Yeovil Town chairman Stuart Robins has said the club will continue to strengthen the squad despite the shock resignation of manager Danny Webb this morning.

Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Jack Killah on Monday afternoon, he admitted that the club’s owners and players had been “shocked” by the decision which comes just ten days after the new manager’s appointment.

He said that the budget which had been available to Webb would now be available to Richard Dryden, who has been handed the job until the end of the season, and added that Dryden is looking to play “a much more attacking style of football.”

Robins said: “We need some numbers and we need to bring some new players in, but they have to be the right players. That process has already started, additional budget was available to Danny and now it is available to Richard to make sure that we add to the squad so we can climb up the table.

“We are right behind Richard and we hope the fans will be behind him and we will see some new faces in Huish Park, they have to be the right faces in the right positions. Richard wants to play a much more attacking style of football than we have seen at Huish Park for some time, our responsibility is to make sure we can bring in the players that he and the coaching team want to make sure we can play that attacking style of football we would like to see.”

Robins said he and the club’s ownership spoke with Webb on Sunday and reiterated that personal and family reasons were behind his decision to step down. He visited the club’s players at the SGS Wise training facility near Bristol on Monday to break the news to them before the club issued its statement.

He said: “We had the phone call from Danny about 24 hours ago and our first concern was for him and his family, because in these situations that is what you have to think about first. We have spoken to him again today and he seems to be in a reasonable place and we want him to be well and whatever he does going forward, we hope it works out for him.

“We are shocked, but now our focus is on making sure we do what is best for the football club. I was very concerned about the players and the supporters who are the big stakeholders here. I spoke to the players this morning and they are fully behind us and what they have got to do is focus on getting three points on Wednesday, that is their focus, they will train well and they are looking forward to the game.

“We had to think about the ramifications for the football club, the supporters and the players. The very first thought was ‘is Danny okay?’ and that is what we wanted to make sure.”

He insisted the decision to appoint Dryden, who was brought to the club by former manager Mark Cooper in the summer, until the end of the National League Premier Division season was an attempt to bring stability to the club.

He said: “We wanted to make sure the players had some stability and unfortunately we have not had that for one reason or another and I was very concerned the players were protected. They knew what was going on as quickly as possible. The period where we were scouring the market for a new manager was unsettling for the players and I think they did a very good job in very difficult circumstances and won two games. I had a duty of care to the players to make sure they were stable and new what was going to happen as quickly as they possibly could.”

As some of you will have seen on our social media, Ian has been to Huish Park to speak to Chief Strategy Advisor Nicholas Brayne and we have been asked by the Executive Chairman to delay releasing this interview until after the BBC and ITV have broadcast their own interviews this evening.