It is, which is why I can't understand why people are against certain players or just completely write them off. The Jordan Hugill rumour is a classic example. A lot of people stating his record not being great as a reason not to sign him. Yes, whilst that's true, that's the pond we are fishing in ...

It is, which is why I can't understand why people are against certain players or just completely write them off. The Jordan Hugill rumour is a classic example. A lot of people stating his record not being great as a reason not to sign him. Yes, whilst that's true, that's the pond we are fishing in ...

Taking Dirks comments about Coppell's approach for a moment... how many of his signings were really failures elsewhere that we turned around? Gunnarsson? - success at Watford SHunt? - did pretty well at Brentford and presumably played there under Coppell Sonko? - similar Doyle? - did great at Cork L...

Our record with high transfer fee or even wage players is really quite poor. It is, which is why I can't understand why people are against certain players or just completely write them off. The Jordan Hugill rumour is a classic example. A lot of people stating his record not being great as a reason...

Our record with high transfer fee or even wage players is really quite poor.

Yeah it probably was warranted- though I suspect a few others have probably warranted a penalty and managed to find a way round in recent times Tbf we did deserve a punishment but we also assisted the EFL with their investigations, admitted guilt, played by the new rules and agreed we’d been very s...

I think his workrate is plenty high, it's his football-brain rate that was lacking. He slowed the game down because once he had the ball he didn't seem to know what to do with it. Sometimes that improves with experience - in his case, if anything, it got worse. More pressure = more anxiety = more d...

Wigan can get* 79 Blackpool and Hudersfield can get* 83 (but only one can so at least one can only get 81) Cardiff can get* 80 So we need 82 to be sure but I've chosen to assume GD will be in our favour (big assumption) and said 81 will do it Fair, I forgot Pool and Hudders were equal and if they d...

He is a luxury player. Unfortunately we can't carry those. It's a shame he rarely had those Fulham away type moments. He had great feet and talent but for some reason never used it properly. I get the feeling playing at Liverpool probably meant he felt we were beneath him and his work rate didn't h...

Yeah, and punishment id actually warranted too. If they wanted us to be relegated for it, they could just set the sanction at automatic relegation. And given our current position and survival last season, clearly no one is trying that hard to relegate us, or we'd be gone. Yeah it probably was warra...

Don't be so sure of that. For starters the club (or whoever Royals TV is outsourced to) will now have to report that data breach to the Information Commissioner's Office within 72 hours of it occurring. Talking to someone who is used to working with mailing lists and mail outs, it's apparently hard...

Yeah, and punishment id actually warranted too.

If they wanted us to be relegated for it, they could just set the sanction at automatic relegation.

And given our current position and survival last season, clearly no one is trying that hard to relegate us, or we'd be gone.

It's actually 43, because whilst Cardif are above the bottom three, their max is 80 so less than Hudders or Blackpool because of their 2 more games played.

Do you mean Tom Ince who on that list is earning £2,600 p/w? If you click on his name you get taken to: Which may be a little out of date but if correct then he's not exactly penniless and should be able to get by on his Reading weekly wage! Yep know he earned plenty through his career but that sti...

Hadn’t checked this site for a while but showing what it thinks are 2023 wages now https://salarysport.com/football/sky-bet-championship/reading/ Doubt ince is that low but may be fairly accurate otherwise Lolz at Baba If as seems likely Ejaria, Joao, Meite and Moore all leave in the summer are wag...

I say that and 5 minutes later Jokull Andresson has completed a loan move to League Two side Stevenage until the end of the season. Not that I expect it to make a lot of difference in the bigger picture. Still good news, he seems to be racking up a bit of experience in the lower FL, hopefully he wi...

Yep.

From jlow ‘ The loans of Tyrese Fornah from Forest and Mamadou Loum from FC Porto could be terminated early should any more players come in on loan because as things stand, the club have six players on temporary contracts. Only five loanees are allowed to be named in a matchday squad.’ I do like th...

From jlow ‘ The loans of Tyrese Fornah from Forest and Mamadou Loum from FC Porto could be terminated early should any more players come in on loan because as things stand, the club have six players on temporary contracts. Only five loanees are allowed to be named in a matchday squad.’ I couldn't s...

Hound Some mention on Twitter of Dann retiring. Prob BS as a random

Hard to believe given he just got 'fit'.

Would think almost a certainty come July.