The squad in July

[Sutekh]

It's taking ages to confirm who's being released

Not having a manager might be a contributory factor to the delay.

[Brogue]

It's taking ages to confirm who's being released

Not having a manager might be a contributory factor to the delay.

only 3 clubs in the champ have published their retained list so far. Jimmy as per usual chatting absolute shit. I think its time to hang up your keyboard jimmy i don't think HNA? is for you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/65535979

[Hendo]

It's taking ages to confirm who's being released

Not having a manager might be a contributory factor to the delay.

only 3 clubs in the champ have published their retained list so far. Jimmy as per usual chatting absolute shit. I think its time to hang up your keyboard jimmy i don't think HNA? is for you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/65535979

Saw a lot of people complaining on Twitter yesterday as well about how we hadn't released this list. Thanks for validating my thoughts that most of it was bollocks as usual.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

It's taking ages to confirm who's being released

Not having a manager might be a contributory factor to the delay.

only 3 clubs in the champ have published their retained list so far. Jimmy as per usual chatting absolute shit. I think its time to hang up your keyboard jimmy i don't think HNA? is for you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/65535979

Lol

Taxi for jimmy

[Loafer]

Not having a manager might be a contributory factor to the delay.

only 3 clubs in the champ have published their retained list so far. Jimmy as per usual chatting absolute shit. I think its time to hang up your keyboard jimmy i don't think HNA? is for you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/65535979

Lol

Taxi for jimmy

Jimmy is a VVanker, he wears a VVankers hat

Reading went down to League one
And he had a meltdown on




Hna

[NathStPaul]

Poor Jimmy must wake up with wet bedsheets every morning.

[andrew1957]

After watching Gabbi Osho scoring for Luton and potentially becoming a PL player next season, it made me think that if only the club had more faith in our Academy products and played them, rather than constantly bringing in loan players from bigger clubs and playing them instead, we might not be in the mess we are in now. Frankly a lot of recent inward loans have been poor.

I hope we have learned this lesson and don't take any inward loans at all next season. I would much rather we brought in a few free transfers to plug any gaps and used the Academy more extensively and built for the long term future. At least that way the whole squad are more likely to be committed to the cause.

[andrew1957]

It's taking ages to confirm who's being released

Last year our retained list was issued on 20th May so we might not have too many days to wait.

[tmesis]

After watching Gabbi Osho scoring for Luton and potentially becoming a PL player next season, it made me think that if only the club had more faith in our Academy products and played them, rather than constantly bringing in loan players from bigger clubs and playing them instead, we might not be in the mess we are in now. Frankly a lot of recent inward loans have been poor.

I hope we have learned this lesson and don't take any inward loans at all next season. I would much rather we brought in a few free transfers to plug any gaps and used the Academy more extensively and built for the long term future. At least that way the whole squad are more likely to be committed to the cause.

He didn't play in a single league game in his first year at Luton, so it's not as if they promised he'd be a first team regular.

[From Despair To Where?]

It's taking ages to confirm who's being released

Not having a manager might be a contributory factor to the delay.

only 3 clubs in the champ have published their retained list so far. Jimmy as per usual chatting absolute shit. I think its time to hang up your keyboard jimmy i don't think HNA? is for you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/65535979

Considering the players' contracts don't expire for another 5 weeks and restrictions aren't lifted for 4, I wouldn't expect any news on new contracts until then.

Stuff will be agreed in principle but no announcements until restrictions are lifted or the big wages leave.

[YorkshireRoyal99]

Anybody we would take from the list of players that have been released so far from any clubs?

Clucas, Flint and Fox from Stoke might be useful additions to our squad for next season. Not sure about anybody from QPR or Blackpool to be honest but maybe someone to be a squad player?

Would we take Sam Smith back? Seems to be getting interest from elsewhere as well. Was Albie Morgan any good for Charlton?

[NathStPaul]

Sam Smith I would take back. Not normally in favour of having anyone back at the club who we have moved on but I think he'd definitely do a job for us in League 1.

[Brogue]

teemu puki is ooc in the summer and will be 34 at the end of the month. he has confirmed he's leaving. would he get another championship gig at 34? maybe, not sure. would we be able to afford his wages? probably not, he would have to be realistic though at 34. he will probably go abroad though i would imagine rather than drop down to league 1

[Loafer]

After watching Gabbi Osho scoring for Luton and potentially becoming a PL player next season, it made me think that if only the club had more faith in our Academy products and played them, rather than constantly bringing in loan players from bigger clubs and playing them instead, we might not be in the mess we are in now. Frankly a lot of recent inward loans have been poor.

I hope we have learned this lesson and don't take any inward loans at all next season. I would much rather we brought in a few free transfers to plug any gaps and used the Academy more extensively and built for the long term future. At least that way the whole squad are more likely to be committed to the cause.

do you think we let them go because of Covid?

