Jake Taylor Completes Exeter Move

By Hob Nob Anyone?

Jake Taylor has completed his move to League Two side Exeter City after the two clubs agreed he could sign on a free transfer.

Taylor became part of the first team set-up at Reading after moving through from the youth teams. He made his Reading debut in August 2010 but only made one more appearance for Reading that season before moving to Aldershot and then Exeter on loan. He is well known at Exeter after his successful spell with the club in the 2011/2012 season where he made 26 starts for the side and scored three goals.

His best spell with Reading was the start of the 2014/2015 season when he became a regular in the first team squad before losing his place later in the season. In total he clocked up 36 Reading appearances and scored three goals before again finding himself shipped out on loan. An unsuccessful spell in Scotland on loan at Motherwell eventually ended early, allowing him to join Exeter City on a permanent contract.

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TM tidus_mi2 25 Jan 2016 · 4:30pm

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/article/midfielder-jake-taylor-signs-for-exeter-city-2920538.aspx Not unexpected but very much out of the blue, asked Charles Watts if there were any add ons, he said it was just a free transfer, guess the club are just allowing him to move on.
MA maffff 25 Jan 2016 · 4:36pm

Found his level. Good luck to him.
CO CountryRoyal 25 Jan 2016 · 4:39pm

Big mistake. Jake Taylor was the most talented youngster to come out of our academy, we will regret this. No ambition from the Thais.
AR Armadillo Roadkill 25 Jan 2016 · 4:40pm

In a few years he'll suddenly pop up doing well at a Championship rival, and we'll be asking ourselves just why we thought he wasn't good enough to get a chance here. Yes. I am confidently predicting we'll be no higher than the Championship in the next few years
JS John Smith 25 Jan 2016 · 4:41pm

Good club Exeter, I like them. Went to the DIdcot FA game and they had some good players. Namely Troy Brown the centre back
SU Sutekh 25 Jan 2016 · 4:49pm

Damn, knew we should have got rid of Kuhl, Keown, Fosu, Tanner and Stacey instead.
CO CountryRoyal 25 Jan 2016 · 4:56pm

Nibble nibble. We've got one. :wink:
WI wingnut 25 Jan 2016 · 5:03pm

Wasn't he out of contract at the end of this season anyway? Certainly when he went out on loan for the season everyone seemed to think that was it for his time with us. Best of luck to him anyway. Hope he can work his way back up the leagues.
LI linkenholtroyal 25 Jan 2016 · 5:04pm

Antonio???
NA Nameless 25 Jan 2016 · 5:05pm

Antonio what ?
LI linkenholtroyal 25 Jan 2016 · 5:07pm

players that come back to look better than we thought from lower leagues??
NA Nameless 25 Jan 2016 · 5:11pm

Not really, with both him and Cox we knew they were good players, they just weren't quite ready for the first team and wanted to move on to get football. With Taylor I think it's been clear this is not his level and a move makes sense. I hope it goes well for him but I can't see him popping up in the Premiership in a couple of years time.

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