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Town confirm Caddis and Ferry set to sign
           


  CELTIC duo Paul Caddis and Simon Ferry will travel to Swindon today to discuss personal terms, after Town confirmed they have had a bid accepted for the players.

           

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Fuckin' great news.

Excellent. Look forward to seeing them in STFC shirts in the next couple of days.

A couple more players and I'll be very confident about this season. A 1st team stronger than we started last season with and with better depth (partly due to versatility) then we finished last season with.

Get the fuck in!!!!

I agree. At this rate we might be lucky enough to do as well as Brighton.

Anybody else feel that a giant weight has just been lifted off their shoulders?

Let's get these personal terms hammered out right and we'll be set.

One Andrew Fitton, theres only one andrew fitton!

Not really. I couldn't have been the only one to think this would happen?? Well I know a couple of others on here were remaining pretty upbeat about it.

Fingers crossed there are no hitches in the personal terms.

Now for a forward...

I find it hard to believe that having had an offer accepted by Celtic and the deal dragging on for weeks, that we haven't already agreed terms with the players - you don't get this far without having sorted all that stuff out.

What Jonny said.

I wouldn't be suprsied if they have signed by 5pm

If they do sign, doesn't it have to be 24 hours before they can be registered to play a game? So if they do sign today, they should feature against forest?

Don't think they need to be registered to play a friendly.

If they did, then no-one would ever be able to play triallists in friendlies, so no think you're right

Shows just how far we have come dosnt it - that we can dream of competing with the Manchetser United of the south coast

Just permision usually from the clubs needed isn't it?

No. By doing it the normal way, you get your bid accepted before agreeing terms. Only big teams bend the rules by agreeing terms with the players agent, then asking said player to play up by demanding a move, forcing the teams to try and agree a price.

Great about Ferry-hope Caddis proves to be as good

Caddis will prove to be better hes a terrific player, really can't believe we are getting them at that price, its an absolute bargain.

There are bound to be sell on and possible promotion clauses, we do need to sell players to keep our books healthy so Celtic will probably see good returns in the medium-term. I think the deal makes sense to all.

Celtic can let us speak to their players if they want before we agree a fee.  It seems clear that:

A. Celtic want to sell
B. We want to buy
C. The players want to come

In this instance why wouldnt Celtic let us discuss terms with them before the deal is agreed, especially if we were not a million miles away from their valuation

Plus if we agree deals with the players it would be more incentive to get nearer to Celtic's selling terms.

But it's all hypothesis.

Sounds very promising

Anyone else think the deal clincher might have been Celtic's dismal 3-0 defeat in Portugal that will probably deny them the Champions League cash machine?

Celtic need the money, and if you are in that position you accept transfers for squad players.

Great work by the board.

I was wondering the opposite, although your theory makes more sense.

I hoped that they wouldn't realise Lennon is rubbish until they'd signed for us or they might hold onto them for the next manager to make a decision.

Lets have an announcement to day please board. Please!

In the piece about Kandol and Dossevi -

'If Kandol signs, he will join Celtic duo Simon Ferry and Paul Caddis at the County Ground. The pair have both agreed personal terms on their initial £350,000 switch from the Scottish giants, will have medicals today and could be officially announced as Swindon players this afternoon'

Sounds promising. 

I am at a loss to why Celtic have got shot of these two.....along with Cuthbert.
Wonder if the Celtic fans seem it strange..they look as good as anything they got at present.

potentially when fit Celtic would have a midfield of McGeady, Scott Brown, Juarez and Joe Ledley. Ferry wouldn't get close to that midfield. I do think Celtic are weak at LB/RB as well. Mulgrew looked dreadful for them in the Emirates Cup.

fair point. Ferrys a good player but he wouldnt break into that midfield unless he improved quite a bit.

And Cuthbert Bob...surely could have played at the back when fit?

Been reading a few celtic forums lately for some views and 90% seem to think that Caddis won't be anywhere near the 1st team up there this season and more are worried in losing Ferry than Caddis.

A few seem to think we got off lightly in getting them at the price we did but in the main they seem to think they got rid of them because
a. they are over the age of 21 so cannot be used in the Euro Cup as HG players, I don't fully understand this ruling so don't know.
b. they seem to think they will leave now for money rather than the end of the season on freebies.
c. Celtic need all the money they can get from transfer fees as they are not as flush as they used to be.

Although there are rumours that McGeady is on his way and Scott Brown is a target for Celtic's feeder club Middlesbrough.

This is a real problem for Scottish football.  The reason that Ferry and Caddis are expendable is because there is now no system whereby young and potentially very good (but not necessarily tip-top) players can get game time, so what happens?  Their potential is seen by lower league English clubs like STFC, they come down here, do extremely well and then move up the English system, and who is likely, if there is a chance of success in the EPL, to return to the SPL?  It is worse for Scottish players than it is for England, where at least there is a good reserve and youth set-up at most clubs.  That has its problems, as is being discussed in the thread about Tozer and other young players who just disappear, but at least they have the chance, if they are managed properly.