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Who do we want shipped out and what are the priorities to come in
Out - Boo as physically and mentally weak, Delfoeunso and Norris as neither are goalscorer, Rogers no explanation needed, Kasim cause his heart isn't in it
Priorities to keep - Thompson but ditch captaincy and play him as either right back or holding midfielder, Brophy if his health issues are sorted, Vigs unless big money offered, Obika same as Vigs
Priorities to get - dominant centre half and captain a la Greer. A left back who can defend a la jamie vincent. A midfielder who has pace and can get up and down the pitch. All our current midfielders are small and slow. Two wide players who can cross the ball not wing backs. A forward who can score more than 5 goals a season.
So 5 out 6 in.
Views?

Keep Thompson, vigs, beaks and the young ones who came up through our ranks. Possibly Stewart and brophy. The Ret can go fuck themselves. But who the fuck would want the ones we want to get rid of.

Good news is i can imagine the contracts they are on are not great so can just pay them off.

Anton Rodgers has a highest earner clause in his contract

Keep Vigs,Thompson,Dougthy(out of our hands)Tom Smith.
Sell Kasim and Obika (very good player but no good to us injured all the time.)
The rest terminate their contracts due to the fact they were signed as professional fotballers which is clearly not the case.

Anthony McNamee is a free agent.

Tot up 20 players contracts for say a year at 50k each. Aint happening. We're stuck with them.

Would love to see them at an industrial tribunal defending the fact they are professionals 😂

I was going to report them to trading standards because they said we are playing good football

I can't see this transfer window being one for trying to get rid of the dross. The only players to leave will be those who are wanted by others. The dross will go when their contracts come to an end.

Ins: anyone who is good enough to get into the starting 11 and stay there for the rest of the season.

So all agreed massive surgery required and staying up will depend how quickly new players have impact/gel together.
My ideal starting XI post January would look something like this

Vigs
Thompson ano Jones ano
ano ano Doughty ano
ano Obika

Subs
Henry Branco Brophy Murray Goddard Hylton Stewart

Oh yes forgot ship out Thomas as well

Power's already said that 'Ins' are the priority and he's not focusing on outs. That's not to say that there will be no outs, of course, but rather that it's not a policy as such.

We all know that after all this fuck all will actually happen and then we will sign Elliot Benyon on deadline day!

Are ano the new Sodje's?

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say that Power will spend early to bring in that defender from Wycombe!!!

 I'm working on the assumption that if there is interest in Vigs, he'll be gone. Of the rest I like Nathan and Branco so they can stay. Yaser has had his moments at STFC, but now needs a new club, like NSSJO.

Pre op Michael Doughty was a decent player, but he's now struggling, such trauma can take it out of you. It may be he can get it back, but it may be next season, so if he goes back....thanks and good luck.

We're stuck with the rest for now, most of whom will be looking at Conference at best come June/July

Vigs will only be gone if we make a profit on the original fee we supposedly paid.

I'd like to keep Vigs, Branco, JSW, Thompson, Brophy, Doughty, Murray, Obika and Norris (still think he will come good). Also keep the youthteamers/young lads we had previously.

We need a CB, LB, 2 CMS, a winger and a striker imo. Can't see that happening.

I'm prepared to see very little but lots of bollocks about missing out on targets and agents being cunts.

This way I'm will be delighted if we do get something in.

Not a rumour as such, but Kasim to Charlton - Moncur to us on loan

Not a rumour = fact or wishful thinking?

Should know tomorrow or Monday about Kasim.

Moncur's loan ends at Posh - be sent out again.

Barnsley twitter yesterday:

HECKY: "George Moncur has assured me he wants to return and will be here fighting for his place. He knows it will be a fight though."

With other clubs announcing signings effective from tomorrow and available to play on 2nd January has STFC woken up yet from its slumbers!

'Back to Barnsley next month, says DMac on Twitter. Don't think he'll be missed tbh.'

Yes but that doesn't mean that he's going to be shipped out again.

If I'm honest, I enjoyed reading the rumour :)

There should be no good reason for delay....Sherwood, hopefully will have set up some deals, that can be activate asap.  We can't continue losing games until the end of Jan and hope to stay up.

