RUMOUR: Garra Dembele

[TBM]

According to reports circulating in Eastern Europe, Royals are interested in the Levski Sofia forward, who is currently lighting up the Bulgarian top-flight.

Dembele has scored 22 goals in just 21 games and has netted eight times in Europe since joining Sofia from Lokomotiv Plovdiv in June for around £150,000.

[Wycombe Royal]

French-Malian - so does Kebe know him?

[Royalwaster]

According to reports circulating in Eastern Europe, Royals are interested in the Levski Sofia forward, who is currently lighting up the Bulgarian top-flight.

Dembele has scored 22 goals in just 21 games and has netted eight times in Europe since joining Sofia from Lokomotiv Plovdiv in June for around £150,000.

Stick a dummy in that big mouth of yours!

[brendywendy]

brian is definitely trying to up the black quota in th eteam, and that can only be a good thing imo

[URZZZZZZZZ]

He's no Thorvaldsson

[TBM]

According to reports circulating in Eastern Europe, Royals are interested in the Levski Sofia forward, who is currently lighting up the Bulgarian top-flight.

Dembele has scored 22 goals in just 21 games and has netted eight times in Europe since joining Sofia from Lokomotiv Plovdiv in June for around £150,000.

Stick a dummy in that big mouth of yours!

He's celebrating a goal

[leww_rfc]

Yes please!!

[skipper]

He's no Thorvaldsson

What ever happened to him? And since when did Marcus Williams go on loan to Peterborough??

[Royalwaster]

And for that matter, where are Kevin Doyle, Markus Hahneman, Leroy Lita and Dave Kitson? Are they all injured or somefing?

[ZacNaloen]

Reading FC man on facebook has confirmed we are interested so more than just a rumour

[roadrunner]

Yes please!!

[brendywendy]

cmon garra - you know it makes sense - just look at all the wonderful adulation jimmy kebe got from th efans from the second he arrived

[comeonyouroyals]

Well his youtube collection off goals hasn't really impressed me at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tgbald40Zg&feature=fvsr, but he does look pretty composed in front of goal and can strike a ball fairly cleanley. Not that youtube is anything to go by, I will wait to make a proper judgement untill I load up FM11 later

[Y21_Royal]

Decent variety of goals in that package which is encouraging, as is the fact that he went through Clairefontaine.

We'll see if anything comes of it but he looks like a natural goalscorer

[Royalwaster]

Got about half way and got bored as I'd not seen a single decent goal - all were either tap in or just the kinds of goals you see in League 2. The only thing that got the pulse racing a bit was one of the best dives for a penalty I've seen in a while ... he virtually took off and floated up into the sky!

[From Despair To Where?]

Got about half way and got bored as I'd not seen a single decent goal - all were either tap in or just the kinds of goals you see in League 2.

Great, people on here moan that Long and Church don't convert tap ins and one on ones consistently enough and that we need a fox in the box yet we get linked to someone who takes exactly those sort of chances and he's not good enough he doesn't bang them in from 25yds every week.

[Royalwaster]

Got about half way and got bored as I'd not seen a single decent goal - all were either tap in or just the kinds of goals you see in League 2.

Great, people on here moan that Long and Church don't convert tap ins and one on ones consistently enough and that we need a fox in the box yet we get linked to someone who takes exactly those sort of chances and he's not good enough he doesn't bang them in from 25yds every week.

That's a good point ... but you can find tons of Sunday league players who are good at banging in tap ins ... doesn't make them into a Championship level 'fox in the box'; often it's just the result of terrible defending. And the defending in that video is pretty shocking to be honest.

[Snowball]

Got about half way and got bored as I'd not seen a single decent goal - all were either tap in or just the kinds of goals you see in League 2.

Great, people on here moan that Long and Church don't convert tap ins and one on ones consistently enough and that we need a fox in the box yet we get linked to someone who takes exactly those sort of chances and he's not good enough he doesn't bang them in from 25yds every week.

In the end trust the scouts, but I'd have to agree with those that say
there was nothing very obvious in the You-Tube video to suggest a great talent.

If you put together a video of Church's 15 Reading goals it would look pretty good to music, ditto Long's best or Hunt's.

There's a mixture for these of close in tap-ins, powerful headers, shots from 25 yards, self-made bursts

These (Dembele's) did look like quite ordinary goals against weak defences.

Of course he might also be brilliant at making goals, dunno

[Z175]

He appears to have been (at the least) accused of rape at one point...

http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli ... aped.shtml

[loyalroyal4life]

Must be a certain goer as it is now in the daily mirror!!!

Reading are lining up a £250,000 January bid for Levski Sofia striker Garra Dembele.