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Beano back on the radar
           

  PAOLO Di Canio could be set to resurrect his interest in Oxford United striker James Constable, the Advertiser understands.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/9466053.Beano_back_on_the_radar/?ref=rss
           

Hmmm....

No thanks. Don't get to kiss that yellow shit on the County Ground pitch, then come play nicely. Once a scummer always a scummer.

If he does sign I want a photo of him kissing our badge!

Fuck off Constable, you aren't wanted.

No thanks. Scum badge kissing prick!

Personally can't see why we need him. Benson and Connell look good, Murray has a chance of becoming good but is a little inconsistent. But I guess Kerouche is gone and the jury is out on Magera being able to cope physically at this level in a strikers role.

So actually I have talked myself into thinking perhaps we do need another striker. But are Constable and Benson too similar? From the little I've seen Benson is the better prospect to play at a higher level.

The important part of the article is "sources close to the player". I will Believe that when the club officially confirm that we have made a concrete offer or an official inquiry.

Some of you take your prejudices to seriously. If Paolo thinks he's worth pursuing then I'm right behind him in doing so, after all we're hardly going to sign any player just to do a "Duncan" on Oxford or any perceived threat, we we all know their best hope is the play offs.

Any player the club bring in regardless of who they are or where they come from is going to come in to play a part in our ultimate goal of promotion at the first time of asking. I'm all for that ladles & jellyspoons.

No thanks.  Played for both my football foes, league and non-league.....little Oxford and the mighty chippenham.  Chippenham being the non-league side for those who weren't sure.   :)

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Although I can't see why we need yet another striker, I'd have him here.

Although it's probably bollocks and just his agent trying to engineer a move.

He kissed the scums badge which I agree is not good.  But if he comes and scores regularly and gets the winner against the scum all will be forgiven!

My thought's too. As Jimmy Greaves used to say to Ian ST. John it's a funny old game.....

Sure he's kissing the badge and not wiping his nose?

No he's smelling the bull shit

I would too, as long as he apologises for kissing the scum badge, because he knows he did wrong.

I can see why PdC may be interested because he is EXACTLY what we are missing up front which Benson, Murray, Kerrouche and Magera dont give us but what Clarke did offer us, a big presence up front that can win the ball on the ground and in the air, the big target man. Benson is a better prospect to play at a higher level I agree but we arent at that higher level yet and C*ntstable is just what we need to get us to that higher level.

But I do agree that its his agent pushing for a move, stating that we are interested so that he may be able to get a better deal for him at the Pox.

So what's wrong with Kerrouche?  Does a great job imo. Look no further. Our top scorer and No official news No rumours Nothing.

isn't training hard enough

Think this seems to indicate Di Canio won't be playing him anytime soon

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/9457577.Di_Canio_prepared_to_let_Kerrouche_leave_Swindon/

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/oxfordunited/9468009.United_reject_Swindon_bid_for_Constable/?ref=twt&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

we are serious...

Don't want him after his shenanigans in August.

Why spend money on someone the fans dont clearly want here id rather have grabban.

Apparently lazy and goes missing during games. I love PDC, but I'd question why he'd want someone who's as up for it as Spatula.

To be fair it is fuckall to do with us who we sign.I will give him a chance if he scores then great.

BBC reports that Wilder has already had a word with him this morning and told him to get his head down. Sign him or not, we certainly like playing mind games with 'Swindon fan' Constable  8)

Personally, if we are picking players off the Pox I would rather have Leven than Constable

Surprises me. Hasn't been prolific this season. 9 goals in 27 games. While Connell who has been coming off the bench and played less has 7 goals in 25? McLeod's record and Grabbans record is a striker I want to see us buying not scummy Constable. Especially after he kissed "that" badge.

Little bird told me that Peter Leven has non promotion release clause

Gary Rose thinks that Constable himself has rejected us. We can all but hope.

Would be a nice combo with Simon.

Dont know how hes worked that one out tbh, for all we know constable might have wanted to come but the club rejected the bid

Some people need to get a grip, Footballers kiss badges all the time it means nothing.

