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Not like he would ever play ahead of their new Italian fella or Stuart Taylor if true anyway

I can categorically state he's not joining Leeds is in fact joining/joined SuperMarine

Kieran Agard has signed for Bristol City. They look a very good side now unfortunately.

Still a weak defence though.

Flint has been less of an STFC agent and more of a 'rock' this season apparently.

still lashing money around then

Bristol City fans change their tune by the game plus they've got El-Abd to focus all their hatred towards at the moment.

Sky Sports did Flint a massive favour by loving his performance against Sheffield United.

Its easy when you're being bankrolled, as we know!

Baldock, Wilbraham and Agard. Best forward line in the division...

Not to forget JET  :(

and still won't get promoted

Wilbraham is shit but JET is not, hes just lazy.

They will get into the play offs and bottle it.

Agard turned down Leeds but signed for City. He is all about money. Good player though. Once again City splashing way too much cash.

Its not 'too much' though, they have a (should be) committed rich owner

Cotterill reckons he turned down more money at Leeds to sign for City.

I heard Leeds wouldnt match his wage demands  :hmmm:
Whatever way the story goes he is a decent signing for shitty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28878452

Just goes to show he is a mercenary footballer who will probably move on again with a year.  Wonder how much Shitty are over their percentage financial quota this season.

Tis true
But Leeds still wouldnt meet his wage demands - yet he signed for less for Shitty


http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-headlines/rotherham-united-agard-joins-bristol-city-1-6797638?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Something not reading right here, reported Leeds had agreed a fee of over £800,000 but couldn't agree personal terms so did Shitty match that offer?  He is getting a good dab in the hand I would guess.

But if Lansdowne is happy to do it there isn't a problem. They are incredibly lucky to have him, unfortunately.

Its only going to fall down when Lansdowne has had enough/dies, because like ourselves I doubt there will be a big queue of people interested in the unless he really has somehow guided them to the promised land*

* is there new stadium to be owned by the club? Maybe that will change things.

No new stadium now, redeveloping Ashton Gate - another three-sided stadium at the moment, albeit temporarily, unlike some clubs around here!!  Also home to Bristol rugby now with a new part synthetic pitch which may be the way to go.

In fact, the media tend to wank over them being a 'big club' and what a travesty it is that they're in League 1...well, the media down my way (near Southampton) do, anyway.

they still slate him as well. The average modern day fickle football fan I suppose!

But we were spending money we didn't have and that Black didn't really want to give away.

Bristol City are spending money that Lansdown is quite prepared to just write off.

Afraid so. Society in general really. We (mostly) all want more than we have.

Exactly Sam. Lansdowne is happy enough to blow 10m a year chasing the dream.

It's hilariously unbelievable that Bristol City are in League One given the money Lansdown has spent on them. He's had similar with Bristol RFC who keep missing out on promotion.

Lansdown's attitude towards football ownership should be envied.

I can still remember the days of Chris Garland etc. when they did go bust!!

I think this new thread is quite self-explanatory  :)

I was trying to say well done FH but you were obviously busy porting all the posts over. Huzzah!

Well, it's the Bristol City transfer rumours thread

Sorry Audrey, I deleted your post by mistake.

It was in the wrong fucking thread though ;). I was trying to move it the STFC transfer rumour thread which is where it should have been you spanner.

Mods... I can't find the option to move a single post to another existing thread. is there one?

Probably bollocks anyway.

Dont worry about it

If it's possible, I can't find it.

Split it then merge

Gotcha. Thanks.

One time Swindon target Modou Barrow has signed for Swansea.

O****d being linked with, I shit you not, free agent Emile Heskey.

He has already turned down Carlisle - just how low will he go

Atletico Madrid defender Toby Alderweireld and Salzburg midfielder Sadio Mane are both having medicals at Southampton.

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Toby signs for Soton - good news for us.

Frank Nouble to Coventry on loan from Ipswich.

I assume the picture of the woman buying a lottery ticket is there because the kid behind the till looks like a footballer?

Who's it supposed to be?

Danny Welbeck I believe.

I thought it was Peter Crouch

WTF!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29067406

Lame publicity stunt, as bad as that pub team saying they had signed up a pissed up Gasgoine :)

Newcastle ??

Didn't STFC put in a cheeky bid for Gascoigne once? When he could still play....

Don't remember that, but that doesn't mean much these days

I don't either....

I'm quite sure we did.

It was a long time ago though, so my memory may be failing me!

We tried to get Mick Channon once

We did genuinely try and sign Gary Lineker on loan once

Indeed, if you read his autobiography, we'd agreed a deal to sign him as a kid, were expecting him to come for training, and at then last minute Soton stepped in, which was nearer to his Orcheston home, so he went there.

Considering the Spurs link, this might be the reality behind what I think happened. (Or similar)

Although I'm still quite confident that I'm right.

Would you care to back this claim up with some evidence.....

I remember it being reported on the BBC News at 9pm when he was already an established 'star'. We offered £250,000 I think

We got David Peach later on, instead.

I thought it was common knowledge? When Lineker agreed to join Grampus 8 from Spurs there was a few months gap between our season starting and theirs.

Swindon (under Hoddle I think) put in a loan bid and Lineker was apparently keen to help keep match fit but either Grampus or Spurs were concerned about injury wrecking the transfer.

I'm not making this up!

I'm with Rusty.

I was thinking Gazza but it could well have been Lineker.


About that era, I think it may have been when Gorman was manager.

I remember the Gazza thing.

Nowt more than a rumour though, Off the back of the Moncur and Gazza drinking session at the Shaw ridge Tavern.

Don't forget Reg that under Smith and the money from the League Cup semi final we went for Channon and ended up with Peach

My dad played in the same team as Mick Channon for Wiltshire boys. FACT

Coming to this late, but Rusty is correct about our bid to sig  Lineker on a short term contract.  Not sure whether Lineker would have considered, but I do remember Grampus 8 (do they even still exist?) objecting out of concern he might get injured.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9540884/transfer-news-former-newcastle-youngster-john-campbell-attracts-interest

I see our former trialist John Campbell is being linked with moves again. Didn't our management come in for some unfair stick at the time for not signing him?

Presumably the best time to sign him from his current club would be in March...

He's got a shithot agent that fella.

was Cooper manager of Darlo when Campbell was there?

John Campbell signing for Oxford apparently.

souper

Only on thisis IIRC. He was at a pub team at the time and nobody had actually seen him play, but they were all 100% convinced he was the new Austin and that the club should write a blank cheque to get him. Bizarre.

He played a trial game for us and scored either 2 or 3, but it wasn't followed up.

I'm sure Wilson offered him a 6 month deal, but he wanted more so turned it down. I don't recall management being that bothered.

Leon Clarke to Bristol City or Preston.

Ajose to Crewe.

I hope it's Preston. But if he goes to City that's just another reason why the April return fixture could be incredible.

I'm happy for Ajose. If anyone can help get them out of their rut, it's him. Maybe we'd have the chance of signing him at the end of the season. I'd love him back.

Wont happen, he's on more than 10 quid a week :D

After Cooper's comments on Ajose in the paper the other day I thought that he might be an option should we lose Williams in January.

Ajose signs for Crewe and I think Craig Mackail-Smith has signed for Posh.

Dissapointing about ajose, was hoping we would have tried to get him. Would have had fantastic options up front

M. Smith, Obika and Williams are currently fantastic options up front.

Stick a fourth in and it could 'rock the boat'.

True. McLean and Mackail-Smith looks a great pair, as does Clarke-Beckford, but so long as our 3 are scoring, they're as good any any strikeforce in this league.

Ah these players are broken, relying on former 'glory'.

Looks like that tall forward Matt Smith is going to Bristol City too. Big test for Town to stand up against the financial clout of others.

Rumours that mega-Club Bristol City will be signing Eoin Doyle from Chesterfield come January.

He reminds me of Paddy Madden - scores heaps of goals for one team only.

Would imagine our wishlist is none in, none out.

Cooper has mentioned previously that we are looking for a young defender of 'our own' to develop. I think we'll be seeing at least one in.

I'd settle for the none out scenario, TBH.

I think we all would.

I really liked that we were supposedly after Harry Beautyman - two models - stars from the conference and below, such as Beautyman and Gladwin, plus loanees, some of which may turn permanent.

Confirmed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30232378

Also confirmed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30179542

Football has completely changed Brentford about to sign one of Glasgow Rangers star players in a £1 million deal :(  , imagine predicting in the late 80's that Brentford would be signing rangers top players for a million.

80's? It would have been quite a surprise in the late 2000's.

Your forgetting Rangers qre wbsolute shite and have probably hiked the price up big time

Rangers have to pay for Ally Mcmoists contract to be paid off. But yes in essence Brentford have never been big spenders until this season, the (apparently undisclosed) fee for Jota was in excess of £1.5m so that will be a transfer spend of £2.5m on 2 players this season.

Rotherham were sniffing around too. Rangers fans apparently thought he wasn't living up to his hype recently, and that's in the Scottish second tier. £1m?!

That is silly money for a club getting 9k-10k gates. Suppose they are banking on making the playoffs.

Preston have signed ebanks-Blake from wolves. Probably shite now.

All they need now is Cherno Samba to complete their Football Manager 2006 front line.

Haha! :)

Swansea City pay £1.75m for a 4th division footballer from Exeter City, Matt Grimes.

Thats a lot of money for a 19 year old untested outside the bottom division.

http://www.swanseacity.net/news/article/swans-sign-highly-rated-teenager-matt-grimes-2174755.aspx

Swansea not exactly the worst at spotting talent in the world though.

Didn't they sigh Harley? Also from Exeter...

See that Brian Howard has left Oxford to go to Eastleigh.

We wouldn't..... would we.....

Evans in talks with League One club http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/30671692

Its oldham apparently

Maybe Barnsley?

Gillingham, based in k*nt, close to 'Suss-sex'.

I've heard Oldham and Crawley.

I've heard nothing.

I hope it's not us... It went semi-crazy on here when we tried to bring in Luke McCormick.

BBC seem confident its Oldham. They already did the controversy thing with Hughes so it fits..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30671692

Im desperately trying to work up a joke.  He didn't rape her, he just asked to old em.  Or something like that.  But its in bad taste and a shit joke so Ill stop now.

