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SWINDON TOWN: Bids dry up as Paolo's warning works
6:00am Monday 14th January 2013 in Sport Exclusive By Sam Morshead
MESSAGE: Paolo Di Canio
SLAPPING a ‘not for sale’ sign across his Swindon Town squad appears to have worked for Paolo Di Canio, who has not received an offer for any of his players since.
The Robins boss made the statement last week, in the light of a rejected bid from Bradford for Aden Flint, as he let the rest of the Football League know he is not in the mood to allow anyone he deems to be an integral part of the first-team set-up leave the County Ground.
The message appears to have got through as he told the Advertiser, following Town’s 1-1 draw with Bournemouth on Saturday, that he has not had to deal with any further approaches in light of his remarks.
“It’s clear that after what I said in the last few days the message went around everywhere,” he said.
“Nobody can come close and ask me for some players because I want to desperately keep those two, you can imagine me selling one.
“I can repeat that if someone comes with crazy money I have to sacrifice someone, otherwise no chance because I want to keep hold of them.”
Meanwhile, Di Canio said he hopes that progress can be made in extending the loan spells of Danny Hollands and Chris Martin until the end of the season early this week.
The two players are currently contracted with the Robins until February 2, but Di Canio wants them to stay right through until May.
“I really think, I am really positive in the fact that something can happen in the next few days,” he said.
“I don’t think about stretching my squad and bringing other players, but keeping those two that are in here from other teams – we have to do everything, even if it’s not sure we can have a chance to go up or stay in the top six.
“You can see how Danny Hollands and Chris Martin played, how the others played next to them. Now there is a group, a team, a quality and we have to keep going.
“Jay McEveley we expect back in seven or eight days but in 20 days’ time we have to make sure that those two players extend their contracts until the end of the season.
“It’s clear that I don’t expect help from the board but at the moment we are working in a way that we can extend their loans and I will do everything, as I said before, I can help and support this.
“It would be a shame, it’s not an attack on anyone, to lose those players because we’re not talking about £1million or hundreds of thousands. I will do everything.”
Comments(32)
SAPFanSTFC
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8:50am Mon 14 Jan 13
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I'm sure he'll get his men on extended loans and then we can all settle back into our 1st Class Carriage seats on the PDC Express to the promised land via celebrations at Scunthorpe!! :-)
oncearedalwaysared
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9:11am Mon 14 Jan 13
SAPFanSTFC
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9:32am Mon 14 Jan 13
mallorca
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9:53am Mon 14 Jan 13
Whaytr is the news on paul caddis????? also Adam Rooney??? all seems to have gone quiet as has our supe CHAIRMAN and Board/
Still I guess no news is good news cause everytime SWP opens his gob it's doom and gloom.
Just seems funny we aint heard a peep.Of course rumours are ripe where is Pdc going now???????
Rebel_phish
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9:53am Mon 14 Jan 13
Wouldn't it be so much more satisfying to wrap up auto-promotion or even the title at Bramell Lane in front of Danny Wilson?
Rebel_phish
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9:56am Mon 14 Jan 13
Rebel_phish wrote:And as a result assign United to the Play-offs
Scunthorpe! SCUNTHORPE??
Wouldn't it be so much more satisfying to wrap up auto-promotion or even the title at Bramell Lane in front of Danny Wilson?
Stilloyal
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10:00am Mon 14 Jan 13
Seems Bournmuff don't have a sense of humour, what a fuss over 20 quids woth of plastic.
SAPFanSTFC
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10:06am Mon 14 Jan 13
Rebel_phish wrote:Still going to be a party at Scunny regardless of where we claim the title!
Scunthorpe! SCUNTHORPE??
Wouldn't it be so much more satisfying to wrap up auto-promotion or even the title at Bramell Lane in front of Danny Wilson?
:-)
Moonraker18018
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10:17am Mon 14 Jan 13
Rebel_phish wrote:Hag on fellas, we got a lot of work to do before Sheff & Scunney :-)
Scunthorpe! SCUNTHORPE?? Wouldn't it be so much more satisfying to wrap up auto-promotion or even the title at Bramell Lane in front of Danny Wilson?
Rebel_phish
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10:39am Mon 14 Jan 13
Moonraker18018 wrote:Thats very true. But I said it last season that when we hit the top we wouldn't get knocked off it. And guess what.....
Rebel_phish wrote:Hag on fellas, we got a lot of work to do before Sheff & Scunney :-)
Scunthorpe! SCUNTHORPE?? Wouldn't it be so much more satisfying to wrap up auto-promotion or even the title at Bramell Lane in front of Danny Wilson?
I feel its the going to be the same this season. So, just for you, and so as not to get carried away. IF.... IF, and only IF... If we get to the top of the league, I don't think we will be easily knocked off.
One does have to be realistic though, but one can always dream; just to put another perspextive on things.
The Jockster
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11:31am Mon 14 Jan 13
Morshead's an idiot for stoking the dugout damage fire and Mitchell's an even bigger one by wanting compensation for £20's worth of plastic as Loyal rightly says.
the wizard
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11:34am Mon 14 Jan 13
Crowd of Clowns.
