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I thought it would be prudent to give the next 24 hours it's own thread (feel free to merge this if necessary).

Judging by Gary Rose's message on Twitter earlier it would appear that any deal for Lee Cox is pending the departure of contracted players.

Has there been any updates regarding Mattia Lanzano and Etienne Esajas? I assume we're looking to offload the latter but if he's injured then there's little chance of that happening unless we pay him off.

Lanzano's exit has been long drawn, I hope we are able to let him go as he really is deadwood now.

Billy Bodin - I suppose is based on whether Torquay/whoever and Swindon can agree a fee.

A new centre forward would be good but I think there's goals from Benson and whoever he partners.

It's bizarre that we rearranged the Southend game for Deadline Day, I can only imagine that the club believed they would have their deals in place by now.

Elsewhere. I think replacing Matt Tubbs with Frank Nouble is a bit of a risk.

Southend signed Pat Baldwin today which I think is a decent enough addition for them.

BBC RS said Kerouche could be on his way too. We must have another striker lined up, we'll see if it goes through.

Bodin & Kerrouche look to be the only 2 outgoings tomorrow but even then this may not come off.

Lanzano won't leave neither will Esajas their getting paid for doing nothing.

I'm assuming everyone knows that Bournmouth have signed Tubbs from Crawley for £800k
I assume that at least means Ritchie and Caddis won't be going to Bournemouth.

Which I'm sure most will agree, is good news

I get the impression that he's another clubs 'Plan B' if something falls through elsewhere.

I assume you didn't see the 'muff local rag tweeting Ritchie is still a target.

Could be. I got the impression he and Bodin would free up wage cap space.

Crawley made a profit of around £745,000 for Tubbs. I wonder what sort of figure Swindon would have placed for him if indeed we were interested?

At this point I wonder what forwards are left on our radar

Had a crap day at work - (9-5 job turned into 8am-7.15pm).

My mood just got a lot better though with the Matt Tubbs transfer news.

What next for Crawley ?? Sell the ground to Tesco ??  

I think they will start to slide  :bye:

Apparantley, they rejected an offer from Peterborough for Barnett today.

Tesco Express?

From Saturday :

BBC football pundit Steve Claridge on the fourth round's biggest shock: "They've got money, Crawley, and they'll be hoping for a big match in the fifth-round draw. Crawley are not going to let a Championship side like Hull get away with not playing their best."


Says how much Claridge knows about league football...

Have I missed some kind of Euromillions win?  Where the hell did Bournemouth suddenly get that much money from?

That seems crazy money for Tubbs.

Not if he keeps scoring goals like he has.

Some Russian millionaire owns half the club now I believe

According to a Torquay fan on their forum we want 150k for Billy Bodin which is out of their price range and bloody steep for a 19 year old who is out of contract in the summer.

Maxim Demin

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Russian-oil-billionaire-Maxim-Demin-has-bought-50-stake-in-League-One-Bournemouth-article822850.html

Its to much money for tubbs, he's 27, they're not even buying a player who scores lot and has potential, this is the prime of his career! Glad we didnt get him, if indeed we did bid for him.

Seems the cox deal is dependent on out goings? unless a striker is more of a priority and PDC doesnt want to max the budget on another midfielder, so is holding for departures so he can get both?

Would really like a physical forward in, not sure who exactly but someone as dont like the idea of Magera playing if Benson is injured or at 32 cant play every game

That'll be it then.  Maxim Demim as Batch says.  That's a Bond villain if ever I've heard of one!!

It'll all end in tears.

Maxim Demin sounds like one of those fake overly manly American names, simply  named after two manly things, maxim magazines and denim

Tubbs was certainly one that got away really,plenty of opportunities to sign him for little money.

teasing them with a view derailing their promotion push....

Is Lanzano definitely still around then? I thought perhaps he'd gone back to Italy as per the earlier news story but nothing had been announced

Alarming or Agent that knows nothing?

 brummieagent John Voysey
Matt Ritchie has said he is delighted with his link with Leicester, move looking likely according to his agent #LCFC #STFC #transferrumours

These sort of reports are going to emerge left, right and centre.

