João, Long and Gray would be a decent strike force trip with Clarke as back up. He would have 3 class strikers to learn from Gray is signing for Aris, arrived there yesterday apparently. We may well have Joao, Long, Wickham, Meite, Puscas and Ince who can do a job up top. Even if Puscas is sold - t...
Make sure you put the plastic sheets on the bed tonight. You are 100% going to wet yourself. I seem to make you wet Nath, you seem to pipe up whenever I post anything. Asl? I want you to just relax, go with the flow, be open minded and love a little. Give the new era a chance, embrace change. Oh yo...
Yep, essentially Kia got some players here who we had no right to get but it is down to Bowen/Carey now. Kia may still be used if it will help a deal that they want. Can’t believe our fans are falling for it (again). Kia Joorabchian got Bowen to the club in 2019. He was probably behind bringing him...
Sounds like a bit more in the Bowen interview No Kia making decisions apparently, solely Bowen and co. Will give it a listen Yep, essentially Kia got some players here who we had no right to get but it is down to Bowen/Carey now. Kia may still be used if it will help a deal that they want. Can’t be...
Bit weird that Andy Rinomhota will be competing with Leandro Bacuna next year for game time at Cardiff. Both play CM / RB and both not a huge loss in the grand scheme of things.
I actually quite like the look of that line up, although you just know that Ince won’t go with two strikers up top. The same happened to us when Pauno was here. Refused to risk our best players because they might get injured. Ultimately it cost us a play off place. If we don’t play to the best of th...
Every Reading fan wants Luke Southwood to do well but he clearly lacks presence and isn’t the finished article - had howlers against Hull, Derby, Huddersfield and we won’t mention the Fulham home game… Lumley clearly had something about him before boro signed him up. I remember Brentford fans tellin...
Decent effort from Macron with Stoke’s new away shirt. https://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/stories/stoke-city-2022-2023-away-kit/stoke_city_2022_2023_away_kit_a.jpeg https://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/stories/stoke-city-2022-2023-away-kit/stoke_city_2022_2023_away_kit_e.jpeg https:...
Repeating the same mistakes imo. He hasn’t played a 30+ game season since 2017. Would be delighted if he proved me wrong, just don’t think Long will spend much time out of the treatment room.
Decent effort from Macron with Stoke’s new away shirt. https://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/stories/stoke-city-2022-2023-away-kit/stoke_city_2022_2023_away_kit_a.jpeg https://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/stories/stoke-city-2022-2023-away-kit/stoke_city_2022_2023_away_kit_e.jpeg https:/...
With Laurent and Rino potentially leaving, I wouldn’t be surprised to see us go in for Josh McEachran or Hiram Boateng, both set to be released by MK Dons. Might as well offer Connor Wickham a contract whilst we are there as he is being released too. After all we seem to suggest him returning to the...
Well at least the fan base are all getting along :lol: Tbh all the posts in the thread about little expectation, survival will be a success etc aren’t in line with the harsh reality of football. Football fans are expectant. They crave success. If we are sat around the lower end of the table come Dec...
Late to the party I know, but did we really just totally ditch scouting in favour of agents!? Unclear. There's conflicting info. My guess is we used a network of 'consultant' scouts for finding players, and by the time Ince came in had no one physically attending games outside the coaching and mana...
Yeah we need to go back to traditional scouting. For years Reading would raid the lower leagues, Scotland and Ireland and pick up some bargains. The talent is out there if you look hard enough. We just need to go back to basics. yeah i was talking bollox as per usual :roll: , just found the minutes...