Clarify please @Stranded. The fee - any transfer fee is fairly meaningless. Maguire is not worth 80m to Leicester but Utd have decided he is the only CB that will meet their needs. As Leicester do not need to (or especially) want to sell - it is a figure that Utd can comfortable afford and one that...

Defensive midfielder, which we desperately need, who did very well in Portugal at Rio Ave. Would imagine some of the coaching staff know him well as a result.

Not quite worked out at Monaco after at €8m move and was on loan at Forest back end of last season.

Could be just what we need.

Cool, so if we want to strengthen it's essentially 2 out of CF, Ejaria and DM Of course we can just pay the bargain price of £3m for Ejaria if FFP allows it. It doesn't ... end of. Well, it would depend on the structure of the deal and how long a contract we give him. Signing a player for "3m&...

If it had been Martinez I'd know he just had an off day. I thought the first was the worst personally. And I'm still not convinced he could do nothing about the two vs Chelsea. No outright errors, but unconvincing and expect better. But because you haven't seen much of Virginia, you have decided th...

The FL have already called off Burys’ second league game (v Accy) Is this what football has become? Thanx $ky, the FA, EFL nd your £s Mismanagement of a good idea? I'm not sure you can blame many of those for Bury's plight - this mainly falls down to a guy deciding to takeover the club and buying i...

I know that's your honest opinion. But it's also my honest opinion that a first choice championship keeper should be doing better on some if not all of the goals. From Saturday? Fair enough if that's how you see it but a well hit finish on a close 1 on 1 - a free header from 8 to 10 yards out are n...

He also let a weird goal in against Chelsea - the Kennedy one. In isolation the goals might not be worth discussing, but when 3 of the 5 goals give you niggling doubts, it becomes a worry. And yes, let's face facts, he's 19 and never played senior football. None of us are writing off his career, bu...

If we want to see evidence that the game's gone (as the talksport cliche machine would say) then we only need to look at the fee Villa paid for Mings (NB I know this is probably old news, I don't really follow other team's transfers) £26.5 million!!!!! I very nearly included that as an example of w...

Apparently arrived in the UK last night and having medical today.

Adam had a pass completion rate of 63% from 28 passes on Saturday according to Who Scored. Not brilliant but he was also the 4th best Reading player on Saturday according to the same site - Loader was the worst for comparison. Of these 28 passes - 17 were forward and 11 backward. 4 were classed as c...

His record is pretty solid - 59 clean sheets in 198 games - including one against Arsenal in the Champions League. Was 1st choice at Napoli for a while but they signed Pepe Reina from Bayern, so not really a surprise he dropped down to #2. Move to Sampdoria hasn't worked out for him and he is stuck ...

sounds like there is a strong chance that Rafael is incoming looking at the social media stuff Interesting, assuming its a perm transfer, and yeah surely means he is coming in to be number 1 Pretty convinced it is done and we do need a 3rd 1st team keeper - so happy with that. I also think he is a ...

Virginia is proving to be a very obvious mistake so this would be fabulous. So you're writing him off after one game in which none of the goals were his fault? Fantastic :roll: He also let a weird goal in against Chelsea - the Kennedy one. In isolation the goals might not be worth discussing, but w...

Misunderstanding transfer fees are we? No. The number is up there. Mental. Clarify please @Stranded. The fee - any transfer fee is fairly meaningless. Maguire is not worth 80m to Leicester but Utd have decided he is the only CB that will meet their needs. As Leicester do not need to (or especially)...

Impossible without significant funding. Guernsey had (still has I assume?) backing from Bet365 (or whoever) who paid all travel costs for both them to come mainland and the away teams to get there. They were an excellent team when in the CCL. Streets above most opposition. What is a realistic celin...

The PL coverage has moved this season here in Germany back to Sky. Cost has gone up from 9.99 per month for a channel with nearly every other major sporting rights, to 29.99 just because it is Sky - Sky don't even have the monopoly on the Bundesliga anymore so can't even claim that as a major sellin...

Well using the wonderful barometer of social media:

His wife now apparently follows Reading FC on Instagram so this is a done deal.

Decent (not incredible) goal scoring record at Champ level but if fit, a very good player at this level.

No question of talent, just of keeping him fit.

Interesting. Not sure we would use another loan on a goalkeeper, so could it be a permanent transfer? Otherwise, the loan move for Virginia is a bit of a waste. Looks like any possible deal would be perm as he is seeking a termination of his current contract. He would be a massive upgrade on what w...

I’ve given up any hope of Novakovich playing. Just utter madness that we are going for average strikers when this bloke has done really well at a decent level and has scored a decent amount We might as well sell the bloke when we have the chance to get decent money for him We may well sell him. I'm...