We all know Shitty are in the market for a striker.

I would love it to be them, love it.

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And people didnt believe me then! ;)

Oldham fans really not happy on their forum.

I see his conviction has gone to appeal. If it's upheld then he's a horrible cunt (Although I still believe that when someone's served their sentence, they should be allowed to get on with their life). If however his conviction is quashed it would explain why he's never showed any remorse. It would also be a kick in the nuts for Internet trolls who seem to get their jollies by abusing people behind their keyboards.

I'd normally welcome (for want of a better word) such a signing because the meltdown would be most amusing.

Not now though. We don't want to risk disrupting the squad, there's too much at stake.

You welcome us signing a rapist because it would be a bit of a laugh? OK then.

 ::)

Hahahaha

He's already failed at appeal, twice.  This is a request for e potential miscarriage of justice to be reviewed, after which, he might get the right to appeal again.  About 3% of cases submitted are given further right to appeal.  Basically, on the evidence submitted he has been convicted and that decision was upheld on appeal.  He has to have submitted something that would materially have changed the likely outcome, such as evidence that wasn't available at the time.  Seems like a shot in the dark.

I'm often skeptical about these high profile cases. I did some reading into Evans' case though and regardless of whether or not he is actually guilty of rape, what happened that night was certainly as seedy as fuck.

Oh...you..

The thing is though, FH, he is guilty of rape.

Sure, it's not the stranger jumping out of the bushes rape, but he was found guilty.

I think it is the entire scenario surrounding that event which people find disgusting. If he had gone to bed with her by himself and slipped her one nothing would have come of it

Twas a bit easy  ;)

He's been found guilty so thats that.

However if you read into the details of the case it raises plenty of questions with regard to the verdict.

If we was struggling down the other end of the table I'd take him. Where we are now it wouldn't be a good fit. I'm sure he will score a bagfull mind.

NOT AT OUR CLUB!!!*










*Unless we're shit and need a centre-forward.

From the bits I've read of the case it does seem strange that the other guy was cleared. Either they where both guilty or both innocent imo.

This. I was about to post something similar.

And he hasn't "served his sentence", either. He's merely been allowed to serve the second half of it outside prison, under the supervision of the probation service.

Disgraceful decision by Oldham, hope there's a backlash from their fans.

Yeah, cos you've spent months analysing the evidence haven't you...

Oh dear. It was my opinion from the evidence I have read. I take it you are clued up on it all then?

No, which was kind of my point. Anyone can speculate and put forward (usually ill-informed) opinions based on what they may have read, but but he's been convicted after a lengthy trial and the conviction has been upheld on appeal. So that should be the end of it IMO as far as signing for a new club is concerned, until or unless the conviction is quashed on any further appeal that he might be allowed.

But I am not saying he is innocent  I ust find it strange that 2 men admit having sex with the same woman which she can't remember and 1 is convicted and 1 cleared.

Why should that stop him from playing football again?

All it's done is put off clubs (and there's plenty who would) signing him cos of adverse publicity.

These clubs are not signing him because he is a rapist, it's only that it's bad PR

The raw basics:

The other player took the female back to a hotel, the jury could not find beyond a reasonable doubt that she not given consent.

Evans trots up at the hotel on a promise from his mate, basically because she was out of it.

A jury considered the evidence and were satisfied there was no doubt whatsoever that NO consent was given by the female as she was not in a state to provide it.  She herself does not remember the night and did not press charges, the CPS did that based on the evidence that started to materialise.

Two appeals have failed - the evidence still supports the conviction

Without going into detail, given she couldn't remember the events, and rape is bloody hard to convict, you'd have to say that to be convicted and upheld twice, that the evidence against Evans was compelling.  His mate said that the female did not verbally give consent, and the jury considered her completely unable to provide it by the time Evans appeared on the scene.

He may think he's innocent, truly.  But he's wrong.  Some people may have "sympathy" because they've had a one night stand - moral of the story, be sure.  Sloppy seconds with a near passed out girl is probably a bad idea namely because you are a Rapist.

Now, I could nearly give him some degree of sympathy myself but for the way he targeted her (read the case) and has continued to do so since the conviction as well.  A website has been set up to try an ruin her reputation and she's had to move many times since the case.  For his continued behaviour I hope he is never employed in football ever again.

The full Judgment from the appeal is here if anyone's interested - http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2012/2559.html&query=r+and+v+and+chedwyn+and+evans&method=boolean

I have absolutely no sympathy for him whatsoever , he put himself in that position and also comes across as a right cock.

I don't think he's after sympathy, just a football club. Like Lee Hughes I'm sure he will get vilified everywhere he goes and a fair bit by his own fans. I'm sure that will be enough.

I'm still confused as to how he got released early. I thought you were supposed to at minimum acknowledge your crime to be eligible. Even worse when that website, which is directly connected to him, calls the victim a slut, habitual drug user and of lying about the whole thing to profit financially. Shocking.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) have fast tracked his review (because they do sometimes)

Oldham pulling out by the looks of it.

If Evans had pulled out . . .

 :clap:

It would have still been rape... :hmmm:

Pulled out of shagging her

Ah, yes. Got you  :nod:

Wilfried Bony to Man City for £30m+. Football has got transfer fees inflated to astonomical levels, these massive tranfer fees cannot last.

£30m for a good but by no means an outstanding player is ridiculous.

It's the going rate I suppose, with Lukaku moving for a similar price in the summer...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30698618

BBC asked all Lg1 & 2 clubs if they would sign Ched Evans given the opportunity, some of the responses are mildly interesting.

There's actually quite a few potential 'maybes' in that list.

Port Vale's chairman has a cracking name.

The Attorney General is investigating the Ched Evans website;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30698382

Possibility of a criminal prosecution over it for contempt of court. Fingers crossed.

Looks like Oldham have signed Ched Evans despite protests on a 2 and a half year contract.

Told their sponsors who didn't like it to shove it.

From what I've read, his girlfriend's dad is pretty rich and is covering any income because of loss of sponsors. Strange, strange stuff.

That is strange, apparently he was on £20k pw at Sheff Utd and Oldham are offering him around £2k pw.

It's on odd site, in so far as they seem to have taken the approach of trying to ruin the reputation of the girl involved.  It's odd because she never even claimed rape, so why they feel it will help I have no idea.  They even submitted evidence that tried to show that someone who'd lost their memory could still be capable of being fully coherent during the "incident", which would kind of mean they accepted she'd not remembered any of it.  Why then go after her?  At no point was the conviction likely to be over turned based on her having a bad character because it didn't come into the equation.  It might have helped McDonald, had he been convicted, but as they accept she didn't go hunting for Evans and can't remember the event and never claimed it, why go after her?  At the very least it shows him and his family/friends to be below contemptuous individuals.  What on earth is going on for his girlfriend and his Dad to be so actively involved is way beyond me.

One sponsor already gone, another two to follow once he's signed - not sure how important any of them are to the club.

The important one appears to be Sports Direct (£200k a year) who haven't commented on it. You'd assume they've said they won't leave, but will that last if he signs and there are protests? They would be the easiest target for people.

I read about his girlfriend's dad covering his salary and any income the club lost but it appears this may not be the case.

I don't understand how they have got a 60,000 signed petition. There's obviously people signing it that have nothing to do with Oldham, and just don't want Ched Evans in football full stop.

Someone was obviously going to take him on. If he scores goals for them and is successful, most of it will be forgotten. His record at Sheff Utd was pretty good to be fair.

I won't see him play this season, it'll be interesting to see the response of crowds to him

The "moral outrage" club that sign anything and have nothing whatsoever to do with the thing they are signing, mostly made up of Daily Mail readers I would have thought.

Now apparently OFF due to sponsor pressure and threats to Oldham staff and their families.....

BBC News just reported that the Ched Evans deal is off.

The stench will still cling to Oldham for a while, though

Rightly or wrongly, it's no surprise that threats were the cause behind the decision.

If that's true that is so out of order. Disagree & protest yes, but threats no.

Fully agree. The PFA have got to realise that he is unemployable, as he's going to be a target wherever he goes, and a big part of that is down to Evans insistance that he is innocent, and trying to get his conviction overturned.

The PFA are a joke in itself anyway

If you had been accused of rape, been convicted in court and felt you were innocent, would you come out and admit guilt and say sorry? I wouldn't. I'd want blood.

And also, I've only read a bit, including his entire appeal and I'm left a bit lost, what's so openly known that makes him a rapist? And why was she not raped by McDonald, but was by Evans? (The story behind which is rapey as fuck to be honest.)

I'm playing devil's advocate here, and to be frank I've bought in to what is said and dislike him immensely, but being rational for a second, I've not yet seen anything that makes it so obvious as everyone seems to say. What have I missed?

Evans apologises for "events of 2011" but maintains his innocence...http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30727380

Left with no choice but to apologise in order to get a club?  :hmmm:

I don't quite understand the argument behind him not being remorseful either. If I were in his shoes and I thought that I did not commit the crime then why should I show remorse?

That being said I'm not trying to defend him and I'm not trying to suggest he is innocent. It's just that one particular part of the argument against him that I just don't get.

I think, that she agreed to sex with McDonald, but she couldn't remember if she gave Ched Evans the nod.

That's the impression I get.

Everyone is entitled to rehabilitation. Yes he's in the public eye, but that was his profession before hand. That's the issue here- he's in the public eye. But he has done his time.

It's all very confusing.

Wrongly. The toxic cocktail of redtop media and social media seem to have turned the UK into the biggest mob-rule society on the planet. Who's left to stand up for the rule of law these days? Certainly not the government.

I know several people who have signed petitions against him, and openly said, he should be a bricklayer, not withstanding the fact the bloke has probably ever laid a brick in his life, and they also know absolutely nothing about the case, just the fact their opinion is the right one. I'm starting to think China and North Korea have the right idea about Internet access for the hoi polloi, (of which i'm one i'd add)

Also pretty offensive to brickies. Pretty sure most of them wouldn't want to work with a convicted rapist.

Seriously? :doh:

Seriously what?

