Without playing the big club mentality whether we get promoted next season is solely down to the owner. If he buys into the structure we have in the club and is willing to bankroll 5 million next season so we can have the wages to get us back up then we have every chance, especially with Ince and C...

If we charge more than most, it will disgruntle people.

But ultimately the only thing that matters is if the club is performing on the pitch.

I'd be thinking the club probably are looking to move on. Yes wages are now less of an issue, but I'd rather not have an underperforming player earning £15k a week in our squad when we could get 2/3 players who could be more impactful on that. Even if a new manager would want to use him, I'd still ...

Moving to a new place today. Found my signed jersey from the side that won promotion to the premier league in 2012 :cry: . Gutted that were going to be in the third division next year. Hopefully we can do this rebuild right and come back up stronger! When (not if) we go up, we can harďly be weaker ...

Without playing the big club mentality whether we get promoted next season is solely down to the owner. If he buys into the structure we have in the club and is willing to bankroll 5 million next season so we can have the wages to get us back up then we have every chance, especially with Ince and C...

Just had a look. Steve Cotterill is also favourite for the MK Dons job and Wilder is fav for the Hearts job. Think that tells you everything you need to know about the next manager market. It's almost always dictated by where the money is going because unless clubs have already set something up, ev...

So the one player out of the three we are actively trying to get rid of is the one who has had surgery in the last couple of weeks? Typical Reading FC. Are we? Suspect we’d take an offer but it was Ince he fell out with Tbh he could be an asset in L1, and only a year left on the contract so no long...

Whilst I think it would be sensible to extend Southwood. I don’t think we're likely to, or he'd want us to.

Although we're more likely to with someone other than Ince in charge than if he'd stayed.

A lot of those have been significant parts of the reason we finished where we did. Whilst I don't like to see it, they won't just not get the same treatment because they are/were an academy/young player (or both). Obviously unfair on the likes of CBC, Camara, Senga and Abrefa who have featured very...

Nonsense, getting the right man is more imperative than filling the post quickly. Ince was sacked nearly a month ago. This suggests it wasn't actually planned. We only knew which division we'd be in next season last week. You can’t appoint a new manager or even go very far down the negotiations unt...

All I can say is that I hate the way that modern football operates, especially in the Championship. And I hate that fact that we were part of a ridiculous system where owners set millions of pounds on fire paying ridiculous wages, basically on a whim. It's an environment that pressurises everyone e...

I have to say, this thread seems to have diverted away from Mark Bowen....which is sad because surely if we need a reset and a clear out he should be one of the first out of the door. As director of football our academy failed, scouting has failed, and basically everything has failed. Why did he no...

Wilder sounds like he'd be a brilliant pick, even with some recent failures on his CV. Watford are a basket case and he's only had 11 games there anyway. His record at Middlesbrough is still the stuff of dreams for us. 40% win rate, more wins than defeats. Did great things with Sheff Utd. Good recor...

Reading players going over to the Reading fans and getting the middle finger and oxf*rd signs. :lol: I get that for some of the major disappointments, but that's unnecessary for the likes of CBC, Holmes, McIntyre, Senga, Azeez, Camara, Mbengue, Abrefa et al. A lot of those have been significant par...

Noel Hunt revealed post match he’s not at all happy with Joao who apparently called him on Thursday to say he didn’t want to be involved today. Thank god Lucas won’t be here next season. So about the same contribution as last weekend then? Must win game against Wigan and he was dreadful. Didn’t loo...

Presumably Joao was shocked that Hunt would want him involved at all given he's 100% leaving. TBH, I can understand Joao's point of view. The team is down. The game is meaningless and he's without a team in a few weeks. The last thing he needsis an injury from being kicked in the air by a Warnock C...

Presumably Joao was shocked that Hunt would want him involved at all given he's 100% leaving. TBH, I can understand Joao's point of view. The team is down. The game is meaningless and he's without a team in a few weeks. The last thing he needsis an injury from being kicked in the air by a Warnock CB...

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tmesis Regardless, there's nothing about Dai's finances that have been the problem for Reading.

Failure to pay the staff's wages on time twice in the last 6 months........

Not because he doesn't have the money, but because he fails to move it quickly enough around bank holidays.

Which is plainly ludicrous as if the PL have already done all the work all the FL have to do is contact them for the details and the FL’s job then become a lot easier as they’d just need to re-check the concerns originally raised! Not at all. It's not about how a bid for a different club was struct...

Checking out the closing periods of Stam, Pauno or Bullivant should find it.