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Interesting comments from Andrew Fitton on the official site about potential links with Man City for next season

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/Interview/0,,10341~2028961,00.html

Can we borrow Tevez please? Maybe Bellamy as well if they're feeling kind.

Id settle for Roque Santa Cruz and Stephen Ireland

No Bellamy please!  We've enough prima donnas now, most of the sit in the Arkells!

Was very interesting reading that. Sounds like Fitton's trying to work his way up the league(s) through favours from top clubs. I'm for one am not complaining :D

The five loan players in a match day squad is likely to be a problem for us sooner or later, it nearly was recently. I'd like to see this limit removed or increased, or maybe for season long loans not to count. Loan players mean clubs like us can get good quality players without having to pay transfer fees or big salaries and gets players games that they wouldn't be getting otherwise - everybody wins. Plus increased use of loan players could go some of the way to getting Football League clubs profitable again.

But you don't want to be filling the squad with too many loan players so five is really adequate

Whilst it's nice to have these links - in a way I would like us to be 100% STFC not 60% + a jumble of other players.
Suppose it's progress + I hardly never see a match so good for you guys and gals  ;D

Surely if you go that much it would be good for you too?

So what up and coming youngsters have man city got that we could maybe get on loan next season

Javan Vidal, Alex Nimely, Ben Mee and Greg Cunningham are highly rated there and a few of them have made some appearances in the first team. That Boyata is also higly rated, but has started for them, so probabaly out of our league.

Its a good link up, one of the better premier league clubs to do it with. Citys yoof system has been strong for a while, and its only going to get better with the money they have now.

Maybe if we go up we could get Michael Johnson. Although saying that, i think he's a bit good for the CCC.

He looked fat as fuck last time I saw him.

Sometimes I have to pinch myself to make sure i'm not dreaming! So we now have Liverpool, Man City and Celtic as our 'feeder' clubs. Some great players come in recenty, a stark contrast to a couple of seasons back when Malpas was signing nobodies!

We dont want Michael Johnson believe me!!  Know him through a few mates up here and he is a total piss head!!

How are these our 'feeder' clubs exactly?

Surley they're our parent clubs?

yes they would be our parent club

This was taken from an interview on the radio at a recent home game, we were listening on the way home. It struck me that this scenario is rapidly becoming the direct replacement for over-spending. Some people whine & bitch about it not being fair on your rivals when a club's got a few good kids from top clubs, but that's complete bollocks. If you set your club up properly, ie secure financially, play proper football, good pitch, good manger/coaches etc, then develop relationships with big clubs by using your nous and away you go.

There's no reason why other clubs like us can't try this also, therefore it is not in any shape or form unfair. If we get ahead by doing this, then it's just because Fitton, Wilson et al were sharp & on the ball.

Just thinking about this, i'd be surprised if we weren't putting out feelers abroad for a similar setup, with the EU rules these days, no reason why not.

Must admit i thought european feeder/parent clubs had dried up lately?  Don't remember too many players moving regularly between the same clubs??  Unless of course you need to get a passport for an African or South American player then you just ship him off to Portugal, Norway or Belgium for a couple of seasons...

I don't think there is an agreement with Liverpool just Man City & Celtic with Fitton suggesting that there is maybe 1 more to come