Saturday, July 27- QPR to visit SCL Stadium for a friendly. Open to fans

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Thanks for pulling together all this info For some of the ?s above, in the Retained List thread - 1 year options activated by the club for: Michael Craig The following players have had one-year options implemented on their contracts, meaning they will be signed on with the Royals for a further seaso...

ACADEMY RETAINED LIST CONFIRMED Following the conclusion of their respective seasons, the club can now confirm the contractual decisions that have been made for players across our Under 21 and Under 18 teams. UNDER 21s Options The following players have had one-year options implemented on their cont...

ACADEMY RETAINED LIST CONFIRMED Following the conclusion of their respective seasons, the club can now confirm the contractual decisions that have been made for players across our Under 21 and Under 18 teams. UNDER 21s Options The following players have had one-year options implemented on their cont...

However that was for the season 2022/23 when the format was changed from under 23 to under 21 and might have been a transitional phase. Confusing now because the Premier League are also saying for 2023/2024 the players must be under 21! So how some of the over age players qualified is a bit of a my...

assuming the cut of date for playing U21 football is at the start of the season... It's here under definitions: ‘Under 21 Player’ means a Player under the age of 21 as at the 1 January in the year in which the Season concerned commences. So, unless I'm mistaken, anyone 20 or under on 1 Jan. 2024 wi...

Cambridge City's new First Team Manager is Jamie Cureton

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 1krg0o.amp

Boyce Clarke looks shit. Don't let him anywhere near the first team next season :?: Pretty much no chance with any goals. Multiple crucial saves. One poor pass. :| Do you really think he looks ready for the first team? Think he could do with a loan to help him improve his decision making and distri...

Not an ex-player but ex-staff:

Stoke City’s Head of Recruitment, Jared Dublin, will be leaving his position with the Club.

Michael Stickland has been shortlisted for Premier League 2 Player of the Season:

https://www.premierleague.com/news/4016101

Michael Stickland: A key figure in Reading's brilliant season, with the Royals making it through to the PL2 semi-finals, defender Stickland registered six clean sheets.

Sutekh

Snowflake Royal Current Squad

Defence

Stickland - June 2024 - release

I hope they won't release our U23 captain Michael Stickland now he has been shortlisted for Premier League 2 Player of the Season:

https://www.premierleague.com/news/4016101

My voices are tell me that the new owners will be used to model next season's kit when it goes on sale this Friday when the long awaited takeover will be announced. A photoshoot took place at a secret location in Dorset recently and will also features Ricky Gervais.

https://twitter.com/dinghugo6/status/17 ... yeEng&s=19

Above has a Kirsten O'Brien snippet from BBCRB saying takeover will happen later this week

Any news on our recent trialists? Guess they are not allowed to take part in this stage of the competition

This time last year we still had Jared Dublin as Head of Scouting.

Was he ever replaced or is it now solely down to Bowen and Carey to both scout and recruit this summer?

Aluko now officially retired

https://twitter.com/IpswichTown/status/ ... RuEcQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/dingjohnny1871/stat ... 3xBEw&s=19

Some footage, taken from his Instagram, shows he's training with us.

Why? Ex-player just keeping fit, or about to return to the Royals - you decide

Fran Kirby has announced she's leaving Chelsea. Lots of "hope she's coming back to Reading" chatter on Twitter.

No idea when our R & R list will be published, like you I assume it will be as late as possible/after the take-over. For anyone interested, this site seems to be pulling together all the release/retained lists for League One (and the other leagues), if anyone spots any gems we should be consider...

See the Women's team wore the old home kit on Sunday against Watford, didn't know if they'd also be in next season's kit after Saturday's reveal