Budapest Catch Up

Having flown off to Hungary for a few days, I’ve been catching up on news from the clubs I cover regularly each season.
Bristol City boss Keith Millen has found the time to sign Rotherham striker Ryan Taylor on a three year deal despite apparently having to fight off interest from Leicester in current hot shot Nicky Maynard.

Former Rotherham youth product Taylor, 23, has been Adam Le Fondre’s strike partner for the Millers and netted twelve times in 37 appearances last term.

Another striker, Lukas Jutkiewicz is also being linked to Ashton Gate. The former Swindon Town youth product played for Coventry last season.

With City’s interest in strikers, it would appear that it is only a matter of time before Maynard moves on. A £3m bid from Leicester has been knocked back already, but don’t be surprised to see the Foxes come sniffing around again.

Wycombe have signed Elliot Benyon from Swindon Town. Benyon signed for the Robins last January and scored on his debut, but despite appearing eleven times, couldn’t add to his tally as the Wiltshire club dropped down a division.

Benyon, 23, was born in High Wycombe and watched the Chairboys with his dad before joining Bristol City as a trainee and then moving on to St. Albans, Crawley and Torquay where he scored 39 goals in 75 starts.

Bristol Rovers have signed 22 year old Gambian winger Mustapha Carayol from Lincoln City and left back Lee Brown, 20, from Premier League new boys QPR. I don’t know too much about Brown, but I’ve seen Carayol play a few times think he is an exciting player.

Cheltenham have signed Kaid Mohamed, 26, from league newcomers Wimbledon. Mohamed spent one season at Swindon earlier in his career before drifting into the non league game and it will be interestiung to see how much he has improved.

Another Imp player has moved to Hereford. Experienced striker Delroy Facey will link up with the Bulls next season. Facey, 31, has played for 14 other clubs in a career that has seen him score 71 goals in nearly 300 professional starts. Not prolific by any means, but he knows where the net is and is a perfect foil for current striker Stuart Fleetwood.

Swindon have completed the signing of midfielder Jonathan Smith, 24, from York City while County Ground favourite Jon-Paul McGovern has left to join Carlsile and Hatian defender Lecsinel Jean-Francois has joined Sheffield United.