Ritchie to Leicester is much less likely now after they had a bid accepted for Ben marshall

Maxim Denim sounds like one of the cheap jeans your mum would buy you cos she couldn't afford Levis or Wranglers( i know i'm showing my age )

Have we not signed anyone yet?

@BmthEchoSport - Morning #afcb fans..... Could be a busy deadline day. Deal for Matt Ritchie is very much ON we understand....

Well if it is then lets hope that it is for a massive amount of money that enables us to buy 4 x Championship players.

Perhaps in the summer!

I reckon Rooney is Ritchie's replacement unfortunately.

Other than Fods, Rooney, Benson and Boateng on loan?

Today Cox confirmed on a 2 1/2 year deal.

Looking worryingly like that. I think he can do far far better in the summer - long term a shame for him and huge blow to our promotion push no matter how you dress it up. He's not come out at any point and nailed his colours to the mast.

West Ham are linked to every player around aren't they, they just had 5 minutes on SSN just on them.

Tonight's team may say a lot.

My paranoia has me wonder if Flint really is injured too :)

Can't see it myself

A bid for Ridehalgh would be most welcome.

Fuck me sideways - he's not even gone!

Cheer-up and i bet you a fiver he'll still be here after the deadline!

Bournemouth's local rag seem to be unsure whether they are targeting Ritchie or a Colchester player:

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/9501814.Cherries__Mitchell_prepared_for_deadline_day_drama/


He's concentrating on a game. Compare and contrast to Constable Thursday.

If you're going to read that, just as well read this as well

http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,46701.msg1037844/topicseen.html#new

Yes, but I've been disappointed enough to see such statements become meaningless before. Clearly we'd sell at less than 10M, it just a matter of where.

Latest tweet was STFC "are putting up a fight" to keep Ritchie. Hopefully that means this time we ARE serious and have told them to get stuffed.

I'm struggling to see the attraction of b'muff, tubbs and ritchie......stfcinbmth, do you care to fill us in?
Is it just the case that the owners are throwing money at the team?
I was about to write that its depressing that players just follow the money, but I suppose in the case of ritchie, it is failry local and there are worst places to live....hardly a great footballing heritage though...

selling ritchie today would be devastating!

We wont have time to replace the lad no matter what cash we get

these rumours from Bournemouth better not materialize!

I'm sure the powers that be realise that selling Ritchie now could have a devastating effect on our promotion bid

Youd like to think so.

Anyhow if he goes now i would be inclined to say he is a greedy fuck. Wait till the summer and get a better deal ffs.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11750/7467221/

I'm struggling to see the attraction myself. Yep, it's a nice place live, but I'm pretty sure B'mth will still be League 1 next season.
It's either the Russian throwing money at it(I heard that he didn't want to be spending much of his own cash) or they are using the cash they got from dismantling the squad in the summer

Unless...Rooney is being seen as a replacement.  All hypothetical right now, but let's suppose Ritchie does go (and that's by no means certain, or even likely, at the moment).  It's not as if we haven't bought any players in recently.  In terms of depth, our squad is as healthy as it's been for a long time.  Rooney might well step up and become the new Matt Ritchie.  Not ideal to lose a player of MR's calibre at this point, but I'm not convinced it would spell disaster either.

Either way, I suppose we'll know soon enough whether there is any mileage in the rumours.  Swindon to Southend is a fairly long trip, and we'll hear soon enough if any of our key players haven't travelled with the rest of the squad.

Whos to say the club accepts the bid and then he turns down the move? That would be good

Sky know fuck all and care much less about what happens outside their beloved premier league. The probably knicked that from the B'mth Echo

Unless they're being offered silly money, I just don't see how any of our players would see a move to Bournemouth as a step up.

I agree, moves like Cox to West Brom you can accept, he was clearly too good for the league he was in and moved on to a genuinley bigger club, biggers things, fulfill ambitions etc etc and I am sure 99% of town fans wished him well....but its moves like this that leave a real sour taste, since they are done for one reason and one reason only...

