I went to a Michael Bridges talk in last year, pretty interesting what he had to say about Monkeys heed.
He had broken into the first team and grabbed a few goals for the club, all under his apprentice contract. After the season had finished Reid had organised a trip to Marbella for the players. They were all out there having laughs and getting pished. Reid got Bridges smashed and threw a contact at bridges to sign when mortal. bridges said the money was decent and he was a bout to sign...until Niall Quinn clocked what was happening and stopped it.
Reid was trying to get Bridges to sign with Reids agent.
Bridges also mentioned that Reid had also tried this with Darious Kubiki (spelling), the Polish full back they had who was pretty decent. Kubiki wouldn't sign for Reid's agent so he was shipped off to never been seen again. Somebody called Hall replaced him who was on Reid's agents books.