It's entirely legal to use a conviction as a reason not to employ someone, it's done all the time and one reason why only around 50% regain employment.  If Evans goes back into football he'd actually be a rare case.

On some other questions, McDonald was not found innocent, more sufficient doubt surrounded whether consent was given.  The notes suggest it was reasonable for McDonald to conclude that consent was implied given she got into a taxi with him, knowingly to go to a hotel and then entered the room with him.  Evans tricked his way into the room, so was at no point invited be her and the jury concluded, based on the evidence that both defence legal teams appear to agree on, that she was drunk.  The jury further concluded it was beyond a reasonable doubt that she was incapable of providing consent to Evans (even if she'd said yes, which as contested and not proved) by way of intoxication.  In Evans' appeal they tried to argue that she was so drunk she impacted her short term memory (agreeing that she has no recollection of the events herself) but it was possible to get into that state but still be sober enough to consent.  That was dismissed on the basis the evidence had clearly shown her to be drunk and her memory loss was not involved in the decision making process for the jury.

Think about it, two different verdicts suggest real thought and variation in evidence.

In terms of gaining future employment, he can clearly make every effort and shouldn't have a barrier in some roles, but we are kidding ourselves if we think it is easy for convicted sex offenders still serving their sentence to find work in the jobs they had before, regardless of football being involved.

The sort of apology for the events of that night is at least a start, even if pressured.  He has also denounced people attacking and outing the woman.  No matter what reason, that has to be applauded as an action.  Next he needs to ensure the website in his name is removed and let her get on with her life.  I do believe he thinks he is innocent.  On what I have read he seems guilty - I also think plenty of "blokes" would think the same as him.

But Oldham have not based their reasons on his conviction, they have based it upon people making physical threats against their staff and families.

The guilt or otherwise of Evens is not really the issue here (well it obviously is but not specifically in the point I am trying to make) its more to do with the fact that threatening violence is now apparently an acceptable approach to pursue matters and give weight to your opinions which is an equal concern with regards to society.

Oldham based the decision on the reaction of the sponsors and threats to staff, the media have decided to play up on the threat angle. There's a good chance it was primarily due to the sponsors as the club hasn't shown any interest in personal sentiment up till now.

Also worth pointing out that the girl has had to suffer a lot of abuse, threats and breaches of court orders giving her anonymity by supporters of Ched Evans. The content of his website will only have encouraged those people to do what they did and he has left it until today to speak out against it.

He could have apologised long before now, without impacting his appeal and claims of innocence. He chose not to and I suspect the only reason he's said something now is because he had to if he wants to play football again, rather than actually meaning any of it.

I'm all in favour of rehabilitation, I had no problem with Hughes or McCormick playing again. Evans needs to accept what he did, show some remorse and then maybe there will be a place for him in football - until then he should kept out of the game.

I haven't suggested the threats were anything other than a horrific way to go about your life.  Hopefully anyone threatening the Oldham officials is served their own justice.

Let's track them down and cut em up

As said before, if he thinks he's innocent why would he show remorse?

He's hardly the victim of the great miscarriage of justice that he and his supporters claim though imo.  He may or may not be technically not guilty of the legal offence of rape but the facts of the case are undisputed. How he behaved that night is hard to justify and he could show remorse for his behaviour (treating one girl like a piece of meat whilst cheating on another) notwithstanding his right to maintain his innocence of the criminal offence of rape.

His statement today is 2 years too late and will be taken as hollow by his detractors.

What do people think about ex-Hearts defender Craig Thomson. He was convicted of sexual offences relating to the grooming of 12 and 14 year old girls online. Like Ched Evans he is now out of prison but on the sex offender's register.

For those who believe Evans has a right to be a professional footballer again do you feel the same about Thomson? If not, why not?

Anyone else sick of Ched Evans and the'  is he isn't he' saga?

My mate's an Oldham fan. He is sure is.

Damn glad it's not us, that's for sure.

He's not helping put it to bed:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ched-evans-hits-out-mob-rule-tactics-after-oldham-athletic-move-breaks-down-1482576

There is a certain irony complaining about part of society on social media given the acts carried out in his name for 2 years, including his own family and a person hired by him (website).

He's either really dense or has some seriously bad advice.  Maybe his GF and her Dad are actually playing the long game at revenge.

Oh boy, I think we can see what he was trying to say, but I don't think Taylor should be saying much at all, let alone comparing Evans 'innocence' fight with those of Hillsborough:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jan/08/gordon-taylor-ched-evans-hillsborough-pfa

Taylor's been well past his sell-by date for some years now. If the PFA have any pretensions of being taken seriously, and they should have a positive role to play within the game, then it's time to get rid.

He's been the English Blatter for 20 years , no chance.

Taylor is a decent old skool Trade Unionist....interestingly both he and Malcolm Sinclair, who is President of Equity another venerable union, were on the recent festive University Challenge for noted alumni....both showed a decent knowledge despite being old farts.

Possibly. That doesn't stop him being irrelevant and embarrassing. And, like many "old skool Trade Unionists", so comfortable with his cosy position that he's completely out of touch to the extent of no longer being capable of doing a good job representing his members. He's an arse, celeb appearances on posh quiz shows notwithstanding

He's a convicted rapist on the sex offenders register and will continue to be until a court says otherwise.

An alarming number of people (not pointing fingers) seem to think him claiming he's innocent makes a difference, that he is hard done by and a victim of injustice. If those people bother to read up on it (the link on this thread to one of his appeals is worth reading for a detailed overview) they'll see this isn't really the case.

His version of the events that night on their own are enough to get him convicted of rape;
- found out his mate was taking a girl back to a hotel.
- diverted his taxi to the hotel.
- blagged a key to the room from reception.
- let himself in to the room unannounced.
- had sex with a girl that was drunk.
- left by the fire exit.

You might not agree with it but that is the law (or at least the current interpretation) at present.

I wouldn't give a flying fuck what some court said. If I thought I were innocent then I would maintain my innocence.


I've not seen a single person on here say that.

Very! I know we're not directly involved but right now it feels like there isn't a headline in the sports world that doesn't mention Ched Evans!

At least its put a halt to the Steven Gerrard love in

And that is your right.

But the rest of society will view and treat you as a convicted criminal that has refused to accept what you did, let alone show any remorse or regret for your actions. As Ched Evans is now finding out.

You don't get to speak for everybody. Personally from what I have read and from the court's verdict, I think he is guilty. However I wasn't there and neither was the judge/jury. They are not infallible. They could have got it wrong, it does happen.

Once we go criticising somebody for maintaining their innocence we begin criticising people's right to defend themselves. Just for the sake of argument let's imagine that he did not commit the crime and the court had it wrong. In such a scenario you'd have an innocent person being criticised for saying that they are innocent.

Again, just for clarity, I am not defending him because I think he is guilty. It's not just the Ched Evans' case either, it's about all cases.

I never criticised him for maintaining and fighting for his innocence, he (and everyone else) is free to do that and it's their right.

But at the same time, he has been found guilty by a court so society views him as having committed the crime. Saying you're innocent doesn't change that nor mean you should get special treatment. Guilty is guilty and as things stand he is just another in a long line of criminals that refuse to accept responsibility for their crimes, and he should be treated as such.

Who the fuck said it does change anything? You have an outstanding ability to miss the point.

Meh! Forget it.

Steve Bruce and Gordon Taylor. Plenty more people.

Why the fuck is Steve Bruce QC weighing in on this?

I wonder if he is saying what a lot within the football world actually think?

What special treatment is he seeking, he is someone who has been released from prison and subject to the terms of his licence is seeking to return to his chosen profession ?

BTW I share the same points as made by Flash regarding his guilt or otherwise (I have not read the case in such detail as others)but equally I am not sure where we stop with society now informally deciding who can and cannot return to work having committed a crime - the fact that the petition set up to campaign against his return to Oldham was set up by someone hiding behind an internet alias and they were then being interviewed in the media just shows how far things have gone and the manner in which the law is failing to keep up.

The whole thing is just a complete mess which I suspect will now quietly disappear into the background. He hasn't apologised (and why would he if he doesn't think he did anything wrong - equally if you are pursuing a review through the courts I suspect his lawyers will not let him apologise and by this accept you did something wrong which kind of decides the review case in itself) and even if he did apologise now it would not be accepted by the majority who would say that he didn't mean it so its all limbo.

As for Peter Taylor...

So playing devils advocate what would you do if you were convicted of a crime you didn't do - would you just apologise and thus admit you did do it because society expected you to? 

I am genuinely not trolling, just interested in the way that people would react?

That's not a new thing. And it's not just a case of returning to work, it's returning to a high profile job - the "Oooh, you wouldn't stop someone going back to work for Tesco" argument is bollocks. For example, I strongly suspect that in the unlikely event that Stuart Hall lives long enough to be released from jail, he won't be presenting a revived "It's a Knockout". And there's a good reason why Gary Glitter stopped doing comeback tours.

He has actually (yesterday - he apologised generally for any hurt caused or some such nonsense while still protesting his innocence), and as you say it wasn't accepted by pretty much anyone as it was plainly insincere and just a desperate attempt to try and salvage a contract. And probably not even his own idea, it smacks of precisely the kind of half-arsed scheme that PR genius Gordon Taylor would dream up.

Febian Brandy released by Rotherham, probably out of our singning remit being too old etc at the age of 25 but a good player on his day but a little injury prone.

Brandy Snaps?

Town haven't signed a 'Oh I've heard of him. He's been kicking around the Football League for ages' sort player on a permanent basis for a good long while now.

Dany N'Guessan perhaps?

Benik Afobe reportedly having his loan at MK cut short so Arsenal can sell him to Wolves or Huddersfield. Would be a boost to the other three in the top 4.

I see shitty (sorry the 82'ers) think he is off to them.

Is there anyone half decent they DON'T think they're going to sign?

of course not, they are a massive club

Far bigger than most Premiership clubs if you read their forum.

it must be all the trophies they have won in the past ; it has clearly spoilt them

Welsh Cup winners 1934.

Wow, they won a cup before they even existed?  Impressive.

Ah good point. Thats like MKD taking on Wimbledons history.

