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Exclusive: Swansea City set Matt Grimes transfer demand as Coventry City push to seal deal
Swansea City are demanding £3.5m from Coventry City for the services of Matt Grimes, Football League World can exclusively reveal.
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@Saddlebrains do you work for football league world?
Exclusive: Swansea City set Matt Grimes transfer demand as Coventry City push to seal deal
Swansea City are demanding £3.5m from Coventry City for the services of Matt Grimes, Football League World can exclusively reveal.
Haha…I was going to say the same.
I gather we’ve met the £3.5m asking price anyway.
Assume if so he’ll be down for a medical soon. Hopefully hear something this afternoon
They can demand but whether the club will pay that amount for a player who will be 30 on his next birthday remains to be seen.
I don't think it works like Primary school where you get called up in assembly at the end of the year and presented with a 100% attendance certificate by the Head.
3.5 accepted yesterday, just structure of payments to be finalised
He will be here today or tomorrow
Paterson still training with us, both parties keen on a short term deal, international clearance the hold up
BTA Blackburn, Stoke, Hull, QPR keen
He will be here today or tomorrow
Paterson still training with us, both parties keen on a short term deal, international clearance the hold up
BTA Blackburn, Stoke, Hull, QPR keen
So much interest in BTA. I’d be keen to keep him but I understand selling him to get Grimes
Interesting comments regarding his failed move to Leeds. Also interesting that his whole family now live in West Wales. Hopefully that doesn’t hinder him here.
I don't think you can know that, it's just a guess based on a negative reputation.
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It's a trivial argument. Even without Thorn we would've almost certainly gone down the season after as SISU would've pushed through further player sales to cover the losses and once again, as we saw in the summer of 11/12, barely any incomings would've been brought in.
I suspect we'd have gone down in the following season or two regardless, it was a such as despairing spiral of shite by that point.
Not in any way arguing Thorn wasn't a disastrous, cheapest option available, type of apppointment though.
I just read that he's played 301 out of the last 305 games for Swansea. Fucking insane!
Man that year was such a cluster fuck of bad decisions. Least the kit was nice
Nah. If we’d hired a competent manager we’d have been better off in general. His appointment was a disaster and it was obvious he’d take us down even by September. It’s one example of why fans shouldn’t be listened to.
I’m sticking a tenner on him doing his ACL within 5 games for us.
Masterstroke getting him in training to ease Grimo's transition. Once he's in the door, fuck him off.
I really don't think it would've made much difference. Assuming a more competent manager was appointed instead of Thorn and he would've kept us up, the season following would've been a huge uphill battle.
Cranie, Keogh, Clingan and Lukas would've gone regardless who was manager as SISU were intent on slashing the wage bill to cut overheads and he would've likely been left to compile a mismatched squad out of loans, free agents and academy players during the summer of 12/13.
I feel we will need another loan striker if he goes. It just leaves us with Simms and Norman currently. No guarantee Wright comes back and completes the season from his injury.
International clearance? He's only from Wyken
Thorn was a bad manager, infact he was barely a manager but he still dealt a shit hand
Pretty sure he turned up for training one day in his second pre season and asked where Bigirimana was and he'd been flogged without his knowledge
As we have mentioned as well the club were openly desperate to flog Juke as well as Ben Turner at the start of the season
We were ran appallingly over those years
It comes from something that @quinn1971 put up
It showed Binks on £30k a year and total wages at £10m (even though they were £18m)
It shows Jack Burroughs earning more than MVE
The plan is (or was) to get another winger to replace BTA (hence interest in Thomas and Matondo)
We’re only going to play 1 up front and have 3 solid options. We definitely do not need a fourth.
Besides, nobody will loan a player us who will not play
They probably get their info from HIM!@Saddlebrains do you work for football league world?
Exclusive: Swansea City set Matt Grimes transfer demand as Coventry City push to seal deal
Swansea City are demanding £3.5m from Coventry City for the services of Matt Grimes, Football League World can exclusively reveal.
Nice1 saddle. GIMOC on hols I presume?
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International clearance? He's only from Wyken
Yeah it's like a third world country out here.
Agree, it was arecipe for disaster. A decent manager may have kept us up that season but the rot was well and truly set in by then, we'd been circling the drain for years.
You only have to look at the budget available for the following summer when we dropped down to L1 to give you an indication of how that summer window would've panned out if we'd somehow remained in the Championship.
Loans that would've cost the club nothing, cheap free agents replacing players sold on for fees, and a reliance on players fresh out of the academy to fill numbers.
SISU were literally stripping cost out of every single facet of the club from top to bottom. Over a period of 3 transfer windows the playing squad was completely decimated.
Thorn was dreadful, but it's pretty obvious that regardless of who was in place that there was literally no way to prevent the inevitable. Impossible task.