The FA really don't help themselves do they? 5 years for this to be sorted plus, it seems, precedents have been much less harsh. Question has to be asked though, how did they go down this route in the first place, they must have known it's illegal. Would the agent concerned also face some form of p...

No respect for the guy. Karacan’s injury (which massively hobbled his career) was not a coincidence. Tetek’s injury (which seems to have effectively ended his career) was not a coincidence. He was a thug of a manager who had no respect for opposing players or officials. That’s the real Warnock, not...

Nigel Howe has been fined £5,000 and issued an immediate six-month suspension from involvement with player contract negotiations and transfer related activity, and a further six-month suspension from all football related activity to commence upon the expiry of the first suspension. I wonder the sus...

Just another £200,000 for the club to find. It needs a lot more than my season ticket renewal to cover this latest tale of woe. By the way, a bot OTT about "many years developing the player" when his early years were away at Chelsea and City. He was with us for about three/four seasons. T...

We only play one upfront. Unless we're going to change that, we have a first choice player. So we're effectively looking for a bench player whp can step in if needed.

He sounds too expensive for that. He's on the downward arc of performance.

It's a no from me.

2 more charges on Bearwood from Redwood published on Companies House - appears they have loaned the club 2.83m over the exclusivity period. So either the deal completes soon or the club is even more financially handicapped than it was a few months back. Been lots of speculation on exactly how much ...

Stranded Also married in Oxford, so whilst I enjoyed playing them again, doesn't bother me in the slightest if they go up. Not sure why it would bother anyone really but football does strange things to people.

It's just a pantomime.

Yeah really good read that.

Would be super if he can deliver progress on the pitch.

I'm so sick of those short bursts of success that trick you into thinking something has chamged for the good, only to fall apart in shambles again shortly after.

If the takeover goes through and we're bottom half in October, there'll be a lot of people changing their tune pretty quickly IMO.

We're far better off trying to carefully build a competitive squad of good value by increments and taking a couple of years of substantial losses over going all out, likely failing and having to to it all again the next season, with spiralling wages and a huge loss. I think on balance at the moment...

Seen a few articles blowing smoke up Spurs' arse because their U21s topped the league. I know I'm biased but surely the real story is the cash strapped League 1 team who are now in the semis and are offering a genuine path to 1st team football. Doesn't fit the narrative of being a big club that eve...

Cheers Houndy, will take a read at some point.

Given the cost of running a club of Reading's size in League 1 ( I reckon it will be around £10M net loss), I can't see how any new owner would not target promotion next season - anything else is just creating a bigger financial mess. Depends what you mean by that. If you mean betting the farm on g...

Be pissed if that halves the games on Royals TV Royals TV is finished with unless you live abroad. You will need a Sky Sports subscription to access domestically, EFL Q & A link below: https://www.efl.com/how-to-watch/sky-sports-q-and-a/ Thanks to technology, anyone can 'live abroad' whenever t...

Given the cost of running a club of Reading's size in League 1 ( I reckon it will be around £10M net loss), I can't see how any new owner would not target promotion next season - anything else is just creating a bigger financial mess. Depends what you mean by that. If you mean betting the farm on g...

Would agree with this. Wing alongside someone like Savage or Craig or Elliot would probably be fine in Champ. Much how Leigertwood had a good partnership with Karacan. Hopefully we'll find out in two seasons and you'll be right. I fear we've probably got 2 more seasons of L1 at least though, by whi...

No, of coursehe isn’t a genius. He hasn’t brought any spectacular new innovations to football, or out thought his opposition. He's been bankrolled to success and built a reputation that allows him to manage huge egos successfully. How do you think he’s built that reputation ? By being bankrolled an...

Things the neutrals are hoping for next season: West Ham relegation Hull relegation Ipswich to stay up and Reading promotion. I don't see many neutrals giving two oxf*rd about us. In fact I expect most would rathersee us relegated again because of Dai's crazy spending and (if if happens) us being b...

No, of coursehe isn’t a genius. He hasn’t brought any spectacular new innovations to football, or out thought his opposition.

He's been bankrolled to success and built a reputation that allows him to manage huge egos successfully.

If we can grow enough to sell out the SCL in the good times, and even get 18k against Blackpool a few weeks ago, I don't see any inherent reason why Oxford can't do the same to be honest. A city was c. 200k living there without any big nearby clubs as competition. The reason they'd struggle upon pr...