Rumblings at Charlton about Ajose getting jettisoned

Two villa youngsters according to the swindon facebook critics.

The very definition of experienced!

i know quality isnt it.i know one was andre green cant remember the other.

'Jet-heeled wide man' given his debut by our very own Tactics Tim.

Adam armstrong  of newcastle coming here after loan ends at barnsley according to another rumour.

Wasn't he half-linked to us previously?  Cracking if that comes off.

Aston Villa kids and previously rumoured targets.

Our rumour mill is so predictable.

Steven Taylor
Joey O'Brien
Aaron Pierre (again)

...all from Twitter.

Haven't we signed anyone yet?!  Sack the Board

soapy tit wank, I know we want/need it done early.. but don't let power near the cheque book with a hangover ffs.

Bid for Ajose would please me, he isn't working out at Charlton and would love him back

Ajose in on loan could be viable as Charlton are about to sell Lookman to Everton for £10m and have signed Jay DaSilva from Chelsea on loan who can play in the number 10 position too which may leave Ajose surplus at the Valley.

Thing is Ajose has played 20 times for the Addicks and scored 6 goals so its not all been bad for him so far, I doubt they will let him leave.

EDIT. According to the Charlton forum he is off to Coventry on loan possibly.

This... It's been 10+ hours and my socks have yet to be blown off, ambition my arse!

Worrying.  I hate having to look down so early on, but an impressive rebuild by any of the 5 sides below us is not what you want to see.

Mr panic trousers... How is one player(rumoured) who only plays well at one club, an impressive rebuild? Have a Gin or two ;)

Coventry signed 3 already this morning. Stuart beavon, Calum o'reilly from burton, and Nathan Clarke from bradford.

Sold sordell to burton though

The speed of signings would have impressed the Town fans... The names probably wouldn't have :)

Maybe Clarke because he's an experienced defender, we ruddy love the idea of an experienced defender.

at least they have a plan in place.

we may have too, but recent other windows suggest otherwise

them days of socks coming off are well gone.

We do have a plan. We go for players for little money who have no other club to go to.

Sent from my SM-G935F

Oh yeah, like Vigouroux, Goddard, Ajose and Obika?

Swindon in for Omar Bogle from Grimsby but Power will need to get his or someone's cheque book out as they have already turned down a bid of £250,000 from Barnet. Barnsley and Rotherham also interested.

If there is chance of making a profit on him in 2/3 years then he will front the cash like he did for luongo, gladwin, smith, vigs, goddard and obika........ It depends on what he values the player at that will be the deciding factor

I can't see vigs going anywhere for 18 months, his value isn't high enough to be sold now, 18 months his value will be at least 2/300k higher so would be prime to be sold. Apart from Ajose, we tend to sell after 2/3 years when the players have reached their highest value.

With the wage bill higher than last year and gates down, I think Vigs might have to go to bring new players in.  Club will be running at a loss at present.   

Maybe not, LP might think fuck it I'll get the Luongo money back out of the ISA, and stop faffing about down the bottom of the table with this lot. I think he's been a bit unlucky with this years signings, not being as good as he thought. It might only take one signing to make the whole lot gel, be worth a punt on somebody for that chance.

I admire your optimism. It would be good if you were right though. Although I still go to the games I have fuck all confidence in staying up this season. Even if we do, I have fuck all confidence in us staying up next season. This squad needs massive turnaround.

My thoughts exactly, he brought in players who individually are OK players, not world beaters but should be more than good enough at this level but due to confidence, motivation and experience they are being found out. We are conceding less goals easily since Sherwood took over so there has been some improvement but 2/3 players with a little experience and nouse should see us comfortably get out of the shit. We do need to replace 5/6 players but that can be done in the summer when contracts are up.

We have good games, we go and draw with Southend, Gills and beat Rochdale but then go and get hammered by others, we have the quality in the team to beat teams but for some reason they just don't gel and their heads drop once we go behind, Franchise showed we can come back from being behind (unlike at Sheff and Scunthorpe) so there are improvements being made, 2 defenders and a burly striker should see us fix the leaks for the time being.

