I probably should wait until a takeover is confirmed, but hopefully Dai is on his way out. In terms of how I'd like to see incoming owners go about business, I think there are several priorities to focus on: 1) Communicate with the fans Oh how we have missed communication. What is your vision and a...

The parties will need to go in depth into expensive legal and financial analysis, that then gets reviewed, amendements proposed and negotiated, projections and models created etc. etc. Most of this I assume will not have been done before exclusivity because lawyers and accountants cost a lot of mone...

I'm with IR on this: VAR = more correct decisions. Now, for some reason almost every VAR intervention seems to take for ages in the Premeir League. The Bundelsiga and Ligue 1 seem to get most VAR referrals done in seconds - it's really rare for them to drag on. We don't need to get rid of VAR, we ju...

WestYorksRoyal If people are debating it, it can't have been a clear error. Compare it to Derby where even their fans were admitting we'd been mugged.

This.

Not a great performance - not sure how many attempts on goal we made, but it felt distinctly disjointed and tepid. Didn’t think the ref was bad really - I know a lot of people believe he should have given a penalty for handball, but if he doesn’t see it, he can’t give it. Hence my criticism of the r...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-06/chiron-sports-said-to-make-site-visit-for-reading-football-deal?embedded-checkout=true Chiron Sports Said to Make Site Visit for Reading Football Deal A consortium backed by Chiron Sports Group visited Reading FC on Friday, as the investor group ze...

What about Off at Eleven (OAE)? I vaguely remember that, but not what format it took. I first signed up to this portal when it was a shade of pale blue and lots of cascading messages down the page like a Windows Explorer tree, with titles of "X" then "Re: X" then "Re: Re: X...

Bit dissapointed the poll has no Ian Royal option. Assume it was an oversight.

I voted Wing. Bindon has improved throughout the season and is now starting to regularly put in very good performances. But, for me, Wing has been our most consistent, industrious, effective, and at times spectacular, player. Yiadom would be in with a shout too if he hadn't missed so many games, but...

Sometimes an ugly win when the crowd gets the team over the finish line can be amongst the best feelings in football. Maybe not a game for the purists, but it’s not City versus Real Madrid; it’s a scrap in League One. I was entertained throughout. Northampton are a decent side; without some borderli...

2 of the worst decisions I’ve seen on a football field since Bodin getting sent off instead of Davies. Not to mention the 4th, who twice got in the way of players trying to take quick throws. That corner which he gave to us as a GK was unbelievable. Crowd laughed at that. Plenty more to choose from...

If someone was suggesting after ten games that Selles was some sort of tactical and motivational genius they weren't doing it on any rational basis. Even his Madre would have been wondering how long he could hang on to his job the way things were going. Anyone saying now they always knew it would wo...

Presumably with the (expected) Labour majority post-election this will help move things along quicker/have more positive backing from the MPs Labour do love a quango or two… They call it creating jobs….. A regulator will just add to costs - and maintain the status quo - and create another layer of ...

Meanwhile, the entire pyramid is oxf*rd and underfunded, they can't agree a payment deal, two PL clubs have been docked points, the Saudi state owns Newcastle, the state recently forced a terrorist state supporter to sell their club and the regular Champions are charged with over 100 offences Very,...

Wigan sold their training ground to Preston when they were in the poo, they still got a buyer. The club statement yesterday stating there will be an announcement in due course about alternative training arrangements, whether that`s BS on their part to take the heat out of the situation is anybody`s...

It's sort of obvious though. A club comes with loads of outgoings, stadium rent, staff costs, players wages. A training ground facility doesnt come with those things. Much easier to sell because a lot less due diligence needed. Crikey it takes 3 months to sell a house, how could this be done quickl...

dontbedaft So, getting 25M for the training ground will allow us to cover the 1M until the rest of the club can be sold. Does that mean that the surplus can then be used to pay back some of those interest-free loans Dai made to the club?

Seems a pretty reasonable assumption.

He paid for Bearwood. He wants his money back. How much of it will he keep, and how much of it will he throw away on a club whose supporters clearly hate him and who insult in the national media? What possible interest has he in saving the club if he can get some money back by selling its assests un...

One consequence is that the asking price for the club must have dropped massively, but would anyone still want to buy? It looks like all that's left to sell is the club - i.e. it's position in the football league and its employees. With no other assets, it could be sold for the nominal £1. That lea...

One thing to take away. Despite so many calls for patience on the sale, it appears Dai and Pang can push through a complicated transaction very quickly when they want to. So perhaps with the club they just don't want to. This must have been planned over many months, not since last weekend. Unless t...