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by Linden Jones' Tash
28 Mar 2024 12:52
Forum: The Team
Topic: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group
Replies: 2658
Views: 1805471

Re: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group

Wholeheartedly agree with this Good points - but then it is impossible to vet potential owners - only hindsight tells us that signing this player or not selling that one at the height of their form or relying on a so-called "super agent" for recommendations or hiring the former CEO of a t...
by Linden Jones' Tash
28 Mar 2024 11:42
Forum: The Team
Topic: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group
Replies: 2658
Views: 1805471

Re: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group

I'll let someone involved in the campaign speak further but my view was that it was never about there being a benefactor model in football but ensuring there was governance around those to ensure we don't get into the same mess again. If the campaign was purely about having an owner than runs a clu...
by Linden Jones' Tash
28 Mar 2024 11:08
Forum: The Team
Topic: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group
Replies: 2658
Views: 1805471

Re: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group

I think as was said, the owners will be watched by the fans and hopefully the EFL. Just because they want to make money out of things doesn't mean they are going to wrecklessly through money at it. Sensible recruitment utilising the buy low, sell high rationale is a decent way to a) improve the clu...
by Linden Jones' Tash
28 Mar 2024 08:35
Forum: The Team
Topic: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group
Replies: 2658
Views: 1805471

Re: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group

So if the rumours are correct and the prospective new owners are buying us as an Arbitrage play - with funds from various exotic industries (crypto/longevity biotech) - the protests continue or they stop? Do we want sugar daddies who gamble on making money (for themselves) in the prem or not? I was ...
by Linden Jones' Tash
18 Mar 2024 10:22
Forum: The Team
Topic: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED
Replies: 3097
Views: 1335095

Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

in this 'sustainable' model, what level of annual losses in L1 are we expecting a prospective new owner to carry?
by Linden Jones' Tash
04 Feb 2024 19:57
Forum: The Team
Topic: The Caylan Vickers thread
Replies: 68
Views: 15130

Re: The Caylan Vickers thread

It's not a new phenomenon - remember Shaun Allaway?...

Promising youth keeper who was taken by Leeds United back in the day...
by Linden Jones' Tash
03 Feb 2024 23:03
Forum: The Team
Topic: Ex Players
Replies: 3106
Views: 1291134

Re: Ex Players

Ivory Coast into the AFON semi finals under the leadership of Emerse Fae.

Once a Royal Always a Royal.
by Linden Jones' Tash
01 Feb 2024 15:24
Forum: The Team
Topic: transfer window
Replies: 25
Views: 27043

Re: transfer window

Expect the likes of Vickers, Abbey and Bindon and maybe one other off to Arsenal or other club for some pathetic amount of money and just maybe the arrival of a striker to replace Ballard. Would certainly explain the lack of playing time for Vickers... I'm fully expecting some kind of firesale to b...
by Linden Jones' Tash
19 Jan 2024 14:46
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going
Replies: 547
Views: 81340

Re: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going

Will Unwin @Will_Unwin Nelson Abbey is set to leave Reading to join Olympiakos, I am told 2:11 PM · Jan 19, 2024 · ^ guardian journo So as he's out of contract in the summer and Olympiakos is not an English team - what does this mean regarding any compensation? Nothing. If he goes now, it is a tran...
by Linden Jones' Tash
19 Jan 2024 14:42
Forum: The Team
Topic: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going
Replies: 547
Views: 81340

Re: Confrimed - Abbey and Holmes going

Brogue Will Unwin
@Will_Unwin
Nelson Abbey is set to leave Reading to join Olympiakos, I am told
2:11 PM · Jan 19, 2024
·
^ guardian journo


So as he's out of contract in the summer and Olympiakos is not an English team - what does this mean regarding any compensation?
by Linden Jones' Tash
18 Jan 2024 10:54
Forum: The Team
Topic: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group
Replies: 2658
Views: 1805471

