"Nigel's not here. He's not training today," Robinson told us when today's training wrapped up. "There might be some work in progress in that in relation to Nigel, so he didn't train today."
Just before today's training ended, Reo-Coker's wife tweeted out something along the lines of football being a funny business and that they would be calling somewhere their new home for the next few months. The tweet was quickly deleted.
"I'm lucky I don't have Twitter then, so I can't read that," Robinson joked when I asked him about her tweet, before adding "no, not at the moment" around if he could add anything to it.
The Whitecaps are thought to have been keen to move Reo-Coker, and his guaranteed $446,500 guaranteed salary, off the books for some time now, with the bringing in of a new striker said to hinge on freeing up his pro-rata money for the remainder of the season.
Ironically the moving of Reo-Coker will come at a time when two of Vancouver's other defensive midfielders look set to miss out on the Caps' game against LA on Saturday. Matias Laba is definitely out through suspension and Gershon Koffie is a serious doubt with an ankle injury and hasn't trained all week.
Reo-Coker was partnering Russell Teibert in the DM role at training on Tuesday and the pair looked good together, with Reo-Coker looking leaner, hungrier and more vocal than he has in recent months.
Whether the trading of Reo-Coker is for a striker or a winger or just to free up some cash to bring in a free agent from outwith MLS remains to be seen, but we would expect an announcement either Thursday afternoon or Friday. Marc Weber has indicated on Twitter that it will be Mauro Rosales coming the other way from Chivas USA, which would be an excellent trade as afar as we're concerned.
We'll bring you more on this story when we get it.