There is a real good piss take song somewhere there before we get down to Ashton gate. I aint no "John Lennon" but I can help start it off.

In 1934,  you won the Taffy Cup....... ( To the beat of what we sing about 1965 ......)

...
Something in the middle here..........
...

Finish with "Along came Swindon Town FC to fuck your season up."

Points and our position permitting this will really rattle em. Nothing would make me happier.

I'm sure there's a bloke somewhere on this forum who comes up with some good songs from time to time.

In 1965, just after New Years day,
the police came a knocking, and arrested both the Krays...

or the one about the Beeching report

:)

Afobe to wolves

That's as good as us getting a third signing. I wouldn't mind if Dele Alli follows him.

Afobe must have no ambition. That's the only reason I can think of as to why he would snub as mahoosive team like city, in favour of tinpot Wolves.

But I thought City were going to sign all our loan strikers when they went back to their parent clubs.

City have made two decent loan signings today, George Savile from Wolves and Wigan's James Tavernier. They're just not competing at the same level as the rest of us financially. Something is wrong if they don't walk the league with the ease Wolves did.

Pish posh.

I'll use the evidence of my own eyes.

We'll piss it

Fuck yeah!

except Smith, he is a useless carthorse

You must be mistaken, they don't do loan signings, that's cheating isn't it...

....totally unsustainable. What will they do if they get promoted. Blah blah blah!

Two good players who got promoted from L1 last season. I expected both to consolidate their Championship careers with Wolves and Wigan yet here they are back in L1.

I'd be envious if Power/Cooper weren't so good in the loan market. Heck, even Bell wasn't as bad as people made out (considering he couldn't get a game at Mansfield).

But obviously not good enough for the Championship  - even for a team 2nd bottom

Ultimately, they couldn't guarantee  themselves a place in Swindon Town's current XI.

Isn't that a lovely thought.

City have signed two excellent players for League 1 who were amongst the best at this level last season - but you do have to question why they haven't kicked on.

As for the Wolves comparison, don't see it myself, yes City have some cash but their budget and quality of squad is far behind that of Wolves last season.

How many loans they got in that squad now

3.  Those 2 and Smith.

I don't see anything like a comparison with Wolves. Wolves are, lets face it, a genuinely big club not just one whos fans think is massive.

Also the 82ers budget is said to be £10m which is big but Wolves budget was £40m due to Premiership parachute payments and Jamie O'Hara and Dicko were on £40k pw which makes JET & Agards £15k pw sound like peanuts.

No comparison.

When City put in a performance like Wolves did at our place last season then I'll listen.

That was probably the best performance I can ever remember from a league 1 team

 ::) sheffield utd bidding £1.5 million for a right back from cardiff.

I fancy them to win the playoffs if the cup games dont hit them too hard.

They have signed Paul Coutts and Kieron Freeman from Derby. Coutts is good for this level.

They are looking to sign Brayford who is the LB and Chris O'Grady, a striker from Brighton. Sounds like they are spending some cash this window, just in time to play us :(

Names dear boys, they are just names.

Name of decent footballers. But yeah, names all the same!

I've heard of the two of them but I can't proclaim to have had a sudden bout of fear by the news. They're making the most of their extra cup income though but Sheff Utd always bring in 'names'.

I enjoyed their recent sentiments which went along the lines that if they were in the Championship right now then they'd be pushing for promotion.

 ::)

As long as they're not buying our players I will cope, but spending our annual budget on a full back is pretty crazy

They had a few of these last season when they played us.

I hope they enjoy chasing our midfield

we might be playing 5-0-5 If anyone else gets injured.

BBC was predicting an imminent bid from Newcastle for Dele Alli earlier on.

That would be nice. Losing him and Afobe might properly knock the wheels of Franchise.

I hope so, he is by far and away their best player.

Liverpool were supposed to be interested.  Whoever buys him will allow him to go back on loan for the rest of the season anyway, unless it were one of the Prem teams towards the bottom of the division.

Oxford make new signing

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheFooTypster/status/558681148084477952/photo/1

Franchise are expecting a bid in the region of £9m for Dele Alli. http://gu.com/p/456tv/stw

Undoubtedly a very impressive young player but that's a hell of a price tag.

Robinson was on TV this morning saying that they'd want him loaned back if they lose him this month - which would be a shame.

£9 million for a third division footballer?

What the fucking fuck.

As I say to my kids, what you expect and what you get don't necessarily match up.......

Indeed, in which case Luongo is DEFINATELY worth £5m+. :D

and Harry Agombar 500k

Using that rationale I'm worth 68k a year......I've asked for a meeting.

If they don't pay it, have a hissy fit and refuse to work until you get a transfer!!

I did think that, but Alli is 18 or something and chips in with a few goals.  Luongo is 23.  I think the values Ive seen on here are a bit low but we're Swindon, we tend to let our players go too bloody cheap. 

I do genuinely think his value is between £2 and £2.5m but he is worth whatever anyone is willing to pay for him, yes we have in the past let players go for a margin of their real value but I don't think LP will allow that.

I have a feeling that LP will drive the hardest of bargains with clubs after buying our assets.

The we let our players go cheap thing, is a bit of an urban myth.  The recent Deloitte's survey found that although Real Madrid are the wealthiest club on the planet, every other Prem club, are in the top 40.  We tend to sell to Championship clubs, because presumably the Prem clubs aren't so interested, it's when Prem clubs are involved that the fees spiral, so you end up with 8 mill for a Nick Powell.

Oh.  Ok.

That told you.

Ive been told never to argue with my seniors.  Apparently they're right.  Everyone younger than me is, of course, full of shit.

Apparently Preston are signing Ben Pringle from Rovrum, who seem to be doing their very best to get relegated! (Rovrum, not Preston)

Rotherham's plight is amusing. Seem to have replaced all the good players who actually got them promoted.

City linked to Uche Ikpeazu at Watford. Been recalled from a loan at Crewe where he scored 5 in 7.

He's signed an extension with Crewe yesterday

But been recalled today and set to go to another L1 club.

That's pretty shitty of Twatford, then.

That's the loan market, darling.

Watford have done nothing wrong.

are the team back from Tenerife today ?

Deli Ali to Newcastle but will be loaned back for rest of the season.

I'm not sure if this transfer has gone through yet, but it's rumoured to be closer to 4m than 9m!

According to the Sun, Scum will pay £500k for Tyrone Barnett. Absolute cobblers but I really hope its true.

Dont think its that much but their chairman said on the local radio yesterday its one of the biggest bids made in their history

Fantastic news. Hope Posh agree. They'll have the title wrapped up by next X Mas.

Cheating by throwing a bottomless pit of money at it :D

Wanted to much in wages - He is not going now

Rumour on another forum that Coventry are close to signing Ricketts

Bristol make a 2.5m bid for a defender

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11726/9900976/hull-reject-bristol-city-bid-for-harry-maguire

Thank fuck for that

Looks like Wolves have eased their pursuit of Kasim.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33380799 Conor Coady and Jed Wallace, whilst retaining Kevin McDonald (not that one) too.

That's okay, it was relevant in the other thread.

Cheers, realised once i posted it that it may have been borderline, which is why i posted it in here.  :thumb:

Austin to Bournemouth. £14 million if the papers are to be believed.

Yep, your read it right, AFC Cunting Bournemouth for 14m

What a fairy-tale story though. 

what a job Eddie Howe has done on such a shoestring budget

In all fairness he's done a hell of a job!!

with a massive budget

Which is probably smaller than a lot of the sides they finished above to get promoted.

We're such a bitter bunch.

They picked the right time to reach the Premier League.

if anyone should be annoyed it should be them.  a transfer embargo a few years ago could cost them 14m

If he goes there then there's a good chance he will be in the same position he's in now at the end of the season. Still at least he'll be able to go and watch Poole. Like to see him go to to West Ham myself

It would be nice for him to go somewhere where he is likely to get chances and actually not be at a massive risk of going down.  Even a likely mid table table team.

But actually, I dont really give a shit.

He won't go to Bournemouth, he will be looking at a mid-table ish Prem team to move to I would have thought...

Why move to another team that will be at the top of the favourites to go down table..  Even Leicester would be a better move for him..

Surprised Liverpool are not sniffing about, they need a natural goalscorer and Charlie would fit the bill!

But a lot richer. Stop using our morals on professional footballers.

Really? One of the f......... Hang on I could be wooooshed here

Charles is a Liverpool fan apparently

Depends who else is in the market

Bournemouth - a risky gamble that has paid off handsomely.

In the unlikely event that they will ever need to pass round the begging bowl again, there'll be few inclined to donate.

Such is the enmity that Premier League trough generates.

Never say never I guess. Blackpool should have been sorted for years for example, and Wigan. Though neither are going bust I suppose.

Good luck to Bournemouth. Can't say I wouldn't be absolutely estatic had it been us.

I still think their Russian's going to do an Oyston on them at one point.

Just for balance and to show that it's not purely out of bitterness. I don't think the same about Brentford or Bristol City.

The big test of his commitment will be if he invests in a new stadium or a massive expansion of their current one.

You can't be a top flight club with a 12,000 capacity these days surely

On the subject of finances being splashed about, I saw Brentford spent about £2.5M the other day. Crazy money

Not a rumour but confirmed
Sheff utd sign Billy Sharp
Also Connor Sammon on a season long loan from the rams.

Got to be a decent shout for autos let alone playoffs this season

Wait, has Tails deleted his account now or did Jayo ban him too? :D

They've signed Billy Sharp - again!

He'll be on a fair whack at this level. Looks like Sheffield United are "going for it" this season.

wrrreeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy

No room for a massive expansion of the current one

MKD have signed Rob Hall & Sam Gallagher on season long loans from Bolton & Soton respectively so hopefully that means they won't be pursuing their interest in Ryan Kent.

Could be right, there.

Indeed, now its just 'Uddersfield to fend off.

Bournemouth sign lee tomlin and max gradel

They are giving out quite long contracts, hope they have learnt from other clubs and got relegation wage clauses in them?

Hopefully not

:D

How tinpot.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-33774103

'Shirt manufacturers JD Sports'

Good lord.

