Ian Holloway is frustrated over Blackpool's limited transfer budget, it has been revealed.
The Daily Mail says Holloway, 47, was believed to be considering his position after a summer of transfer disappointments left him increasingly exasperated - but chairman Karl Oyston urged him to stay.
Forwards Rob Hulse, Jon Stead and Robert Koren have all proved out of Holloway's reach and his frustration boiled over after it emerged he was in danger of being outbid by League One Huddersfield for free agent Marlon Harewood.
Holloway missed training yesterday and returned to his home in Bristol. The Daily Mail says he made it clear he would not be returning, unless Oyston relented over a strict pay policy that has left his summer recruitment plans in ruins.
Blackpool and Huddersfield offered striker Harewood, 30, the same basic wage of £8,000 a week, with one significant difference. While his weekly earnings would soar to £12,000 at Huddersfield, in the event of promotion, they would plummet to £4,000 at Blackpool, should the odds-on relegation favourites go down.
Already handicapped by a pay ceiling of £10,000 a week, Holloway's efforts to equip Blackpool for the Premier League have been further restricted by an insistence on contracts containing relegation clauses that would slash wage levels in half.
