HEAVEN help the registrations department at the Football Association!

Sam Allardyce reckons he is prepared to start wheeling and dealing to get his squad up to scratch for the Premiership.

If he can't have the cash to get the players he wants, he will trade. And, just in case there is anyone out there who hasn't noticed, he explains that he has been a trader all his managerial life.

Don't we know it!

In the 105 weeks he has been in charge of Wanderers, he has conducted no fewer than 61 deals.

On average, he has made a major decision to buy, borrow, sell or release a player once every 12 days.

And that is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

For while there are the so-called big deals which spring immediately to mind - the £8 million he raised two summers ago with the sales of Eidur Gudjohnson and Claus Jensen to Chelsea and Charlton respectively and the £1.75m he spent to bring Per Frandsen back from Blackburn - and others that need a little coaxing (remember Gareth Grant being at the Reebok on loan?) there are scores more that have not even come off, for one reason or another.

For instance, it has been impossible to keep track of every trialist who has come and gone but former Holland international Reggie Blinker was just one of more than 100 to have had try-outs, either publicly or privately.

Then there is all the time and effort that has gone into negotiations with the likes of Nouma, Bierhoff, Kiko, Distin and Varga, which ultimately counted for nothing! And they are just the ones that became public knowledge.

Yet, like every manager in the business, Allardyce refuses to rest in his relentless scouting and recruitment drive.

He has spent the last few days desperately trying to persuade Barcelona to reduce the loan fee they are asking for their out-of-favour goalkeeper Richard Dutruel and would have been checking out even more potential targets in Argentina this weekend if there had been enough games for him to take in.

Despite the wheeling and dealing which has kept the Reebok doors revolving, 10 members of the current first team squad were at the club when Allardyce arrived - Jussi Jaaskelainen, Steve Banks, Gudni Bergsson, Mike Whitlow, Paul Warhurst, Ricardo Gardner, Bo Hansen, Kevin Nolan, Dean Holdsworth and Dean Holden.

Here are the others who have been bought, borrowed, sold or set free in two successful head-spinning years.

PLAYERS IN

Gareth Farrelly, John O'Kane, Franck Passi, Paul Ritchie, Alan Johnson, Gareth Grant (loan), Darren Holloway (loan), Michael Kapreilian, Anthony Barness, Simon Charlton, Michael Ricketts, Leam Richardson, Paul Wheatcroft, Per Frandsen, Emanuele Morini, Isaiah Rankin, Ian Marshall, Carsten Fredgaard (loan), John Gope-Fenepej (loan), David Norris, Colin Hendry, Nicky Summerbee, Tommy Wright, Juergen Sommer, Andy Campbell (loan), Matt Clarke (loan), Ryan Baldacchino, Jeff Smith, Nicky Southall, Henrik Pedersen, Djibril Diawara (loan), Akinori Nishizawa (loan), Rod Wallace, Bruno N'Gotty (loan), Jermaine Johnson, Kevin Poole.

PLAYERS OUT

Neil Cox, Andy Todd, Lee Potter, Peter Morrison, Bob Taylor, Keith Branagan, Alan Johnson, Paul Ritchie, Michael Johansen, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Claus Jensen, Hasney Aljofree, Greg Strong, Luke Staton, Mark Fish, Robbie Elliott, Matt Glennon, John O'Kane, Franck Passi, Nicky Summerbee, Oli Pal Snorasson, Michael Kapreilian, Paul Wheatcroft (loan), Dean Holden (loan), Ian Marshall (loan).

YOUNG PROS

A number of other young pros have also been released including Neil Gregson, Alan Power, Chris Dawson, Carl O'Malley, Gordon Smith,James Evans, Gary Haveron, Kieran O'Connor, Danny Crumblehulme.