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  • "Wow amazing comments from people that do not know Jared, Paul or Andrea personally. People who also do not know Jareds schedule with Chelsea. No they are not moving to London!

    Amazed that the comments are so negative towards the family and also Swindon as a club in a way. People should appreciate that as a club the youth department is obviously doing a good job in developing players when clubs such as Chelsea want Jard and previously Jordan Young along with Jamie Stephens signing for Liverpool. This shows the club is doing a GOOD job, therefore that is positive!

    Also I bet many of the negative posters who have children would probably not knock back an opportunity for their son to go to a top premiership club!

    Perhaps he won't make it to the first team, especially at Chelsea as they have so many foreigners but if your at a top club and you fall down the tree then another Premiership club or a championship club would be the next branch to fall on and so on from there.

    TTHIS IS A POSITIVE FOR THE LAD AND THE CLUB AND THE TOWN, be happy not negative people please"
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Swindon Town teen poised for Chelsea

6:00am Thursday 14th June 2012 in Sport By Sam Morshead

Swindon Town youngster Jared Thompson Swindon Town youngster Jared Thompson

SWINDON Town’s 13-year-old goalkeeper Jared Thompson is set to join Chelsea after the European Champions agreed to pay an undisclosed compensation fee for the youngster.

Thompson, whose brother Conor is a Northern Ireland Under 17 international stopper, has yet to formally sign on with the Barclays Premier League giants but an agreement has been reached which will see the talented keeper move to Stamford Bridge over the summer.

Thompson’s father Paul posted on Facebook: “As very proud parents, myself and Andrea would like to confirm to all our friends and family that, as of today, Swindon Town Football Club have accepted an undisclosed fee from Chelsea Football Club for our 13-year-old son Jared Thompson.

“We would like to take this opportunity in congratulating Jared for this momentous, once in a lifetime achievement.”

Thompson will become the latest of a succession of young Swindon footballers to have made the switch to top-flight clubs.

Alex Henshall was snapped up by Manchester City two years ago for a reported £250,000 as a 16-year-old, while goalkeeper Jamie Stephens moved to Liverpool in 2010 after impressing on trial.

Centre-back Ben Tozer swapped Swindon for Newcastle in 2008 after featuring just seven times for the Robins, just 12 months after another talented teenager, Lukas Jutkiewicz, signed for Everton for a reported seven-figure fee.

Meanwhile, Torquay manager Martin Ling has said money raised from the potential sale of Eunan O’Kane could fund a bid for Town forward Billy Bodin.

Crawley have triggered a release clause in O’Kane’s contract at Plainmoor and, if he agrees personal terms at the Broadfield Stadium, Ling has revealed that he will use some of the proceeds to take Bodin to Devon.

He said: “At this moment in time, with Eunan at the football club, there’s probably not the money to go ahead and bid for Billy Bodin and meet his wage demands, which will be a lot higher than they were previously because there are clubs interested in him.

“If Eunan O’Kane moved on, obviously that would open up other avenues and Billy would come into the equation.

“Billy would fit the criteria as someone that would improve the football club, but at this moment in time he's out of our reach because we haven’t got the money to go out and get him.

“But I promise the supporters I’ll be doing my damndest to fetch a player that will be of Eunan's quality,” Ling added.”

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