Transfer rumours !

St Johnstone sign Ali Crawford on loan from Bolton Wanderers

St Johnstone have signed Bolton Wanderers midfielder Ali Crawford on loan until January, Courier Sport understands.

Crawford spent nine years with Hamilton Accies and is a proven Premiership performer.

He will provide another creative option for Perth boss Callum Davidson when the Perth side resume their league campaign after the international break.

Crawford also brings a goal threat from midfield. He reached double figures for Accies in two different seasons.

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He's never been in Evatt's plans and is never likely to be so I hope he does really well and the deal is made permanent.

Return of Ben Jackson is a rumour.

Also Ellis Harrison from Portsmouth

Nothing announced yet....but other League 1 clubs have been bringing in some decent talent.

Seems odd to me that they cleared a place in the squad by moving Crawford out, then didn't fill it with someone?

It looks as though they must of had a target in mind but didn't get whoever it was?

I guess there was no plan B either?

Seeing Evatt's been vaunting how good the backroom staff is about identifying targets that would fit perfectly into our system I'm surprised nothing happened on the day?


Also fwiw, some random on twitter is claiming that Evatt has a gambling debt and apparently someone tried to blackmail him about it and he reported this to the police.  Court case imminent or so he says.

Probably just total bollocks but he's tweeted to Evatt's agent challenging to deny it!

And spammed the likes of the club, Mrs Evatt and Iles.

Very odd (or completely normal for twitter)!

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] your client is Ian Evatt, you also allegedly received calls regarding the gambling debts and blackmail, if this is untrue surely you can find 10 seconds to reply and say there is no upcoming blackmail case regarding gambling debts!

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Let’s hope it’s not true Sluffy, just when things seemed to be picking up? On the non signing front, I think we have to accept that we can’t/won’t overextend on wages and probably can’t afford transfers so we’re probably still fishing in a small pool of limited talent. Having targets is one thing but bringing them in against opposition with deeper pockets is difficult but respect to IE for not complaining. I think we’ve probably got enough to finish top half until January, then he can look again at what we need and can afford for a promotion push if possible.

Iles wrote this on Monday:

The club must settle its unsecured creditors to the EFL’s liking by Tuesday or incur penalties – but while the club has declined to comment on the matter in recent months it is understood they are preparing an official update.


No update so far!

Evatt will have had transfer targets but each will have had a maximum price and I guess none of the targets were available at a price the club were willing/able to pay.

Strangely Sarcevic is being linked with Stockport County

BoltonTillIDie wrote:Strangely Sarcevic is being linked with Stockport County

The Daily Fail are saying he and Evatt have had a massive row and there's no way back for either of them. That would be a massive blow!

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Norpig wrote:
The Daily Fail are saying he and Evatt have had a massive row and there's no way back for either of them. That would be a massive blow!

I’m sure many would disagree but I think he’s overrated. He’s scored a couple of screamers but he often looks off the pace and ineffective to me.

Bonkers if true.

I'm not exactly his biggest fan, but he's as good as anything we have in midfield (which, admittedly, isn't saying much).

He does drift in and out of games and can at times like not fit enough but he does have some quality so for me would be a big loss if this is true.

Doyle gone too.

MartinBWFC wrote:Doyle gone too.

Fact or you read it on WW?

Natasha Whittam wrote:
Fact or you read it on WW?

It's on the official rumour from some source, on the flipside, Wilshere will be coming in, if all true.

MartinBWFC wrote:It's on the official rumour from some source, on the flipside, Wilshere will be coming in, if all true.

Wilshere? He'll be match fit by July.