The Gillingham Herald
Squad22 Jan 2029
The knee: Ronan Hale out for 111 days
111 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gillingham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match20 Jan 2029
8 matches without a win for Gillingham
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Gillingham are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets22 Jan 2029
Gassan Ahadme is a medical away from Gillingham
The deal with Wycombe Wanderers is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
David Barnes says Gillingham went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad22 Jan 2029
A falling-out at Gillingham
Jamie Allen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets22 Jan 2029
Door shut on Izu Onunta
Gillingham asked and Feyenoord said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market22 Jan 2029
One of our own: Steven Young joins the Gillingham first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Steven Young is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market22 Jan 2029
Richard Spencer steps up from the Gillingham academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Richard Spencer 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.
Market22 Jan 2029
Gillingham promote Samuel Murphy from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel Murphy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Christopher Murphy joins the Gillingham first team
- Player ratings Norman Díaz was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Squad Javi Zarzo falls out with a teammate over standards