Robbie Keane has done it at all 26 clubs that he played for having supported as a boy.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

My thoughts too, he may have been made aware of the bid but I doubt hugely he would reject us BEFORE it had even been accepted the the club.

Must have been this quote...

"As I have said before, for any transfer to happen, all three parties have got to be in a agreement - the two clubs and the player.

It didn't work out well in august when the same thing happened

That was down to our shit defence and a lack of cohesion. He wouldn't get a sniff now.

Just been on BBC Radio - Constable interested in talking to us but so far the bid has been rejected - only on financial grounds....

Seriously?

Yep - thats what it just said on the 12 O'Clock news on BBC Swindon - had it on in the car...

Also said that Poxford did not reject the offer on the grounds that we were Swindon - but purely on financial grounds....

Who gives a fuck if he kissed the pox badge. Just imagine those cunts reaction down the road at pinching their centre forward  :smugfu:
Anyway, players kiss badges all the time and it means fuck all to them. If he came here and scored goals then happy days

Totally agree arriba. Wouldn't it be brilliant if he scored against them. 8)

This is all sounding very Beauchamp/1994.  I was living in Oxford at the time...and the locals didn't like it one bit.

He's not prolific enough for my liking but if I had the money, I'd give it to the board myself just to piss off the pox (and DV)

Can't get on the Pox site. News of the bid alone must have broked it.

Can't we sign Leven aswell? That would go down a treat.

dont you dare fucking sign the badge kissing scum cunt Paolo!

Yeah don't do it Paolo or DV will never watch us again.

Can somebody do a list of a few strikers we should be trying to sign realistically who are good enough for league 1. I keep seeing people saing he is a league 2 player etc so who are these other players we should be tring to sign

I'd forgive him if he admits (as Horlock says) that he was wiping snot on the piss-stained shirt.

I know we're looking for a big target man, but is that not what Benson was signed for?

The view from over here is that they will be 'happy' for him to go if the price is right. They even say it will spice up the game in March!

Now if we bid for Leven..........they would riot!

In Paolo we trust.....  :hmmm:

I wont support a Town team with him in it.

At least it would give you someone to boo on your next trip to the County Ground.

Although he will probably have retired by then ;)

*Insert lazy and obvious gag about this not making a great deal of difference here*

Yeah, I'm the only one here who never goes to games & when I do go I boo everyone all the time.

I wouldn't mind it if he came here, sounds like he's tempted if he wants to talk to us.

The badge kissing thing doesn't really bother me, like others have said, players do it all the time, it means fuck all.

Charlie Adam did it for Blackpool a couple of days after handing in a transfer request.

Could be interesting.

Here already?

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DRS has too much free time on his hands :D

I assume this is a tongue in cheek comment? Why are you such a child?

Nice of Mehdi to lend him his jacket. He must have been cold.

I'll start it

Jo Kuffour
Billy Kee

It would piss the Pox off which would be good but on a player basis he's no better than what we have here already. For that reason, I'm out.

Lick my Arse Orifice do one splitter.

Im not having him take the credit for my hard work.

That took me ages! 8)

Sorry, I withdraw the previous comment :D

Kuffour kissed the rovers badge. no go

Don't know enough about the player to say if this would be a good football signing.............but..............
Would bring a smile to the faces of Swindon fans.

Maybe Paolo will bring him in and then put him out on loan to Barnet. ;D

Imagine the intensity of the rivalry if he did sign for Swindon.

Due to their obsession with all things Swindon - Oxford could go on full meltdown.

Wonder if maybe we put in a cheeky low bid, just to rock the boat a little.

Thats gotta be worth £100k of anyones money :D

Not bothered about the badge kissing, many players do that now and it means nothing. Would be worth it just to see the reaction of the Oxford fans - would drive them up the wall.

From a footballing point of view his record is decent, and Paolo certainly seems to rate him. Were Murray to go back to Ipswich another striker wouldn't hurt.

