Walton’s Mountain
By: Jim | August 6th, 2008Simon Walton signed for Argyle today from QPR for an undisclosed fee, thought to be in the region of £450K, rising to £750K with add-ons. Although still only 20 years old he has already played for Leeds, Charlton, Ipswich, Cardiff and Hull as well as Rangers and is recently recovered from a badly broken leg. A combative central midfielder, who can also play at centre half, Paul Sturrock claimed at today’s press conference that he’d been tracking Walton for some considerable time and regarded him as exactly the sort of player he wanted here.
Despite his rather nomadic, not to say chequered, career, I’m delighted with this signing. We’ve been saying for a while that we lack some steel in the midfield and John-Boy, as I’m sure hes destined to be known, will certainly provide that. He’s tall, too - 6′2 - which helps. Fans of other clubs have been mixed in their reaction to him: there’s despondency on the Rs boards; Ipswich fans generally think he did well for them; Hull and Cardiff fans have been fairly robust in their criticism. He has had something of an attitude in the past, which I’m sure Luggy will beat out of him. Anyway, like all signings he deserves a fair crack of the whip and a chance to establish himself before being written off, as Argyle fans are sadly over-prone to doing. He’ll wear the 4 shirt and is likely to go straight into the team to play Wolves. Welcome Simon!
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