Burnley Emerge as Town's Main Rivals for Austin
Friday, 28th Jan 2011 09:43

Burnley have emerged as Town’s main rivals for the signature of Swindon striker Charlie Austin with the Robins having accepted an offer from the Clarets for the highly-rated frontman. The Blues have so far been unable to agree personal terms with the 21-year-old, who was locked in talks at Portman Road yesterday after the clubs agreed a fee believed to be approaching £2 million.

The Blues are understood to have offered Austin a three-and-a-half-year deal but are yet to match the terms required by the former Poole striker.

Now Burnley have matched Town’s bid to Swindon and have been given permission to speak to the former Poole frontman with talks taking place at Turf Moor today.

Blackpool and Southampton have also expressed an interest in the one-time bricklayer but have not yet had offers accepted by the Robins.

Austin knows new Burnley boss Eddie Howe well having come close to joining his former club Bournemouth before he joined for Swindon. The Cherries were unable to complete his signing as they had a transfer embargo in place at the time and he moved to the County Ground instead.

However, Austin is believed to want to remain in this south if possible and a switch to Town is understood to appeal, if he can agree terms.

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bluekeen added 15:41 - Jan 28

I am not a "Clegg Hater" as so clearly put I am an Ipswich fan. I believe that this is not the first signing the club have failed to agree once fees have been set... this must be the 10th in the last 30 months or so.

which is down to two thing's 1. an inablity to sell the idea of playing for ipswich town and the history the club.
2. the way inwhich deals are presented and put together for the player.

both of these lie with the the CEO / person offering the contracts, at one time this was sheepshanks who rarely lost a player he was in for to another club.

as i have said before i believe that Mr Clegg is too much of an outsider in terms of football - which means that agents will try to take advantage of him/us. and that players will not respect what he is talking about..This means he has to rely to much on the money side of the deal which we will not win andto be honest nor do i expect us too.
we must not forget that the club is in enough money troubles already being as they still owe mr evans some where near 30mil from the take over plus what he has spen backing JM/RK over the last 3 years.

I believe that Mr Clegg should appoint himself a negociator / someone to do the deals and present what he is trying to offer players and he shopuld do the admin and corporate stuff he was hired to do .... and leave football matters to football people.