FARRELL HAS CLEAR VISION FOR FUTURE

Sons boss enthused after talk with Lapointe

- STUART MCFARLANE

Dumbarton boss Stevie Farrell has been left full of praise for the club's new preferred bidder - and said clarity over the club's future will help as they plot to climb out of their admin-enforced League Two deficit.

The Sons boss has been locked in intensive discussions with Canadian Mario Lapointe after the businessman was named by the club's administrators as the prospective new man at the helm last month.

The club's prospects off the pitch now look much brighter as an escape from administration is planned in the coming weeks - but Farrell warned a tighter playing budget next term means a high turnover of the squad at the Rock is likely ahead of the fourth-tier return.

He told the Lennox: "The relationship has started very positively and we speak most days.