A lack of goals cost Macclesfield dearly last season as they dropped out of the automatic promotion places and then failed against Lincoln in the play-offs but Horton has added speed, width and height to his squad.
On a six-month loan from Bradford comes Michael Symes, a 21-year-old, 6ft 3 ins striker, who partnered Wayne Rooney in Everton's youth team. He will form a battering ram partnership with 6ft 4ins Jon Parkin, who netted 28 goals last season.
Kevin Townson, 22, has also cemented a permanent deal after coming in on loan from Rochdale at the end of last season.
Though Townson failed to score in three starts and six substitute appearances last season, he netted 30 times in three years at Spotland.
The new strikers will have two new wide men to supply crosses, with 28-year-old right winger Dave Beresford signing from Tranmere. Horton knows the strengths of this former Oldham forward, having spent £350,000 of Huddersfield Town's money in 1997 to sign take him from Boundary Park.
Beresford has also played at Hull and Plymouth and spent a one month loan period at the Moss Rose in 2003.
On the left flank will be the 30-year-old Martin Bullock, a former England under-21 who moves from Blackpool. Bullock played 33 games for Barnsley in the Premiership and was in the team that saw the South Yorkshire men knock Manchester United out of the FA Cup fifth round in 1998. Horton has also moved to replace Graeme Potter with left-wing back Kevin Sandwith a fast, tough tackling defender who is more than capable of getting forward.
Sandwith will be familiar to Macc supporters having supplied the cross for Lincoln's goal in the first leg of last season's play-off at Sincil Bank.
Horton said: "Having been forced to strengthen the defence with the signings of Danny Swailes and Dave Morley at the turn of then year, it was always going to be the case that I would look at my forward line in the close season."
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to form a good club you need support, by losing one of your stalwart club members, someone who puts everything for the club, and then is put on the redundancy list will not enhance the support of the fans who have tirelessly stayed the course through more bad times than good. without explanation it would appear that the demise of the chief executive is nothing more than another scapegoat to cover up the poor senior management who should have supported someone who carried them through when the times looked very insecure. however i am sure when it comes to run the club,promote good relations,the disco,the bars and be available for charity functions, pictures for the macc express, and every god forseeable job that came along, the person who intends to follow that act will obviously be very talented. perhaps the new chairman wold like to explain how that is going to happen when the chief executives job no longer exists, as he is now REDUNDANT