So for absolute clarity - 'we put in £1M almost every month' means the club is losing around £12M/annum at the current rate of income vs expenditure... Please correct me if I have misinterpreted the statement[/quote] That's how I interpret that statement. Worth noting our previous accounts (2023-24)...

Reading FC owner Rob Couhig has revealed that the shareholders have been paying £1 million nearly every month to bolster the club. After a busy start to the January transfer window, and with Reading FC making a permanent signing in the winter transfer window for the first time in years, the Royals ...

deleted my post as the 2004 date doesn't equate to 24, but 2002 - so my premise didnt make sense

Just don't tell him about the methane quietly percolating through the foundations of the Mad Stad....

I think the windmill next to the Mad Stad might just save us....

Apparently, the plan is to fix the end of season vote so that Trump gets both Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season awards... Oh and every golden gamble and Papa john's Pizza from now til the end of the season... but even then, he will likely throw RC, TT and Reading FC under a bus... ...

It's getting tiresome hearing that our supposed 'best' players when combined in midfield are routinely being overrun in game after game...

Bite the bullet Leam and change it up...

I miss the King Of Thailand's birthday celebrations at the Mad Stad...

Cardiff City given a transfer embargo by EFL for non-submission of 24/25 accounts by the 31 December deadline. This means Cardiff cannot sign any players during the current window until they send in the figures. So have Reading done theirs yet then given Cardiff haven’t and have been accordingly do...

Of course you go for promotion - it's been the new owners' explicitly objective from the start of the season. Staying in League 1 costs them £10M a year... The costs of the Championship might be higher, but the rewards are greater also and the possibility of flipping the club if they want to... They...

Did we have these conversations when we started the Season with Ballard, Smith, Kelvin E, Wareham, Knibbs....

Surely a number of quality forwards who can score goals is a good thing?

Thinking more realistically with what we've been told about the new ownership, what would the AI prompt look like for the 'ideal' CF needed from Jan til May? Desired attributes in order of priority...? The script you'd give our Head of AI to enter into the exclusive AI algorithm & database Readi...

Sutekh Rather have Ricardo Montalbán

Upfront with Hervé Villechaize as the classic striker combination?...

The pronunciation of Reading as 'Red-ing' provides a clue to its Saxon origins. Historians believe its name links to a group or tribe of early Saxons, the Rēadingas in Old English, who settled here in the 500s AD. So, it probably means 'Reada’s people'. It has been suggested the name Reada means ‘th...

I'm irrationally annoyed that Reading has an 'a' in it, given the name is supposedly derived from a Red Haired Viking who set up camp here 1500 years ago...

Redding would be so much simpler and less confusing for scholars...

According to the Internet, the top three sales from clubs in League 1 are:
£11M (Lookman)
£8M (Delph)
£3.5M (Barnett)

The idea that a League 1 club can regularly sell a player for £10M while in League 1 to subsidise a Cat 1 academy is very ambitious...

Players of Olise’s quality don’t come along every 3 years and we’d be selling for about 1.5m to a champ club now rather than 10m to a prem team with us being L1 Agreed - whilst it's lovely to have a Cat 1 Acadeny and brag about it, the money to run it will be at the expense of other things, such as...

Successful first team vs. Cat 1 academy... Based on where Reading FC are today, I'm not sure it's even that hard a choice... Given the days of billionaires sugar daddies appear to be behind us, sustaining a Cat 1 academy on League 1 income is a luxury... Even if RC is sticking with it, the money has...

Would prefer Hugh Janus, brother of Samantha (actor for those of my vintage)...

Reading FC has only once reported a profit in the last 25 years....

Profit maximisation is a misnomer - Loss minimisation is a more appropriate term for our predicament - with different degrees - extreme, moderate, unsustainable...