If Ritchie is to go, it has to be done early so we can us this money in other areas (i.e. striker, defender) within the time given.

Don't know how Paolo and co. are juggling today with our biggest game of the season tonight!

Having a game on deadline day feels strange.

the coach has left for southend, dont know who is on it mind

What would we as a club consider silly money though? I know PdC has mentioned £10mill but in all honesty if they offer us anywhere over £1 mill would we say no?

Yes Ritchie is a massive part of the team and has more than done his fair share to get us where we are but hes still a league 2 player currently and we do have Rooney ready to take over if he does leave.

Fingers crossed it might work in our favour with the players heading up to Southend for a big game tonight.  I wouldnt have thought that PDC would want anything getting in the way of the preparation for the game, especially with a key player like Ritchie.

I just saw Kerrouche, Misun, Flint and Richie walking around town smoking and starting fights...

Do you have any proof?????? Jeez that sounds like someting they would do.

God this club gets on my tits how they don't keep a hold on their players. :D

I would like to think our attitude to Bournemouth would be 'Sorry, you've had a month to approach us if you wanted to, as far as we're concerned our transfer window shut yesterday. Today is a matchday and our focus will be on that and nothing more'

Transfer deadline day...unfortunely I am not sure you can ignore it...

Agreed.

The scum have signed Wycombe's Scott Rendell. Always thought he was decent.

Often the chairman takes control of dealings like these so that it leaves the manager and players free to carry on with match preperation as normal.

I am sure that Paolo has told Jeremey Wray EXACTLY how much that he thinks is a suitable amount for Ritchie if such a bid comes in. Leaving early also gives the buying club plenty of time to get in contact with the player even after the players arrive should a suitable bid be accepted.

Wes Foderingham has confirmed that Ritchie is on the coach to Southend

I'd like to think JW really has taken his battery out his phone and our club is oblivious to any bids.

If that is true, that IS a relief. There is, however, a chance that he has been told to tell us that.

Or he could still possibly sign for Bournemouth after our game at Southend as the window doesn't close until 11.

We need streakers, a floodlight failure, a loose fox...anything to get the game to go over 11 o clock!!!!

The deadline for transfers to be registered isnt until 11pm tonight so dont read much into it even if he plays tonight, theres still time for a bid to be accepted and Ritchie leave AFTER the game has finished tonight.

beat me to it!

I guess he could still meet AFCB officials in Southend. But it's a good sign that he travelled.

Me too!

Gary Rose has just tweeted that our Matt in on the coach as well...

STGary_Rose Gary Rose
Few calls in and Ritchie is on the coach to Southend, should have some more info as well on the latest situation coming soon

They're also after winger Donal McDermott - I guess if they don't land Ritchie.

Here's to hoping that McDermott is their first choice and MR is second...
I wish I had prospective employers scrapping over me, but then again I'm an average at best Aircraft Mechanic and anything I do is nowhere near £6 figures.

How will he be able to sort out players coming in though?

He's in the Phonebox opposite Burger King with a stack of 20ps and a calculator.

Good news that Ritchie is on the coach. What about Flint and Caddis?

:)

Lee Cox...DONE!!

No scarf picture as of yet though...£50,000 reportedly

Ritchie bid officially rejected.

Ritche bid rejected

 Don't they get the fucking picture?? That's the third successive bid turned down!

Now FUCK OFF  :badmood:

Gary Rose enough for me

Town Chairman Jeremy Wray confirms Ritchie will remain at The County Ground with the Robins aiming for automatic promotion this term #stfc


Does this mean the STFC Transfer Deadline Window is now officially shut or is there something else to happen??

Promotion > any potential Matt Ritchie transfer fee.

Seems we've learned from the Austin mistake, famous last words I hope not.

Any of you FM types got one of those screen print things from the game for Cox?

Tubbs going for 800k was silly money. Hope that weakens crawley to our advantage though

Latest Tweet from Gary Rose...