Could have still been Carbrini :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Is Billy Sharp who I met at Vest last year??! Lanky? Sort of longish hair and a big nose?

It is Carbrini...Carbrini is owned by JD Sports

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbrini_Sportswear

Think that was Tans point... *sarcasm*

Bournemouth are still in the Premier League but go ahead and keep clutching them straws!

;)

Stoke and Palace have done some serious strengthening!

Charlie Austin to Spurs according to the papers this morning.

Would be a great move if that happened

Would it? They seem to have an uncanny ability to sign really good players and then ruin them?

Who knows, I assume he is asking for silly wages as £15m doesn't seem a lot yet financials are putting a lot of teams off?

Kane and Austin couldn't play together.

They are selling Kane arent they? I thought i read Man U were in for him?

Don't see why they couldn't?!

But van gaal said rooney was going to play the lone striker this season..

Kane and Austin are too similar. And Kane is a better player.

To be fair they are nothing alike Sippo. Kane likes to pick the ball up deep and out wide

But both are out and out strikers. I just can't see them working together. I maybe wrong, I often am!

Just been reported that the slave traders are offering £6m (rising to £8m) to Crystal Palace for Dwight Gale.  Good player, but bonkers all the same..

He only said this yesterday http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/33848322

Lansdown was always going to throw some money at individuals, looks like they've sized the market and (reluctantly) decided to join in.

Imagine if Town went up? We'd have the five best young loanees the Premier League could offer. :)

the next 'fairy-tale' rise in the making then?

It reeks of panic to me.

Seems a strange move for Gayle, wasn't he regularly in the first team last season, cannot see him wanting to drop down to the Championship?

Lee Novak to Chesterfield. Would have been a belting replacement for Smith.

Gayle's turned Shitty down. Apparently he wants to either join a Prem club or a Championship club that's going to be fighting for promotion...

Bristol City going public with the Dwight Gayle bid was your a blatant move to keep the flock happy.

Not something many clubs do.

One word ... desperation.

Talking of Bristol City.  By god Steve Cotterill had some front trying to defend the Freeman tackle and claim it was a yellow.

He looked and sounded like a pick-pocket claiming he was trouser valeting. 

I doubt the lad was aiming for the head but Jesus it sounded like a desperate man.  Strangely enough some of the Bristol local press are also playing it down. 

Reported that Bristol City are about to spend £8,000,000 on Andre Gray, who signed for Brentford last summer for something like £500,000.

1. Good bit of business for Brentford
2. How on earth could Swindon compete in that division without that sort of money
3. Eight-fucking-million

We go up, and sell our players for the same sort of prices.

Sign cheap, profit rich.

Also goes to prove how desperate City are.

They are leaking all these goals...and they go out and buy a striker.

And because they're desperate, and they've complained about being so in the media, the prices go up.

It is delicious.

Luton Town will earn something like £1,800,000 from this (if the now reported £9 million is accurate).

I bet Nick Owen is desperate for this to go through.

Chuck in a couple more million and they could sign Charlie

9 (NINE) FUCKING MILLION!

Jesus.  Football is very very silly.  24 years old and scored 18 in 47 in the championship.  Surely Im worth at least a grand or 2.  44 and scored a couple in the springfield five a side league in 1990.

Shitheads want their nose in the Prem trough and that doesn't come cheap....manage it and the forthcoming largesse makes 9 mil look like loose change.

I'm probably in a minority, but I'd rather see us shopping around in the Glentoran market for 50K players.....than aiming for that shit.

But, they do have a billionaire owner to back it up.

Hope they go for it and still fuck up

With such a mature and level-headed manager, I don't think that's likely Audrey.

£9m players in the Championship should be spearheading a tilt at the PL not just to keep a team in the Championship.

One forward, £9m or not, will not get a club promoted.

It's like putting a gold condom on a 2 inch dick

BREAKING: Brentford striker Andre Gray having medical ahead of proposed move to Burnley. #SSNHQ

Wouldn't that scale of transfer fall foul of financial fair play rules?

To a man we feel for you and i suspect the "size isn't important" element of the female population do also. However, how much is the gold worth?

Andre Gray's transfer was apparently more in the £6m region.

So City couldn't even land their second choice target with a bid 50% higher than the club he eventually went to? Oooh, that's gotta hurt :)

Wont be long before they put a 5 million bid in for Storey.

He'll turn them down as well.

 :D

They seem to add £1m every time they drop down their list.

Lansdown was right when he said that there is silly money needed in the Championship. Then he goes and compounds the problem.

Miles said "no, no, no"

Will 500 T-Shirts be enough?

Andrew Steele-Davis ‏@andrew_FLICW  2m2 minutes ago
Richard Eckersley has been let go by Town, won't be offered a deal. #stfc

Thought that was coming...

Now, for Kent and Ajose... although, may need another defender!!..

I thought it would come off as well considering how long he was hanging around for. Oh well.

Didn't want him anywaY, he's shit!

He must be if he was a part of a team that Mike Grella can regularly feature in..

FUCK HIM!! :-[

See Kevin de Bruyne is back in English football for £55m.

Interesting to re-read Mourinho's comments about why he wasn't playing him and would later sell.

"He's not selected because I didn't like the match he played against Swindon [in the Capital One Cup] and I didn't like the way he was training."

Austin 1/2 to join Manchester United.

That'd be a great move for Charlie. I said earlier in the summer that a 'big' club should take a punt on him. He'll score goals wherever he goes. Also Utd player scoring goals = guaranteed Euro place.

Surely no substance in them rumours? Not that Austin isn't good enough but I just can't see that move happening.

Not when Man Utd have just bid £36million for another striker

a 19 year old from Monaco who has scored 11 goals. gamble.. but he is foreign so he must be good.

And every thing listed on bbc gossip column is fact

Selling hernandez too

Ha, just read a rumour that Ricardo Vaz Te going on loan to Bury until Jan.

He doesn't have a club currently.

Thought he was playing in Turkey?

Only a 6 month contract, expired in the summer.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ is great for checking such things. When it loads up!

Ryan Fredricks
6 August : Spurs -> Slave Traders
31 August: Slave Traders -> Fulham

WTF is the story there? Another Joseph Beauchamp ?

Couldn't find any gloves that fitted 10 digits I heard

Fuck me rumour is Austin to Bournemouth now, shite move if true.

It's 30-odd more Premier League games heading towards a international competition.

Epic fail move...

Some sort of personal reasons, they aren't having much luck with this transfer lark are they.

Nope. They're going to hit the loan market which was 'cheating' last season.

I'm sorry.

Not so much of a transfer rumour, but with all the comings and lack of goings at Bournemouth how in God's name are they not falling foul of fair play regulations?  None of the players they've bought are cheap earners and isnt the ground the smallest in premiership history?  
Wankers, throw the book at the fuckers

Call me ignorant, but why is it we hate Bournemouth so much?

Jealousy and the fact they got Ritchie on the cheap

Eddie Howe's smug face

Didn't a number of fans abuse town posters in relation to black pulling the plug, then getting Ritchie for peanuts and then mocking at the fact that they promoted we didn't. Gracious in defeat magnanimous in victory etc. I dont take the moral high ground so fuck them i hope it all goes tits up

To be fair, we kind of nicked Austin off them, so its sort of karma.

I don't particularily like or dislike them. In a way it shows  the Premier League is still achievable to lower league clubs.

Would love to know the cost though, and how much of it was a gamble. Or if it is still a gamble

The cost was a couple of years running £12m losses each year.

No reason whatsoever.

I don't 'hate' them by the way. I love the way they play and think they are a breath of fresh air to the boring, boring Premier League.

I don't hate them, I do have a list of strong dislikes though.  Bolton, Sunderland, Spurs.

Just behind Seb Coe in the 'face I'd like to hit with a shovel' competition.

Plus the fuckers came round the CG with their begging buckets when they were about to go bust and now they've got a slice of Russian mobster money their shit don't stink.

Didnt need that fucking bucket though when they got Ritchie for next to fuck all, i just wonder what clause we put on him or once again did we just buckle.

:D

 I always like an away day at Dean Court....down the years it has to be up there with my most visited, so a bugger to lose them especially given the given the grinding norverness of Div 3 this season.

I'd say Ritchie was a good reason, seeing as Di Canio left because of it, but was that their fault or our board's fault?

Bournemouth have just spent £5 Million on Glenn Murray. Not sure about that one...

It may have been the boats fault, Di Canio's fault whoever, they acted like vultures and then had the audacity to take the piss once they got him by stating they got him for a steal, so fuck them the shit bags

They did what any club with any sense about them would have done, got a bargain.

I dont get the hatred either, it's a bit odd.

And De Guzman season long loan, they must have put some major new stands in over summer in order to offset the wages and balance the books

I believe the £60m they get this year and then the parachute payments will help a little, or £100m if they stay up.

Murray is 32 in a few weeks time. Perhaps Bournemouth might put a £500,000 bid in for Jabo Ibehre?

Begging for money from our club and fans when in the shit then when it's us they "help us out " by taking Ritchie off or wage bill for shirt buttons.  Oh yeah what's not to like about plucky fucking Bournemouth

That money did an awful lot more than just "help us out" at the time, easy to forget the seriousness of the situation.

Helping us out would have involved spending the money on Miles Storey instead.

 ;)

Sorry but i disagree, they knew how much shit we were in and took full advantage.
It is only my view that i hate Bournemouth i dont expect anyone else to agree with me and maybe it's just personal. If it's true they'll get £60 million this year they've spent a good chunk of it and theyre linked strongly with Austin also. Again only my opinion /view or even wishes but i hope it all goes wrong

I don't like Bolton because one of their fans nicked my lucky scarf in 1995, I don't think rational thoughts make any sense in football, so any reason is a good one.

  :clap:

I detest Bournemouth too. No rational reason for it really except for when I met up with a couple of their fans a few years ago, they seemed to hate Swindon because of our supposed "buying success" under Di Canio. Anyhow, I too will be laughing my ass off when it all collapses on top of them (and it will).

I don't like one of the clubs that have a name beginning with 'B'. I've forgotten which one it is, and the reason I don't like them. Now I just have a general dislike of any club that begins with 'B' with no real idea as to why.