I see no improvement since Sherwood has been here.

Away from home if anything we're worse, at home we're harder to beat since he came in, what that means I've no idea. Bar we're crap still, probably not yet crapper, just.

we were playing from the back and slow play, gifting goals for fun, now we play faster paced and teams actually work for their goals e.g. Franchise, first 2 goals came from brilliant play that most teams wouldn't have stopped.

We haven't turned the corner but we aren't as bad as we were, there has been some improvements but there is only so much you can do with blunt tools, Sherwood needs sharper tools which will hopefully be here in the next week

Defensively we're still a fucking joke. The midfield s total shite and up front we are blunt. If it wasn't for vigs we'd be fucked. Virtually all the players are as much spectators as we are as they watch the ball instead of attacking it. There's more movement in the arkells during a game than there is in our midfield. Williams and embleton are total shite and I can't believe they are still here

Teams are getting far more shots against us now than they were before Sherwood's appointment.

https://thewashbag.com/2016/12/16/why-are-swindon-now-facing-a-shot-every-4-12-minutes/

Been out all day, I assume the scarf above heads photos of all the new signings are in a different thread?

As long as we have players in and familiar with their surroundings before the Rovers game (the precursor to Oxford at home) then I'm okay with that.

the earlier the better really.

it's not panic stations until the window looms, but a feeling of ladtminute.com deja vous during most of January wouldn't be great. we need them up and running asap.

still wouldn't be surprised to hear announcements tomorrow. based on blind optimism..

What worries me is that it's been evident since mid October/ November that we have needed to bolster the squad. First couple of months, you could have said it's a slow start, but it's been clear since then that the squad is struggling in this league.

Other teams have already made signings, our lastminute.com tactic in August didn't work.

Gladwin back on loan (rumour, src: some post on Facebook).

I could actually see this one. would prefer a scrapper but with doughty gone ,

wait for the posts of that we are going backwards, doing it on the cheap again etc........

Gladwin would add the little bit of grit and quality we miss in midfield, still need 2/3 defenders and a striker (poacher type). Hylton is more of a wide midfielder than a forward imho.

Were intrested in Some belgian defender.dorian dessoleil.

Will throw a name out there - Samir Carruthers of Franchise.

23 year old midfielder, ex Aston Villa, in talks with another club.

Eddie Nketiah of Arsenal Youths would be keen on a move to Swindon - I mentioned it on Twitter that I would like to see him come in on loan and he liked it :D

Sheff Utd

What does src mean, Batch? I have what I hope it means in mind...

Oh yeah, sorry, source (sauce if you prefer).

played for QPR in league on 10 & 14th Dec...almost certainly bollocks but hey, its quiet..

I was hoping it was Some Random Cunt.

as good as.

Be delighted if Gladwin joins, btw.

yeah, can't see it. Suppose they have Doughty back so ...

Actually on that front I bet Doughty gets lent out again to someone else before the end of the window.

Maybe, but I don't think Gladwin has played all that much for QPR. Probably just wishful thinking though.

I am hoping they have only called him back so they can change the conditions of the loan and he comes back....... Not sure what they might change though (sell on fee at end?)

Holloway has been noted a couple of times saying that he likes the look of him, in particular his energy.
Other note, Charlton at home is only appearance since his appendectomy that I can recall him playing well.

He isn't anything better than they have already and not upto his best so can't see why they would want / need him back...... i really hope I am right as Doughty on good form is a handful in this league

Off to oxford i hear

He clearly needs a month or two just resting and working on his fitness - he should never have come back so quickly from the appendix op and complications.

Signed for Sheffield United today

In terms of wages, he probably won't need to find a pot to piss in.

I'm told our (Waterford) director of football Pat Fenlon was over with Sherwood for a Development game last week.

Supposedly, we are taking 4 players on loan, one been a goalkeeper. No idea who they are, but I was told they are players who recently signed new deals with STFC. Any ideas?

No one has signed any new deals recently i dont think.

I hope you dont take Will Henry on loan either, hes our 2nd choice keeper and is bloody good!

