If we could get him for about 2/3rds what they paid he'd be about normal level of overpriced and maybe worth it. But I can't see us spending £8m or Villa acceptingn a £4m loss.

As CR said, look at all our comparative big signings: Lita, Halford, Fae, Bikey, Mills, Vydra, Seol, etc etc etc. How many of them have been better than Ok? It's oxf*rd all. All our most impactful signings have been comparatively cheap or home grown. Are you seriously suggesting Lita was not better...

He looked to me like a player with talent who has lost their passion to achieve. Like someone who is comfortable and coasting having secured a career at very decent wages.

I'm not saying he didn't try, just that there didnt seem to be a determination to win his battles and makes his game count.

I'm not concerned about not spending tonnes. We've consistently proved that you don't need to spend a lot (at least in transfer fees) to be successful. It's about recruiting the right sort of player and it's about the team. Even with the undoubted quality that Wolves have signed I'd be very surpris...

I just don't see how he is any better than Samuel looking at his stats. Has anyone seen him play at all and could comment? Is he younger than Samuel, is he less injury prone than Samuel? Stam's seen plenty of Samuel, better try someone who might be better than stick with someone you don't think is ...

I just don't see how he is any better than Samuel looking at his stats. Has anyone seen him play at all and could comment? Is he younger than Samuel, is he less injury prone than Samuel? Stam's seen plenty of Samuel, better try someone who might be better than stick with someone you don't think is ...

I genuinely don't understand why anyone would use twitter to try to get breaking football news. It's just full of tragic attention seeking bullshit merchants peddling any old nonsense. Yeah there's some genuine scoops, but is it really worth all the effort to sort the wheat from the endless chaff to...

Seems like it'd be another move in the direction of supporter's growing sense of over-entitlement.

Why would you compare someone who has been in the role a year with someone who built the role from scratch and was in it for about 10 years or more? The idea is just weird. I mean for a start, you can't really judge the true impact of a signing in just one year. Some signings are meant to have an in...

1 Vito Mannone 2 Chris Gunter 3 Jake Cooper 4 Joey van den Berg 5 Paul McShane 6 Liam Moore 7 Roy Beerens 8 George Evans 9 Joseph Mendes 10 John Swift 11 Jordan Obita 12 Garath McCleary 15 Callum Harriott 17 Sandro Wieser 18 Yann Kermorgant 19 Yakou Meite 20 Tiago Ilori 21 Stephen Quinn 22 Pelle Cl...

Feel like we're setting ourselves up for a huge lol right now if they stay up.. Don't get me wrong I think it would be a surprise considering the strength of the division and their squad right now but if they manage it I can imagine a lot of these quotes will have been screenshot.. I have a huge 'm...

So the bubbles are an attempt to look cool that don't work and the blue shoulders are wrong - too much blue at the top, not quite enough towards the bottom (shorts & socks - white shorts good, but I want some more blue touches down there).

Not for me.

Also the idea of just adding rail seats would also reduce the capacity as you need more room to stand than sit so you lose 10% of capcaity. Why on earth would you need more room to stand rather than sit? That sounds like on of those stupid clueless FLA ideas that has no basis at all in reality. Sta...

So, Lewis Grabban 16 games 3 Goals. Dominic Samuel (Reading Career) 9 Games 2 Goals. Who didn't expect Grabban to start at Wembley and who wouldn't have picked themselves off the floor by half time had Samual been announced as a sub :| Our most important signing this summer was Japp Stam but he's n...

Ahh the annual bullshit fest that is July transfer spaculation.

yep agent stuff I reckon. hopefully will prompt a contract extension. Big fan of Obita, I think he is potentially one of the best LBs in the division. do have a slight concern that Stam does seem to prefer Blackett in that LB spot. He really shouldn't. Blackett is a better defender (who has awful l...

I'd take a consistent end product over searing pace any day of the week. Glen Little didn't have pace but is the best winger I've ever seen in a Reading shirt. A drop of the shoulder or a deft touch gave him all the space he needed. Our problem last season wasn't pace, it was urgency coupled with a...

Well you've pretty much got in one there. Our last competitive game and we had three wingers on the bench, one came on after 74 minutes and the other two not at all, so I'm correct to say that Stam chose ( not refused as you said I said) to play them. We've now aquired two more who can play on the ...

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Quite a lot of last season we had a midfielder at centreback a not quite cente back not quite left back at left back, a dodgy right back and an inconsistent midfield offering mixed quality protection.

I don't think CB is the key to reducing our goals conceded.