 :hmmm:  :no:  

Hmmmm No

Latest rumour is that they will accept 100k....plus Connell.

 

Eh?






That's just the first page

Dont be so fucking ridiculous.

> Regardless of who the player is, we should never, EVER, sell a player to that lot

On the other hand, I can think of four or five players they can have absolutely free of charge. We're clearly just much nicer down here.

After reading that lot, I really want us to sign him, even if he never plays.

No thanks

They might as well have Kerrouche, if we're never going to play him.

We'd never give them that. Whatever happens with Constable I reckon Connell will finish the season with more goals than him.

Surely they'd love a Czech international striker?

Indeed. Think there are couple of players we may wish to unload on them  ;D

But saying that, like Revell this Saturday, they'll probably score against us!  :headhurts:

Now THERE's a good idea!

Ah yes. Revell. Odds on he will score! :(

What's big Vince up to these days?

Sky sports say it was a six figure bid. Surely can't be much for than £100,000.

I hope we sign him then loan him to hereford 8)

Or loan him to Luton.

They really don't like Luton for some reason.

Completely serious.

There is a reason why Joey Beauchamp is the most despised and hated Town player of all time.

Yeah DV but it's not JUST because he came from Poxford....

It's because he was like a fucking Mummies Boy - "I don't want to be far from home" etc....

First chance he got he fucked off, and he never wanted to be here anyway...

If Sky are right in what they are saying this afternoon "Constable asked to talk to Swindon after a second bid received" then I think this is totally different to Joey Scumbag

He kissed the badge - that really pissed everyone off - however if he were to come and apologise for that then as far as I am concerned it's water under the bridge - if he scores goals for us, and Poxford are worse off for it, then I am all in !!!

Beauchamp was welcomed when he first joined

If he kissed the badge (which he did), then came to us, It'd be the Pox he is shitting on from a great height.

'Ave it

Where have they said this?

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...and we all know how that one turned out.

 :yikes:  Getting serious now then.

Is the image underneath when you turned your telly off in disgust, Tans?  :D

Job done.

Now let's withdraw our bid  ;D

This is hilarious.

It certainly is. If he has asked to talk to us, he'll not be a popular chap over their way. I'd go so far to say it would be game over for him there, regardless if whether he comes here.

Surely if we sign Constable, these rumours of us trying to sign Murray would stop then.

Nah fuck it, we'll sign him aswell

Loving this.

Must buy an Oxford Mail tomorrow.

Seen scum fans quoting 250k alot. Don't think we'll pay anywhere near that. Take 50-100k off that and thats a more likely figure.

God imagine how they'll going to react when they find out we've also put a bid in for Peter Leven too  :zipped:

Paolo was talking about looking for a centre mid.  ::)


Edit : Second bid rejected for Constable on sky sports.

2nd bid rejected ?

What it said on Sky Sports News.

if he really does want to talk to us I can see a transfer request coming

Hope so. Will cause the pox alot of problems then  :D

Comazzi For Constable.


Job done.

Ah, you've heard that aswell?

Where he came from will soon be forgotten if he does the business for us, if anything the laugh will be on Oxford. A lot of fans if honest probably didn't like Paolo before he came to us and now is like god.
Oh James Constable used to play for Oxford but he's alright now ..........

That's what it says on Sky

These are just two reasons why I think we should sign him..

I prefer my tweet to him.....


@JamesConstable9 Switch to the dark side young Jedi. Darth Paolo will make you more powerful than you can imagine. #stfc

Before i even get to his OUFC badge-kissing antics, I wouldn't even sign him on footballing reasons. He isn't very good.

Peter Leven on the other hand...

Leven is far too good for League 2 and would easily do a job in League 1...sign him up!

Leven is probably too good for League one seeing how well he did at Franchise.

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/9469185.Oxford_United_reject_second_bid_for_Constable/

I think we will get him. Once the player asks for talks their hand is forced.   :smugfu: :nod: :bye:

If I was an Oxford fan... and I thank the Gods that I'm not (cheers Gods.x.), then I'd want rid as soon as they want to talk to your bitterest rival.