It's called "B"mentia

Oh the irony!!  They have spent £23.5 million (if the rumour of Glenn Murray is correct) on four players and have signed a further four on the free. They'll probably forget that now though.

they are in the premiership, a drop in the ocean, the trough will cover that and more

Glenn Murray is not a bad signing even for £5 million. He's never been quick so his age is kind of irrelevant - he's more a poacher, you don't really ever lose than ala Kevin Phillips. De Guzman is a brilliant signing, he was good at Swansea a couple of seasons ago.

Still hate Bournemouth though. Flashheart - Brentford is another "B" team that I dislike so could be them too.

Anthony Martial (who) reportedly signing for United for €80 million. Surely that can't be true value?

Apparently they've also sent the De Gea paperwork a minute late so he can't now sign for Madrid....
United fans exhibiting their usual lack of knowledge and celebrating that he is staying and missing the point. They'll be stuck with a player who wants to leave, can go for free next summer and probably means Real will never deal with them again so bang goes any dreams of Bale. That Woodward character at Man United seems a bit of a clueless cock and long may it continue!

Fee + wages  so probably not far off.

Iv actually admired their stance with the transfer. Europes clubs are always expected to sell their players to madrid when they come calling. The greatest team in the world etc etc well they have dug their heels in this time and said we want what we want otherwise it's not happening. Be in transfer fee, Ramos or navas in return. Madrid aren't short of money, if they want him that bad. Pay him

It's an interesting stance, keep a player who very publicly doesn't want to be there turn down 20+ million and let him go on a free soon. A very expensive case of cutting off ones nose.

But the way Man Utd are spraying cash around at the moment it doesn't seem an issue for them, c 1\4 billion on players and whilst the incoming fees looks OK at first glance when you consider a large part of that is Di Maria who they took a major loss on after one season.

isn't a lot of that 1/4 billion offset by outgoings. well it would have been had mickey mouse's hand not been a tad slow.

Ryan Federicks had barely unpacked his bag, what happened there
http://m.bristolpost.co.uk/BRISTOL-CITY-Ryan-Fredericks-set-complete-Fulham/story-27708966-detail/story.html

I don't like man utd, there doesn't seem to be someone there who has strategic brain when it comes to transfers. They let Paul Pogba go for peanuts, and now he commands a 80 million plus fee. It's quite funny actually.

Wenga would frustrate me if I was an arsenal fan, he seems to get some good signings, but stops just when one more signing would make them a serious contender.

Man city are buying the league it seems and Chelsea seem to be trying to do the same.

Leeds sign bent

Austin staying at Qpr

Source - his mrs on facebook

Berahino going off on one

@SBerahino: Sad how i cant say exactly how the club has treated me but i can officially say i will never play Jeremy Peace.

What a twat!

Let him rot in the reserves.

Transfers are getting insane. I don't watch much of the "Best League in The World®" but £25m for Berahino? And it was apparently turned down?  :headhurts:

Although from an outsider's perspective, that French lad signed by Man U, seems worse. No doubt another over-priced player to add to their recent transfer successes.

Weird its seems like no time since Berahino was coming on as sub for northampton when we beat them 2 - 1 under PDC.  He didnt seem that good then. 

That's kind of my thinking. I recall Defoe on loan at Bournemouth and being impressed. Berahino barely registered.

You can add De Bruyne to that list...£50m+ for a player Chelsea dumped just over a year ago.

Saying that paying over £10m for van Dijk is madness considering he's been playing in a league equivalent of League One and there is no competition.

I think it's fair to say Chelsea dropped a bollock there though. His stats last season were immense.

The Man U signing, from any angle, looks ridiculous - even the French agree.

I read somewhere were back in for Harley, he's scored again tonight.

Tee he

By "somewhere" I guess you mean the bastion of truth, Twitter, because that's completely ridiculous. :) He made Agombar look like Zidane.

Maybe we could make a move for Pericard to plug that hole up front.

No i made it up it is after all a rumours thread and he has scored a few this season a few meaning 2 or 3 but that's not bad as its only Sept

Rather shocked that Austin didn't get a move anywhere, £15m seems cheap for a proven PL striker.

Unless there is more to that Hull medical...

Has to be that or wage demands.

Not really any other logical reasons why he is still there

I think that medical plus his shoulder problem has scared everyone off. Shame considering he played virtually all last season. Though he did turn down an approach from Palace on personal terms. If he stays fit till Jan and keeps banging them in, then his chance may yet come.

Wouldn't think his wages would be an excuse considering the money the clubs will be getting from next season.

Considering Spurs have paid £22m for a Korean striker from Germany, with no experience of playing in England. They could've paid £15m for Charlie, and had a pile left over to cover his salary for a number of years.

Charlie had offers apparently, but didn't want to join the clubs in question. He's patient enough to wait for a second chance in the prem.

Good to hear. At least he didn't do a Berahino !!

Coventry in for Ryan Kent.

Let's see if we can gazump them a second time...

A question that I didn't think I'd ask all summer - do we need him?   ???

Take him in an instant

I'm not sure we do.

Now we have so many wide options, in particular Ojamaa, Ajose, Jordan Stewart and Robert, I can't see Power taking another one on, however good he might be. We ought to prioritise developing our own players when we can, and develop other teams players when we need to plug a gap. 

Having said that, I'll be disappointed if Kevin Stewart is sent back, as he seems to offer a more dynamic option in midfield. 

I don't think there's any way we'll sign Kent now - which I'm fine with.

Power, being the astute wheeler dealer we now know him to be, would have had several potential replacements in mind for Nathan Byrne, two of which would have been Kent and Ojamaa. For whatever reason, he decided to put his eggs in the Ojamaa basket which I think was a good move. I would have been delighted if we'd signed Kent but from what I've seen of both, Ojamaa looks every bit as exciting.

I would agree with anyone who said that at this stage, Kent would be one signing too many.

Coventry are going for it. About time really.

My sentiments exactly.

I reckon it should be an Ojamaa bag....

Coventry sign Joe Cole on loan from Villa. Makes his debut against us next week i think. He might be a bit old but thats a great signing for League One

http://mobile.ccfc.co.uk/news/article/signing-coventry-city-aston-villa-joe-cole-2746903.aspx

I bet he doesn't come cheap.

Fucking hell, that's a hell of a signing.

It'll be very interesting to see how he gets on. They could really build a team around him - let him do no running and just spray the ball about. On a slightly different level, similar to when we had Ian Woan running the show and not moving more than 5 yards in any direction.

Villa paying all his wages!

Oh, that is quite cheap. Free, even.

Quite. Tim could have sent him here 8)

Gone there to get match fitness in readiness for coming here to pick up another injury

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Has there been a problem between Sherwood and Power?  We all expected - I think - a few decentish Villa players coming in to get experience but that didn't happen!  Perhaps Tim thought they were not good enough for us!

or he got the hump we screwed spurs on thre the luongo free.

or he got the hump we didn't sell luongo and gladwin to villa

or nothing at all

Oh gawd. Don't, you'll get Audrey started.

He's heading our way I tells ya.

Villa will lose at Chelsea, then again at home to Swans next weekend and that's that.

They'll be bleeding us dry.

Dry  - I tells ya!

At least if he makes his debut next week we should see more cov fans and more cash in our pockets (they've sold 1100 tickets already)

Maybe Lee asked Tim to send a 5th columnist to Coventry ready for our game? Agent Joe? Get your teeth into that!

Austin to Southampton for around 4 million  :bye:

Absolute steal that is

It is isn't it, I wonder what he will have to say to that cunt goalkeeper who upended him and broke his collarbone. :suicide:

How have Southampton manager that? QPR have been quoting 15m to everyone!

A player that scored 18 in his last season in the Prem for 4M? You'd struggle to get that price for somebody that's only scored 18 in the Championship.

Sounds like his contract was up in the summer so a few million and a big wage off the bill probably good for them too.
If Austin was being picky about the clubs he was going to sign for (not wanting to go up north, apparently?) QPR probably realised getting anything substantial from an ever shrinking pool of clubs was going to be pretty tricky.

Great to see him back in the Prem.

What were the insinuations about his injury problems? Was it a dodgy shoulder? Not that it seems to have caused him any problems since that transfer fell through, but there's got to be some sort of doubt on the part of clubs for this to be the eventual outcome.

4 and a half year contract too.

I hope he does well for them (and I'm fairly sure he will).

10m for Afobe
7m for Grabban.

Hahahahaha Bournemouth the fucking mugs

Ironic given Bournemouth have always wanted him. Afobe and Grabban are very different players to Charlie though. He's joined a great club, and I can't wait to see him do well for them.

I hope you lot get a minibus down the coast one day when we're not playing.

If he only cost £4million why didn't we put a bid in with the luongo and Gladwin money?

 :sherlock:

Go on then Charlie, get yourself in that England squad with a great second half to the season.

He's going straight in my fantasy team regardless.

Football ?

You may be aware of other "fantasy leagues" mr Sutton but I for one have no knowledge of them and for two probably wouldn't put Charlie in it  :girlgiggle:

I would If I was that way inclined ;)

Fair play to the lad a very good move for him, he rang one of my mates this morning who is a big saints fan and played with Charlie in non league to tell him he was at St Mary's ready to sign.

Already here  8)

He's not my type :D

I wonder if Darren has said anyth.. Oh yes. He has  :sherlock:

Conor Washington to QPR from Peterborough for £3m, apparently. A poor goal record for that sort of fee. Taking advantage of desperate clubs in January is good business.

Pboro do seem to pull in some tremendous fees for an L1 club, then seem to do nothing with all the cash. What's Macanthony's trick in attracting prices we never get close to?

The shitheads bid £1m for that pikey twat Bradley Dack

He'd fit in beautifully as he's a good honest lad who never cheats with no high opinion of himself.
But I may be being sarcastic.

Barry Fry & not being desperate for cash.

Also helps that they are selling goal scorers, they always fetch higher fees

We probably sold Luongo for 3M+ or so. Only the price appeared less because Power 'threw in' Gladwin as well to help pay less money to spurs (allegedly).

I liked him....just what we lack.

Surprised at a million quid though.

Quoting massive transfer fees when £2.8m is contingent on him making 50 appearances for Russia before he's 21.

