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Jackson linked with Wolves as Gills’ financial worries increase
Published by Simon Head on November 13, 2009
Wolverhampton Wanderers are the latest big-name club to be linked with a move for Gillingham striker Simeon Jackson as concerns over the League One club’s finances appear ever greater.
According to the Daily Mirror, Wolves boss Mick McCarthy is ready to swoop for the £1.5m rated striker in the January transfer window as he looks to bolster his attacking options at Molineux.
Jackson will be missing from the Gills side to face Oldham this weekend as the 22-year-old striker is away on international duty with Canada.
But with a host of stories linking the Gills top scorer with a move away from Priestfield, it seems only a matter of time before the Kent club will start receiving offers.
Worryingly for Gillingham fans, despite the much-vaunted debt restructuring carried out by chairman Paul Scally, which saw him transfer the ownership of the club’s Priestfield Stadium to a company owned solely by himself, Gillingham’s financial worries appear to have escalated rather than eased.
Despite seeing the club’s debt reduced by around £9m to a figure nearer £4m, the club appear to be pulling the purse strings even tighter, with the club seemingly desperate to farm out players not in the immediate starting lineup in an attempt to free up funds.
Only this week a fully-fit Adam Miller was shipped out to Dagenham & Redbridge, while young strikers Luis Cumbers and Andy Pugh were also loaned out last month. It is also believed the club is keen to send centre half Garry Richards out on loan.
These worrying signs would suggest that the club will be desperate to sell Jackson at the earliest opportunity – especially with the player being rated with a seven-figure price tag.
A bidding war would certainly suit Gillingham, but with the transfer window still a couple of months away, the speculation will continue until the club receives its first formal offer in the New Year.
Simon Head
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