Swindon Town are keen on Motherwell goalkeeper Trevor Carson as reported by journalist Alan Nixon.
Nixon is usually a reliable source of transfer information, and in a tweet this morning he claimed the Robins are interested in making a move for the thirty-one-year-old keeper.
https://twitter.com/reluctantnicko/status/1157933285479243779?s=20
Carson made seventeen appearances for the Wells and two outings for Northern Ireland last season before falling ill in November while on international duty. He was ruled out for the rest of the campaign after being diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis.
The former Sunderland trainee signed a three-year contract at Fir Park in 2017 after leaving Hartlepool United following their relegation from the EFL. He’d spent two years at Victoria Park, having played previously for Cheltenham, Portsmouth, Bury, Hull, Brentford, Lincoln and Chesterfield, with the majority of those being loan spells from his time at the Stadium of Light.
He’s been capped five times by Northern Ireland and was the subject of a £375,000 bid from Celtic in January 2018.
The experienced campaigner has made sixty-three appearances in total for Motherwell during his two-year stay and well over three hundred senior appearances in his career so far.
Our View
Carson returned to training at the end of last season, but he’s failed to dislodge Mark Gillespie from the Motherwell first-team so a return to the EFL may well be an option.
Swindon have serious League Two promotion ambitions, and Carson would be an excellent addition to the squad, putting pressure on current number one Luke McCormick.
If he can recapture the form that saw Celtic make a bid, the Robins will have made an excellent signing.
