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http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/9125472.Mystery_striker_is__the_big_one_/

According to the adver

BBC Radio Swindon have announced that it's Hugo Bargas a French-Argentine football striker who currently plays for De Graafschap

But the adver says he's unattached? So doesn't play for anyone

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao3C5RnNQyc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao3C5RnNQyc)

Full BBC Radio Swindon report said he has been playing for De Graafschap and is currently flying from South America to Towns training camp in Norcia and could be set to sign

He's a 6ft French-Argentine Striker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pYRdcQ5br8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

he scored for fun during my "become a legend" on pes. that's a good sign

6 goals from 16 starts in the top division in Holland last season.

Obviously know nothing about him but if he's the same one mentioned in the adver article then the club (and PdC) clearly think very highly of him.

And atiku being offered a deal things are coming together.

If this Brazilian signs were pretty much there with our squad

YouTube makes him look pretty special. Headers, rounding the keeper, free kicks, outside the box... He almost looks too good for little old us, so lets hope di Canio gets him signed up, because, like Dossevi, I'm putting my money on him as top scorer. :D

Edit: Although he is responsible for this Rocky Baptiste moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YusbmJ2HQBY

Agreed. Could do with another left back though.

PDC's in for a shock

Has a good goalscoring record for De Graafschap who I assume are in the Dutch top division.

Lets wait and see if he actually signs but I'm going to stick my neck out and say that he looks like he would score a barrel load in League 2

Explain

Hugo Bargas is a bit of a joker and likes to wear electric hand buzzers when he meets people.

and he's a 41 year old keeper

Think he was joking about the miss

there was a link to him from a website showing him as a 41 year old keeper. i now look mental as i either can't find it or i've made it up

work should definitely be fun today

The miss is on my post in this thread if that's what you're after.

I have changed my avatar back in his honour.  Ardiles, Lorenzo...we've never signed a bad Argentine!  Sign him up.

can't wrap my head round why a striker who has played in the top dutch division is even considering little old us!

someone has done a good selling job, and it gets him in the english shop window if he does the business I suppose.

great stuff.  hope he signs as I might become officially excited. 

Hugo will Boss this division...

Just thought I'd get that in before the Adver did.

I can only presume we're aiming to have him as well as the Brazilian. (Presuming someone hasn't got their wires crossed and they're one and the same.)

I hope that now the news is broken, he doesn't get signed by 'Udders.

He looks absolutely immense. Bit worried we've revealed the name before him signing on the dotted line though.

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Juan Cobian.

Leeeeeeeeeffffffffffftttttttt peeeeeeeeeeeggggggggggggg

And he's turned down talks with Lausanne.

The Eredivisie is a decent enough league, but DeGraafschap seem to be a bit of a yo-yo side, having spent more or less equal periods in the top two divisions in recent years.  For what it's worth, their ground holds less than ours (capacity 12,600) and I doubt their crowds are much bigger than ours, if at all.

So I'm sure Bargas is well aware that a move to us would not mean he would be paying in front of three men & a dog.  Decent move in to English football as well.  If we rise up the leagues, he can rise with us.  Or alternatively, he'll be in the shop window and could get another move in time.  This move could make sense.

Ah.  The flaw in my argument.  Thanks for the reminder.

I have full faith that PdC will get us a man in before very long at LB he is fully aware of the shortfall in that position.

To be fair don't think the club have mentioned his name, just some intrepid journalism on the part of the BBC/The Adver

Mr Wray, taxi to Heathrow waiting!

If it is Bargas who we are trying to sign, I'd happily go pick him up, drive him there, and do anything he wants just so he signs, even if it means knocking one out of him

National Express probably. The only club car was last seen being driven by Misun to Narnia.

Has anyone ever bought him on FM?

Di Canio

plus

Opportunity to progress in England

If another English club comes in for him, it could be curtains. Yeah Huddersfield, I'm talking about you so fuckoff, innit.

A Brazilian and Argentinian up front would be immense (on paper!).

 :D

Na but he looks amazing, very very good attributes and is Championship standard on there, if hes is anything like his FM attributes he would bend this division over and tear it a new one  

Pics please.

I assumed this was the Brazilian. Thought maybe The S. America thing got confused

The official STFC facebook feed revealed his name this morning before the Adver/BBC

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prefered foot = Right??

he looks ace with his left so his right must be awsum!

injury proneness = 15. oh dear

clearly those at FM didn't study him that closely really

Don't think we will be getting the brazilian this is the biggy they wanted.

That one he scored from the goal line is insane

I think Rose said in the Adver that another foreign striker (not the Brazilian) was due to sign. This would suggest either they're after both Bargas and the Brazilian player OR Bargas is now preferred to the Brazilian!

Just finished an article on Bargas on The Washbag with his career stats and videos, including a nasty miss against Vitesse from last season showing how bad his right foot is.

http://thewashbag.com/2011/07/07/factfile-hugo-bargas/

As for his preferred foot being his right in FM, I'll speak to our Dutch researchers and get that changed right away...

