When will we break our transfer record?

When will we spend more than £2.5m on a player?

2016/2017
4
7%
2017/2018
19
35%
2018/2019
5
9%
2019/2020
2
4%
After that
7
13%
Never
2
4%
Ian Royal
16
29%
 
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When will we break our transfer record?

by CountryRoyal » 11 Aug 2016 14:14

With the crazy amount of money flying about in football these days and transfer records being broken left, right and centre when will it be our turn to "smash" ours?

I'm going for next year (assuming we don't get relegated). Premier league football or not I think our owner's as frugal as they seem are going to want to get on with things and think we will see a player come in for £3m or so. Obviously after selling Swift and Meite for a combined £15m.

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by maffff » 11 Aug 2016 16:16

Liam Moore next summer could be a possibility.

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Sutekh » 11 Aug 2016 16:39

I remember the days of supporting a club whose record transfer spend was £20k for Steve Death in 1970, then £40k, then a whopping £50k (reached within weeks of each other in the very late 70s i believe) and this was still 1986....

So big transfer and or record fees for players coming into Reading are rarer than a Graeme Murty goal.

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by maffff » 16 May 2017 02:12

Answer was January 2017

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Sutekh » 16 May 2017 07:49

maffff Answer was January 2017


Or not. The fee was actually undisclosed and could have been anywhere between £2m and £3.5m. Does anyone have a copy of the receipt?


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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Winston Biscuit » 16 May 2017 08:09

Liverpool only paid €4.8M (£3.6M) for Ilori in the first place as no add on clauses were met, anyone who thinks we then paid £3.5M for him is mentz

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Nameless » 16 May 2017 08:25

Spoke to someone who is in the game and in a reasonable position to know about transfers and his view was we certainly broke our transfer record for Illori. He was less than convinced it was value for money.....

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by maffff » 17 May 2017 01:29

Nameless Spoke to someone who is in the game and in a reasonable position to know about transfers and his view was we certainly broke our transfer record for Illori. He was less than convinced it was value for money.....

Depending on how Wembley goes tonight's performance could end up being worth a good chunk of £170m+. How's that for value for money? :mrgreen:

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Nameless » 17 May 2017 07:07

Illori looked like in time he might be ok, given decent coaching !
I'd say if we go up then whatever we paid for him looks good, although how you assess the value of the deals for Ali and Yann I have no idea !


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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Stanley » 17 May 2017 16:02

Sorry for probably asking a stupid question but why is there an Ian Royal choice on the poll? Who's Ian Royal?

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by LWJ » 17 May 2017 16:21

Nameless Illori looked like in time he might be ok, given decent coaching !

He has looked pretty fcking class when playing for us. Needs to learn when to get rid and when not to but other than that he has been solid.

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Forbury Lion » 17 May 2017 16:59

Stanley Sorry for probably asking a stupid question but why is there an Ian Royal choice on the poll? Who's Ian Royal?
As soon as you know the answer, you will wish you hadn't asked.

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by loyalroyal4life » 17 May 2017 17:45

Forbury Lion
Stanley Sorry for probably asking a stupid question but why is there an Ian Royal choice on the poll? Who's Ian Royal?
As soon as you know the answer, you will wish you hadn't asked.



+1

:lol:


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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Stanley » 17 May 2017 18:07

Forbury Lion
Stanley Sorry for probably asking a stupid question but why is there an Ian Royal choice on the poll? Who's Ian Royal?
As soon as you know the answer, you will wish you hadn't asked.

Is he the team board hard man?

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Winston Biscuit » 18 May 2017 08:28

Stanley
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Stanley Sorry for probably asking a stupid question but why is there an Ian Royal choice on the poll? Who's Ian Royal?
As soon as you know the answer, you will wish you hadn't asked.

Is he the team board hard man?


yeah. he killed a man with his bare hands back in 2001 for criticising Leo Roget, was released from prison early last year and yep you guessed it, straight back on the team board beefing all over the place.

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Stanley » 18 May 2017 08:53

Winston Biscuit
Stanley
Forbury Lion As soon as you know the answer, you will wish you hadn't asked.

Is he the team board hard man?


yeah. he killed a man with his bare hands back in 2001 for criticising Leo Roget, was released from prison early last year and yep you guessed it, straight back on the team board beefing all over the place.


joking, right?

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Kuhl_Runnings » 18 May 2017 11:15

A year so far in the future that no biological life can exist on earth and all AI life has left besides a Bionic Ian Royal living in an ice cave who signs himself for a one man Reading FC with one of the last remaining diamonds worth 2 quintillion xgjsiois and also renames the year after himself because nothing else is around and why not.

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by Chuckle Brother » 18 May 2017 13:35

Nameless Illori looked like in time he might be ok, given decent coaching !
I'd say if we go up then whatever we paid for him looks good, although how you assess the value of the deals for Ali and Yann I have no idea !


Will risk a whoosh here but might be ok ?

He was absolute class on Tuesday.

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by From Despair To Where? » 18 May 2017 16:20

Winston Biscuit
Stanley
Forbury Lion As soon as you know the answer, you will wish you hadn't asked.

Is he the team board hard man?


yeah. he killed a man with his bare hands back in 2001 for criticising Leo Roget, was released from prison early last year and yep you guessed it, straight back on the team board beefing all over the place.


Well, he's killed plenty of threads.

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Re: When will we break our transfer record?

by East Yorkshire Royal » 02 Jun 2017 13:15

Tiago Iirol was 3.7m

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