Best loan signing

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Re: Best loan signing

by Tilehurstsouthbank » 10 Oct 2017 09:14

John Smith Was Steve Mautone a loan signing? Utterly immense from my early Elm Park memories - remember him saving a pen and just generally being a hero in a pretty poor period for us.


Yes he was. Hence the song; Steve Mautone, here on loan!

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Re: Best loan signing

by Sutekh » 10 Oct 2017 09:15

John Smith Was Steve Mautone a loan signing? Utterly immense from my early Elm Park memories - remember him saving a pen and just generally being a hero in a pretty poor period for us.


Loan for a month then signed for 250k, looked brilliant until one day he had the temerity to partake of a warm up at Port Vale and that was the end of his career.

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Re: Best loan signing

by Smithy » 10 Oct 2017 21:38

Ian jureff ? Always remember that hat trick against bognor Regis

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Re: Best loan signing

by BKnumber6 » 11 Oct 2017 13:18

Team of loaners 4-5-1

GK: Hahnemann
LB: Griffin
CB: Upson
CB: Khizanishvili
RB: Bertrand
LM: Salako
CM: Leigertwood
CM: Watson (I seem to remember him becoming terrible once we signed him permanently?)
CM: Chaloba
RM: Little (not great during loan but was so brilliant before it that he's in)
ST: Kitson (Same as Little, I still love him so he's in)

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Re: Best loan signing

by Berxwedan Zinar » 15 Oct 2017 10:54

Hahnemann wouldn't even get to the bench, being some way behind Tommy Wright, Chris Woods and Jim Leighton.

Best loan players: I'll pick Mark McKeever for the Stoke game, Steve Blatherwick for seeming like a decent chap and John Humphrey for his performances in Sensible Soccer.


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Re: Best loan signing

by BR2 » 16 Oct 2017 12:09

BKnumber6 Team of loaners 4-5-1

GK: Hahnemann
LB: Griffin
CB: Upson
CB: Khizanishvili
RB: Bertrand
LM: Salako
CM: Leigertwood
CM: Watson (I seem to remember him becoming terrible once we signed him permanently?)
CM: Chaloba
RM: Little (not great during loan but was so brilliant before it that he's in)
ST: Kitson (Same as Little, I still love him so he's in)


A pretty good starting eleven there-the one change for me would be McKeever instead of Salako as he made such an impression whereas I always felt that Salako had seen better days and was more going through the motions.
The one decent player out of Burns' deadline-day signings was the centre-back from Newcastle with the Irish name who looked really good for us in a poor team but (as with McKeever) never went on to do much.
We have had some excellent keeper loan signings in the more distant past as mentioned earlier by others and IMHO Leighton was possibly the best-unexpectedly so as he had committed a few blunders with Man Utd and Scotland not long before joining us.

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Re: Best loan signing

by KC Royal » 17 Oct 2017 09:07

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I will always maintain that this guy was responsible for the 106 season with that assist in the Sheffield United home game, to take us within 3 points of them at the top. Reading legend, as far as I'm concerned.


Now plays for Amiens SC in France. He's 31 now so was only 19 or so when he floated that free kick in....

Gets me thinking this one, how may other Reading players are there that are remembered - favourably - for just one moment on the pitch.


Ulises de La Cruz.
That goal he scored against???? AArgh


genome Villa


Was against Sheffield United. Still for me the best team goal I've seen us score live. Seem to remember he'd had a shaky start in the game before that too!

As for best ever, can't see past Upson.

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Re: Best loan signing

by Royalwaster » 17 Oct 2017 09:15

BKnumber6 Team of loaners 4-5-1

GK: Hahnemann
LB: Griffin
CB: Upson
CB: Khizanishvili
RB: Bertrand
LM: Salako
CM: Leigertwood
CM: Watson (I seem to remember him becoming terrible once we signed him permanently?)
CM: Chaloba
RM: Little (not great during loan but was so brilliant before it that he's in)
ST: Kitson (Same as Little, I still love him so he's in)


Wasn't Little on loan with us and then he signed ... did he come back on loan later?

