Andy Smith

Central Defender - Gillingham
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Andy Smith

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The Gillingham Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $310.0K sale of Lenni Cirino

He is going to AFC Wimbledon, the club has $310.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Lenni Cirino moves on

AFC Wimbledon pay $310.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Keanan Bennetts in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gillingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Fábio Jaló’s goal not enough for Gillingham

Fábio Jaló scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Crewe Alexandra, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

No hiding place for Andy Smith

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andy Smith, and the manager let it.

Squad

Gillingham pick somebody else ahead of Sam Vokes

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

A Gillingham teenager takes the young player award

Jaylan Pearman is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Isaac Holland

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Still no ink between Gillingham and Caleb Ansen

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Gillingham, another week without a signature from Caleb Ansen.

In brief