FROM CIDERSPACE & WALES ONLINE - Probably re-hashing last years link and Wales online
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footballnation/swansea-city-fc/2010/06/30/lee-trundle-is-shown-exit-door-by-swansea-city-91466-26753266/ Yeovil Town are being linked with a move for former Swansea City and Bristol City striker Lee Trundle. The 33 year old is out of contract and a free agent after being released by the Robins at the end of last season.
Having spent the latter part of the 2009-10 season on loan at the Liberty Stadium, he had been hanging on for the most of the summer in the hope that the club where he made his name would be willing to take him on for a second permanent spell in Wales. However, he has now been told that there is no deal on the table for him, aside from a coaching role that he does not want to consider until his playing career is over.
The claims that Yeovil Town are interested in signing the Liverpudlian are made in South Wales paper the Western Mail, where they also list Charlton Athletic, Swindon Town and an unnamed Australian A-League side. However, they suggest that Trundle wants to stay in Britain and ideally playing for a Championship club. There's no quotes from Trundle to confirm any of these clubs or his overall aims, although given that they interview him in the article it's quite possible that he may have slipped those in as semi-off-the-record comments.
Trundle does talk about his huge disappointment in failing to win a playing contract at the Liberty Stadium, and explains that he is not ready to hang up his boots in football just yet. The striker, who started his career in non-league football playing for Stalybridge Celtic, Southport, Bamber Bridge, Rhyl and Wrexham, said that one day he would like to return to South Wales, but that getting regular first team football is his immediate priority:
"I would have given anything to have stayed, but I need to be playing, I really do. I’ve not done enough of that for the past two seasons and, although I would like a future in coaching, I still feel I have plenty to offer as a player. I would have loved to have been able to do that at Swansea and I’m gutted that’s not going to be the case. But, as much as I wanted to finish my career at the club, I can’t throw away the last few years as a player because once you decide to go down that route there’s no going back. When I was given a chance last season I showed I could still score goals at this level and I want to continue to do that. I’m just sorry it can’t be for Swansea. I hope the fans understand my decision, but it’s just I have to play on. All I can hope is that I will be back at the club, even if it’s not as a player."
Our immediate reaction to the Glovers being connected with someone like Trundle would be "you're having a laugh" - he is likely to command high wages, which the Glovers are unlikely to afford. However, given Yeovil's strong connections with Swansea, through Darren Way, and rumours last season that the Glovers tried to get Trundle in on loan whilst Gary Johnson was Bristol City's manager, it is not entirely ridiculous. It also follows Skiverton's cryptic comment on Twitter yesterday, indicating that something had dropped out of the blue.
As a player, Trundle needs little introduction to any followers of Football League sides. His record of over 90 goals in 194 appearances for Swansea represented the pinnacle of his footballing career. On the down side, he has done little since he left South Wales in the summer of 2007 in a £1,000,000 transfer to Bristol City. As a point of trivia, Trundle's first game in Bristol colours came against Yeovil Town in a pre-season friendly on July 28th 2007, in which he scored in a 2-2 draw at Ashton Gate, whilst he was still officially a Swansea player due to the paperwork not being completed. However perhaps his finest hour came back in November 2005 when (Glovers fans may want to look away now) his audacious lob over Chris Weale in a 2-0 defeat for Yeovil at the Liberty Stadium saw him reach a national audience through endless Sky Sports replays.
