The 2017 Summer Transfer Rumours Thread (Deadline Day from page 264)

It's all a misunderstanding. One of the Australians interested in buying us was overhead at the Valley saying "G'Day Bruce"

roseandcrown said:

cantersaddick said:

Robbo and others seemed to suggest that he was after Alex Bruce on 5live tonight. Unless it was all a massive joke that I didn't get..

I would say that's exactly what it was

Alex Bruce was in the studio with SCP & had already said that he had been training with 2 un-named clubs but nothing had come of it. The presenters then said that they would take a cut of his signing-on fee if they could fix him up with a club live on air (joke).They then had a couple of pre-recorded interviews & a couple of live ones - one being with Simon Grayson (Larry to his friends) who is now managing Sunderland & joked with him that Alex Bruce was still free - later they had the 3 min chat with KR and said the same thing to him..........I couldn't understand the whole interview as the phone line was not good & KR's English (scouse) is not that clear via a Nokia brick, but the gist was the same.

So, to dispel any rumours that we are signing Alex Bruce - IT WAS A JOKE.

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dickplumb said:

The Ben Reeves deal is close, should be agreed by this evening. There is still some negotiating to be done. If all goes well it will probably be announced Thursday. This is from an extremely good source.

Genuine question - What can still need negotiationg when we first made him an offer over six weeks ago?

kings hill addick said:

dickplumb said:

The Ben Reeves deal is close, should be agreed by this evening. There is still some negotiating to be done. If all goes well it will probably be announced Thursday. This is from an extremely good source.

Genuine question - What can still need negotiationg when we first made him an offer over six weeks ago?

Have you not read any of the posts, if you had you would know the answer!!!!! We are negotiating over jeans because he currently owns jeans with holes in the knee.....slim fit, boot fit, skinny fit, theses issues don't get resolved in 5 minutes

king addick said:

We are negotiating over the amount of polish he needs for his rather large forehead..

We should get Polish Pete back then.

ElfsborgAddick said:

Billericay Dickie said:

Reeves obviously has a very high opinion of himself.
The trouble is that at best he is a lower table Championship / League 1 player and clubs are not exactly falling over themselves to pay the money that he believes that he is worth.

The season starts in 4 days and even if someone signs him I doubt that he is anywhere near match fit. He has missed a complete pre season training and will be playing catch up until the middle of September.

I hope that Charlton tell him that they are not interested.

I'd tell Reeves to f*** off.

Are we so desperate to sign somebody who appears not too interested in signing for us?

Yes.

LargeAddick said:

Reeves still not signed? Not surprising I suppose. If only we'd spoken to him earlier than January it might have been sorted by now.

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Bolderhumphreyreid said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Billericay Dickie said:

Reeves obviously has a very high opinion of himself.
The trouble is that at best he is a lower table Championship / League 1 player and clubs are not exactly falling over themselves to pay the money that he believes that he is worth.

The season starts in 4 days and even if someone signs him I doubt that he is anywhere near match fit. He has missed a complete pre season training and will be playing catch up until the middle of September.

I hope that Charlton tell him that they are not interested.

I'd tell Reeves to f*** off.

Are we so desperate to sign somebody who appears not too interested in signing for us?

Have you spoken to Reeves and know that he isn't interested in signing for us? If you have then you're more than welcome to tell him where to go but i suspect you know nothing so i suggest you don't tell him where to go as he is a very good football player.

Do you honestly think these contracts are easy to sort out? I'm no fan of the regime at all but i do understand that signing a footballer isn't an easy job.

Have a bit of common sense man.

I fully understand there is a lot involved in negotiations / contracts etc but we managed to get 4 other incoming deals over the line and also a number of outgoing deals executed. The longer this goes on the more likely another club will come up on the rails and nab him. I hope KR has a back up plan.

ElfsborgAddick said:

Billericay Dickie said:

Reeves obviously has a very high opinion of himself.
The trouble is that at best he is a lower table Championship / League 1 player and clubs are not exactly falling over themselves to pay the money that he believes that he is worth.

The season starts in 4 days and even if someone signs him I doubt that he is anywhere near match fit. He has missed a complete pre season training and will be playing catch up until the middle of September.

I hope that Charlton tell him that they are not interested.

I'd tell Reeves to f*** off.

Are we so desperate to sign somebody who appears not too interested in signing for us?

I can't see us being able to attract too many better players at this level who won't cost a fee, so yes we probably are desperate to sign him. Whether he signs this week, next week, or on the last day of the window, he'll be a great signing for us.

We probably should've kept hold of Ceballos until Reeves signed though.

Northstandpieeater said:

The way we are going this year we are going to be playing 4-6-0.

I prefer an Atlantic, wet and washy, 4-4-2. If we don't get to the play offs at least, I'll jump of "Beachy Head".

Scoham said:

https://twitter.com/thegillsfc/status/892472615130079232

He's already on the Valley Express Scally.