Ulster Bank!

So the fat controller has finally got his cheque book out and bought a couple of players, in fact a couple of players who 'allegedly' are strikers. He reportedly made an approach to Ballymena about the 'injured' Neal Teggart, but as I thought at the time, that was just a smoke screen. When you really want to buy someone and negotiations are at breaking point, the smart guys pretend to be after someone else. This ploy worked with League of Ireland side, Derry City, who if truth be known were only too glad to get the high earning non-productive McHugh off their books. Dungannon Swifts on the other hand, were not going to be steamrollered into accepting a cut price deal for McAllister, they had already lost a potential fortune when he turned down a move to Glasgow Celtic two seasons ago. That meant the 'bigot' had to cough up £35,000, plus a player as well in order to land the under-performing Swifts 'alleged' hit-man, I say alleged as his goalscoring exploits are disappointing to say the least. This £50,000 which with signing on fees will probably stretch the total outlay to near £70,000, would seem like a vast fortune to most Irish league clubs. To Linfield, with their monopoly of International matches, it's only a drop in the ocean. The Belfast Blues are expecting to glean almost three quarters of a £million from the I.F.A. as Norn Iron bid to secure World cup qualification. That is in my opinion a ludicrous amount for one club to get from our governing body, surely their should be a ceiling set and set at a realistic figure, especially in light of the deep recession affecting all aspects of our wee country at the moment. The reality is that even if these two players don't set the scoring charts alight at Windsor, the Blues won't have to worry about financial implications, this outlay was merely 'pocket money' as far as they are concerned. I'll be watching intently over the coming months just to see what impact these two signings have if any, or were they just signed for the hell of it. After all, when you have 'loads of money', the sky 'is',the limit!