Blazing Riff
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11:56am Mon 14 Jan 13
Another view
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1:21pm Mon 14 Jan 13
11:56am Mon 14 Jan 13
Hang on a minute folks. Let the children play 'twitter wars' about the dugout but, as adults, if we break someone else's property whether by accident or desgn, we offer to pay for it ...don't we?”
- Yep. Even if it's a fiver's worth of damage, Duardo should have spoken to a steward at the end and told him he would pay. Considering how well our fans have got on with Bournemouth's, as well as Pompey's, it leaves a bit of a sour taste that such a minor thing should cause arguments.
Oi Den!
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1:40pm Mon 14 Jan 13
Blazing Riff wrote:Spot on. It may be only minor damage but we should apologise and we should pay. I think we would demand that of anyone from the opposition who broke something of ours. Anyway, it would be interesting to know how you can accidentally break that stuff!
Hang on a minute folks. Let the children play 'twitter wars' about the dugout but, as adults, if we break someone else's property whether by accident or desgn, we offer to pay for it ...don't we?
Blazing Riff
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2:11pm Mon 14 Jan 13
Another view wrote:Maybe he, or the club, have paid up (and they should if they haven't) but why do some people think it's the host club who should pay just because they can afford it? Very strange attitude.
Blazing Riff says...
11:56am Mon 14 Jan 13
Hang on a minute folks. Let the children play 'twitter wars' about the dugout but, as adults, if we break someone else's property whether by accident or desgn, we offer to pay for it ...don't we?”
- Yep. Even if it's a fiver's worth of damage, Duardo should have spoken to a steward at the end and told him he would pay. Considering how well our fans have got on with Bournemouth's, as well as Pompey's, it leaves a bit of a sour taste that such a minor thing should cause arguments.
Stilloyal
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2:29pm Mon 14 Jan 13
However Paolo kicks sh1t out of our dug out every week and no damage done . We clearly have not cut costs when it comes to perspex :-)
the don69
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4:05pm Mon 14 Jan 13
The Jockster wrote:Spot on!right on both counts Jockster!lets not get ahead of ourselves,there's an awful long way to go before any Gloating or Partying,take one game at a time just like Paolo does!as for Mitchell lets give him £20 in pennies (shame it couldn't be farthing's)LOL!!!!!!
Yes talking of perspextive! Hell of a lot of work to do before any Scunny & Blades gloating. Rose and her army of tinters are getting a tad premature!
Morshead's an idiot for stoking the dugout damage fire and Mitchell's an even bigger one by wanting compensation for £20's worth of plastic as Loyal rightly says.
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Robin of Andover
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4:13pm Mon 14 Jan 13
smirg kcab
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4:42pm Mon 14 Jan 13
the don69 wrote:Hope the £20 don't come out of the trust fund? That would only leave £480 left to get Hollands and Martin now.
The Jockster wrote:Spot on!right on both counts Jockster!lets not get ahead of ourselves,there's an awful long way to go before any Gloating or Partying,take one game at a time just like Paolo does!as for Mitchell lets give him £20 in pennies (shame it couldn't be farthing's)LOL!!!!!!
Yes talking of perspextive! Hell of a lot of work to do before any Scunny & Blades gloating. Rose and her army of tinters are getting a tad premature!
Morshead's an idiot for stoking the dugout damage fire and Mitchell's an even bigger one by wanting compensation for £20's worth of plastic as Loyal rightly says.
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Was it only S. M who took the photo?he could be waking up with a horses head in bed with him with a bit of luck.
Onwards and upwards
The new town end song for Saturday
He does what he wants,he does what he wants domenico duardo he does what he wants.
dreamofacleansheet2
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4:52pm Mon 14 Jan 13
As I'm clearly a dreamer let's pre suppose we get promoted. How many of our current squad do we think could hold there own in the Championship.
I'm going for:
Wes
L Thompson
Ward
Devera
Macca (bench)
Flint (bench)
Troy (bench although I have high hopes)!
Ritchie
Ferry
Hollands
De Vita or Roberts (either on bench)
Williams
Martin
Collins (any two from three)
Storey (for future)
Bedwell (for future)
I reckon we'd require a left back, two centre midfielders and a striker to have a squad capable of jumping again for Back to back to back promotions and that statue....
May not be to much money needed....
I have a dream today.... (As someone once said)!
SAPFanSTFC
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4:52pm Mon 14 Jan 13
LeGod wrote:Sais a lot for the quality of work of his building companies if a bit of perspex was that loose and joined in such a rubbish manner....no wonder the went broke....as someone said, he should have cared more for the people he was diddling out of money with his bad management....or given that it's his 7th 'some' may say it is all planned as an easy get out.
As for big mouth Mitchell the cherries chairman pursuing us for a pice of plastic its a pity he didnt get pursued for all the 6 companies he intemtionally put into liquidation and ripped a load of small companies off.
The guy as a chairman has got the biggest mouth going and is a crook of the highest order.
A few quid for a bit of plastic at least we left our mark on the game.
