SPECULATION - Simon Cox

[Royal Lady]

For the sake of £200k, we should have kept him on

And how many other support staff should we have made redundant to cover the 200k shortfall?

With respect, if we worried about getting the £200k so we could cover the pay of some support staff - we could have sold Lita for over a million instead.

[Uke]

For the sake of £200k, we should have kept him on

And how many other support staff should we have made redundant to cover the 200k shortfall?

With respect, if we worried about getting the £200k so we could cover the pay of some support staff - we could have sold Lita for over a million instead.

To sell you need to have a buyer, it took long enough to get Lita out to Charlton...

Unfortunately we had a buyer for Cox

[Sun Tzu]

LOL at the idea that we sold Cox to raise money !!

Interesting that it's been left up to him to decide whether he'll join Spurs or Fulham. They must be waiting with bated breath !

[The 17 Bus]

What do you base your view that he will be a Premier League player on ????

just 9 appearances from the bench at RFC, doing well at Swindon, have you seen him play much?

[brendywendy]

daft

we didnt let him go for money
or cos we didnt rate him
he wanted first team football, that couldnt be guaranteed so we let him go
something that will be appreciated hugely by the player

& hed have more chance of playing in the prem here next season, than with spurs or fulham

[papereyes]

At the time he was sold we looked to be in minimal danger of being relegated - and he'd never have a prayer of breaking into us as a PL team. So it was only fair to let him go and have a chance elsewhere.

I think if he and we had known we'd be going down thing would have been quite different!

MINIMAL DANGER???? We were something like two points clear of relegation and hadn't won for 8 or 9 games! And that's not to mention the lack of goals we'd seen for quite some time.

Okm perhaps minimal danger was under-stating things, but at the time we wern't in a relagation place, we were 3 days ahead of playing Bolton at home and, as everyone knows, winning that would have taken us out of trouble. And at the time Derby were doomed and we were miles ahead of Fulham, so everyone believed that all we had to do was stay ahead of Birminghamm - which we actually did achieve. But my point is that no-one in the club at the time was talking about relegation or planning for it, which is why they let him go.

That's absolute madness. It really, really is.


I actually think the club believed the "three worse teams" mantra and really took their eyes off the ball.

[strap]

I said at the time it was an utter nonsense letting him go for £200k or whatever it was.

http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/insideswindontown/archive/2009/03/27/cometh-the-hour-cometh-the-man.aspx

Sir Steve needs to put this bit of business alongside his Paul Brooker, Jimmy Kebe and Emerse Fae failures.

Good luck to the lad, but how I wish he'd stayed. GOing to come back and bite us in the bum one day.

[Thaumagurist*]

Last time I looked, Swindon were in danger of going down. But I've just looked again, they're 5 points clear. They're not quite safe yet though.

As for Simon Cox, he couldn't break into the first team here, so what difference does it make? Could he do the scoring at a higher level? If they sell him for a profit, I'm sure we'll get a share of it.

[I was there at Elm Park]

Last time I looked, Swindon were in danger of going down. But I've just looked again, they're 5 points clear. They're not quite safe yet though.

As for Simon Cox, he couldn't break into the first team here, so what difference does it make? Could he do the scoring at a higher level? If they sell him for a profit, I'm sure we'll get a share of it.

I've heard that we've got a 40% sell on clause. I wonder if that would cause problems if we tried to buy him back?

[Row Z Royal]

Shouldn't do.

If they sold him to, I don't know, Derby for a £1m then Derby pay that £1m and Swindon get £600k. If we buy him for a million then we just get a £400k discount and Swindon still get £600k.

[The 17 Bus]

In all reality the sell on clause helps us a lot, as said if they get offered £1m, then we get 400k and swindon 600k, however we are in a position to get him back for 600k, should we so choose, and if all agree.

Therefore his two seasons playing regular football, albeit at a lower level will have cost us about 6k a week, a sum that he may well have been close to at RFC already, so overall no big loss either way.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Saw the report on SSN last night.
Didn't know why we sold him in the first place.

[Wizard]

Rather interesting comment in the bottom too:

"I am convinced Robson Kanu will play bith at the highest league level, and internationally in the next 2-3 years, but I am not convinced Coxy will.

Last time we had a loanee that showed the pace, style, class, and vision Robson-Kanu does, it was James Milner."

[Ian Royal]

Saw the report on SSN last night.
Didn't know why we sold him in the first place.

Because he wanted to play regularly and it was best for his career. It's not oxf*rd hard is it!

[rg6royal]

Newcastle and West Brom are fighting it out for the signature of £1m-rated Swindon striker Simon Cox. (News of the World)

[AlexY25]

I'd like to see how good he is against teams like Man U and Chelsea. Its not quite the same as playing MK Dons and Cheltenham.

[Arnie_Pie]

Just get him back.

[Rex]

Newcastle and West Brom are fighting it out for the signature of £1m-rated Swindon striker Simon Cox. (News of the World)

Nice tidy profit if the sell on clause % is correct. Glad to see him doing well.

[CMRoyal]

Amazed that Prem clubs are looking at him before he's even proven himself in the Championship. He could just be a flat track bully like Bobby Zamora.

[chandog]

he is a good player

but not prem quality just yet