This feels like he deliberately wants to destroy the club . I don't think that's right. If that was the case he could have just liquidated on a whim ages ago. I do think that he doesn't really care any more, and just wants to offload in the way that will maximise the money he can claw back. Well th...
https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2024/march/10/statement-short-term-funding/ Bearwood for sale. There's been lots of opinions on whether property developers could extract any value from it. I guess we'll see. The end is nigh anyhow. The stated intent of short term funding is laughable. Even if it i...
Even Kieran Maguire said it was a 0.001% chance of ending in liquidation on the basis that we had too much going for us, and he's quite a skeptical person in these matters. But the chance is very real. People expect clubs to be saved because that's nearly always what happens. The big question mark ...
And I don't really think liquidation makes sense either, it's definitely against Dai's financial interest. It would mean he could sell the real estate assets without having to fund the club in any way. Who's going to buy a studium and training ground with no sports club to pay rent to use it? And p...
Not if Reading were re-starting. There's a ton of possibilities esp. with groundshares in the area and places that could probably grow with Reading if Reading couldn't get back to the Mad Stad. Other than Maidenhead, nothing is really viable, and even that can only be viable short term. Ground shar...
I have "been there" as a Newport County Fan Going out of the league and bust was horrible and frankly I thought the re-launch was a hopeless dream... We were forced to play outside Wales (at Moreton-in-the Marsh) for a fair while. With four others, I ran the 80 miles to Moreton, raising c...
Tomorrow #ReadingFC will have their highest home crowd of the season so far with over 15,500 tickets sold. Via: [@james_e1871] I didn't realise our best crowd of the season was so low. I was reading about a high crowd being expected and was thinking 18000+. I guess this season has been all about ad...
Obviously I know that I'd follow a phoenix club but I was surprised when I asked my 12 and 14 yr old if the worst happened would they trek along every weekend to watch us play Combined Counties and they both said it was a no brainer and they'd keep going I think the novelty of being able to go to m...
Tomorrow #ReadingFC will have their highest home crowd of the season so far with over 15,500 tickets sold. Via: [@james_e1871] I didn't realise our best crowd of the season was so low. I was reading about a high crowd being expected and was thinking 18000+. I guess this season has been all about ad...
Obviously I know that I'd follow a phoenix club but I was surprised when I asked my 12 and 14 yr old if the worst happened would they trek along every weekend to watch us play Combined Counties and they both said it was a no brainer and they'd keep going I think the novelty of being able to go to m...
Fearing a heavy defeat in this one. Why's that Nath? Any rhyme or reason? Or purely gut instinct? Be interested to know. Wycombe have been playing well for the majority of the season without getting results, they have tried to get away from the Ainsworth hoofball tactic they were so accustomed to. ...
So basically, and, I'm just using very rough calculations to look at a ball park figure, our tax liability on a monthly wage bill of £450,000 (including all staff), is maybe in the region of £150k-£200k? I appreciate the bulk of that is part of the £450,000. That's 10,000 paying customers a month o...
Be fair. Not many people will realise that the owners of a national league team need to spend a million just to keep their clubs afloat. That is staggering, no matter how familiar you are with the crazy finances of English football. Thanks - that's the point I was making ... was shocked that even n...
Big money for the Championship, absolutely not. Big money for L1? Most of Holmes, Yiadom, Wing, Smith, Knibbs, Button absolutely, maybe Azeez, maybe Mukairu. NGW would have been. McIntyre would have been. Ejaria would have been on fairly good Championship money and we'd have had to cover a lot of i...
Not defending the whole points deduction system as I've been a critic of it for many, many years - but one argument that made fot it actually impacting an owner is that they decrease the value of the owner's asset if they want to sell it - e.g. a L2 club has a lower market value than a L1 club. Of ...
Mark Bowen said we had a top 3 wage bill budget on BBC Radio Berkshire earlier this season. That probably counts the academy as well though, as I doubt we have many players on big money. With a (first team) squad as small as ours, we'd need to be paying well over the odds to have a high first team ...
Total respect and admiration to all the fans making the mammoth journey up north Saturday , safe journey Love a good road trip me. Going up tomorrow night as don't fancy getting up at 6am on a Saturday for this one. I never mind a long drive to a game. It's the journey home, especially if it's dark...
Or we could do a Bolton and go into a season with no senior players. We'd get relegated for sure, but it would keep us alive and the transfer fees from like likes of Wing, Knibbs and Smith would help us survive. And Bolton are doing just fine now. Bolton's overheads are way lower than ours. I don't...