SWINDON Town chairman Lee Power has revealed that an offer has been accepted on a new training facility for the club in the borough of Swindon.

Speaking on a radio phone-in with BBC Wiltshire, Power admitted that the plans may be a couple of years off but was pleased to get the ball rolling to bring the club closer together.

Former Town goalkeeper Fraser Digby has led the project to find a new training facility for the club after the contract with PGL at Liddington expired, with the club signing a three-year agreement to train at Beversbrook in Calne, back in June.

However work has continued to go on behind the scenes to find Swindon a more permanent home and it appears a deal has been struck to train in Swindon, with just the paperwork to be finalised.

“It is in the borough,” explained Power.

“We have made an offer and it has been accepted. Until the paperwork is signed you don’t want to go into too much detail really.

“We are there (at Beversbrook) for a period of time, and even if it was to go through, we have agreed a fee for a training facility, it would take 18 months to two years to go through and get the pitches up to standard and so on.

“Everyone knows that we have been looking for a long time and we think we have found the right place and we will see how it goes from there.

“These places cost a lot of money and I know there has been talk of the Eady Trust, with the money that is available there, but it costs many millions to get something up and running.

“The football club needs one and that is what we are trying to build.

“Sometimes with supporters, all they worry about is what happens on that little green thing come 3 o’clock on a Saturday, but there is a lot of infrastructure which this football club hasn’t had over the last few years.

“It hasn’t had its own training facility, the football in the community works somewhere else, the academy are somewhere else and I am trying to bring a bit of unity and pull them together.”

The topic came up when a caller asked what was happening to the money made from the sale of midfield duo Massimo Luongo and Ben Gladwin to QPR.

Power went on to reveal that offers had been made for a number of unnamed players, and if the right deal was to come up that the money would be invested in the club, but believes the training facility and the stability of the club are more pressing issues.

“I have tried to explain to people that I have personally put the best part of £3.5million into the football club since I have been here,” added Power.

“It is like any business. You would like to get it to break even, which we have done.

“We’ve agreed a price on a training facility, which is going to cost many millions, and there are a number of other issues regarding redevelopment and different things around the ground that need addressing.

“If the right player came up - and we have made two or three bids for some players that haven’t met the clubs valuation - it is my job to try and nick them and sell them for as much as I can when it is the other way around.

“If the right player came up then we would invest it, but there are other things more pressing, like the training facility, which the money will be allocated to.”