The Gillingham Herald
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Gillingham bid $6.5M for Róbert Boženík
The offer went to Stoke City this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Eli King delivers — 7.42
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Eli King scored, was marked 7.42, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Gillingham go back to the board over Max Dyche
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $60.1K — a club that wants Max Dyche enough to be asked twice.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Gillingham
Malcolm Ebiowei and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Gillingham walk away from Max Dyche
$56.0K was the most the club would pay and Northampton Town were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Gillingham
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Gillingham rebuffed over Ajay Matthews
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Millwall have kept their man, and Gillingham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Eli King
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jason Walker steps up from the Gillingham academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jason Walker has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Samuel Hunter joins the Gillingham first team
- Market Benjamin Morris steps up from the Gillingham academy
- Market James Moore steps up from the Gillingham academy