{"id":558992,"date":"2020-07-21T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=558992"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:27:15","slug":"bristol-rovers-confirm-signing-max-ehmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/21\/bristol-rovers-confirm-signing-max-ehmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Rovers Confirm Signing of Max Ehmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol Rovers have confirmed the signing of defender Max Ehmer. The German centre-back joins the club on a two-year deal from fellow League One side Gillingham. He is the club&#8217;s third addition in four days.<\/p>\n<h2>Max Ehmer Joins Bristol Rovers<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f We are delighted to confirm the signing of Max Ehmer!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BristolRovers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BristolRovers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LXsedY2Lgf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/LXsedY2Lgf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bristol Rovers (@Official_BRFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Official_BRFC\/status\/1285484665697116160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>League One Experience<\/h3>\n<p>Ehmer, 28, spent five permanent years at Gillingham following his move from Queens Park Rangers, having been on loan there in 2014\/15. He led the club as captain in the latter years of his spell, helping to solidify Gillingham&#8217;s place in mid-table for numerous seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He needs no introduction to life in League One having played 250 times for Gillingham in all competitions. Ehmer also chipped in with 15 goals across his five years, including a total of seven in the 2016\/17 season.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his move to the Gills, Ehmer had two loans at Yeovil Town, a spell at Preston North End and seasons with both Stevenage and Carlisle United.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website about his move, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolrovers.co.uk\/news\/2020\/july\/max-ehmer-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ehmer said<\/a>: &#8220;I&#8217;m ecstatic to be joining Bristol Rovers, speaking to the gaffer I got a sense of the direction of the club. He&#8217;s a young coach who&#8217;s looking to play the right way and that really excites me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve played here four or five times in the past and every time it felt like a sell-out, the fans are so loud. It makes me excited and I can&#8217;t wait to get started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolrovers.co.uk\/news\/2020\/july\/max-ehmer-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Garner added<\/a>: \u201cMax is a very good defender who is proven at this level. He is strong &amp; robust being virtually ever-present for Gillingham over the past few seasons. Max is also a good passer of the ball &amp; effective from set-pieces at both ends of the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"0K3tK5PKSVhce3EJIErGgw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1181292695\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'0K3tK5PKSVhce3EJIErGgw',sig:'JHvg6ph03B7uFAX5YBBjrxhGXYKsZNHT1V1MpgWeUjU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1181292695',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol Rovers have confirmed the signing of defender Max Ehmer. The German centre-back joins the club on a two-year deal from fellow League One side Gillingham. He is the club&#8217;s third addition in four days. Max Ehmer Joins Bristol Rovers &nbsp; \u270d\ufe0f We are delighted to confirm the signing of Max Ehmer!#BristolRovers pic.twitter.com\/LXsedY2Lgf \u2014 Bristol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":558993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,30,28],"tags":[504,168,47,188,6118,136],"class_list":["post-558992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-bristol-rovers","tag-efl","tag-gillingham","tag-league-one","tag-max-ehmer","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}