"Think people can rest easy with Jeremy Wray's comments just now.  The club will not let any key players go in this window."

Ritchie staying could prove to be just as good as a new signing. Massive relief.

Gary Rose said Bodin and Kerrouche to go (loan or otherwise) with another striker to potentially join.

I think now that after the Cox signing that any players coming in will be after the loan window opens again next week.

I have a feeling as well that after Wrays comments about Kerrouche that no one is willing to take him on a permanant deal from us so we may well have to loan him out when the window opens again to get his wages off the wage bill.

Frank Nouble has rejected Crawley!

Maybe not then!

Thats a let off for Crawley if you ask me

ho ho ho :)

This day just gets better and better!

It's true he was shite for us, but he found some form at Gillingham. Him rejecting them leaves them with no replacement for Tubbs at the moment, which is good news to me!

[url width=800 height=600]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/jamiethon/cox.jpg[/url]

He's a better GK than Smith then

Bodin staying

Cox looks handy on FM. Mind you, in the last two years they've had our best players as Dossevi and Magera so colour me sceptical on that.

Would like to see Bodin stay

I think massive credit to Wray and those behind the scenes. Any previous chairman would of seen the ££££££s and gone for it.

It's refreshing to know we have a board and chairman who understand football at last!

Thanks JW!!

what's ferry's finishing in fm? 2? 3?

I will agree with you as soon as its tomorrow.

8

If it's highly unlikely another striker will join today then I think we must keep hold of Bodin.

Ok

Excellent stuff. We may get less for him in the summer than now in the panic window, so the board have made great sacrifices here.

We've all got new Cox na na na na

Why would he go in the summer.... We should be in league 1, with a better chance of going up again than Bournemouth

hehe

[url width=900 height=506]http://i39.tinypic.com/2cigxmc.jpg[/url]

Bid for our key player rejected, Brought in one of our transfer targets for a relatively cheap fee and a player turns down one of our current rivals in the league thus leaving them weakened after selling a key striker yesterday.

Could this deadline day be going any better at the moment?!

Paolo & JW I love you.

Sky Sports understands Stoke winger Ben Marshall has agreed his move to Leicester City.


No Ritchie then

Good work Tans.

Got better when I heard the Pox fans were disappointed they didn't sign Luke Gutteridge - a player Aldershot released. Nothing like aiming high! - Fuckwits

Peterborough have bid 2 million for barnett and mcfadzean from crawley

I'd like to think Jeremy Wray sang his response down the phone:

"It's not about the money, money money, we don't need your money, money, money"

Then just hung up.

Crawley being tested by Posh, "Defender Kyle McFadzean & Barnett £1.9mill joint bid from Peterborough".

"They tried to sign Frank Nouble, he said noo, noo noo."

Thats a hard one for Crawley to turn down. Thats a lot of money. Interesting times !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-j3xITvYQY

ritchie transfer request in >:(

A **** of a lot of money (if true). As always will depend on structure of deal, players wishes and whether they can get someone in. In that order.

What?

sauce (sic) mr 1 post?

And you are?  1 post claiming bollocks like that which isnt reported anywhere else?  Excuse me if I tell you to fuck off.  Cunt.  Traditional welcome dont you know.

I assume he submitted this whilst on the team coach?

Cunt!

Well his agent could do it on his behalf. Fuck being in a confined space with PDC if this actually happened though!

Di Canio in talks with West Ham....   >:(

Quote of the year already from Steve Evans

http://www.crawleytownfc.com/page/La...594714,00.html

'We will not pay inflated transfer fees or give out stupid contracts as it would go against the core values the owners have in place here.'

Trolling Oxford/Boremuff fan.

oh sorry did i not give you a formal introduction?.....here it is, lifelong swindon fan very worried by what an agent has just said on twitter about matt ritchie. thanks for the lovely welcome.....dick

haha very wrong

link?

https://twitter.com/#!/AdrianHoward1

Ritchie gone

http://www.skybet.com/cms/breaking-transfer-news.shtm?name=Matt+Ritchie

Now where have I seen that avatar before?

https://twitter.com/#!/alex_simpson13

tosser ;-)

Twat (but a in a nice way!)