Also, are there no other centre forwards out there?

Speculation on Pox board was £175k for 1st bid £200k for 2nd bid.  No way is he worth this

I'd rather we bid 200k for Tubbs but I guess Creepy can afford to hold out for silly money.

They'll get £350,000 max for Tubbs.

Wouldn't go for either Tubbs or Constable though, would rather Grabban or McLeod.

Crawley fans reckon they're looking for about £400k for Tubbs.

Rivalry aside, I'm beginning to warm to the thought of signing Constable now.

And 9 goals with half-ish the season gone. 18 goals is not a bad tally at all for a player that adds more than just goals.

Dreamland, surely? He'll be 28 by the end of the season and a higher league team signing him is always going to be a risk, what with no experience in the league above and just half a season (so far) and a failed loan spell's football league experience under his belt. If Crawley have to sell players, then potential suitors should be looking at Tyrone Barnett, a much better player with far more potential.

I'd rather Grabban too, but Kee would be first choice for me. Constable would be another Connell - similar age, similar type of player. Both probably not going to pull up trees in L1. Benson looks like the player we have been missing, sharp, quick, intelligent.

Forgot about Kee but I completely agree, he's another we should be looking at!

Just a quick point regarding Grabban. Isn't he a winger? He plays at RM for Rotherham. I'd imagine we'd be looking at him only if Ritchie goes (fingers crossed he doesn't though).

Would prefer McLeod, 15 in a struggling side isn't too shabby

Grabban is a striker. He's been up top with Revell.

Grabban impressed me earlier in the season, apart from he never stopped moaning at the ref.

6 of Mcleods goals have come from the penalty spot, but regardless his record this season is still good for a team near the bottom

Get Revell back. Would at least stop him scoring against us ALL THE TIME.

I had a quick look around at the strikers named in this thread, working out goals per game average at Conference level and above (yes I am sad and bored)

Tubbs    215 games 112 goals - 1 goal every 1.9 games, aged 27
Constable 231 games 93 goals - 1 goal every 2.4 games, aged 27
McLeod    258 games 92 goals - 1 goal every 2.8 games, aged 27
Kee         99 games 30 goals - 1 goal every 3.3 games, aged 21
Connell   278 games 72 goals - 1 goal every 3.8 games, aged 28
Grabban   140 games 30 goals - 1 goal every 4.6 games, aged 24

Grabban and Kee have age on their side compaired to the others but the thing with Constable is that hes a very different player to all the others listed here and also very different from what we already have.

Hes a tall bustling muscular target man, Connell, Magera, De Vita, Murray, Kerrouche and Benson aren't that and that is obviously exactly what PdC wants.

One thing about Grabban is alot of those games were at a higher level and as a winger

This. People are saying they prefer connell but he is only basically playing as a target man because we don't have one or Magera is playing shit.

Jebus, with that 'Constable asks for permission to speak to Swindon' story he's a dead man walking. There's no way he can stay there.

Love it 8)

That is a very respectable 'G to G' ratio for Constable I have to say.

Only the 10 games he played while at Palarse were in the Championship, the rest were at 1st div level and below like the rest of the players on that list who have all with the exeception of Tubbs played in the 1st Division.

And yes he did start as a winger and TBH thats probably his best position, a goal scoring winger, hes certainly not a target man which PdC is obviously after.

I'd love it if this comes off. You don't? So what, bite me.

Who says he's not good enough for League One? How many times have you seen him play at League One level?

The fact is he's played half a season in League One in an abysmal Walsall team that finished bottom of the table (one place below us!).

Agree with all that. Not to mention we aren't nearly in league 1 yet, and he would undoubtedly be an asset for the second half of this season.

Yep :nod:

I don't give a flucking fuck if he played for the scum and scored a winning goal at the CG against us then kissed his piss coloured shirt badge.

If he signs it will piss the inbreds off so fucking much and I think he is EXACTLY what we have been missing up front all season.

I hope we pull this one off.....and soon!