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Re: Best loan signing

by genome » 17 Oct 2017 09:30

KC Royal
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Now plays for Amiens SC in France. He's 31 now so was only 19 or so when he floated that free kick in....

Gets me thinking this one, how may other Reading players are there that are remembered - favourably - for just one moment on the pitch.


Ulises de La Cruz.
That goal he scored against???? AArgh


genome Villa


Was against Sheffield United. Still for me the best team goal I've seen us score live. Seem to remember he'd had a shaky start in the game before that too!

As for best ever, can't see past Upson.


Ah yeah - we bought him from Villa.


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Re: Best loan signing

by paultheroyal » 17 Oct 2017 21:30

Best loan signing - salako
Worst signing using grant funded money - salako

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Re: Best loan signing

by RoyalX » 18 Oct 2017 01:10

under the tin
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genome
I will always maintain that this guy was responsible for the 106 season with that assist in the Sheffield United home game, to take us within 3 points of them at the top. Reading legend, as far as I'm concerned.


Now plays for Amiens SC in France. He's 31 now so was only 19 or so when he floated that free kick in....

Gets me thinking this one, how may other Reading players are there that are remembered - favourably - for just one moment on the pitch.


Ulises de La Cruz.
That goal he scored against???? AArgh


Sheffield United. Same game Keith Gillespie got sent off moments after coming on

One of my favourite ever goals and favourite ever games.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CDojavqxIW4

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Re: Best loan signing

by under the tin » 18 Oct 2017 08:50

RoyalX
under the tin
Sutekh
Now plays for Amiens SC in France. He's 31 now so was only 19 or so when he floated that free kick in....

Gets me thinking this one, how may other Reading players are there that are remembered - favourably - for just one moment on the pitch.


Ulises de La Cruz.
That goal he scored against???? AArgh


Sheffield United. Same game Keith Gillespie got sent off moments after coming on

One of my favourite ever goals and favourite ever games.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CDojavqxIW4

Proper football, Wally Downes steaming into Colin, Noisy full stadium.
Oh happy days

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Re: Best loan signing

by KC Royal » 18 Oct 2017 08:56

RoyalX
under the tin
Sutekh
Now plays for Amiens SC in France. He's 31 now so was only 19 or so when he floated that free kick in....

Gets me thinking this one, how may other Reading players are there that are remembered - favourably - for just one moment on the pitch.


Ulises de La Cruz.
That goal he scored against???? AArgh


Sheffield United. Same game Keith Gillespie got sent off moments after coming on

One of my favourite ever goals and favourite ever games.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CDojavqxIW4


I'd forgotten how lucky that 1-2 between De La Cruz and Harper was! Still a great goal though.
That spat after the Gillespie sending off soured things for me. That was also the game when Sonko picked up his serious injury :( I've always wondered if he'd not tried to play on whether it might not have turned out so bad, couldn't believe it when he came back on.


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Re: Best loan signing

by BR2 » 18 Oct 2017 11:11

Totally agree about Sonko-we said at the time "WTF is he doing carrying on?"
Poor management/physio decision IMHO.

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Re: Best loan signing

by John Smith » 18 Oct 2017 11:19

Sonko was an awful, awful footballer

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Re: Best loan signing

by donface » 18 Oct 2017 12:05

John Smith Sonko was an awful, awful footballer


Jesus.


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Re: Best loan signing

by Forbury Lion » 18 Oct 2017 12:29

Does Michael Hector count? - We sold him to Chelsea then loaned him back immediately.

IIRC in the Robin Friday book there was a story about Reading trying to seem one of their goalkeepers but couldn't because he was actually on loan at Reading from Arsenal and the club had forgotten this fact :lol:

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Re: Best loan signing

by Rudolph Hucker » 18 Oct 2017 12:37

George Shipley back end of '78-'79 deserves a mention. Never on the losing side for Reading and never even conceded a goal during his loan spell.

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Re: Best loan signing

by RockheadRumple » 18 Oct 2017 14:16

Bongani Khumalo

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Re: Best loan signing

by Marino13 » 18 Oct 2017 14:42

loan signings that stick in my mind

upson
mckeever
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