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Austin back in Burnley's sights
           

  BURNLEY are back in the race to sign Charlie Austin, the Swindon Advertiser understands.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/8819306.Austin_back_in_Burnley_s_sights/?ref=rss
           

Looks like £1.2m from Burnley.

Fucking rubbish. Half a million short of his value.

Thanks a fucking lot Charlie Austin and your agent.

Oh great, do you have a reliable source that states that is the exact fee?

Sky Sports News.

There are add ons. But we really didnt need a deal with add ons. Clubs were prepared to pay the cash up front now.

First time Fitton and co havnt got good value for a player in my opinion. Very dissapointing. A transfer request and private deals behind the clubs back look to have cost us big time. 

What if the add ons could take the deal to 2.5 million?

No surely not, are you saying that Charlie Austin knew of Burnleys interest before putting in the transfer request? Thats tapping up isn't it?  :hmmm:

How do you know that clubs were prepared to pay all of the cash up front?

Sky Sports News is well known for shoddy journalism, especially when it comes to lower league clubs. Don't believe everything you hear, or read.

OK - Fact - Ipswich had a bid accepted, and then he was allowed to go to Ipswich to have a medical and discuss terms, which is the proper way to do it.

Burnley did not have an acceptable bid. But Austin has requested to talk to them. He's gone up there, had the medical, discussed terms, and then the bid has been accepted. A 100% back to front transfer from which the club has very little bargaining power. An absolute disgrace.

'Dont believe everything you hear' ? Hows about dont insult my intelligence?

I agree, it's a little suspecous even more so given that Eddie Howe is no in chanrge of Burnley

Still onwards and upwards - A new era dawns tomorrow. :)

Surely if Burnleys bid didn't match our valuation or compare with Ipswich's bid, then we could have told them in no uncertain terms to fuck off, wether Austin wanted to go there or not

Of course we could. He wouldn't have been allowed to talk to them unless they made a new offer that the board accepted.

Ah, Stfcinbmth. At the risk of being vaguely positive on this, I guess Poole are cock-a-hoop? Have no idea how their finances are but the rumoured sell on fee would probably dwarf what they got for him originally, no?

No. I still thought Austin might have stayed even after the transfer request. But having accepted Ipswich's offer I dont think there was any way back from there, he had to go.

Even if there are add ons, we needed that money now, not in 2 years time. At a minimum we need to get 1 striker now, and then 4 new players in the summer.

I too heard its £1.2 million up front but with add ons that will match the Ipswich bid in total, around £500k based on goals, appearances and caps etc.

Are you deluded Spencer? He was widely being acknowledged as unhappy and he requested a transfer. He had zero intention of remaining here and if he had remained here, I can't imagine... I think he'd have left for fuck all in the summer with club morale at an all time low.

Can't believe we would have accepted a smaller offer from burnley, doesn't make business sense. We would have just said no you can't talk to them they haven't met our required figure.

Most definitely Nemo. Though I don't know any details of how the deal was structured, it will certainly go someway towards the new ground I would imagine. Their finances are pretty good as a whole I think

Hope they do get a new ground out of it, well deserved for their part in everything.

The only club that are prepared to pay hard cash up front in one hit are Man City.

There were media reports this morning, saying that the fee with Ipswich was 1.2 mill plus add-ons.

Personally,i think he's made the better choice.

Austin staying would have ensured our safety, much like Cox staying in 08//09 did.

As it stands we are in real danger of relegation without a replacement(s). Another season in League 2 would destroy the attendances.

Not if he didn't want to be here, which he didn't. We've seen what he was like over the last few games when his heart hasn't been in it.

Don't know what that says about the rest of our side, but he has been by far our biggest threat all season, and the last few games.

Of course on the upside, assuming we can get it together enough to win enough games to reach safety we now have the time to put a squad good enough to make a real challenge for next season. Bed the new players in now, so come August they can hit the ground running

It won't be the whole ground sutton, just a little bit

Not at all. Remmember, up until saturday the only offer we had received was Hull, which was rumoured to be a derisory £600k.

I think if he had still been here on tuesday then I think he would have got his head down again. Charlie is not a stubborn old man, hes a young lad, living in the moment, he would have scored the goals to keep us up. Ok he didnt score the last 2 games, but he came pretty close, they werent terrible performances (although the Yeovil game was a pretty poor effort from him). I like the transfer window, the speculation doesnt just go on and on, there is a deadline.

And he wouldnt have left for fuck all in the summer because we basically had another 2 and a half years on his contract (wake up at the back).

And also dont forget that whatever we are now desperate for another striker, so whatever we have received, a chunk of it has to go on another player.

I see your thinking.


:D The reason why I thought he'd go for fuck all, was if we hadn't allowed him to move, he might well have done a Cureton for the rest of the season, or had his head in the wrong place for the remainder and barely hit the net. Therefore his value would've been pretty tony I reckon and we might have even wanted rid. (In reality we could have just loaned him out with a future fee agreed I suppose.)

He wouldnt have guaranteed our safety, this is sport, nothing can.

But Charlie has a lot of mates and close friends who support Swindon, theres no way he would have just downed tools.

Im sure the Yeovil game it was just pure distraction of what was going on.