Eh, Conor Washington's Russian?  :hmmm:

Unfortunate name if so.

PBoro also sign players on long contracts, that massively boosts the price. We can't afford to do anything like that as three-year-deals even on fairly modest contracts could ruin us if a player gets injured or can't be sold.

I think he was emphasising his point...

Pictures doing the rounds that suggests former Town man Ben Gladwin has signed for Bristol City. Yet to be confirmed #stfc

From ASD Twitter.

Agent Gladwin....,

Respect the code......

And do your best..... :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Confirmed

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/swindon_town_2014/14214215.UPDATED__Gladwin_signs_for_Bristol_City/

I see Bristol City have brought in Lee Tomlin on loan. Not sure him and Gladwin are the sort of players you'd want for a relegation battle.

So, it turns out the loan market isn't a form of cheating after all, particularly the purse strings are tightened and the tem is a bit shit  :)

Not sure gladwin is the type of player you want starting regularly in the championship tbh. Lasted an hour last match and was hauled off for being shit again

I thought he picked up an injury?

All those loan players...cheating sods

He did

Fallon signs for Bristol Rovers

Fleetwood sign Shola Ameobi

That's a decent signing for someone to come of the bench a cause a few problems - he was prepared to play for free at Bolton but couldn't as they was not able to make any signings

Kemar Roofe off to Leeds. 2m plus addons.

https://twitter.com/bbcoxfordsport/status/751005831232122880

Looks like they are investing that money already in wages in the new recruits. Good work by them TBH, they could do well this season with one or two extra signings.

West Brom have a 40% sell on.

He signed for the pox for an undisclosed fee so I doubt it was too much so 40% profit sell on must still easily get them £1.3m I would guess. If its an upfront fee anyway.

Bradford have triggered the release clause of Blackpool's 'keeper Colin Doyle for £1 :)

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11728/10497224/bradford-city-meet-blackpool-keeper-colin-doyles-1631-release-clause

Oxford sell Callum O'Dowda to the shitheads for 1.6m

Oxford are losing players for good money and have been building a more than adequate squad. Probably one of the factors behind Town fans recent nervous moan.

Their fans must be wondering wtf is happening.....haven't sold a player for a fee probably this century then 2 in a week.

At least it will keep them running for a bit longer...as with their debt and the Brexit economic crash, things could have started to look dodgy.

Some are saying Bristol City isnt a step up and that they are a bigger club 8)

Well had they not recently had a lengthy spell in the Conference, they could have claimed to have been a FL team for longer.

1962 as opposed to 1982....

Ex Town target Tom Bradshaw signs for Barnsley for an estimated £1m.

Some suggestions from up there (on their forum) also state that they may be interested in Kasim.

Matt Taylor does a Theo Robinson on Oxford

Who does a what? Lost me a bit there.

Shake hands on a deal and changes their mind.

Like Robinson did with Swindon.

Ah ok. Still dont know who matt taylor is though.

Bristol Rover messiah apparently if you listen to their fans. Apparently he is a Pox fan.

I see hes agreed an extention at Rovers for another two years.

To be fair to Taylor, he's been a major factor behind their double-promotion and he would have been a big loss for them, especially on a free.

Indicative of how much they're (over)spending by the fact Pox were even in for him.

I know what you are saying and it does seem that way but the Pox have a large wedge from selling Roofe and O'Dowda (@£3.5m+) so they are just reinvesting that into the team it would seem,

Rumour up in Oxford was they offered him 4k a week

But of course those fees must be treated in the same way ours last year were. Max 2m up front, relatively large wage deficit over the last seasons.

Plus they have debts to cover

Didnt they lose nearly 3 million last year? These fees will mostly only cover their losses. I do find it amusing that they are spending big after all the stick they gave us under PDC for "buying" the league. Hope they fail miserably.

Not forgetting Uncle Firoz and his £500,000pa rent.

Still think they could go well though, unfortunately.

Apparently all losses have been budgeted for and all player sales will be reinvested in the team I read somewhere (might have been on their forum) they do seem to be going for it this term, but then again so did Bury last season and that didn't work so well!

I too hope they fall flat on their face but thats a pretty normal for most Town fans to wish for.

Presumably, its ok when they do it.

Pox think they're signing Obika.

Good work Tanswell.

Teehee

Just so you can all have a good laugh.....

http://yellowsforum.proboards.com/thread/23757/summer-2016-transfer-rumours-thread?page=38

When you read that it does seem that they all think they will be challenging for promotion. Again when I look a their squad it isn't all that or am I missing something. Roofe was probably the main reason they got promoted....

Oxford are enjoying a high point after years in the doldrums.

They'll be looking at examples over the last decade like Colchester, Southend, Doncaster, Yeovil and Burton who have all  kicked on in L1 to earn unlikely promotions to the Championship and asking why not Oxford? Bristol Rovers will be the same.

One day, it might be Swindon again... ???

It's been 15 years since they were last at Div 3 level, when they finished 24th and conceded 100 goals.

In the meantime they've had a few years of losing to the likes of Droysden, Hayes and Yeading and Salisbury.

So I suppose its understandable that they're getting a bit over excited.  They're also a club that has never really produced much in the way of 20 Football League goal strikers. Think it's 2, compared to our 24, so again understandable it's a subject they don't quite get.

Wasn't sure where to put this but...

This article should be stapled up in every sports news room and to the head of every pundit/bedroom journo/imbecile fan.

http://thesetpieces.com/features/transfer-window-myth-busting/

...as well as any inquisitive individuals with a thirst for knowledge too :)

Great article, thanks for posting that.

Oxford sign Kane Hemmings from Dundee.

21 goals in the SPL last season.

Well, if Adam Rooney and Miles Storey can score for fun in the SPL, I wouldn't get too excited if I was a pissed-stained, turd-eating cuntflake.

Apparently they matched his minimum fee release clause of around £250k.

Isn't that the sort of figure we got for Miles?  Seems about the going rate for goals in the SPL.

I believe you are correct, the standard of the Scots Prem is not the greatest but a goalscorer who can get 20+ at any level of Conference upwards must be worth that to any club in our league.

Good mate of mine is a dundee fan, we'd been saying he might have been a player we might have gone for.

Yes....could be a good signing for them.  It must be the first time this century they've spent a fee on a player.

Very poor at Barnsley the season before. It seems that even the most average of strikers can score in the SPL no not really a barometer of football league quality.

The fee for Roofe from WBA was supposed to be between £100k and £150k but was undisclosed at the time.

They can't have paid that much for any player in years though.

Storey scored 11 goals in 30 games in Scotland, so not exactly prolific

Most of the SPL is league 1 standard so decent signing for them.

Seen him play a few times, he is pretty decent and should have a bit of fun at this level

Oxford also sign Tyler Roberts on loan from WBA on a season long loan. Very well thought of at West Brom apparently.

They seem to have solved their striker shortage whilst we are still fannying around with Obika and Hylton as our only strikers.

Bar 3 players they have a pretty much brand new first team. Be interesting to see whether that approach works or not.

They have bought players and thus are obviously going to be promoted.....

Gillingham have signed Jay Emmanuel Thomas.

Franchise sign Agard & Gills sign Jamie O'Hara.

Fair play to Scally he really is pumping the money in to Gillingham this season. Konchesky, Wagstaff, JET, O'Hara.. must be on a fair whack between them.

Well we've signed Furlong - so there!!!!!

O'Hara, another one of those players that had fantastic opportunity to excel (Spurs, Wolves maybe). Don't see him being much kop. Would rather have Kasim.

The fee for MKD record signing Agard is "allegedly" £750k up front with add ons to over £1m. Big fee for a L1 club.

Its getting silly isn't it, I can understand the Premier teams spunking money around due to the new TV deal, but is anyone at our level making enough money to be spending that on a player?

That must be close to a record signing in this league, can't think of many other teams that would have that financial clout ever in L1 to pay that sort of a fee, a few £500k or so. Can't remember if Wolves did a couple of years back but they were on Premiership parachute payments still if they did.

£1m seems a lot.

Posh spent £1.5M on Assombalonga.

TBF to them they'd just made a cracking return from Gayle and then they sold him for a lot more.

Wow didn't realise he cost that much!

Did'nt Sheff U pay 1.5 million for Brayford as well?

Wigan and maybe cardif were spending that kind of money over a decade ago, probably add Fulham go those too.

Only Wigan from that list.

Only 7 players have been transfered to a L1 (level) club for £1m or more.

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They spent nearly £2M on Brayford?! Fucking hell.

Yeah thats exactly what I thought when I read that!

Fair enough, I could have sworn Wigan spent over a mil on Kavanagh, likewise Fulham on Hales.

You could be mistaken in thinking Kavanagh signed for Cardiff for £1m but they were in the Championship in July 2001 at the end of their title winning season in L1, Wigan were in the Premiership when he signed for them for £400k in 2004/5.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/4317345.stm

From that list, Fonte has turned out to be a bloody good buy!

That will be from the 2 million pound bridging loan he has just taken out 😉

Hope it blows up and fucks em.

Cunts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37106090

Personally I think it would do him bloody good, he has been unchallenged at either Man City nor England for too long!

Bit late to the party but fuck me, how much lucky Heather has scallywags sold this season for Gillingham to be spending what they are?!

Seen various reports and mentions of Scally taking our a loan of £2m. Basically gambling to get up. Praying it blows up in their pikey faces.

Be interesting to know what said loan is secured against?

No idea... the ground I guess?

Loan secured against some local real estate that the Gills own.

Or the future sale of Bradley Dack when he's fit again?

I imagine £2m is quite a lot of property in Gillingham, wonder how our fans would react to Power mortgaging the family silver (if we owned any!) like that?

I'd also imagine said property is pretty mobile

Jonathan Kodjia from the shitheads to Derby or Hull for £14m, the transfer world has gone mad.

Fourteen, not one point four?

Can this madness go on for ever..

Bristol City get good fees and that's been the case for a while. If it were Town, we'd have been pleased with our undisclosed amount in the region of £750,000 :)

£14 million for Kodjia is probably the best bit of business they'll ever do.

I see it is now up to £16m with add ons! madness.