If we get him then I would assume they are still looking for one more. As we are lacking the big target man type of forward at the moment, With some of the CB in League 2 the option of a big strong unit up top would still be handy

i personally don't think we're going to sign a big target man. i think the type of football we will play wont require a target man to lump it too

Good to have options though, there will be times you want to go a different route.

I agree that the type of football we might play might not require a Target man, but always handy to have a plan B. What with how we were bullied by clubs last season I would like to see that there is the option from the bench if needed

I still think Leon knight has a lot to offer.

i'd prefer we didn't have a big unit up front. Austin + Paynter weren't the biggest and they produced some excellent goals between them. this is how i believe we should be playing.

Presumably this is some sort of joke

Gary Rose tweeting the Brazilian is still on then.

Maybe PDC is getting choices #1 AND #2

i take it you're going to refer me to their height? that to me isn't a big unit.

Wayne Alison wasa big unit.

Paynter wasn't big in the tall or targetman sense, But he was pretty strong and he was never knocked off the ball easily

Really hope this one comes off as he looks very very good for our level. Hasn't played an awful lot of games in 3 years would be the only negative

i know we really shouldn't compare stats from FM but they have his injury proneness at 15. could this be the case he hasn't played much?

Correct ;)

I don't know much about him but from what stats I have seen, it appears that he might have struggled with the step up from Eerste Divisie to Eredivisie.

32 appearances (16 starts) in 2010/11 in the Eredivise.

As for injury proneness I don't think that is actually used anymore by the FM code as we input real injury histories nowdays.

didn't know. cheers for that info.

do you work on the Fm series then washbag

Yes, I'm the Swindon Town and Supermarine researcher for Sports Interactive, so I'm the one to moan at / point out any issues with the data...

ace. sounds like a quality job

Gary Rose saying someone has left the training camp. Guessing it's Cesaretti?

It's Cesaretti

di canio not happy with his level of commitment.

Gary Rose report Di Canio not happy with Cesaretti's level of commitment?

Enjoying reading the Washbag today, The players being away is great but it makes it all easier for us to put names to faces once they get back and get an idea of what we're in for. Twitter seems to be the best place for official news right now.

STFC Training camp is the New Big Brother!

hats off to gary rose he is doin a good job, not at all what iexpected.

If we do sign this bloke, it’ll take the record for the best named club we’ve signed players from, Vereniging Betaald Voetbal De Graafschap Doetinchem.

Replacing Bart Griemink who came to the UK from Woonwagenkamp Emmen (Emmen Trailer Park) but who should have played for his home town team, Top Oss.

There’s hours...OK, minutes...of fun to be had looking at Dutch football info, eg the top amateur league is called the Hoofdklasse, the nickname for Almere City is the Sheepheads, and so on. Go Ahead Eagles Deventer always raises a smile too. Not as much as Go Ahead Sheep Poxford would, of course.

Agreed Gary Rose is doing a superb job of keeping everyone up to date.

Wonder if Risser and Atiku could be wrapped up soon as well then, contracts are on the table i hope its just formalities

Watkins and Wray are on there way over to sort it all aren't they?

I feeling is that we're going to have one day with a multiple unveiling of new signings.

Wray will hopefully bring plenty of paperwork :)

Hope he takes some spare pens

I can see it now.

Exactly

I bet Huddersfield have drawers full of spare pens, can't be too careful!

I bet they go to Staples see what pens people like the looks of and then buy them before anyone else can and then never use them

At least the transfer window has been less stationary over these past few days.

stationery, surely

If the foolscap fits, wear it.

We're signing Pens People?....to replace Robinettes?....shit they must be in their 60's now?

Certainly sound as though some of the players should get an A4 effort

I'm a bic bemused as to how 'Udders haven't yet signed him.

Good to see PDC has taken this envelope of opportunity to stamp his authority.

Hes merely papering over our cracks.

I'm going to tip-ex De Graafschap striker Hugo Bargas to do well

We haven't got a particularly good record when it comes to taking pens.

This is all gettoing like a bad d:ream....things can only get better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2tK4nTbEhI&feature=related

Girl in red is the best thing about this clip though I reckon

The way that wall opens up you would think they had been watching the way we defended last year

Sign him up fucking quick.

He looks the business.

Glad you're enjoying the site. Other outlets (i.e. Adver) don't bother with really going into detail that you want, so that's why I'm here.

Looks decent. Very very left footed though. Why hasn't anyone put him Football Manager stats up? Everyone know this is what counts when you sign a player*.

* Except Pericard & Dossevi

try reading back a couple of pages, it was asked for :D

Blimey.

Yes please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cscePLe90ao&feature=related :D

Pfft Steve White missed from closer at Wembley.

Paynter Walsall 2 seasons ago. much closer and directly in front of goal.

What a fucking shock! he hasnt even signed yet but some fans are only concerned by his misses and not his goals, I do fucking despair sometimes.

Question is... ¿Hablas inglés?

That miss was great, I'm not worried about that at all.... I'd be worried if we were looking at buying that keeper - what the bleeding hell was he up to?

Is his misses hot?

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

He's a keeper in the Dutch league...therefore he's shit.  The Dutch league goals on Eurosport are always good for a laugh.

Yes, there always seems a far amount of goalie clowning on Eurogoals, very entertaining.