This, as long as he scored a shit load for us, I don't really give a fuck!

Having an Oxford player come out and say,
"Let me talk to Swindon"

Is brilliant.

I think he could do a good job here, though him signing probably also means Paolo has finally given up with Magera...

Where would this leave Magera I wonder?

Retweeted by Constable:

bbcoxfordsport BBC Oxford Sport
We hear from a trusted source that James Constable is not looking for a move from #oufc and certainly not to another League Two club.

Make of that what you will, but certainly doesn't sound like he wants to talk to us.

Its causing them trouble whatever so long may it continue.

Why can't the guy just say, "I'm not joining Swindon Town".

Then we can all move on.

The comparison with Joey Fuckface end with the fact that Joey was and Oxford fan, whereas Constable is a Swindon fan.

We can make his dreams come true and fuck that lot off down the road, big time!

From that tweet it sounds like he isn't keen on joining us, but that he certainly wants to leave them.

Think we've dodged a bullet there anyway.

Close to Milan Misun I would guess  :hmmm:

No chance....paolo wants at least 5 strikers....with Kerrouche and Murray not certs to be here all season he will be staying and playing and being a very important part of the squad these days...is it only me and Paolo who thinks he will come good? ;)
I mean its Paolo who has been playing him no one else :D

Well, that cheered up an otherwise crappy day.

Maybe we can do the same tomorrow with Leven?

The fees being talked about seem ridiculous for someone of his age who's played virtually all of his career in non-league, and would be at best a gamble in building for League 1 success.

Didn't we have a chance to sign him but declined to follow-up before he went to Walsall?

Now, Leven would be a different matter entirely - there must be some strange reason why he went to Oxford in the first place, as he's clearly too good for League 2, so I'd be very surprised if we could pull that one off.

Yep...he played and scored a blinder in a pre season at Cirencester.....King wasn't impressed.

Now the Constable deal seems off, can we now try and sign Billy Kee!

Once upon a time all of this would be done behind-the-scenes with a bit of dignity.

 :football:

I still think it's on, He re tweeted a bbc report to make out he's not interested, but then again he could've easily tweeted that he's not joining Swindon.

Thought the same

There's a lot of bullshit in this thread.

1. Constable won't leave us for a L2 side. He'd only move up a league.
2. He is a good player for L2.
3. I think Tubbs is off to B'mouth?
4. I rate Billy Kee, decent player.
5. Constable is not particularly tall or a target man. He's 6ft, a grafter. Runs and fights all day. Touch of an absolute rapist so pumping balls up to him won't get you very far, doesn't win much in the air outside the box.
6. I wouldn't be confident that Constable would be a good L1 player, I don't think he's good enough technically. But there's also no way I want him to leave, and I want to see if he's good enough in L1 with us.
7. He hasn't said that he wanted to talk to you. That re-tweet sums it up nicely.

I was expecting a "I'm not leaving Oxford" message shortly after the retweet. I suppose if the clubs are talking then Oxford are willing to sell and therefore why would you want to stay at a club who could be willing to...

1. Sell you to a major rival.

2. Sell you to a same division promotion contender.

?

No no. He hasn't said that he doesn't want to. He could've put that to bed long before that RT..

Teases, the lot of them.

It would be good if he said he wanted to talk to us, did so and Jeremy and PdC said "only joking you badge kissing Scum cunt now go back to your 3 sided monument to excrement and explain to those retarded yellow pisstained wastes of skin why you wanted to sign for the mighty Swindon who you support but fucked up the arse back in August".

Is he planning on playing into his 40s then?

Seems to me he has a lack of ambition if that tweet was a true reflection of his feelings.

Wahey! Good one. Not a lack of ambition at all, in fact its almost a statement of ambition. He wants to go up a league or stay here and go up.


You're a League 2 side, no? Then he won't be joining you, and he's said that he doesn't want to.

Make your mind up, first you say he wants to go up a league, then you say he wants to stay at Oxford.

This is pure gold. Never seen OF bite like this before. Time of the month, babe?