"But I will take bribes to sign fucking donkeys like Nouble. Afterall I have to fund my P&P addiction"

That Donal bloke has signed for Bournemouth

Well according to that same "agent", Bournemouth have just signed Donal McDermott. That should end the speculation about Ritchie.

true.

Matt Ritchie has declared that he want to get aboard the exciting new project.  He has stated

'I really want to be part of the revolution.  Bournemouth are a massive club and I cant wait to switch from Swindons fans to the substantially less bournemouth fans.  Im also excited about getting involved with a club who suddenly have some money which will obviously always be there, honest its not going to disappear.  Also the chance to play under, erm, thingy, that manager blokey, you know the one, really big player honest.  Its always been my dream to play under him and in the red (?) of Bournemouth'

If some blokes dog said it on twitter it must be true...the internet doesn't lie

That would be one awkward bus journey.

More waffle??

 Signings_TDD Transfer Market Feed
Bournemouth are to lodge an increased offer for Swindon winger Matt Ritchie #Swindon #afcb #stfc
57 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

they're persistant...I'll give em that...

Difficult to tell whether they even mean the already rejected offer or a new soon to be rejected offer.

Local 'muff paper seem to indicate they are looking elsewhere. Do they know any more than the rest of us though?

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/9502956.Cherries_turn_to_McDermott_after_failing_in_Ritchie_bid/r/?ref=rss

I see that the Gary Cahill money is burning a hole in Owen Coyle's pocket.

Zaha bid rejected and now a £6 million offer for Middlesborough defender Rhys Williams has also been rejected!

Whatever the case Donal MacDermott is now a Cherry player. Done and dusted

Maynard to West Ham - they seem to be throwing money around

Nothing to do with Swindon but:

1306: BBC Radio Bristol understands Bristol City striker Nicky Maynard is at Upton Park but there has been no official bid from West Ham.

What's he doing, the stadium tour? Isn't this against the rules~?

Sky Sports understands that Peterborough have made a £1.9million bid for Crawley Town pair Tyrone Barnett and Kyle McFadzean. Click here for more.

I'm clicking but nothing's happening.

Did McFadzean play that banjo playing hick from Deliverance?

Not Swindon related but Preston signing Chris Robertson from Torquay. No idea who he is but hopefully will weaken them as they are looking strong at the moment.

Torquay are saying that could give them the funds to buy Bodin if it goes through.

Local paper stating that if the Robertson deal goes through they will attempt to sign BB on a permanent deal, but if it doesn't happen they expect to bring him back to Plainmoor on loan next week.

The deal has gone through - now we shall see.

So...... why aren't we signing Cody McDonald then??  :badmood:

Been linked with a loan move to Rotherham. Would happily have him here mind!

Grabban to us then?

Hes still about 3 weeks away from fitness so may well fail a medical.

With a fee rumoured to be £50k, far less than what Paolo is looking to get for Bodin, which is around £150k apparently.

I would imagine Bodin to Torquay would be a loan deal.  Can't imagine we'd let him go for £50k unless we had a decent sell on clause & add ons

If they thought they could get him fit, I'm sure Paolo would bring him in if he likes the player. Has done the same with Luke Rooney after all.

Unfortunately it's probably all just wishful thinking!! :-(

Has Charlie gone yet ??  :D

Billy Clarke signs for Crawley. Striker.

Scored goals at this level before, was hoping they would get no one

Never heard of Him. tubbs he aint for certain.

More experienced but I would personally have Frank Nouble than him!

Breaking news  http://www.skybet.com/cms/breaking-transfer-news.shtm?name=Matt+Ritchie (http://www.skybet.com/cms/breaking-transfer-news.shtm?name=Matt+Ritchie)

Yeah that "joke" has been done already

This is overall a VERY boring STFC transfer day indeed.

I like it.

