Mount Pleasant seek to ease goal-scoring drought by signing Swaby, Fletcher
With just a week before the transfer window closes, Mount Pleasant Football Academy are on the verge of making two significant signings with the capture of strikers Francois Swaby and Jourdaine Fletcher.
Mount Pleasant, who have the third lowest goal count with 18 from 23 games in the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL), has dipped into the transfer market in an effort to rectify that problem. Only Reno with 15 goals and bottom-placed Montego Bay United with 16 goals, have scored less.
The promoted Mount Pleasant are fifth on 34 points, eight behind leaders Portmore United, but more importantly, one ahead of UWI and three ahead of seventh-placed Tivoli Gardens in what is turning out to be an interesting battle to fill the top six positions.
Portmore United, with 43 points, along with Waterhouse and Cavalier on 41 points, look a safe bet for the play-offs. But it will be a mad rush among Arnett Gardens (34), Mount Pleasant (34), UWI (33), Tivoli Gardens (31) and Humble Lion (30) for the next three spots.
With that in mind, Mount Pleasant are strengthening their attack with the acquisition of 30-year-old Swaby from Humble Lion and 21-year-old Fletcher from Montego Bay United.
Swaby is Humble Lion’s second top scorer with five goals, which puts him 11th in the Golden Boot race, while Fletcher has only one goal to his name.
Veteran Devon Hodges and Kemar Beckford are Mount Pleasant’s top scorers with four goals each followed by defender SueLae McCalla with three goals. National players Cardel Benbow and Daniel Green are on two goals apiece.
Formed in 2016, Mount Pleasant Football Academy, formerly known as “Stush in the Bush”, is nestled in the hills of St Ann, less than five minutes from the Runaway Bay main road, and has brought back football hype to the parish for the first time since Benfica FC participated in the 2010/2011 season of the RSPL.
Owned by Peter Gould, they took just two years to reach the country’s highest league in what is a considered a meteoric rise by any measure. Their arrival into top-flight football have caused a flurry of transfers as players rush to a team believed to be cash rich.
