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Foderingham catching Bournemouth's eye
           
           


  CHAMPIONSHIP new boys Bournemouth are weighing up a January move for Swindon Town goalkeeper Wes Foderingham.

           

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Get fucked Bournemouth

If the moneys right he will be gone

 :bye:

So the same as every player in football and, in fact, every asset in any business.

It has to make you wonder about the thoroughness of the respective scouting systems when Brentford and Bournemouth's don't seem to consist of much more than driving an hour or so up the road.

If we do sell, we should hold out for the full price plus the £300,000 or so they still owe us from underpaying on Ritchie.

Up on a footballing level
Down a few sizes at club level

What do we think would be a fair price for Wes?

For his sake he needs to move on, Championship is his natural level at the moment and he must be an ambitious fella.

Probably could do better than Bournemouth but if they are looking safe by January then it would be a decent move for him realistically.  

750k up front

And Matt Richie

Shwan Jalal thrown in as part of the deal, he will be off as long as we get £1m in total. A fair percentage has to go to Palace as a sell on.

Is he actually playing for them?

Got Injured early on, hasn't played for a couple of months at least because of it.

He looked fantastic when he had a strong defence in front of him. A good keeper but not irreplaceable.

Played an hour for their ressies yesterday.

500k plus Ryan Alsop or 800k plus Jalal.

They've got 4 keepers - three of which are permanent but not good enough (yet, in Alsop's case) for NPC, so would obviously be keen to offload one.

Do they have any spare decent Centre halfs?

It will be hard to replace Wes but if we get a good price we should sell. We don't make any profit, the crowds have gone down since last year and well, we need the dollar. I just hope we get a fair price for him, and that he takes as much as he can from that club until the inevitable happens and they crumble.

I dont think Bournemouth will be the only club in for him. I also don't think it's unrealistic that he might stay. He's number 1 here, he seems to be pretty settled and he's close with most of the squad. Not to mention the fact we are in with a realistic shot at the top 6.

Personally think he'll go in the summer if we don't go up. Would be surprised to see him go in January.

Unlike last year, I feel quite confident that if Wes gets injured/suspended/sold, his understudy looks competent. So it's not a complete disaster if he goes for good money.

Done deal.

Jed and Lee and have done a pretty good job in the transfer market so far. No matter what happens, I'm confident we'll come out of it just fine.

Tyrell Belford appears to have done pretty well in the matches he has had to deputise for Wes hasn't he?

Interesting measured response from everyone. There would have been a time when there was a minor implosion if it had been suggested that Wes was 'for sale'.

FWIW I think he is a decent keeper, but everyone has their price. I'm not sure what Wes's price is (or should be) be I guess there is both the fee and the wage bill.

Belford, although doing relatively well, reminded me of Steve Mildenhall. With Mildy, I wanted him to do well, but he was technically not quite good enough (imho).

Why is it always fucking Bournemouth after our players? Piss off! Accept Wes will go at some point, but just not to them!

Million quid, at least. Over the odds, yes, but then they still fucking owe us for Ritchie, the cunts.

I'll be disappointed if he goes, all the signs point to him being settled and a core member of the squad, and we're obviously going for a shot at promotion, but everyone has to go at some point and as others have said, Belford is at least a competent replacement (No offence to Bedwell but, you know...)- if we don't go up this year I can see, as others have said, him going in the summer. Deserves to play Championship football.

I do think Jed and Power will negotiate this well if it goes through. If nothing else because the goodwill they would get from the fans if they stick two fingers up to those south coast cunts would be immense. Let's not forget they might just be trying to buy important players to fuck up our season, like they did last year.

Nothing really noteworthy in a team being interested in one of our better players.

As a club that is still running at a loss all our players are always 'for sale' if the right offer comes in, but as they showed with the interest in Wes over the summer and then with the late bid for Kasim this board don't appear to want to sell anyone at any price, but have a valuation for our main assets.

I guess not having a sugar daddy anymore means we are back to being a standard lower league club who has to sell their best assets every now and again in order to survive.

Most fans accept this

Yes..Seems to command his area and talk a lot but he's only had 3 or 4 saves to make in the matches I've seen. I don't think we know his true level yet, but so fat so good.

If we have to sell Wes then it should be Wes true value + 500k, just to make up for the cash they stiffed us out of on Ritchie.

That's a bit fair on poor old Tyrell, he looked in pretty good shape last time I saw him.  :sherlock:

A young but experienced goalie  with 100+ games, and an almost 1 in 2 clean sheet record = 1 million+, + add on's! That's to Bournemouth, round about 750k +add on's for anyone else.

He's the best keeper we've had since Digby. Those who think he won't be hard to replace should think how long it took us to replace Diggers.

Having said that Foderingham deserves to try his hand in the championship, but I hope he waits until seasons end...he may have the chance with us!

I can see why Bournemouth are looking.  Only Barnsley and Millwall have a worse defensive record in that division so far this season (both having conceded 31 goals to Bournemouth's 30).  Wes would be joining a shaky defence and would have the opportunity to make a visible impact quickly.

But - and I find myself thinking similar thoughts to when Ritchie joined them last year - does he really want to make his move to the Championship with a club that, most probably, has already peaked?  I can't see them going much further than they already have on crowds of 9,000 in that division.

Would be a big loss, but I would back Mcrory and Power to get more than a fair price for him. I was expecting him to depart a few months ago and was surprised when he signed the new deal.

Bournemouth would be a decent move. They are certainly showing ambition.

They've got to be close to being bollixed regarding the wage cap.

If there's any way for Ritchie to come back as part of any deal - go for it.

They are not shipping goals cos of a dodgy keeper - it's the entire defence that's the problem

Do you honestly think there is any chance of Ritchie returning here? Did people believe the bullshit 'injury' cover up?

If they don't want to play him, for whatever reason, why not?

Maybe there is one of those 'games played' clauses that will up what they owe.

He needs to be playing regularly for somebody

He was injured in pre season. He will probably be back on the bench for them at the weekend.

Also, I don't think it was a deal loaded in add on's and clauses somehow. As rushed a transfer as you are likely to see.

A lot will depend on what happens with Ranger. We may have to be in the market for a replacement come January.

That and the decision on Ajose - who will cost if we keep him (which we should do, IMO).

Some may disagree but I'd argue a replacement of equal quality for Ranger would set us back £300,000 minimum.. the sale of Foderingham might well go some way to funding a new number 9.

Ajose, if they would take £100,000 I wouldn't mind him, no more.

£300,000 would probably mean a League 2 lump - or an unproven PL or Champ reserve.

Thought I heard Posh wanted somewhere near that amount for Ajose

Common knowledge that one

Obika on loan and an effort to sign Ajose is my guess should Ranger depart.

Did anyone suggest otherwise?

Just opened this...i wasn't feeling too good as it was...

What the fuck are we now.... a feeder club to those cunts?

Fucking depressing.

Lot of good it's done them.

They'll end up just like Preston, Plymouth, Shitty etc. Throw money - unsuccessfully - at getting to the PL and they go Into meltdown as they plummet.

Just need to give it a couple of years

500k + Ritchie back please. Or 1 million.

Devils advocate says there have also been a number of teams who have thrown money at and got into the PL

Not on crowds of 10,000 which is a full house, though.

Spose the closest would be Blackpool