Deal Done -Charlie completes move to Burnley

[walrus]

I'm a bit bemused by the bitterness on here.  Thank you for the memories Charlie and all the best for the future.  He's a young lad with the world at his feet, so he shouldn't be chastised for showing a bit of ambition.  Loyalty has no place in football - sad, but true.  Its good to see the club has handled the whole situation well, and appear to have got the best possible fee for him.  We appear to have got near enough the £2 million we all were demanding, which, if we look through less ardent spectacles, he probably isn't worth.

It's a good move for all parties.  In fact, Austin has lost out, as he's missed out on his big move to the premiership and moved to Burnley - not exactly a glamour move for him!  It was becoming a case of the Austin show, and its time for him to move on.  If only Wilson gets half of the transfer money I'm confident we can build a better team than by keeping Austin.  I'll reserve judgement until the transfer window closes.  This season must be about staying in the division, keeping the club stable and looking to build a team for next season.  I've every faith in Wilson and the rest of the team - Austin's ambition was becoming too big a distraction, and the team was becoming over-reliant on his goals.

I wonder if Wilson has a Holloway-esque clause in his contract re.: a cut of the transfer fees?!?!   

[Simon Pieman]

If loyalty has no place in football then why bemused that people don't care if he fails?

[DUNSWORTHY]

seems shit at the minute as we've lost our star player but i have faith in Wilson to bring someone in.
the last few games charlie had just been going through the motions anyway.
we need to get back to playing as a team!!! and we haven't done that all season!

[stfctownenda]

Interesting to see in both adver articles today including interview with Fitton about Austin transfer they say the deal was close to 2 million.So looks like Sky did pluck the 1.2 million out of nowhere.

[magicroundabout]

Interesting to see in both adver articles today including interview with Fitton about Austin transfer they say the deal was close to 2 million.So looks like Sky did pluck the 1.2 million out of nowhere.

thought that myself when reading that. £1.2m did seem very low.

15% going to Poole too. lets hope DW gets £1m to play with. I'd still like to see us try and sign Le Fondre. i think he could do a very good job for us.

[Batch]

Back on on the big computer, so can finally spout my irrelevant thoughts!

On the rumoured 1.2M upfront + add ons fee
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- Head: 1.2m for a striker who only cost tens of k 18 months ago is a good price. There is no guarantee he will make it in the Championship and he wanted out. Big factors in assessing worth.
- Heart: With his age, goals-to-games ration and contract length we should have got more for him up front. Out season is completely knackered/relegation bound without replacing his goals and we needed every penny we can get to buy replacements.
- Add ons: Mae sense for Burnley as they de-risk a large part of the investment. OF no use to us unless they get invoked. A complete risk.

On going to Burnley:
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- Surprised there wasn't a better option. It is a step up in standard, an he's more likely to get game time I suppose.

If he came back to play us
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Applause before and after the game. His goals have meant a trip to Wembley last season and not being bottom of the league this season.

During the 90 minuted half hearted pantomime booing. Just for the manner in which he orchestrated his departure.

Interesting to see in both adver articles today including interview with Fitton about Austin transfer they say the deal was close to 2 million.So looks like Sky did pluck the 1.2 million out of nowhere.

Impossible to know; 1.2M + 500k add ons = close to 2M.

if it is all cash in the bank then that is a fantastic fee and all we could hope for given he wanted away.

[stfctownenda]

I see what your saying but the adver hasn't put it believed to be an initial 1.2 million and then with add ons getting close to 2 million,it has just said the transfer was close to 2 million.The fact they printed this after an interview with Fitton must add substance to it compared to Sky who I feel just estimated based on earlier bids.

[Batch]

Well as I say, if its up front its as much as we could ever hope for under the circumstances!

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

I can understand it, as If teams knew when we make an offer for a striker we got say 2 mill, their asking price would double. This way AF can at least keep a poker face and say it was 500k and we paid poole 300k so we aint got no cash etc etc.

I would guess though that any club we make an offer to a player for is going to have a very good idea of exactly how much we got via the football 'grapevine'..i.e players/back room and office staff know people at other clubs, agents talk to each other and so on. I can't really see that it would make a great deal of difference in that respect to disclose the fee. And in any case, any club is going to know that we've got a fair bit of spare cash as the moment and that we won't have paid the majority of it to Poole Town as per your example (I bloody well hope not anyway )

[Barnard]

Glad he's finally gone and that we've got a decent wedge for him.

It will be very interesting to see how he gets on at Burnley. I would have been very reluctant to pay anything close to £2 million for him. He's had an exceptional scoring record for us, but has never had a significant patch where he hasn't scored and then got back on the goal trail again.

 He's had the indulgent affection of the crowd from day one at Swindon and it's all gone perfectly up until the end of December. On the basis of the last few weeks, it looks like he doesn't handle adversity very well. If he struggles at Burnley and doesn't score for a few weeks how will he react?

I'll give him a hard time from the stands if he comes back here with another team in the same way I would with any opposition player. He doesn't come close to the category of player that avoids that treatment.

[pauld]

No they dont....they are often the first with breaking accurate news.....just because they had a couple of muppetts on show dosn't mean they are not good on Sport.....they are miles ahead of BBC and ITV.....on and off the sporting field.
They say 1.2 million..........that will do for me

£1.75m according to our Chairman. Who I think might be in a position to know. Like I say, they'll report any old shite as news.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/8828899._Is_Carroll_20_times_better_than_Austin__/?ref=rss

[leefer]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11728_6706379,00.html

Sounds about right to me.....1.2 initially with add ons......yep fairly accurate.

Just because you dont like someone/something dosnt mean they are always wrong.

Took me a long time in life to work that out

[stfcinbmth]

Just for info. Charlie's granddad was at the B'muff game Tuesday night rather than up in Burnley. Town fan

[wheretherealredsare]

Just for info. Charlie's granddad was at the B'muff game Tuesday night rather than up in Burnley

Is he viable? Maybe we should sign him up?

[stfcinbmth]

Is he viable? Maybe we should sign him up?

Another CB. He's a big unit