Gosport Strengthen Ahead of Crucial Run-In

Pitching In Southern League Premier Division South club Gosport Borough moved to strengthen their squad in preparation for this season’s crucial final six games.

With Gosport fighting for every point to ensure their presence in next season’s Premier Division South, the club have been busy this week
securing the services of two loan signings that will add much needed bite to their starting options and extending the loan of another until the end of the season.

Hoping to aid his recovery from injury, central defender Charlie Wassmer makes the move on loan from league rivals Hayes & Yeading United.

A formidable natural leader, he played a few games for Gosport whilst on loan back in 2017.

A former product of the Hayes & Yeading youth programme who impressed so much in his early Conference Premier games for United at age 19 that then leaders Crawley Town put down an offer that player nor club could refuse and he became a Red Devil in 2011 after an initial loan spell.

He made 13 appearances for Crawley before moving out on loan to both Fleetwood Town and Dagenham & Redbridge, leaving Crawley in December 2012 to join Conference Premier side Cambridge United.

He returned to Hayes & Yeading in the summer of 2013 before departing to join Margate in February 2014.

Since leaving Margate in 2016 he has had a couple of spells at Hampton & Richmond Borough plus some time with Woking and Billericay Town.

Having left Hampton just after Christmas 2021, Wassmer opted to return to where it all started.

And, despite having moved to Division One South play-off hopefuls Wimborne Town earlier this month, and enjoying a fine debut, being named as man-of-the-match against Evesham United, Max Kinsey-Wellings has joined Gosport on `work experience` from Premier League AFC Bournemouth.

Kinsey-Wellings, 18, is a central defender who joined the Cherries` academy in the summer of 2021 following his release by Southampton.

He started playing football when he was under-9 and spent a year with Chelsea when he was 10 before moving to Southampton where he spent six years.

Gosport boss Mark Molesley has also extended young defender Noa Boutin’s `work experience` spell from AFC Bournemouth until the end of the season.

The 19-year-old left back originally joined Boro in January, having joined the Cherries` academy in the summer of 2020, arriving from AC Boulogne-Billancourt after rejecting offers from West Bromwich Albion, Birmingham City and Stoke City.

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