 5^th but myself and my staff will be around throughout the summer because our work never stops in trying to improve Chesterfield Football Club.