1534: BBC Scotland's Brian McLauchlin: "Bristol City make a move for St Johnstone captain Jody Morris

Hee haw

insert mate's name here

http://www.skybet.com/cms/breaking-transfer-news.shtm?name=Yinka+Casel

Well, cheer yourself up and get onto the Pox forum where they are all orgasmic over the signings of . . .

Marc Wilson - a 33 year old, slow, disinterested midfielder released from Doncaster

and

Scott Rendell - can't get into Wycombe's first team

They are now realising their club's management have absolutely no ambition - fucking brilliant!

I found the name "some cunt" seems to work quite well on that one...
http://www.skybet.com/cms/breaking-transfer-news.shtm?name=some+cunt

One time Town target David McNamee signs for Ross County.

McLeod turns down Rotherham because he want's to stay down south, We should be signing him.

SkySports Sky Sports
Crawley have signed striker Billy Clarke for an undisclosed fee from Blackpool. #CTFC #BFC #deadline day

Well. he's got to look after his coffee shop. It might be tricky if he were 200 miles away.

Unsubstantiated twatter rumour, no truth in it according to Barnet.

Sky Sports understands Fleetwood Town have rejected £1million bids from Leicester and Southampton for striker Jamie Vardy.


yeah like fuck

They are holding out for nearer £1.5 million :o

Football has gone mad.

Off it's fucking rocker. He must be absolutely incredible to be worth that much.

I googled him, but the only Jamie Vardy I could find is a 25 year old that hasnever played league football. I assume this is a different one.

Where have the rumours of Matt Ritchie not in the squad come from? I swear the team hasn't been annouced and unless someone on the team bus has heard this, this makes this rumour complete bullocks.

Something tans retweeted.

It got retweeted on twitter via https://twitter.com/#!/League2Rumours and then from there.... it's fact surely??

 :sherlock:

people believe twitter way too much.

believe the source, not the medium.

Nope the same one, aged 25 not played one game of league football but has scored bags full of goals at non league. Rangers, Celtic and Leicester all chasing him for over £1 million, fucking ridiculous.

if the source was any good he'd have a better medium that twitter, anyone can post anything on that.

Can someone post a link to this supposed sky news page?? ;-)

"Your search - "Sky Sports understands Fleetwood Town have rejected £1million bids from Leicester and ... - did not match any documents."

Twitter doesn't yield much either... windup?

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/transfer-news/Transfer-gossip-Leicester-offer-750k-for-striker-Jamie-Vardy-of-non-League-Fleetwood-article854572.html

http://sport.stv.tv/football/scottish-premier/rangers/294045-celtic-and-rangers-target-jamie-vardy-unconcerned-by-transfer-talk/

Those are from last week but I did see it on SSN earlier about £1 million+

Ta :-) That one will be interesting. How can a club like Fleetwood town turn down £750k for a player, let alone 1 million?  :zipped:

Can't be bothered to read this whole thread, have we signed or sold anyone?

Ritchie and Caddis to Bournemouth, Flint in talks with Leicester.
Other than that, no.

signed cox, no one has left yet

Daily Echo Sport @BmthEchoSport Close
Matt Ritchie's agent tells the Echo any potential move to #afcb is now dead, despite the player being left out of the #stfc squad tonight.

Don't think he is going anywhere and don't see any truth or reason in the rumours that he has been left out of squad. Roll on 11pm.

According to the lost, AFCB offered 1.2 million...

http://www.courtoffside.com/forum/showthread.php?t=108482

The club were quick to try and kill this off. Town were consistent throughout yet people still believed the Tweets of a local rag in Bournemouth over Swindon.

Everyone has a price but I am sure the club, like all of us, would rather have Swindon promoted (hopefully) and lose Ritchie for a cheaper price in the summer than cash in and lose one of our most creative players (preferably, we'd keep Ritchie if we went up).

... and welcome Coxy mk II.

Glad to see some of their fans are not exactly dancing with joy at the money being thrown about. I'd be quite uncomfortable if that were us, Munto finance should live long in the league's memory. Not to mention they must remember the state they were in what seems like about 2 weeks ago.