Fair play to Shitty for getting this sort of fee for him but football cannot sustain these massively inflated transfer fees for much longer.

There's more and more TV money being pumped in. Surely fees will continue to rise?

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2016/08/28/por-sunderland-line-up-move-for-bristol-citys-flint/page/1/

did we have a sell on for Flint?

25% I believe..

Would be a sizeable amount, we sold him for £400k? So around £900k due if he goes for £4m.

Sounds very good to me.

Crazy what sort of fee a centre forward can command in comparison to other positions because if a Championship side is bidding £14 million for Kodjia then Flint shouldn't be too far off that figure, especially in terms of importance to Bristol City.

Our record transfer fee received is going to be a sell on, isn't it? Good work LP (who negotiated Flint's exit)

I cannot wait for the cacophony of anger that Power will pocket the sell on fee etc etc.

Power has told everyone he's here to make money....and it's wheeling and dealing in the market that achieves it.

As soon as Flint gets wind of a bid the cunt will hand in a transfer request anyway. Power says we have a sell-on, Lansdown says we don't.

On another note Forest sell Oliver Burke to Leipzig for £13m.

Never heard of the bloke myself

Ooo this sounds like it could get fun.

Flint going to the premier league would be the final validation that I know fuck all. not that one was needed.

I don't dislike Flint for saying what he said while at city. He's just a City cunt, one of many.

Bit of an odd one that as you don't get many highly-rated young Brits going abroad for such fees, but good luck to him. From what I've seen he's like a younger, better Gladwin.

Power was very vague when asked, the best he could say was "i'm sure we do" I have a feeling we don't.

It was sanctioned when Jed was 'in charge' wasn't it?

Bit of a hazy time, not sure anyone really knows what went on in those 9 months or so

When did Power actually get involved, how long did Jed manage without Powers cash?

I suspect if Power was involved we got a sell on, if it was Jed alone probably not?

That whole era is murky but Lee Power did recently say that he worked on the Flint transfer.

He also said that he wasn't involved in the 10 year catering contract, but both deals were completed on the same day.

11th June 2013 for anyone wondering.

Didn't Jed have all manner of hospitality experts in his consortium who I would assume sorted the burger deal?

I'm looking forward to all the concerts.

Guaranteed income, guaranteed*

*this is not a guarantee

Was that the bloke who ran a B&B / Pub??

The legendary Callum Rice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jHHvAXdow

Isn't that Iggy Pop?

Wearing a shirt?

Fair point.

My bad.

Within his own tenure Power would leave that sort of shit to Steve Anderson to deal with so I dare say that he'd have done the same back then.

Kodija signs for VIlla.

15m

A ridiculously good bit of business for Bristol City regardless of how Kodjia's career pans out.

Laughing all the way to the bank....

Great deal for them, probably the best deal in their history by miles.

Chelski trying to re-sign David Luiz for around £30M. 

You couldn't make it up....

Wonder how many of their fans are lapping that up that laughed at Utd and Pogba.

people said Dwight Gayle at 10m was too expensive, but up to now it looks good business - also compared to 14m for Kodjia

We are fucked if (big if!) we go up. No way can we come close to competing in that league

Its bigger money in the championship but equally its about wheeling and dealing for the smaller fish, seems to be a lot of clubs there spending big on a promotion gamble

Looks like plucky little Bournemouth are going to miss out to Roma in signing Wilshire.....  :D

Nathan Byrne supposedly going to Wigan

Can you honestly blame him? :D

I'd seen that the transfer was off, apparently Wilshire fell out of the Transfer window & is going to be out injured for four months.

I heard signing for them the pen sprained his wrist.

Contract fell on his foot and broke his metatarsal

Shitty have shunted out a defender Zak Vyner to Accy Stanley, assume that suggests Flint ain't going anywhere.

Vyner wouldn't be a direct replacement but I doubt Flint is going anywhere.

BBC suggesting it might be back on as Arsenal cannot agree with Roma and Palace have dropped out, he couldn't could he?

Off to 'Muff to sign apparently - suppose if he says in england more chance of staying in Big Sam's thoughts if he can stay fit

Who was gaffer at Bolton when Wilshere went there?   Fairly sure Sam had gone by then  :hmmm:

Was 2010 so well after Sam.

So who was gaffer in 2010?

Coyle? Or Sammy Lee?

Jack wilshire signing for Bournemouth rather than try himself abroad epitomises the pampered, risk averse, spoilt, pandered 'headphones' generation of English footballer we all saw flop in the summer

Had a quick look and I think it was January 2010 that he went to Bolton, so just after Coyle took over!

 I would entirely agree, however I think in this case Arsenal wouldn't do the deal with Roma due to some history between the clubs and thus Wilshire was left with limited choice. Doesn't remove the fact that Bournemouth is a bloody odd place for him to go.

What about Porto and benfica? I read that they were interested too?

No idea and cannot really be arsed to look, only saw the Roma stuff on the BBC. However I entirely agree that the failure of English players to move abroad does stall the development of the national team.

George Moncur joins Posh on loan.

He'll score against us on Saturday then!

Goodness me, Bolton Wanderers mean business don't they.

Scattergun doesn't always payoff!

Moussa sissokko pulling a lionel ainsworth on Everton

I dont know any of the players who seem to be going for between 10 an 30 million.  I tend to feel like the guardian cartoon this week sums it up nicely.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2016/aug/30/david-squires-on-the-transfer-window

A who and a what? I'm thinking I should maybe read more than just this forum for football news.

Oxford sign Marvin Robinson from Motherwell for a club record fee in excess of 500k

Interesting; one good season in the SPL, otherwise he's been at Kidderminster.

I've just heard that  Bournemouth's medical staff have just been sacked, after Jack Wilshere passed his medical

And Marvin Johnson ;)

My Hibees supporting mate said he's fairly decent, but the standard of the SPL is crap. Rumoured to be 750K which takes their spending well over a million. Their fans are an excitable bunch atm that's for sure.

Anything less than top 6 is a failure for them. I think they're still a good shout despite their poor start.

On paper their signings look good, unfortunately football is played on the pitch not on paper.

I remember when we signed Thorpe, Cureton, Whalley and Peacock in 2005 all with top division experience and look how that season ended.

Never happen but would like to see it, Dean Cox released by orient

He was quality a couple of years ago. Always wondered why he didn't kick on. Wouldn't be unhappy if he rocked up at the CG.

Is he the same guy that was basically sucking Lingy's cock when he was here?

We've Jordan, no need for another 3 foot 7 forward ;)

Was injured for a year. Bet he signs for Posh, seeing as they sign every other cunt

McAnthony said he tried to sign him twice but never goes back a third time.

So yeah he'll end up at Posh.

My local team Hungerford Town are going for it after back to back promotions to Conference South they have signed ex England full back Nicky Shorey at 35 he should be a good signing for them. God knows what would happen if they get promoted again as there is no way that ground will be allowed anywhere near the conference national league.

And they've got Alan O'Brien.....

A mate of mine follows Hungerford everywhere, then write a report on Facebook of the matches.

They had quite a few ex-Town players at one point. Not sure who's still there.....Ian Herring, for one, according to their website.

Anderson scores on debut at Bolton.  Trickled in of the back of his head apparently after bundling the keeper over.

Ghost of Nat Lofthouse....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HbX9DYy7dc

Bendtner to Nottingham Forest  ???

I know... his agent has done well there its well above his level!  :D

I saw that & Sheff Weds signing a Dutch defender.

I thought the window had shut, to the extent that Dean Cox cannot sign for anyone until January even though his contract has been terminated. So how come Forest & Wednesday can still sign players?

I guess they were free agents before the transfer window shut.

Yep. Bendtner was released in April for example.

And the Dutch player was released in June.

Pins me to link the Sun but... https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/1738449/eddie-howe-being-lined-up-by-arsenal-to-replace-manager-arsene-wenger-with-frenchmans-contract-set-to-expire-in-summer/

fairytale.

"glug glug glug, help, i can't touch the bottom " said Howe.

the Fatbury/Morgan meltdowns would be good though.

Grimsby reject £850,000 from Rotherham for Omar Bogle.

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kin hell, that's a serious wedge. must be a badly structured deal.

unless people really are stupid enough to gamble more

No way we'll be signing him for that much, and neither should we be.

Surely our interest was never serious.  I mean fan lead rumour (rather than faux bid)

We may have made a brief enquiry:

Power: 'Ello guvner. How much for your boy Bogle?
Grimsby Chairman: Hello mate. I reckon a mil or so should do it. Fancy it?... Lee? Are you there? Hello. Hello. Are you there Lee?

:)

but yeah, understand we have to live within means... don't think anyone is expecting a name on a perm.

Scott Hogan to West Ham for £15m. Rochdale have a 30% sell on!

Rotherham turn down £2m for Danny Ward.

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Probably my favourite loanee since I've been watching. Quality player.

One of my faves too, alongside Milner. That goal at The Valley is in my top 5 moments of being a Town fan.

Must be something about the Valley. The Stephen Darby penalty that got us to Wembley is up there with my favourite moments too. Took about 5 minutes into the PO final for it to wear off!

Payet refusing to play for West Ham

Frank Talias performance at the Valley when they were top and we were bottom of The Champ was the best individual performance I've ever seen from any player in any game ever.

And we go there on the last day, potentially needing something....

Frank Talia. Player of the Season that year. Erratic but occasionally brilliant. Certainly better than Griemank, Glass, and others that followed.

Don't think we can quite manage the PO's.

From wiki.....

'After Football Frank moved to Melbourne and opened a recycling shop for the blind, he is also a major a fund raiser for blind beasts'

That badly needs a comma. It reads as though everybody calls him 'Football Frank'.

But, then, maybe they do?

Coconut shy that day....

Fantastic rear guard action...

Kevin Nolan seems confident that Carlton Cole will join him at Notts County.

1 goal in 20 will keep them up then. Must be on the list of most not very good prem players ever?

2nd that. He was immense.

I see Sheff Utd sign James Hanson from Bradford and Jay O'Shea from Chesterfield, 2 good signings at this level.

They are really going for it after their home defeat to Fleetwood on Tuesday.