Wales News 25th November

Nottingham Forest want to buy Gareth Bale. Their fans mostly think he’s too good for the Championship but they hope Chris Gunter and Robert Earnshaw might be able to persuade them to join Forest.
I don’t want him to go. I hate the team he’s at but at least there’s a vague chance I might bump into him (hopefully literally) in London. Chris and Rob – tell him Forest is rubbish and there isn’t a hairdresser in the whole of Nottingham.
It would be great for Gareth to get some regular football though.

Swansea City manager Paolo Sousa is concerned that playing for Wales is too much for David Cornell (who didn’t even play) and Joe Allen. But surely they have a greater workload for Swansea than for Wales?

Sanchez Watt has signed a contract extension at Arsenal. I think he might have decided to represent England instead of Wales but I can dream. His team-mate Rhys Murphy has gone on loan to Brentford but unfortunately he seems to be English.

Stockport County manager Gary (short for Gareth but he’s English) Ablett admires loan signing Christian Ribeiro’s professionalism. Apparently he showed up for training on the first day with no clothes – apart from his Wales tracksuit that is.
But why did he only take his tracksuit to Wales? Did his luggage not arrive or do Wales have naked training sessions? (Does anyone know how I can go to a Wales training session?)

James Collins is still a serious injury doubt for Aston Villa, according to Sky Sports who usually know what they’re talking about. They are certainly right in saying James is Villa’s best player of the season. Villa manager Martin O’Neill doesn’t want to rush him back but he hasn’t been ruled out of Saturday’s match completely.

Chelsea’s young goalkeeper Rhys Taylor has joined Doncaster on-loan. This is great news as it means I no longer have to feel guilty about liking him.

Blackburn Rovers are trying to persuade goalkeeper Jason Brown to sign a new contract but fear he will want to look for first-team football. I think they should just let him play. He won when he played against Nottingham Forest in the Carling Cup.

Cardiff right back Adam Matthews has declared himself fit to play Ipswich Town on Sunday. I hope Cardiff won’t let him unless he really is fit. Somehow I don’t think the seventeen year old is a qualified doctor.

I forgot to mention John Oster when he played for Preston at the weekend. But he did well, he nearly scored.

Simon Church is hoping he will be able to play in Reading’s game against Derby after suffering a hip injury in his last match.

Wigan manager Roberto Martinez is interested in signing Ashley Williams from Swansea, the club he previously managed. I hope he does – it will be great to have another Wales player in the Premiership and maybe he can help wake Jason Koumas up.