What Scotty did next
Yes, it seems the future of our current goal-getter in chief, Scott Rendell, is about as clear as a particularly muddy section of Histon's pitch. Where he will be plying his trade post-January 1 depends on who exactly you wish to believe.
Personally I like the Brabinator's version of things: "The ball is rolling in terms of negotiations with Scott," squeaked our leader. "When January comes and it's D-Day we'll be fighting tooth and nail to keep him at the club. He desperately wants to stay, we're desperate to keep him, he's enjoying his football again".
It's not usually like George Rolls to put a dampener on things, but he told yesterday morning's Evening News that we weren't in a position to match the price tag the scummers have slapped on young Mr Rendell's head: "We're in talks with Barry and we're doing our utmost to try to keep Scott on loan, but I can't give our fans the false hope that we might be signing him permanently.
"We're not in a position where we're going to spend £60,000 to £70,000, even if we could get them down to that - we're in the Conference and we've got to be realistic." Cheer up George, it's nearly Christmas, you never know what you might get in your stocking.
Clouding the water further is fat Barry, who today announced that the deal is dead as a dodo: "George Rolls phoned me to talk about making Scott Rendell's move permanent and made an offer which my chairman accepted," he said.
"Then George came back to say they didn't want to buy him, they just wanted to extend the loan. My chairman does not like the mickey being taken out of him, so Rendell will come back to Peterborough.
"Rendell won't be staying on loan at Cambridge - that is a one billion percent certainty," he said. Someone should probably tell the fat fool that you can't have more than 100 per cent, but given his creative approach to transfer fees, wages, etc, it's probably a bit late to teach him basic maths.
Who's telling porkies then? Well both Fry and Rolls have shown in the past that they have a fairly liberal relationship with the truth, but I'm inclined to believe that Barry is the one who's lying in this instance. He has been touting Rendell about ever since Scotty first joined us on loan, so it's fairly obvious they want to get rid, and that they're most likely going to have to take a hit in terms of the fee: In the current financial climate is a League One or Two team really going to fork out 120k for a player who has yet to prove himself at league level? I doubt it, so Barry is just trying to drum up a bit of interest in the only way he knows how.
We'll have to wait and see whether it works or not, but I suspect P*sh will be more grateful of our overtures if a couple of weeks of the transfer window pass by without any decent bids coming in. Watch this space.
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