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Cooper admits keeper Foderingham could be on his way
           
           


  MARK Cooper has hinted that Wes Foderingham might leave Swindon Town in January if the price is right.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/10827242.Cooper_admits_keeper_Foderingham_could_be_on_his_way/?ref=rss
           
           
           

So where do bears shit again?

 Naughty headline and where did that 500k figure get plucked from. Usual idiots on twitter foaming at the mouth.
Yawn.

He's a good shot stopper...he has nothing else to his game though. If anything, I'd let him go on a free and try and sign Luke McCormick.. :D

Seriously though, the meltdown(s) have been fucking epic recently!

Something in the water...

League One club might sell player.

It's a non-story, almost as though it was designed to cause panic amongst our simpletons. Good work Sam!

I made it as far as the "nothing short of £1.2m plus" comment

I know its natural to overvalue your own players but fuck me

I totally agree...although we should hold out for the bid from Real Madrid of £85M Plus Cristiano Ronaldo..

The sad thing being I knew as soon as I submitted it last night how some would react. Fact is people wanted to hear from Cooper about it and I've added other info around it, but as you're all saying - players leave when people are willing to pay money. It's happened so many times. I despair at the reaction sometimes.

Power will probably sell and pocket the money for his outlay

I think a lot of the response is tongue in cheek....as I've said before, it generally is from me....some people enjoy a meltdown though I think...

Whatever, you're probably off your jollies on it.

Biggest troll in the business.

Where on earth did the 500k figure come from?!

You should put a NOTE section in each of your articles to calm people down.

It has gone a bit mental. I love Wes as much as the next Town fan, but I loved Fjortoft, Chris Hay, sam Parkin, Simon Cox, etc... You get over it eventually. If he was to move, although I'd be pissed that Bournemouth got another one over us, I can't bedgrudge him a move, he deserves it!

The worst thing about it is the missus will sulk as she is a huge fan of Wes's backside!!

And you're basing that on what?

(http://i.min.us/il1jaw.gif)

Sam, I would be interested to know where the figure of 500k has come from? I guess this number has caused some of the outrage as I suspect most of our fans seem to think he is probably worth around 5 million quid.

 Our problem will come, when we run out of players to sell.  Not many players in lower leagues get sold for sizeable cash deals these days, so Bormuff know we'll bite their hand off for half a mill. I was surprised Wes didn't go in the summer, because getting hard cash for a keeper is good business...there's plenty around as replacements.  The trick is to make sure you've got a handful of improving players on the books who might attract interest....atm we've prob 3 or 4, so all good.

£5M? Don't be silly, he's worth 10 times that!!

It's not a figure I've just plucked randomly from thin air.

Very harsh.

But fair.

No problem with the article at all. I know every player has his price, especially when we don't have a rich benefactor. Is there a reason why £500k is being talked about as big money (and it almost sounds like we need it) when we only signed Mass for just under this figure a couple of months ago?

Allegedly. The quoted headline figure and how much actual money changes hands at the time of the transfer can be, and usually are, two very different things. Just because we signed Luongo in a deal "worth £400k" doesn't mean we've actually paid anyone £400k. Nor does it mean that £500k wouldn't come in very handy in keeping the ship running now.

Ahhh so it won't be a deal "worth £500k" then?

I get the exact fee depends on loads of things. Just comparing the two "headline" fees which seem similar to me.

He had toothache all night  :)

I don't see how that could be anything other than a disappointing amount.

Are we back in a Ritchie situation, got to sell to survive (given the Adidas rumours, etc) ? If we have to, then we have to. But lets not pretend its anything other than a bit crap.

Lots of ifs there.

I'd imagine, it's quite simply a case of needing some cash to pay wages and bills etc.

Yup, agree with all that

If that's the case fair enough. I just find it strange that we NEED to sell (and £500k would be relatively cheap IMO) only a couple of months after paying money out for a player in the last window.

Completely agree. What adidas rumours?

Assuming we did. And if we did, wouldn't that make it all the more likely we'd need money coming in?

It's a gamble, probably set against having a bit of a cup run, as soon as that went west, things look different.

Still the gamble of the Paint Pot

You don't really make major money out of the PP unless reaching the final. We should know before January, how that might look.

Shame if that is the case. A cup run should be a bonus to the coffers, not a gamble with the budget.

We normally budget not to go out in R1 - I think it's usually R3 - so there is probably a gap. I think that raising the speculation now is inviting other clubs to compete with Bournemouth, and mentioning £500k is managing fan expectations well ahead of time, so any subsequent improvement on that will get a more positive spin.