[Loafer]

teemu puki is ooc in the summer and will be 34 at the end of the month. he has confirmed he's leaving. would he get another championship gig at 34? maybe, not sure. would we be able to afford his wages? probably not, he would have to be realistic though at 34. he will probably go abroad though i would imagine rather than drop down to league 1

he is moving abroad, its a known fact on the SoRare discord because a few people buy his cards

[Sutekh]

I get Jimmy asking given that usually you get retained lists within a week or two of the season ending but with no manager at the club and no real rush it's not something to get knickers twisted about (I'd rather the effort was being put into getting the right manager in anyway), the list will appear when it's ready!

[Hound]

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2023/m ... onclusion/

Here we go - haven’t seen it pasted anywhere yet

Things of interest. Tetek and Southwood released. Along with some u21s inc Scott and Osorio

NGW extended. Mbengue offered two years. Also Clarke, Dorsett, Carson, CBC offered new deals.

Meite and Hoilett (sigh) also in talks of staying in. Surely Meite won’t?

[RG30]

Last Monday afternoon, our 2022-23 campaign reached its conclusion and now all decisions have been made and communicated to those first team, Under-21 and Under-18 players whose contracts are set to expire this summer.

On the first team front, Nesta Guinness-Walker will be a Royal next season. The promising 23-year-old left-back impressed in his first campaign with the club and, as part of his contract agreed last summer, an option to extend his stay in RG2 until 2024 has been triggered.

Another hidden gem unearthed last summer was Amadou Mbengue and the versatile Senegal Under-21 international has been offered a two-year contract at the club.

Seven years after he first signed as a Royal, Yakou Meite is in discussions with the club around the potential offer of a new contract for 2023-24, while the details of an offer of a new deal have also been prepared for experienced winger Junior Hoilett.

We would like to wholeheartedly thank all six players who represented the Royals on loan last season; Jeff Hendrick, Mamadou Loum, Joe Lumley, Baba Rahman, Tyrese Fornah and Cesare Casadei all immediately return to their parent clubs.

And we also wish the very best of luck to Scott Dann, Luke Southwood, Shane Long, Liam Moore, Lucas Joao and Dejan Tetek who depart at the expiration of their contracts with the club.

At Under-21 level, England and Jamaica youth international Coniah Boyce-Clarke has been offered a three-year contract with the Royals. The 20-year-old stopper had been part of the first team squad towards the end of the campaign and made his first team bow on the final day of the season at Huddersfield Town.

Left-back John Clarke has also been offered a one-year deal with the Royals; he joined the club last summer and made 1(+3) appearances for the first team, featuring in three league wins and our Carabao Cup defeat to Stevenage.

We have definitely retained the services of Hamid Abdel-Salam, Adrian Akande, Harvey Collins, Matt Rowley and Michael Stickland – the quintet all had extension clauses in their contracts triggered until 2024.

And we have offered new terms to left-back Matt Carson - who impressed on trial with our Under-21s last season - and centre-half Jeriel Dorsett who spent 2022-23 in the Scottish Premiership with Kilmarnock.

We would like to wish the best of luck for the future to Lui Bradbury, Ethan Burnett, Josh Green, Nahum Melvin-Lambert, Kian Leavy, Claudio Osorio and Rashawn Scott who leave the club this summer.

Six of our Under-18s side have earned offers of a first professional contract with the club; Harvey Maudner, Jacob Borgnis, Tom Norcott, Caylan Vickers, Jeremiah Okine-Peters and Basil Tuma – who made his first team debut in the Carabao Cup last summer - have all been offered deals for 2023-24.

However, we part company with David Nyarko, Ryley Campbell, Kyle Daniel-Spray, Harrison Furlong, Louis Hutchings, Troy Murray, Zion Nditi and Aston Greaver. Everyone at Reading Football Club would like to thank all those departing for their contribution to our club and wish them the very best of luck with their future careers.

“Last season ended little more than a week ago, but next season has to start now,” said Head of Football Operations, Mark Bowen. “At this time of the year, making difficult decisions on how we begin to shape our squad for the challenge of our next campaign is never easy but essential in the planning for 2023-24. Loanees, first team regulars, Academy hopefuls…I would like to take this opportunity to wholeheartedly thank every single player who has given his all for the crest and we wish those with whom we part company the very best of luck in the next stage of their career.”

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2023/may/17/new-deals-offered-as-contracts-come-to-their-conclusion/

[morganb]

CONTRACT NEWS

1st Team:

- Retained: NGW
- Offered contracts: Mbengue (2y), Meite, Hoilett
- All 6 loanees return to parent clubs
- Departures: Joao, Moore, Long, Dann, Southwood, Tetek

U21s:

- Offered contracts: Boyce-Clarke (3y), John Clarke (1y), Carson, Dorsett
- Retained: Abdel-Salam, Akande, Collins, Rowley, Stickland
- Departures: Rashawn Scott, Leavy, Osorio, Meilvin-Lambert, Green, Bradbury, Burnett

U18s:

- Offered pro contracts: Tuma, Maudner, Borgnis, Norcott, Vickers, Okine-Peters
- Departures: Nyarko, Campbell, Daniel-Spray, Furlong, Hutchings, Murray, Nditi, Greaver

From https://twitter.com/JmlJourno/status/16 ... 3982376968
Ji-Min Lee
@JmlJourno

[Brogue]

right can we have a list for each position now then, please?