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Gravenberch Set To Be First Summer Signing
25 May 2016
By Hob Nob Anyone?
Reading have confirmed their first new signing of the summer will be Danzell Gravenberch from Dutch side FC Dordrecht. The player successfully completed his medical, after a trial with the Royals, and the signing of the Dutch defender will complete when the transfer window opens next month. Gravenberch is expected to sign a three year contract.
The twenty two year old, originally from Amsterdam signed with Ajax into their academy before a move to NEC Nijmegen in January 2014 where he made a handful of appearances. He then went to Universitatea Cluj-Napoca in the Romanian Liga 1 where he made 17 league appearances for the side, scoring once in a 2-2 draw.
Gravenberch has a reputation as a strong, tough player, and picked up 4 yellow cards and a red card in the space of just ten games in the 2014/2015 season. Although primarily a central defender, he can play in a variety of roles and has also played in midfield.
Discussion On This Story:
Coppell's Right Footed 11
Be quiet and have some optimism! The season hasn't even started and some of you guys are moaning about him!
AND THERE'S STILL A FREAKING MONTH TILL THE SEASON STARTS SO HOW DO YOU KNOW COPPELL HASN'T GOT ANYONE LINED UP?!??!?
ALL YOU MOANERS CAN JUST OXF*RD OFF AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED!
cos hes crap in the transfer market, and has not progressed us in the slighest. We have a worse squad than when he took over!
RoyalBird
Be quiet and have some optimism! The season hasn't even started and some of you guys are moaning about him!
AND THERE'S STILL A FREAKING MONTH TILL THE SEASON STARTS SO HOW DO YOU KNOW COPPELL HASN'T GOT ANYONE LINED UP?!??!?
ALL YOU MOANERS CAN JUST OXF*RD OFF AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED!
cos hes crap in the transfer market, and has not progressed us in the slighest. We have a worse squad than when he took over!
That doesn't mean he won't buy excellent players! How do you know he hasn't got Lita lined up or Aliaderie (spelling?) coming on loan to Reading? There's still a month to go before the start of the season people! Give him a little more time!
Coppell's Right Footed 11
Be quiet and have some optimism! The season hasn't even started and some of you guys are moaning about him!
AND THERE'S STILL A FREAKING MONTH TILL THE SEASON STARTS SO HOW DO YOU KNOW COPPELL HASN'T GOT ANYONE LINED UP?!??!?
ALL YOU MOANERS CAN JUST OXF*RD OFF AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED!
cos hes crap in the transfer market, and has not progressed us in the slighest. We have a worse squad than when he took over!
That doesn't mean he won't buy excellent players! How do you know he hasn't got Lita lined up or Aliaderie (spelling?) coming on loan to Reading? There's still a month to go before the start of the season people! Give him a little more time!
because alladiere signed for celtic today on loan, and lita said he's not going anywhere? do you keep upto date on news?
18urz71
Because Lita said he wants to stay at Bristol City, and Aliaderie is on loan at Celtic. Coppell just can't attract bigger name players to the club like Pardew could. Pardew's era was about ambition and success, whereas Coppell's is about doing things on the cheap, and maintaining where we are.
RoyalBird
Be quiet and have some optimism! The season hasn't even started and some of you guys are moaning about him!
AND THERE'S STILL A FREAKING MONTH TILL THE SEASON STARTS SO HOW DO YOU KNOW COPPELL HASN'T GOT ANYONE LINED UP?!??!?
ALL YOU MOANERS CAN JUST OXF*RD OFF AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED!
cos hes crap in the transfer market, and has not progressed us in the slighest. We have a worse squad than when he took over!
That doesn't mean he won't buy excellent players! How do you know he hasn't got Lita lined up or Aliaderie (spelling?) coming on loan to Reading? There's still a month to go before the start of the season people! Give him a little more time!
because alladiere signed for celtic today on loan, and lita said he's not going anywhere? do you keep upto date on news?
Ok then just replace those names with people like Owusu-Abeyie from Arsenal and Chopra
Jeffers217
Be quiet and have some optimism! The season hasn't even started and some of you guys are moaning about him!
AND THERE'S STILL A FREAKING MONTH TILL THE SEASON STARTS SO HOW DO YOU KNOW COPPELL HASN'T GOT ANYONE LINED UP?!??!?
ALL YOU MOANERS CAN JUST OXF*RD OFF AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED!
cos hes crap in the transfer market, and has not progressed us in the slighest. We have a worse squad than when he took over!
That doesn't mean he won't buy excellent players! How do you know he hasn't got Lita lined up or Aliaderie (spelling?) coming on loan to Reading? There's still a month to go before the start of the season people! Give him a little more time!
because alladiere signed for celtic today on loan, and lita said he's not going anywhere? do you keep upto date on news?
Ok then just replace those names with people like Owusu-Abeyie from Arsenal and Chopra
Yes and they are great players with loadsa experience arent they! We just have to face the fact that we cant sign players who have been there and done it before (except les and martin), Coppell is struggling to sign quality players who are leagues lower than us. No one put in a bid for Parkin until recently, we couldve snapped him up at least a month ago.
RoyalBird
Be quiet and have some optimism! The season hasn't even started and some of you guys are moaning about him!
AND THERE'S STILL A FREAKING MONTH TILL THE SEASON STARTS SO HOW DO YOU KNOW COPPELL HASN'T GOT ANYONE LINED UP?!??!?
ALL YOU MOANERS CAN JUST OXF*RD OFF AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED!
cos hes crap in the transfer market, and has not progressed us in the slighest. We have a worse squad than when he took over!
That doesn't mean he won't buy excellent players! How do you know he hasn't got Lita lined up or Aliaderie (spelling?) coming on loan to Reading? There's still a month to go before the start of the season people! Give him a little more time!
because alladiere signed for celtic today on loan, and lita said he's not going anywhere? do you keep upto date on news?
Ok then just replace those names with people like Owusu-Abeyie from Arsenal and Chopra
Yes and they are great players with loadsa experience arent they! We just have to face the fact that we cant sign players who have been there and done it before (except les and martin), Coppell is struggling to sign quality players who are leagues lower than us. No one put in a bid for Parkin until recently, we couldve snapped him up at least a month ago.
Yeah, cos Parkin has loadsa experience in the Championship! At least Chopra has been there and done it before in the old division 1 with Watford, maybe Owusu-Abeyie could help. Surely you get the point by now! There's a month till the league starts and we still have a possibility of signing good players, but all you lot seem to be obsessed that we have only signed 3 players so far! What happens if they become bargains of the season?! At least have some optimism in the team we have at the moment!
Platypuss
Which "big name" players did Pardew attract to us since we've been in the Championship (which is the only fair comparison to make)?
Goater?
Murray?
Struggling now. Care to help out?
What we could do in "League 1" a few years back is wholly irrelevant now. We were small fish in a big pond then, but now we're relative small fry in with the big boys.
Royalee
Which "big name" players did Pardew attract to us since we've been in the Championship (which is the only fair comparison to make)?
Goater?
Murray?
Struggling now. Care to help out?
What we could do in "League 1" a few years back is wholly irrelevant now. We were small fish in a big pond then, but now we're relative small fry in with the big boys.
Luke Chadwick
Matthew Upson
Steve Sidwell was building a name for himself at this level and that was an ambitious signing.
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