Bodin

[Gulliball]

No way on earth will a player out of contract in 6 months, who they don't want, go for £150k. Divide that by ten and you'll be closer.

[ferrarilover]

I love Di Canio, reckons his L2 squad is worth £20,000,000.

There is no way Bodin is worth anything like that. He's a perfectly ordinary L2 player who may or may not go on to be half decent, but to suggest that right now, as things stand, he is worth more than a nominal £20,000 fee is laughable.

He got what, three goals while he was here, meaning he now has maybe 5 league goals to his name and he's valued at more than we got for Benyon who was L2 top scorer at the time.

Di Canio is starting to show himself up as knowing precisely nothing about the real world of football. My only regret is that I haven't got anything to sell him, for I feel certain he knows the true price of nothing. I wonder if he wants a nice Mercedes convertible, only £3,000,000, good value I'd say...

Matt.

[tufc si]

I know there is currently a fair bit of banter about robbo upping sticks so I wonder if lingy is potentially placing the money we get from that sale into getting bodin back permanently?!

150k would be a ridiculous price tag for bodin but there must be some money already available plus potential cash from the robbo sale, thus making him affordable?!

[ferrarilover]

I see what you mean Si, but even if we did have the money, we wouldn't pay it, simply because we are not here to be taken for a ride. That is for other (stupid) clubs with more money than sense to do, buy hundreds of players for crazy money and take the chance that some other mug team will take them off their hands a couple of years down the line. TUFC operate differently, and that is why we will be around 10 years from now, and Crawley, Swindon, Rovers, Cobblers etc will be in the Evo-Stik 4th division as AFC whatever.

Matt.

[stevegull]

I see what you mean Si, but even if we did have the money, we wouldn't pay it, simply because we are not here to be taken for a ride. That is for other (stupid) clubs with more money than sense to do, buy hundreds of players for crazy money and take the chance that some other mug team will take them off their hands a couple of years down the line. TUFC operate differently, and that is why we will be around 10 years from now, and Crawley, Swindon, Rovers, Cobblers etc will be in the Evo-Stik 4th division as AFC whatever.

Matt.

Yep. Good post.

If we did have some money doesn't mean we have to buy Leo Fortune-West for £5million...

[AlexGulls]

If we sell someone like Robertson surely we'd have to use that to bring in another defender permantly rather than on a loan deal.

[Plymouth Gull]

Unless Ling brings Saah back in and gets a replacement in on loan as cover (Branston, perhaps?!)?

Granted though, losing Robbo would be a big blow as we've looked very solid with those two in the middle and Lathrope just in front!

[bixieupnorth]

look at the last time we spent money, broke our transfer record on the back of a hattrick while on loan, how much money exactly did we lose on leon contstantine??

lets stick to bargain buys and unknowns please, we cant afford to get billy bodin here, so lets move on please

[CP Gull]

I know it's "only" Twitter but this guy is the equivalent of Dave Thomas at the Swindon Advertiser and has just tweeted ...

STGary_Rose Gary Rose
Billy Bodin wants to stay at Swindon, he is almost certain not to be leaving today #stfcdeadlineday

This "transfer" has had a few twists and turns ... let's hope there's another one yet before the day is out.

[HRG]

Unless Ling brings Saah back in and gets a replacement in on loan as cover (Branston, perhaps?!)?

Granted though, losing Robbo would be a big blow as we've looked very solid with those two in the middle and Lathrope just in front!

Hasn't Branston played for two clubs this season though? I know Bradford shipped him out on loan but haven't heard if he's been playing.

Also regarding Saah, he was playing well according to some on here before his injury, so we know he is capable but obviously we'll need a back up.

[Gulliball]

If we sign Branston on an 'emergency' loan, then he can play for more than 2 clubs. The maximum for an emergency loan is 93 days though, so he'd miss the play-offs, a la Stanley last year. Although if he joined Rotherham on an emergency loan he'd still just have played for Bradford anyway.

[CP Gull]

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/ne ... t_Swindon/

I can't really believe that Bodin "wants" to stay - given that PDC went public and said that he was happy for him to leave on a permanent deal only yesterday!!! Of course he has no problem playing for STFC but he realises taht under PDC ha has got little or no chance of playing!

In reality it would seem that PDC has priced young Billy out of any potential move and so he is going nowhere - so Bodin is left with little option but to trot out the usual stuff about wanting to stay and fight for his place. The boy just wants to play football and in my opinion, given the choice, he would much prefer to be starting the next 18 games for us in our promotion push, working for Martin Ling than he would be sitting on a bench, or perhaps not even getting on there, for Swindon under PDC who although he clearly rates him to a certain extent, doesn't seem to truly believe that he is worthy of a place in his team!

[Gulliball]

A big shame. Hoepfully we do actually have a plan B as the last day of the window isn't the best time to find out your number one transfer target isn't available.

Being a Torquay fan is pretty depressing transfer wise isn't it? We sell our own players, don't get the players we want, and every team in the league seems to be able to get decent fees for their players apart from us.

[HRG]

Thanks Gulliball. I'm learning. Slowly.

[exilegull]

I don't think it is to concerning that we won't have activity today and then is no point overpaying for a player in January when in the summer hundreds of players are out of contract. Bodin was good but I wouldn't pay more than 50k for him.

Tomorrow the loan market will get going was teams know what players they haven't been able to offload - Bodin may well be one of them if Swindon want to put him in the window but given we are a clearly in direct competition with them maybe he was never available to us anyway.

I would be more than happy if the rumours regarding jake robinson were true - take him until the end of the season then assess again.