BBC Wiltshire @BBCWiltshire 5m FOOTBALL: #stfc have signed #charlton striker Michael Smith for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £200k #swindon
200k? Think we paid 100k so a tidy little profit although there was probably a sell on clause to Darlo. I assume because of his age we would have got a development fee even though he is out of contract in the summer. Good luck to him and hope he proves a big success down there. Decent move for him.
Good move for him. Should help his development playing in a division higher. The assurance of a contract should only settle him mentally. Hopefully the club is looking else where to replace him.
Well this reserves fellow is clearly itk...so im guessing the fee is nearer to 70k than the 200k stated by the bbc (who as many have pointed out tonight, dont let the truth get in the way of a story)
200k? Think we paid 100k so a tidy little profit although there was probably a sell on clause to Darlo. I assume because of his age we would have got a development fee even though he is out of contract in the summer. Good luck to him and hope he proves a big success down there. Decent move for him.
Minus what ever wages we've paid him while we've been sending him out on loan.
It is, indeed, good that we got £200k for him, but it think that it is fair to say that it was more like snatching victory from defeat than a great plan when we signed him.
It would be an acceptable deal to me if we are freeing up funds to bring in someone like Simeon Jackson, if we end up with some 18 year old bench warmer from Liege I would be less than impressed.
We took a punt on a youngster and it didn't quite work out, as is usually the way with 'punts' - doesn't mean either side did anything wrong. He got to experience and train at a higher level and we sold him for more than we paid, nobody really lost anything.
I get that people have been bitterly disappointed with our senior strikers this year, but Smith is a very young striker who scored 10 goals in League 2 - 10 goals, not 20 or 30. If we'd signed him from AFC Wimbledon as a replacement for Church people would be at best 'underwhelmed' and at worst livid. Just because he's already on the books doesn't make him a better player than if he was coming into the club from elsewhere.
Hopefully this means a new striker will be here in the coming days, but the odds are we've released a decent young forward to go and play at his current level and haven't just released the player who was destined to save our season.
Many young players drop down the leagues and slowly work back up again, incredibly few get released and immediately prove to be underated superstars like Jordan Rhodes was.
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FOOTBALL: #stfc have signed #charlton striker Michael Smith for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £200k #swindon
@BBCWiltshire: FOOTBALL: #stfc have signed #charlton striker Michael Smith for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £200k #swindon
I'd of liked him to have a bit more of a chance. Still I wish him luck.
Maybe to use the funds for Simeon Jackson?
It is, indeed, good that we got £200k for him, but it think that it is fair to say that it was more like snatching victory from defeat than a great plan when we signed him.
We took a punt on a youngster and it didn't quite work out, as is usually the way with 'punts' - doesn't mean either side did anything wrong. He got to experience and train at a higher level and we sold him for more than we paid, nobody really lost anything.
I get that people have been bitterly disappointed with our senior strikers this year, but Smith is a very young striker who scored 10 goals in League 2 - 10 goals, not 20 or 30. If we'd signed him from AFC Wimbledon as a replacement for Church people would be at best 'underwhelmed' and at worst livid. Just because he's already on the books doesn't make him a better player than if he was coming into the club from elsewhere.
Hopefully this means a new striker will be here in the coming days, but the odds are we've released a decent young forward to go and play at his current level and haven't just released the player who was destined to save our season.
Many young players drop down the leagues and slowly work back up again, incredibly few get released and immediately prove to be underated superstars like Jordan Rhodes was.