Well Michael’s saying the right things and basically I don’t think he’ll go be going anywhere this month other than for a weekend in Preston. https://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/reading-michael-olise-transfer-latest-19634521 Also, if there is no bid this month from the host of...

Bikey back here as manager one day would be the dream <3 https://www.therottersclub.net/gallery/gifs_hna/data/images1/343sw02.gif <3 <3 Just checked his wiki-page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Bikey) - he went onto some pretty average clubs after leaving Reading; the one fact that made ...

3/4 points off the automatics at the half way point is a very good place to be given the injury crisis we've endured so far.

Hound How many Games have sky given us this year? Happy days

2.5 years worth of sky games at the half way point, quite something!

Not a massive fan of HRK, he just didn't switch it on enough for us, however I will defend Gunter. He was a good player for the level we are at and always gave it his best. At very few to no points while he was playing for us would I describe his position as one of the top 50% most problematic in ou...

Wallbank confident that no-one has triggered a release clause for him so far. £8m must have been incorrect, or a decent nudge lower than what it actually is. Or an agent's ploy to get a tonne of attention on his client.

Luton are basically us 25 years ago, hard to feel any significant negative feelings towards them.

The Athletic confirms that he has an £8m release clause. ‘Reports’ rather than ‘confirms’ surely. Unless the club, the player or his agent go public it isn’t confirmation of anything other than another journalist repeating what someone else said. They phrased it pretty strongly and had spoken to Bo...

The Athletic confirms that he has an £8m release clause.

Birmingham forum gonna be filthy reading if we convert this.

snip snap I think you are probably right. We think he is amazing and worth £50 million, but he'll probably go to one of the promoted teams in June for less than half of that, and ironically, we will all cry. Trick is to be one of those three teams. With such a young squad ready to be pecked apart s...

Swift coming back will be great. Realistically he can rotate into any of Olise, Ejaria, Laurent, and Rino's positions (plus Meite's at a stretch). Between the packed fixture list and his talent it's hard not to see him playing the majority of games that he's fit for.

Just pray we can keep him past January.. It`s going to take a serious amount of money for us to accept on offer, the way to push our promotion push off the rails would be to let him go. Could easily see a 20 million bid coming in. Just pray we can keep him past January.. It`s going to take a seriou...

I'm sure we've all had days where we're not exactly overjoyed at the prospect of work, but go and do our job well anyway, could just be that. His performance most certainly wasn't lacking.

We generated more than enough opportunities in attack and had a couple of shockers in defence.

This is the championship, it happens. And as far as losses go it wasn't that bad. All about PNE on Tuesday now, a win there and this match will be quickly forgotten.

They need to calm down. Panicking because we’re behind and taking ridiculous shots instead of working it into good positions.

Game is still here for the taking.

I think it’s fair to say that in the long run a team is unlikely to significantly outperform its xG. It can happen in cup competitions because you have to win relatively few games. Over the course of a league season you have to either have a great goalkeeper, very clinical forwards (which is much r...

How many of these games are behind the red button as opposed to the normal sky channels? https://twitter.com/ExclusivesFc/status/1321755876580040705 Bournemouth, Wednesday, Bristol, Forest now on tv. So, next 8 games: QPR is right after that run so that'll probably be on sky as well. Lets hope that...

On the xG model Liverpool would have finished last season with 26 points less. It doesn't account for how good goalkeepers are and Rafael is pulling off saves against shots with high xG. Almost like it is a stat that can inform discussion rather than be the settling factor... Then why do all these ...

https://twitter.com/ExclusivesFc/status/1321755876580040705 Bournemouth, Wednesday, Bristol, Forest now on tv. So, next 8 games: 30/10: Coventry (Sky) 04/11: PNE (iFollow) 07/11: Stoke (Sky) 21/11: Bournemouth (Sky) 25/11: Millwall (iFollow) 28/11: Bristol City (Sky) 02/12: Wednesday (Sky) 05/12: F...