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by 3points
24 Jun 2023 14:56
Forum: The Team
Topic: League One - Your Expectations?
Replies: 160
Views: 34124

Re: League One - Your Expectations?

Unless Dai deliberately drags us under, it's highly unlikely that we'd actually lose the club. There are plenty of rich people out there looking to get a foothold in English football and Reading would look a fairly attractive prospect once the owner debts have been cleared. Our PAYE bill can't be t...
by 3points
02 May 2023 16:57
Forum: The Team
Topic: Revised new manager poll
Replies: 255
Views: 27355

Re: Revised new manager poll

Where is all the John O'Shea love coming from? What has he done to show he is the manager to get us up near the top of L1? I feel I may have missed an entire chapter on something he has done Mr Dai likes an ex-Manchester United player. We've had Stam and Ince as managers and O'Shea and Fortune as b...
by 3points
02 May 2023 16:51
Forum: The Team
Topic: Rival Watch
Replies: 17148
Views: 3021240

Re: Rival Watch

Stranded
Bearwood is owned by the club isn't it?

Or rather it is owned by RFC Bearwood Ltd which is 100% owned by The Reading Football Club Limited.

Totally correct
by 3points
02 May 2023 12:36
Forum: The Team
Topic: Rival Watch
Replies: 17148
Views: 3021240

Re: Rival Watch

Worth pointing out that L1 FFP caters for the fee as and when it is paid, it is not included as a lump sum. So for example, Genoa buy Puscas for £3m - if that is paid in 3 instalments of £1m then 1m will be added to the turnover for next season and the rest in the following years. So whilst selling...
by 3points
26 Apr 2023 13:53
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Royal Elm Park - A Missed Opportunity?
Replies: 33
Views: 4544

Re: Royal Elm Park - A Missed Opportunity?

The reality that it didn't happen suggests that it was never commercially viable. If big John didn't want to go ahead with it himself then that tells you something. Was it his idea? I thought it was put forward by the Thais, and possibly the reason why they bought the club in the first place. I won...
by 3points
26 Apr 2023 13:48
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: Royal Elm Park - A Missed Opportunity?
Replies: 33
Views: 4544

Re: Royal Elm Park - A Missed Opportunity?

Dirk Gently
tidus_mi2 Don't know how the EFL would view a club receiving income via non-football related soruces.


Aren't income from a hotel and a conference centre non-football related sources?

Club doesn't receive any money from the hotel and conference centre
by 3points
26 Apr 2023 13:34
Forum: The Team
Topic: Division one things to forward to……..
Replies: 482
Views: 31309

Re: Division one things to forward to……..

You get what you pay for. Or in our case, don't pay for. Aluko, Baldock and Puscas (amongst plenty of others) would suggest that isn’t true! £7.5m + £3m by £6m rising potentially to £9m for three bang average players. The only one who excited me out of those was Puscas who sadly hasn't worked out h...
by 3points
20 Apr 2023 15:48
Forum: The Team
Topic: BFTG - Luton
Replies: 59
Views: 10258

Re: BFTG - Luton

Will AC get a one or two game suspension? Normally 2 yellows is just one game, but he's already been sent off this season against Man Utd
by 3points
14 Apr 2023 12:52
Forum: The Team
Topic: Olise
Replies: 73
Views: 5747

Re: Olise

We put ourselves into a position with both Olise and Richards where we were under embargo and couldn’t offer contracts (regardless of if they’d have been accepted). It is probably my biggest frustration with the EFL process, as there was opportunity to reduce our debts. However we only have ourselv...
by 3points
14 Apr 2023 12:48
Forum: The Team
Topic: Injury watch 2022/23
Replies: 807
Views: 95749

Re: Injury watch 2022/23

what's happened to Bouzanis?
by 3points
12 Apr 2023 13:16
Forum: The Team
Topic: New manager poll
Replies: 138
Views: 13574

Re: New manager poll

Bowen to bring back his old mucker, Mark Hughes, and get the band back together as Eddie is still at the club as well
by 3points
06 Apr 2023 18:47
Forum: Club Policies
Topic: RFC accounts for 2021/2 published
Replies: 133
Views: 37065

Re: RFC accounts for 2021/2 published

you also pay agents' fees when an existing player extends a contract (thinking players like Yiadom, Holmes, McIntyre)
by 3points
03 Apr 2023 16:59
Forum: The Team
Topic: Another 6 point, points deduction incoming
Replies: 307
Views: 35921

Re: Another 6 point, points deduction incoming

If the EFL are giving clubs greater punishments out of spite then they aren't a professional organisation and aren't fit for purpose. Hopefully we have a very good lawyer fighting our corner. I doubt it though. How are lawyer's fees covered in the business plan? Can we afford to pay the fees of a g...
by 3points
03 Apr 2023 15:40
Forum: The Team
Topic: Another 6 point, points deduction incoming
Replies: 307
Views: 35921

Re: Another 6 point, points deduction incoming

Still think it will be a difference of opinion on an accounting treatment. Club says something is OK and therefore we're compliant with the business plan (and P&S) but EFL disagrees with the club's interpretation. Club has two options then 1. Accept EFL's position and take the 6 points 2. Club (...
by 3points
22 Mar 2023 22:44
Forum: STAR (Supporters' Trust At Reading)
Topic: STAR analysis on 2021/22 season accounts
Replies: 5
Views: 4392

STAR analysis on 2021/22 season accounts

This year’s analysis on the STAR website

https://star-reading.org/wp-content/upl ... counts.pdf
by 3points
21 Mar 2023 18:09
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Points Deduction AGAIN
Replies: 762
Views: 112670

Re: Points Deduction AGAIN

I'd be amazed if it is total wages that have stuffed us if it is to do with the business plan and not some issue from 20/21 or earlier. If it is the business plan then it will have to be some breach of either paying a player too much or we've broken the average of new salaries - i.e. we could pay P...
by 3points
20 Mar 2023 17:50
Forum: The Team
Topic: Another 6 point, points deduction incoming
Replies: 307
Views: 35921

Re: Another 6 point, points deduction incoming

Noticed on alot of clubs forums they are upping the ante, calling for blood and want the book thrown at us - along with anyone else if it means survival for them. This is one of many typical posts on Huddersfield forum. I'm not happy with myself in hoping Reading and Wigan get points deducted tbh, ...
by 3points
20 Mar 2023 17:45
Forum: The Team
Topic: Rival Watch
Replies: 17148
Views: 3021240

Re: Rival Watch

Not much to be complicated about there. Were funds deposited in account? Were players payed by x date? No and no. There you go. I think our compliance is inevitably far more complex as it will be many strands of player wages, bonuses, income, and other costs, all intertwining and jumbled up in acco...
by 3points
20 Mar 2023 17:00
Forum: The Team
Topic: Rival Watch
Replies: 17148
Views: 3021240

Re: Rival Watch

Stranded And so it begins. Easiest one first I guess.

But interesting* how quickly a suspended penalty has been applied to them but our suspended penalty has taken 3 weeks and counting.

must show their position was pretty clear cut whereas ours is not
by 3points
20 Mar 2023 15:22
Forum: Rumours and Gossip
Topic: Points Deduction AGAIN
Replies: 762
Views: 112670

Re: Points Deduction AGAIN

I don't think anyone's picked up on this point, but the wages in the business plan relate to player wages specifically whereas the wages in the accounts cover all salaried staff at the club (including players, coaches, scouts, directors, ticket office, club shop, catering, etc). I'm not sure if the...
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