It could be the case that we will acquire certain players for a return on investment. Foderingham is an example, so is Luongo. On this note in terms of cash outlay to the club, Foderingham's sale would effectively represent a 100% return if you assume that the previous owners effectively paid for his transfer and wrote off their loans. We turned down a supposed bid of £250k down for Kasim in the summer too.

Why we would need to sell in January? Perhaps we don't, but it could be the correct time to sell to drive up the price. Maybe £500k is the figure in his contract where he is allowed to talk to other clubs? Maybe £500k is an indicative amount that Bournemouth have given ~ preliminary talks could already be happening and creating competition early on would only drive the price up if the interest is there.

Given the supposed reduction in the wage bill I would be very surprised if we're that short of money, but maybe we banked too much on the additional revenue streams/cost savings being in place a lot sooner, if at all.

Surprised that nobody has really considered it may be the case that Foderingham wants to leave though.

Fair enough. Care to elaborate further?

I wonder if there is a minimum fee release clause in his contract?

Can't see why Wes would want to leave now seeing he didn't in the summer. I would say pretty much 6th place currently is above most if not all of our expectations for the season. Unless it's personal circumstances I suppose.

Especially if we are close to the budgeted wage bill etc it my be needed to strengthen the squad come January and continue to pay wages, i think the key thing is if Wes is going to be sold is to sell him for the right fee rather than selling on the cheap, I'd say £500k was not quite right, but perhaps a fee closer to 800k plus adds would seal it but it depends if we are going to accept the first offer, but now we have alerted other clubs we are willing to sell may generate a bit more interest

disclaimer: Completely unsubstantiated, so possibly/probably false. And of course even if true it could be just an oversight.

It was alleged by someone that they were refusing to supply the club shop until we paid our bill.

When I say someone, I don't mean anyone claiming to be ITK, just something off the internet.

Can I put any more disclaimers in..

I actually meant it as a joke. I should have put Samdy's gif in my post, apologies. It must be tempting sometimes to put something completely fictitious on twitter/the adver just to see if anyone takes the bait though. Not saying you would/have, just that April 1st is, I know, an enjoyable time for journo's because you can say what the hell you like (pretty much).

And well done 4D for paying attention, you get a gold sticker.

Ah right. Sense of humour failure, sorry. I think it would be safer to do so on Twitter. Who's to say I haven't previously. (I haven't, by the way). I also thought it was November.

Ah so you have released fictitious stories??

Hang on a minute, you're not the one who broke the 'news' that Milan Misun & Ibrahim Atiku were actual real life footballers, were you?  :sherlock:

No, sorry - that would be the work of Anthony Marshall and Gary Rose. My contribution would be Harry Agombar.

I saw Atiku play...or someone who was listed as Atiku.

Ahh....Harry Agombar...I'd GENUINELY forgotten about him. Mind you, I wouldn't even know what he looks like.

The most pointless signing of all time. Isnt his dad mates with Jed?

Are you sure? I don't think even Atiku saw Atiku play....

What was AMAZING was that he had NO appearances (bar pre-season) to his name and received a call-up from Ghana!

I might declare myself available for San Marino....never know.

I like the fact that the TEF gets contributions from the local hack and previous members of the board.  I like the fact even more that they like get involved in some of the banter and seem to treat "most" posters on here with a level of respect and can handle a bit of banter coming their way.

*Apart from if you call Sam Moosehead, or a troll!  Or if you claim to be ITK, that really gets his shackles up!*

 :D

TEF is the forum of choice these days....  The Adver should scrap Thisis and just pay the TEF a wad of money to police the mongs...

No!  It's better that the Thisis types stay in their own corner of the playground, where they are not annoying the 'cooler kids' on here!

“Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.”

In fairness, shut down 'ThisIs' after all, they'd have to be able to spell their names/usernames to join here....

A massive stumbling block for most who post on there.

Fucking mouth breathers.

"Revolutionary biscuits of Italy / Rise up out of your box! / You have nothing to lose but your wafers / Yum yum yum yum yum!"

I have just seen Town's number one Twitter journo (sorry Sam) suggest Foderingham is worth '£1.5 million at least'.

Fucking get in there.  :D

I love that site.

Dan the Fan?

Who else.

He's an insufferable numpty.

Dan the Fan's heart is in the right place, but he doesn't half spout some shite

He is a bit clueless sometimes, the Adver giving him a platform to proclaim his views has gone to his head.

Doesn't strike me as a chap who has a social life

I know he is a devout Christian, worked with a fellow god fearing chap who was close friends with him.  :pope:

I'm starting to like you, Mr Chang. No, that can't be right. I'm confused.

Like 95% of the rest of us then. We can't all be Chang

Feeder club to Bmuff......fucking hell.....

Go wash your mouth out and come back with an apology once you have stated on Twitter that an official source has told you that Wes has committed himself to the club for the next 5 years.