Just watched the full Bargas youtube clip on The Washbag, he reminds me so much of Simon Cox, now thats gotta be good thing.

Agree. Effortless heading of the ball on goal.

There was a one on one where he seemed so composed.

Seemed as though he was just walking it in, almost slow motion.

I've watched Ajax a few times - saw de Graffschap a couple of seasons ago but Hugo wasn't playing.  The standard of the Eredivisie is variable.  The top few (currently Ajax, PSV & Twente) are decent Premier League standard (about mid-table), the next bunch of teams are probably decent Championship standard and the poorer teams probably no better than League 1.
The Eerste divisie where Hugo scored most of his goals is probably about L2 standard I'd guess.  So no surprise that the defending isn't great.  I agree he looks good on the vids and would hopefully do well for us next season but I wouldn't get carried away that we're signing someone who's played at a much higher level.  

Btw not all keepers in Dutch league are shit - I know its going back a few yrs but van der Sar was ex-Ajax and the current Ajax GK, Stekelenberg is certainly good Premier League standard.

There may be one or two, but the goals on Eurosport every week don't lie.

So have we signed him yet or are you lot wanking over nothing?

and there's Gomes at Tottenham ex-PSV..........ok enough said.

People are wanking over something, that something just hasn't arrived yet.

So people are wanking and he's coming?

Tomrrow's Adver Exclusive:

"Bargas joins fans in Circle Jerking"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Bargas

His old man was decent as a player as well,will be amazed if we get this player.

Hmm seems to have gone quiet doesn't it.

That's probably because it's going on midnight over there.

Well it is past 11.30 in Italy right now. Everyone has to sleep at some point :hmmm:

Haha good point but he was supposed to turn up today.

The oracle that is Gary Rose said he might be staying in Rome tonight as Norcia is about 70 miles away or something. He's probably going to be a bit shagged out if he's just flown in from Argentina and the flight arrived late in the evening so that sounds feasible.

Thanks. What I should of wrote was can someone please put his FM numbers up and even if they have already because I'm too fucking lazy to look back through or even go that extra step and load the game up and look myself.

Very decent attributes especially for L2. Think he's freekicks should be higher because I've seen two of his goals on Youtube that were freekick, therefore he must have at least 15.

I also think Dutch keepers are a little bit shit.
Ed De Goey
Raimond Van Der Gouw
Jaap Stam
Tim Krul
Reggie Blinker

All shit in goal.

Seems like a good signing for town, his lack of games thus far in his career is a bit of a concern though.

well he's arrived

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/9128699.Argentine_striker_Bargas_flies_to_Italy_to_talk_terms_with_Di_Canio/

"Town bid for Bukkake"

Jaap Stam was a defender.

...and therefore shit in goal ;)

Regi Blinker's inclusion amused me.

whoosh

Who is Reggie Blinker? (I know I've been whooshed)

was a midfielder in the early to mid 90s

Brace yourselves folks....

STGary_Rose
News on Bargas on the Adver website shortly

Sodding cocktease.

not turned up according so some, which may have already been posted else where but I've just woken up and this thread was at the top.

I'm expecting it to be this.

I think we can all agree that if he doesn't sign it is 100% the Adver's fault.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/9130352.BREAKING_NEWS__Di_Canio_ends_interest_in_Bargas/

Hmm.

Bugger

Back to the drawing board...

well done PDC. if he isn't interested he'll never be interested.

Next!!!!

That's a long way back home again. Hope he bought a return.

he never arrived in the first place Paul

They'll be a new wave of mild panic now. Shame his name was leaked to the BBC.

NEXT!

If a similar sort of thing had happened last season there'd have been fucking uproar

FFS, Oh well...would rather have someone here that wants to play for us I suppose

Probably wanted the Falklands as a signing on fee

Probably should have read the article first  :)

MEH.

Was crap anyway, see that sitter he missed?

Sounds like he wasn't interested anyway but that's a shame, he looked decent.

Adver going a great job again!

3 bids in for different players at the moment supposedly.

Never mind. I trust the PDC and the board are doing everything they can to bring in two first choice strikers, even if it takes until the end of August.

where you hear this

I'm sure he'll sign for Huddersfield now  8)

Wanker. He had told the club he was flying over to sign

As long as we didn't pay for the flights!

really?

wonder what made him change his mind

He may have just been lying all along

He probably googled us and saw what division we are actually in

He dont like gingers

clearly it's catching after i never received an invite to your BBQ.

Least Ralph has invited me to his in Aug.

If your there you're gonna get arss raped

Bugger - better put the socks back on (yet again)  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

So on the striker front it's a no from Argentina and Brazil.  Maybe Bolivia and Peru are more our level.

Brazil is still on the cards i thought

Damnit, back to looking questioningly at the panic button for me then.

Bargas has now rejected the offer of a new contract at De Graafschap and has opted to move back to Argentina with (the rather camp sounding) Club Atletico All Boys, who play in the top division there.

He turned us down to play in the Argentinian top division? How very dare he :)

Hope he doesn't expect to get paid. Most are so much in debt they struggle to pay their players at all.

Whereas in Britain...