RUMOUR - Reading poised to sign Jacob Mellis from Chelsea

[chilipepper91]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17450634

Just been released by Chelsea for letting off a smoke grenade in the reserve team dressing room

Could Brian take a punt on him?

[CayeneMatt]

Considering we don't really do players that step out of line, I doubt it ......

[Dare to Dr£am]

Considering we don't really do players that step out of line, I doubt it ......

He played a prank. It's hardly glassing someone in the face in a batr brawl.

[postwhisperer]

Considering we don't really do players that step out of line, I doubt it ......

[Wycombe Royal]

So how does it work. If a player is released after the transfer window closes he cannot sign for another club until the window opens again. However had he remained contracted to Chelsea he could have moved on loan.....

Oh and he has been having a trial at Burnley......

[TBM]

So how does it work. If a player is released after the transfer window closes he cannot sign for another club until the window opens again. However had he remained contracted to Chelsea he could have moved on loan.....

Oh and he has been having a trial at Burnley......

If he's out of contract he is free to sign for anyone, until the "free transfer" window shuts - not sure when that is though.

[Terminal Boardom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17450634

Just been released by Chelsea for letting off a smoke grenade in the reserve team dressing room

Could Brian take a punt on him?

Further evidence of double standards from Chavski FC. It is ok for Ashley Cole to fire an air gun at the training ground...

[blade 1]

The lads a massive Bellend.

Used to play for us before he went to Chelsea,ego's bigger than his ability. (Although to be fair he's been released for the crime of not being Ashley Cole.)

[retro royal]

Doesn't sound like a Reading type player to me. From the sun

A SOCCER starlet sacked by Chelsea for a smoke bomb prank was nicked yesterday over a bloody bust-up with his teenage girlfriend.

Shocked neighbours at a posh apartment block told how a 3am rumpus spilled out of his £400,000 pad — leaving the hall and stairs spattered with blood.

One said: “All hell broke loose. There was screaming, swearing and the sound of furniture being smashed.

“It sounded like a full-on war. No one dared go out.”

Cops raced to the block in Cobham, Surrey, and are believed to have kicked in the building’s security door as screams continued to ring out.
Mellis — fired last month for letting off a smoke grenade at Chelsea’s training ground — was taken to casualty with his girlfriend, who is thought to be of Latin descent.

Another neighbour said: “I heard things being smashed and both of them screaming at each other.”

Both were later arrested at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey on suspicion of ABH following treatment for scratches and bruises.

They were held at a police station all day and had mugshots, fingerprints and DNA taken while forensic teams scoured what was described as a “scene of destruction”.

Last night the pair walked free from Staines police station after both accepted cautions for common assault.

England Under-19 midfielder Mellis, now on trial at Premier League QPR, also agreed to a caution for criminal damage