{"id":717735,"date":"2026-07-29T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717735\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:46:11","slug":"samuel-tabares-league-two-side-gillingham-sign-free-agent-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717735\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Tabares: League Two side Gillingham sign free agent defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gillingham have signed former Southampton defender Samuel Tabares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old arrives at the League Two outfit having left Saints earlier in the summer following a two-year stay at St Mary&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tabares trialled with Gareth Ainsworth&#8217;s Gills for a short period earlier in the summer and has now agreed terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club have not disclosed the length of the contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tabares is yet to play a senior professional game although he did appear for Fulham Under-21s against Shrewsbury Town in the EFL Trophy in August 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gillingham have signed former Southampton defender Samuel Tabares. The 19-year-old arrives at the League Two outfit having left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}