Weymouth Royal Whilst we 'hope' Bowen has big sway here now, he still doesn't. He wanted Ince gone in January and Dai said no. Dai does what he wants, and still listens to his mate Kia. I wouldn't be surprised if Bowen wants Wilder, Wilder wants to come as we've heard, but it's the dickhead owner and his best mate pushing back and throwing this appointment into jeopardy.
WestYorksRoyalYorkshireRoyal99Royal_jimmy Yeah he's clearly a micro-manager. Stepped in to block the sales of Swift and Moore who we could have got £11m for the pair for instance.
And in hindsight that would have been good. But at the time they were 2 of our best players and we were trying to get up as quickly as possible.
Obviously the responsibility falls on him for where we've ended up but if you were looking to gain promotion then you'd want to keep your better players.
What were the figures quoted for Swift? We'd have definitely gone down a year earlier without him, possibly still under an embargo. So keeping him was easily worth £5m - £10m for us, which is probably more than any fee on offer.
Granted the Moore decision was a disaster, and you're also forgetting Loader too.
WestYorksRoyalYorkshireRoyal99Royal_jimmy Yeah he's clearly a micro-manager. Stepped in to block the sales of Swift and Moore who we could have got £11m for the pair for instance.
And in hindsight that would have been good. But at the time they were 2 of our best players and we were trying to get up as quickly as possible.
Obviously the responsibility falls on him for where we've ended up but if you were looking to gain promotion then you'd want to keep your better players.
What were the figures quoted for Swift? We'd have definitely gone down a year earlier without him, possibly still under an embargo. So keeping him was easily worth £5m - £10m for us, which is probably more than any fee on offer.
Granted the Moore decision was a disaster, and you're also forgetting Loader too.
Hound There was rumours of a 7m for Swift but yeah I think it sounds like there was an actual offer of about 3.5 for him. Prob wasn’t worth selling for that at the time
Moore was the real killer - partly because of not just the cash transfer fee but the resulting new contract which cost us an absolute fortune
That non sale and contract alone was prob the difference between failing FFP or not. Though Dai would have no doubts blown some cash on someone else useless instead
YorkshireRoyal99Hound There was rumours of a 7m for Swift but yeah I think it sounds like there was an actual offer of about 3.5 for him. Prob wasn’t worth selling for that at the time
Moore was the real killer - partly because of not just the cash transfer fee but the resulting new contract which cost us an absolute fortune
That non sale and contract alone was prob the difference between failing FFP or not. Though Dai would have no doubts blown some cash on someone else useless instead
Yeah that's my thoughts on Moore, the £10m (or whatever the rumoured fee was) alongside the £1.5m saved every year on his wages may have been the difference.
YorkshireRoyal99Hound There was rumours of a 7m for Swift but yeah I think it sounds like there was an actual offer of about 3.5 for him. Prob wasn’t worth selling for that at the time
Moore was the real killer - partly because of not just the cash transfer fee but the resulting new contract which cost us an absolute fortune
That non sale and contract alone was prob the difference between failing FFP or not. Though Dai would have no doubts blown some cash on someone else useless instead
Yeah that's my thoughts on Moore, the £10m (or whatever the rumoured fee was) alongside the £1.5m saved every year on his wages may have been the difference.
YorkshireRoyal99Royal_jimmy Yeah he's clearly a micro-manager. Stepped in to block the sales of Swift and Moore who we could have got £11m for the pair for instance.
And in hindsight that would have been good. But at the time they were 2 of our best players and we were trying to get up as quickly as possible.
Obviously the responsibility falls on him for where we've ended up but if you were looking to gain promotion then you'd want to keep your better players.
Snowflake Royal Championship clubs who don't regularly sell their best players are doing football wrong.
Snowflake RoyalYorkshireRoyal99Royal_jimmy Yeah he's clearly a micro-manager. Stepped in to block the sales of Swift and Moore who we could have got £11m for the pair for instance.
And in hindsight that would have been good. But at the time they were 2 of our best players and we were trying to get up as quickly as possible.
Obviously the responsibility falls on him for where we've ended up but if you were looking to gain promotion then you'd want to keep your better players.
Yeah, what oxf*rd idiots McDermott, Hammond and Madejski were selling Long and Sigurdsson and preventing us going up so we could be vaguely sustainable.
If only we'd refused to sell and put them on 10 year contracts for a billion a week.
I've heard from several sources now that the #readingfc hierarchy has disappeared without trace and Dai Yongge is looking to sell... which is holding up Wilder's appointment and may even scupper it. Hoping there's a grand masterplan behind it all, but I doubt it.
American buyer interested but owners haven’t even responded to the proposal. Wilder has asked for more money but again no response from owners!
tidus_mi2 Some guy says something on twitter and everyone believes it.
WestYorksRoyal Can SJM afford a rescue job? The SCL guys? Maybe go round with a collection bucket for a fan led takeover?
Strandedtidus_mi2 Some guy says something on twitter and everyone believes it.
He is a little bit more than a random tweeter, so whilst a rumour, it is one that should be treated with some respect. Doesn't mean it's true of course but it fits the current situation.
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