Swindon Town have signed West Ham United midfielder Ahmed Abdulla on loan until January 2012. Apparantly been playing as a striker recently aswell. Loan signings are such a gamble they could be a Danny Ward or a Ben Hutchinson so you never know really.
Also from Gary Rose off twitter - "Reliably informed that Clarke has no future at Town, still waiting for official comment though"
After seeing the video on BBC I place the blame on Clarke and Donatelli, our fitness coach, Di Canio tried to get him inside and calm him down, but the stupid media jump on anything dramatic with Di Canio, I read a story in one tabloid about him knocking Clarke out, just stupid, for one have you seen the height difference?
Also been annouced Amankwaah has had his contract terminated - shame always rated him when he was fit he was a good defender, he was big, could defend and also a bit of a threat in attack. Hope he does well where ever he goes.
Also rumours of Tims going to Southend
Loane - Clarke going?
posted on 31/8/11
Sound as if Clarke is definitely on his way out, news just in from Swindon Advertiser. Can't see the whole incident is down to him, our fitness coach has hardly been mentioned by the media although it all started after he had words with Clarke. Paolo is taking a lot of unfair flak considering he was the peace maker, what we don't know is what happened off camera ! It has been reported Leon was asked to stay away from today's training session which is quite ironic as thats what started it all ! I'm still convinced our fortunes will change for the better and still looking forward to the game Saturday. At least the attendance will be better with all the media in town !!
posted on 31/8/11
Notts with you talking about media attention, I just remembered the Rotherham game is a 12:15 kick off because its on Sky guranted there will be a camera on Di Canio for the entire game. I have watched the video many times and I cannot blame Paolo he tried to calm the situation down, he tried to take him down the tunnel so the cameras wouldn't catch what happened. Got a feeling Clarke didn't do his research and didn't realise Di Canio and his staff have a big thing about fitness, think the only thing Clarke realised was that he was going to become Swindon's highest payed player and thought league two would be a walk in the park.
posted on 1/9/11
Paolo is so passionate i can't see him changing his match day attitude to appease the sky cameras. I'm sure he will be feeling some extra pressure after the last few days but he has been around long enough to hopefully deal with it. Hope the team show their backing for him and put in a match winning performance .