Re: #SellBeforeWeDai (to someone fit and proper)“ supporters action group

Suffragettes; the Easter Rising; the Revolutions of 1989; the poll tax riots to name a few. Not a fan of sarcasm I see? :lol: you had me as well tbh "What do we want?" "Someone to spaff tens of millions of pounds a year with no hope of any return" "When do we want it?"...
by Linden Jones' Tash
15 Jan 2024 16:29
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Potential New Owners
Replies: 938
Views: 848795

Re: Potential New Owners

say this happens, isn't it just a sticking plaster and we'll end up in the same boat when they get bored and the fans get on their backs English football is broken and until that is addressed, nothing will really change But I understood the aim was to ditch the sugar daddy model and get an owner wh...
by Linden Jones' Tash
15 Jan 2024 13:25
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Potential New Owners
Replies: 938
Views: 848795

Re: Potential New Owners

So, let's say that yesterday's protest has convinced Dai to sell, the next step is to find/convince someone to buy us. Is there anything we fans can do to help find a buyer? Google “billionaires”. Go down the list, and get contact details for each one. Call them up and ask them if they’d like to wa...
by Linden Jones' Tash
15 Jan 2024 07:13
Forum: The Team
Topic: transfer window
Replies: 25
Views: 27043

Re: transfer window

Expect the likes of Vickers, Abbey and Bindon and maybe one other off to Arsenal or other club for some pathetic amount of money and just maybe the arrival of a striker to replace Ballard. Would certainly explain the lack of playing time for Vickers... I'm fully expecting some kind of firesale to b...
by Linden Jones' Tash
02 Jan 2024 08:08
Forum: The Team
Topic: MATCHWATCH : Exeter City (h)
Replies: 210
Views: 1083618

Re: MATCHWATCH : Exeter City (h)

Thought the game was fairly entertaining. Exeter had some good ideas and played quite well first half but they made so many unforced errors it was unreal. One of those days when you really feel the difference in quality to the champ Thought their left hand side - Jules (goal aside) and the number 5...
by Linden Jones' Tash
10 Dec 2023 11:57
Forum: The Team
Topic: Wages
Replies: 14
Views: 4029

Re: Wages

The only other contenders are Yiadom (currently playing) and Tmac, I believe they agreed new terms when we were still handing out big contracts. None of our players are on anywhere near £700k. All would have seen a 40% cut on wages on relegation. Ejaria is our best paid player, maybe on £10k a week...
by Linden Jones' Tash
10 Dec 2023 11:29
Forum: The Team
Topic: Wages
Replies: 14
Views: 4029

Re: Wages

I read a thing online - which could be completely made up, but seemed reasonable to me - listing the top 5 best paid players at Watford this season. Tom Ince is listed as on £30k per week - i.e over £1.5M annual wage. Assuming that is correct, the only way I can see his agent leveraging that type of...
by Linden Jones' Tash
08 Dec 2023 16:48
Forum: The Team
Topic: transfer window
Replies: 25
Views: 27043

Re: transfer window

Expect the likes of Vickers, Abbey and Bindon and maybe one other off to Arsenal or other club for some pathetic amount of money and just maybe the arrival of a striker to replace Ballard. Would certainly explain the lack of playing time for Vickers... I'm fully expecting some kind of firesale to b...
by Linden Jones' Tash
05 Dec 2023 10:19
Forum: The Team
Topic: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED
Replies: 3097
Views: 1335095

Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

WestYorksRoyal Presume this is all just a bit of willy waving on both sides and there is still a reasonable chance of the deal happening.


+1

Given all parties are supposedly under NDAs, this selective leaking is driven by people with an agenda
by Linden Jones' Tash
03 Dec 2023 18:16
Forum: The Team
Topic: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED
Replies: 3097
Views: 1335095

Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

Thank God Bowen is here. Imagine where we'd be with the Kia recruitment model and lack of leadership. I can't see how much worse it could be a than in the bottom 2 of League 1 and losing to an injury time goal from a non league side on ITV1 on a Sunday afternoon... Don't get me wrong, I want better...
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