Martin wants to restore structure at Tannadice

Martin believes current boss Csaba Laszlo is the ideal man to oversee that process and is of the opinion that, under the man who was appointed in November, the team can flourish.

“Csaba is on board 100% and, in fact, one of the things that appealed about Csaba when we went through the recruitment process was his vision for a top-tier football club and his ideas about how to implement it.”

Another challenge is improving the club’s financial position. Right now, United’s debt is £2.4 million and, while it’s been significantly higher in the past, so long as they remain in the Championship it will only increase.

“We are very keen to get back into the Premiership,” said Martin.

“We, therefore, have two plans. We have one plan that is based on us being back in the Premiership and has us managing the business based on revenue streams that are available to us from a Premiership position.

“We’ve a second plan that is based on us being in the Championship for another year. The latter is very penal from a financial perspective.

“It is impossible for Dundee United to break even in a Championship environment. We have an infrastructure here that is a Premiership i nfrastructure. We trimmed our wage bill which is a large part of our cost base.

“We can trim it again but there’s a balance to be struck between trimming it for cost-saving reasons and giving the manager a sufficient budget to give us a fighting chance of going back up.”

Martin sees manager Csaba Laszlo as the ideal man to lead the team.