CAFC been given permission to discuss terms with Reading gk, Ben Hamer. From cafc official twitter. Guess no kne knows anything about him? Did robs performance force CP's hand?
Ha ha ...posted an identical thread Super...even down to Elliot's performance yesteray...Great minds n all that...
I seem to remember him putting in a good performance for Brentford against us one season though would prefer us to sign the other Reading GK Alex McCarthy who had an absolute blinder against us for Yeovil in the driving rain
You read my mind about McCarthy, A4L - he was outstanding in that Yeovil game but in all likelihood he's going to be pushing for No.1 slot at Reading this season.
Does this not nullify the signing of Sullivan as clearly he now appears to be backup to Robbie, who could be back up to Hamer?
I think that's the only explanation, Alex - besause if Robbie is just going through a bad patch, we could play Sullivan as No.1 until Elliot's form improves. Looks like he could be offski.
This is the most odd piece of transfers news for us all close-season, and personally I feel its the most worrying. I'm sure Elliot is not on his way, if he was then CP wouldn't have played him yesterday (Francis and McOxo didn't even join on the tour of Spain because they were wanted by other clubs). Yet why else would CP disrupt the chemistry of the squad by bringing in a third goalkeeper of a similar ability? For those suggesting it was yesterdays performance which brought this about, I'm sure CP couldn't have agreed terms with Reading and have gotten negotiations far enough to announce it on the official website in less than 24 hours after a 'bad performance'. Something really fishy going on here.
Maybe we're all just seeing conspiracies where there are none and the fact of the matter is that CP wants three Goalkeepers so if one gets injured we dont have to rely on the "Emergency Loan Deal" a la Neil Etheridge / Luke Daniels
I don't think this will be a knee-jerk reaction to a bad performance. Neither do I think Elliott's always been on his way out. But as we saw with Benson, the club's players are all for sale, and if a club comes in with the right bid for any of them, that would allow us to buy a replacement of equal or better quality and still have change left over, then the club will sell. If it's serious that someone's bid £500k, or even half that, for Elliott, the club will accept and we'll find someone else. I don't think we can afford much sentimentality here, we need to get promoted. The exception would probably be BWP... everyone else who played last year is easily replaceable with better.
Possible he needs to sell to sign a striker? Hamer arrives on a nominal fee, sell robbie for x amount of money and then reinvest upfront?
Hamer's just tweeted...'Back in Reading after a productive day...new beginnings'. Seems pretty certain then.
Don't know how true this is but my house mate has been saying Robbies attitude since the tale end of last season has been poor (least this is what he has been hearing) and wasn't surprised by this news, he was expecting him to have left already