If it was 1.2 million, the board would have accepted it hands down. To get that much for a league 2 player would be brilliant business.

And don't forget what happened to the last Russian owner of a South Coast club....

no it wouldnt, hence why it got rejected.

True, obviously didn't match what our valuation of the player was so no it wasnt accepted.

1915: DONE DEAL
League Two promotion hopefuls Crawley Town, who lost top scorer Matt Tubbs to Bournemouth this week, have signed Notts County striker Karl Hawley, 30, on loan until the end of the season.


hawley is shocking

I would've taken 1.2 million.

At this point in time though we need players more than we need money.

Been hearing silly rumours of Cibocchi going to Bournemouth for £350k.

Had a great record at Carlisle of 47 goals in 118 games, but has only scored 10 goals in 126 games since leaving.

...then maybe you could have bought some balls with it?

Finally the club has realised football is played on grass, not balance sheets.

Promotion is our goal.

There were twatter rumours spread on FB about this, I dont believe it for one minute.

I'd drive him there myself for that!

I agree. Nice fee. I'm sure we could've bought Danny Ward for a fraction of that as his replacement. :)

We should pay them that to take him  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

from what i've seen in highlights and a few games on sky i'm amazed he's done that

yeah that cibocchi one is bull and was written for a laugh

Jefferon Louis (remember that prick) signs for Lincoln - he has had more clubs than Fola Onionbahji & Trevor Benjamin combined

glad you're not in charge.

you reds.

Franchise have released winger Anthony McNamee by mutual consent

hehe

That never reliable sauce Twitter is rife with tweets about Crawley's Sanchez Watt doing a Joey and going back to Arsenal after 5 days because he "failed to settle in Crawley"

Surely not.

Freddie Ljungberg to Franchise according to Sky.

... and there was Alan Smith thinking he would be the big fish in that side.

McNamee released too.

So is it official - we've kept the team together?

The perfect end to a great day in the world of Swindon Town FC.

Hats off to Jeremy Wray, who imo is the best Chairman we've had in my lifetime.  Long may he remain!

Indeed.

Very big thanks to Mr. Wray for sticking to his word and keeping our team together, now lets got on with destroying this shithole league.

Agreed, £1.2m on Jan 1 maybe, but taking the money on the final day of the window would have been very poor business.

One factor that seems to keep getting overlooked is the salary cap. Even if we could identify 2 or 3 players to bring in with the fee, they would almost certainly not fit within the League 2 wage cap so we wouldnt be allowed to sign them anyway!

Ritchies value is only going to go one way between now and the summer, whatever we were offered (and I doubt it was as much as £1.2m anyway) will still be on the table in the summer, and possibly more.

We won't be able to get as much in the summer, prices aren't as inflated.

But hopefully that will be irrelevant anyway if we go up and get important contracts extended.

DV...time to agree. It is now officially tomorrow!!

All in all a very satisfactory January.

Players in at the start of the month have already contributed to out points tally, and the later additions have given a welcome strength in depth.

The only shame is that one or two more widely seen as deadwood haven't moved out.

Good work Wray/Watkins/di Canio

There is always the loan window.

Agreed, though we shouldn't forget this part isn't limited to the transfer window necessarily (cancel contract due to mutual agreement etc) so if we're lucky this could still happen for a few players.

Now I agree. Top work Mr. Wray probably our best January window ever. Balls of steel.

That 1.2m for Ritchie, well even if you go on the assumption its 1.2m straight up (which I doubt it ever was) take out the 250k he cost anyway, then take out the cut I expect Portsmouth have (lets say 20% so roughly another 250k) Then all of a sudden you're looking 700k - a trip to potential trip to Wembley itself could probably pull in a chunk of that would be 700k - now whilst I dont think we are dependant on Ritchie to get there he'll obviously give us a better chance! Increased attendances, potentially another game on the box in the run in, the feel good factor going into next season, prize money - probably easily make the would be Ritchie money from sustaining our promotion push anyway.

I know alot of those are if, buts and wishy washy figures but you get the point.