Whether it's true or not, that's made my day.

Now for Leven please Paolo.

Failing that, how much mischief can the TEF work on rumour sites?

It was a simple statement, try reading it again?

"He wants to go up a league or stay here and go up."

He'd go up a league to the right offer, remember that a potential move to Bournemouth fell through even after agreeing a contract.

If you offered enough money for Constable then our board would probably do a deal because we can't turn down big offers. But seeing as your club made it so public that they turned down a £500k offer for Ritchie, its going to take something significant.

Its quite clear, try reading it again. If he stays with you he won't be going up will he. HTH.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

IMO you can keep him.  I think he would only be good to help us get up next season, as he isn't good enough for L1.  On that basis, we will go up without him.

Makes me laugh to see him disrupt your non league camp  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

he he

It was Bournemouth that made the Ritchie bid public on their website, not our board.

And surely Ritchie is worth substantial multiples of Constable's value, Ritchie having proved himself to be a star at this level and only 22 years old compared with a 27 y.o. journeyman who's been reasonably succesful in pub leagues.

I didn't know it was Bournemouth who went to press, fair enough.

Ritchie is of course worth more than Constable. But if we know that you're in a position to reject £500k bids (we are not) for any player, then we're going to ask a fair whack from you for our main striker.

Wouldn't you like Deane Smalley instead? He scored loads for Chesterfield last season. You could have him for £100k.

Why is it that, now we're playing on the bottom rung of the League, we're suddenly a 'buying club' and need a squad of 300 players?  And how are we able to afford it anyway?

I'm tired.

I'll stop baiting OF and join you in your wonderment.

We must have spent shit loads this year.

Likewise if we'd accepted £500K for any player then prices would escalate as other clubs would expect us to be spending a chunk of the proceeds!

The money that's being talked about for Constable is ridiculous to my mind, though I can't blame Oxford for wanting to up the price as much as poss.  It would be a difficult one for them to turn down I would have thought (IF the quoted amounts are in the right ballpark) as there can't be many clubs queueing up to buy him at that price.

I would regard any figure you read on forums etc. as complete bollocks, not worth talking about.

James Constable @JamesConstable9 Close
To clear up the rumours, "I have never asked to speak to Swindon" so don't know where that has come from! No truth what so ever!


The man finally speaks!

Now that is about the ONLY sensible thing you have ever said on this forum OF !!!

Again interesting though - he tweets "I have never asked to talk to Swindon" rather than "I don't WANT to talk to Swindon and I don't WANT to move to Swindon" - MASSIVE difference !!

Once again had the chance to clean the slate - however chose to swerve it !!

Odd that it's taken until now for him to come out with that...

But there's no need for him to say anything really.  Surely best all around would be to keep totally quiet, but I guess in the twatter age that's impossible for most footballers.

Slow typer?

Not sure if Constable would do the biz for us in a higher league, and after 2 bids rejected would prefer we moved on and tried somewhere else!

He wasn't necessarily top of the list in the first place though. I don't know nuffin', just pointing out for all we know he might be last on our shortlist.

Good point Batch and if that's the case, seems we are working up the list  :D

They're such a sensitive lot over there.

I've been banned from their forum. I really didn't say much at all.

Who were you on there?

Fwiw constable couldve nipped it in the bud much earlier, but didnt. So who knows...

Paolo's Meatballs. I really did behave myself on there.

So sensitive over what is really nothing but a hypothetical move at the moment. Imagine if we really did take a player of theirs, the meltdown would be a glorious thing.

It will be fantastic if it meltsdown over there, and yes you wind them up but not in a really nasty way like some Town fans do over there.

Marvellous, and of course they were so magnanimous when Mooney signed for them...

Why beano?  Why not whizzer and chips, the dandy or buster?

I always thought he was nicknamed Beano because he looks a bit like Plug.

As much as Bale?

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He got the nickname Beano as a kid, because he looked like a baked bean.

Ha fair enough, Bale is much more deserving of that one!

Bale looks like Tails, this is a well known fact.