I'd be almost certain they are youth players, looking to get first team football. Going by what we need to complete our squad, a CB, LB, RM and GK would make sense.

I'd  hazard a guess Jordan Stewart could be one.

Up the Deise!

is there a Sharpe playing in the Dev team?

Yep

The sudden proliferation of development games would provide the opportunity for your DoF to have a look at whats on offer (not much sadly!) we have got this fantastic young midfielder called Rodgers who could do a job for Waterford?

One of my first thoughts when Power took over at Waterford was that the Irish Messi would go there on loan to maybe help his homesickness.

Yeah. Stick him on one of those tall ships in the harbour

Trust me, any player would be a "Messi" in this division  :D

It's a step up from junior football, which over here would be your Sunday League.

one of our rivals has signed a player who plays in the 3rd league in the local waterford league, where as we have signed an 70 cap international. The difference a small investment makes is huge. Your shit fringe players are our gods  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

There are plenty of our fans who would love Jordan Stewart to be given a real chance in the first XI.

Little gem, I reckon.

Iandolo could be one sent out.

Our shit players dont end at the fringe  :cry:

Bloody hell, sounds even worse than Scottish football..

The Irish football season starts in March so a few young players on loan to Waterford might push on their development and have them raring to go in August for us.

Or the new Miles Storey.

Not talking about you, but there was a lot of chatter on Saturday that gave me deja vu!

But we wouldn't want players playing through the summer, so not sure it would really work us sending players over to them, unless it was short term I suppose

the yanks do it, Beckham played the "winter" in Milan and then played the full American season, and a few others have done it as well since.

I understand a senior centreback from the premiership (oooooooh) is training with the team at the mo. The team he's currently contracted to are signing someone to replace him as backup, then he'll be all ours to ruin.

Not linked - In looking at premiership squads I learned that Kurt Zouma's middle name is happy!

Name & shame??

From a reliable source?

In sort of Swindon rumour news, Christopher Samba has been training with Palace since his release from Panathinaikos.

Am I being a bit dim, what is the link to Swindon? Looking at it he mainly left Panathinaikos due to being permanently injured so sounds like our sort of player?

Trying to think of a woeful centre half from the premiership who that would be training with us - who have Spurs got - a quick look on Wiki suggests that their squad is quite small.

Wasn't he loosely linked to Swindon a number of weeks ago?

Yep - http://www.totalswindon.com/sport/luke-williams-does-not-deny-chris-samba-link-to-swindon-town/

Was the same as Lescott, got rumoured and supposed to have trained here but got offered a contract with Sunderland, basically sounds like we are getting offers in but being blown out by higher teams

That's the one.

Or that the rumours were complete bollocks to begin with!

I'm going for Damien Delaney from Palace.

18 PL apps this season. Can't see it. Surely it's someone 5th/6th choice somewhere?

I'm going to go James Husband - LB at Middlesbrough.

You're all wrong, it's John Terry, obviously.

The source is reliable, but one I'll keep quiet on.
It sounds like a done deal, which must mean he's shite

It'll be someone like Kevin Long at Burnley.

Billy Jones from Sunderland?

James Collins?

Gary Mabbutt

Zeki Fryers - former Spurs academy player and van aanholt going to Palace

It's Bobby Moore. He's lost a bit of pace, what with being dead for years, but Williams thinks he could still do a job in the centre of defence

And the sad thing is he could!

Most feasible rumour in the thread for a possible signing, but hes still only 24 and Palace (up to Allardyce) rated him, so would he be a loan if it is him?

So no signings made in time to play tomorrow then?

Unfortunately not, lets hope we finalize a couple more before deadline day on Weds.

On an aside, about tomorrows game, I see we have sold 1,182 tickets as of 10am today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38767659

Typical media, got the first two letters right, then misheard the rest :)

New signing announced at 4pm...

RB from QPR?

Dion Conroy - permanent free from Chelsea. 21. Defender. On-load at Aldershot earlier this season.

Guessing that was the defender from Premier League club then?

Wouldn't go in line with the 'waiting for a replacement' segment of the rumour.

Some of yesterday's suggestions were people who have featured 5-10 times in the Prem this season so that was a little silly.