So his buliding company called seven builders is named intentionally as he is proud of his six liquidated companies apparently. Even the cherries fans hate him.
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Get over it twitterers!
the wizard
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4:53pm Mon 14 Jan 13
smirg kcab wrote:Grim,
That's why no hot drinks was avalible they were recycling it for that cheap tacky dugout,
That fuucking idiot Mitchell should have looked more after that poor ball boy by us on the corner flag poor lad was frozen, soaked and was talking to himself he was given no wet weather gear, Mitchell like your fans said when that priick groves was in charge you don't care about fans 1-0 up nice and warm, but you and that twaat Howe come back down to earth when willo slotted that cracker in, then the old story it should have been stopped.
As i thought the best two teams in the division stood up to the test, but now I hope you don't even get in the playoffs.
Onwards and upwards
Eddie call 0800 106 107 now
I said call 0800 106 107. Now
You normally get a laugh out of me one way or another but your last few lines had me coughing up my tea and nearly choking on the afternoon biscuit, sheer class old son, love it, brilliant.
SAPFanSTFC
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4:58pm Mon 14 Jan 13
SAPFanSTFC wrote:...lot of work to do but I'm enjoying every minute of what I'm watching so far this season and am now believing we can not only get promoted but win the league and in some style.
Rebel_phish wrote:Still going to be a party at Scunny regardless of where we claim the title!
Scunthorpe! SCUNTHORPE??
Wouldn't it be so much more satisfying to wrap up auto-promotion or even the title at Bramell Lane in front of Danny Wilson?
:-)
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Had the doomsters telling us to watch it all last season....why not look on the bright side and enjoy...then IF we don't win the league then I'll feel miserable from that day on not for the preceding 6 months as well.
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- We're all in the gutter but some of us are looking at stars!! :-)
DarrenSTFCRomain
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6:09pm Mon 14 Jan 13
smirg kcab wrote:Sir Smirg Kcab
That's why no hot drinks was avalible they were recycling it for that cheap tacky dugout, That fuucking idiot Mitchell should have looked more after that poor ball boy by us on the corner flag poor lad was frozen, soaked and was talking to himself he was given no wet weather gear, Mitchell like your fans said when that priick groves was in charge you don't care about fans 1-0 up nice and warm, but you and that twaat Howe come back down to earth when willo slotted that cracker in, then the old story it should have been stopped. As i thought the best two teams in the division stood up to the test, but now I hope you don't even get in the playoffs. Onwards and upwards Eddie call 0800 106 107 now I said call 0800 106 107. Now
YOU ARE A STAR...
I wonder if eddie has long hair and big boggie eyes..
Wilesy
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7:07pm Mon 14 Jan 13
smirg kcab wrote:Like it!
That's why no hot drinks was avalible they were recycling it for that cheap tacky dugout,
That fuucking idiot Mitchell should have looked more after that poor ball boy by us on the corner flag poor lad was frozen, soaked and was talking to himself he was given no wet weather gear, Mitchell like your fans said when that priick groves was in charge you don't care about fans 1-0 up nice and warm, but you and that twaat Howe come back down to earth when willo slotted that cracker in, then the old story it should have been stopped.
As i thought the best two teams in the division stood up to the test, but now I hope you don't even get in the playoffs.
Onwards and upwards
Eddie call 0800 106 107 now
I said call 0800 106 107. Now
Northern Red78
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8:05pm Mon 14 Jan 13
Well done lads for the great draw amid woeful conditions. Lets hope Di Canio's words are true and we don't get any more silly bids during the Jan Transfer Window. Plus I hope that the wally at Burnley gets bought by a bigger club (possibly Stoke or Wigan) so that we can cash in on the greedy b*****r.
I had to be very diplomatic at the weekend as my girlfriend is a closet Bournemouth fan. (she told me there would be no copulation is Swindon won). Must be the first time i've ever been happy with a draw.
Is that you Lovesey
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8:59am Tue 15 Jan 13
Stilloyal
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9:47am Tue 15 Jan 13
madterrier
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10:42am Tue 15 Jan 13
Is that you Lovesey wrote:If Caddis is on a season-long loan, and is then out-of-contract, and the only club we can therefore try and sell him to is Birmingham who have no money, then this must be one of the dumbest bits of business we've done in recent times.
Why do people keep going on about Rooney and caddis, they are both on season long loans, end of, its not complicated....
Or does he have another year left on his contract?
Is that you Lovesey
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1:47pm Tue 15 Jan 13
madterrier wrote:I know Mad not the best bit of business, but I think we had higher hopes with Rooney and I am not 100% but (I thought Caddis signed for two years, this year and next.
Is that you Lovesey wrote: Why do people keep going on about Rooney and caddis, they are both on season long loans, end of, its not complicated....If Caddis is on a season-long loan, and is then out-of-contract, and the only club we can therefore try and sell him to is Birmingham who have no money, then this must be one of the dumbest bits of business we've done in recent times. Or does he have another year left on his contract?
Anoldgreymoonraker says...
6:30am Mon 14 Jan 13