Interesting piece about Reading fc

unexpecteddelirium website, best googled

If Rob Couhig is reading this financial speculation obviously knowing most or all of the answers he may be thinking with each post, getting warmer, getting colder
Wonder if he could be tempted to tell us what the picture actually is !

So Rob Couhig paid £25m for the shares and took on c£90m of debt Now sells 25% for say £6.25m The £90m debt stays on the b/s owed by the club which is owned 75% RC and 25% US investors US investors have option to buy remaining 75% later on Would happily hear alternate details if this is wrong ! Loo...

So Rob Couhig paid £25m for the shares and took on c£90m of debt
Now sells 25% for say £6.25m
The £90m debt stays on the b/s owed by the club which is owned 75% RC and 25% US investors
US investors have option to buy remaining 75% later on
Would happily hear alternate details if this is wrong !

20/5/1966
Reading 4 Shrewsbury 1

how does the debt to dia work then. Couhig says hes taken it on, and isn't looking to cash it in. how much was the club in debt? say for instance its the reported 200 million dai pumped in. does that mean couhig has paid dai 200 million on top of the sale price? and now the club owes couhig that mo...

19/5/2013
West Ham 4 Reading 2

Last PL match, at least for now

18/5/1913
Italy 0 Reading 2

5th match of Italy tour, W 4 L 1

Debt taken over, think c £90m, maybe a bit more Assume shares were c £0 Mentioned some tidying up and possible new partner Maybe some debt converted into shares Or possible new shares, new partner Otherwise debt sits on their books until club sold No external debts Deal was club, stadium, training g...

18/5/1966
Reading 4 Exeter 1

full back, must be George Cohen, 1966 and all that

The accounts to June 2024 published recently showed large sums owing to group undertakings
We've so far seen little about the finances of the takeover
Wonder what the current balance sheet looks like...

Stadium site, think they have everything except hotel, wonder if they might try and get freehold, otherwise could hamper any development ideas around the stadium, or stadium expansion sometime in the future, previous plans though avoided hotel footprint edit, think deal excludes car parks etc, stadi...

Brogue Reading have lost more games in the FA Cup than any other team.

P 396 W 163 D 97 L 136 F 661 A 598

at 136 you're probably right

teams generally lose one FAC tie each season, unless they win the cup, and Reading have probably been playing in the FAC for longer than most teams

from royals record, major comp matches

P 5768 W 2318 D 1424 L 2026 F 8660 A 7982

#5768 3/5/2025 Reading 2 Barnsley 4

#1 7/11/1877 Reading 2 South Norwood 0 FAC

15/5/1982
Brentford 1 Reading 2

Good to see takeover completed.

17/2/1990, Reading 6 Preston 0.

14/2/2023, Reading 2 Rotherham 1, a win last year.

Another point closer to safety.