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Bristol City fan here (comes in peace)

I understand he's off to Leeds.

Any info your way?

I think he may be having a medical TODAY?!

I'm pretty sure he's going. That's just the impression I have. I have no inside info whatsoever.

who is this guy? i understand we have a player by the name of billy PAYNTER?

Painter/Paynter

I'm a City fan I'm not supposed to know  :D

bristol education i take it  :nod:

He is indeed off to Leeds- £8k a week contract.

He's going to Brighton to play alongside Marcos Painter

I know the money is key for him.

Also it seems Sheehan isn't coming back to you guys, with Birmingham and Burnley alongs 2/3 other sides interested.

STFC will have a big shake up for next season. I think there could be a maximum of 13 players' deals up this summer, whether its contract or loanees.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Don't be fucking silly.

With respect BCFC Scrumps you worry about your side- and leave us to worry about ours.

Up to you if you want to believe me or not.

Just informing you guys if you weren't aware.

We have been aware of Paynter going for some weeks now- so it is old news.

Anyway BCFC Scrumps, shouldn't you be asking us about Ferry?

If I should be, what should I be asking?

If its to do with him coming to City, I don't believe there is any thruth in it whatsoever.

Infact some my side seem to think Hartley is off. however they know eachother from Celtic and Ferry was probably like Hartley's 'apprentice' lets say.

if paynter thinks he's better than us.let him go and fail elsewhere.
i dunno what bullshit his agent is telling him,but he aint no championship player.he's found his level with us.he's bloody good at this level, but i think he's peaked already and wont get better

Which is why it will be best for him to go....downhill for BP from here. Pericard will fill the gap.

If he is earning 8K a week will he actually care?

Probably not.  Will be interested to see how it gets on at the next level though.  I agree with Arriba and think he may have done the best that he's capable of.  He's been fairly anonymous for the last few games that he's played in.  Plus strikers that leave Swindon have a habit of going downhill or becoming injury prone!

The vast majority of football players are driven by money and he is no different.

I don't think he'll do well.

Austin wants to move on and improve his wage income. One reason being he has a second kid on the way. Saying that I don't think he's doing too well with what he's earning now (was £300, is now £1800 a week).

if he's happy sitting on the bench on more money, then that would say alot about a player.i dont think they are all like that, and most want to play.

If Paynter had a shit season at best he'd be looking at a one year extension on the same money, at worst he'd be released and be looking at reduced money with smaller club. Given it is so easy to end up on the scrap heap you can't blame any player for taking a pay day to provide them with security for the future.

If Leeds have offered him £8k a week and say a 3 year deal, that's a £1.2m pay day for him and would set him and his family up for life. He'd be an idiot to turn a contract like that down just for regular football in a lower league, especially as he'll be thinking he can be a regular at Leeds in the Championship.

just because he scpred 20+ goals dont means hes all that i mean iffy onoura scored 20+ for us and he was shite.

fuck paynter the last 2 games hes played where shit and he can go sit on the bench elsewhere the scouse twat

Football agent bull shit.

Iffy Onoura wasnt shite!

he was  :D

Nobody is a bigger cunt than Simon Cox. Fucking judas cunt.

Bring back Sam Parkin......

This wanting to play in White thing is just going too far!

What next?

Lucas to Tranmere,Austin to Madrid.

Haha!

Although technically Lucas wont be in white will he..

before charlie arrived would you have thought we would get offers in january for billy or he would end up one of the highest scorers in the division.

^ No.

Fitton stated we did get offers in January, but chose to keep Billy to give us a chance of promotion.

How many times in the past under different regimes would we have sold to anyone at that point eh?  :beers:

true .the worst one being duncan shearer

Why can't Billy be honest and admit he is leaving to go to a championship club - I don't like players that know full well that they are doing but don't say anything, I can understand he didn't want to say anything before the PO's but now the season is over just be honest with the fans.

If we'd have sold him in january you would have got a load of cunts moaning and saying we should have kept him to get us into the playoffs, then let him go on a free with our thanks

fucking football fans!

We'd have got fuck all for him in January anyway i suspect.

Good luck Bill.

players are liars,chairmen are liars,cheif execs are liars.get used to it. it's par for the course

you fucking liar arriba

:)

It's obvious he is moving primarily for

1) championship football

and

2) the higher wages that go with it


Might want to be a bit further North too. But it's mainly the above reasons isn't it? Does he really need to make a statement saying that?

I'm sure he'll say something to the adver thanking the fans at some point in the next few days.

Complete bastard! Totally buggered me on the Username front. :serenade:

and yet you know a Swindon player is having a medical at Leeds.

It's not stopped Jfw.

I make that the last 4 games

He's signed a 3 year deal at Leeds according to the STFC Facebook page...

...and the official site http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2063647,00.html

Our fault, shouldn't have let his contract run down. Learn the lesson, sign Cuthbert, Douglas etc up before January and move onwards and upwards.

I gave up years ago! although I started life as Rorysfuturewife!

I remember that.

There's a nice ring to Lescinel's future wife, you know.

he was offered contracts.it was purely down to paynter himself

He was offered a contract in the latter part of the season yes, unless I've a poor memory he was not spoken to last summer, when I'd expect them to at least have a talk about it with the better players.

But it doesn't really matter now, he's gone, Wembley's gone, lets move onwards and upwards.

Plus if his wife wanted away as well... Guess you have to think about your family too

This.

You can change your wife, but you can't change your football team

Should be looking at extending Cuthberts contract this summer. Probably Douglas as well.

Douglas has the option of a 3rd year to be fair. I know that doesn't mean he will sign though.

LJFFW ?