Wigan sold their training ground to Preston when they were in the poo, they still got a buyer. The club statement yesterday stating there will be an announcement in due course about alternative training arrangements, whether that`s BS on their part to take the heat out of the situation is anybody`s...
It's sort of obvious though. A club comes with loads of outgoings, stadium rent, staff costs, players wages. A training ground facility doesnt come with those things. Much easier to sell because a lot less due diligence needed. Crikey it takes 3 months to sell a house, how could this be done quickl...
dontbedaft So, getting 25M for the training ground will allow us to cover the 1M until the rest of the club can be sold. Does that mean that the surplus can then be used to pay back some of those interest-free loans Dai made to the club?
He paid for Bearwood. He wants his money back. How much of it will he keep, and how much of it will he throw away on a club whose supporters clearly hate him and who insult in the national media? What possible interest has he in saving the club if he can get some money back by selling its assests un...
One consequence is that the asking price for the club must have dropped massively, but would anyone still want to buy? It looks like all that's left to sell is the club - i.e. it's position in the football league and its employees. With no other assets, it could be sold for the nominal £1. That lea...
One thing to take away. Despite so many calls for patience on the sale, it appears Dai and Pang can push through a complicated transaction very quickly when they want to. So perhaps with the club they just don't want to. This must have been planned over many months, not since last weekend. Unless t...
Was just discussing the name of a phoenix club with another supporter. Is there any reason we couldn't just call it "Reading" with no prefix or suffix? :roll: You'll be wanting the new club to play in blue and white hoops next Of course. It looks like we're losing our club due to the inco...
In shock. This is absolutely devastating news. WTF will come of our club now? How can the EFL allow this to happen? You can't just split a club in two like this. Screw all commies, the root of all the shit in the world. Yeah, that's right: it's the shared ownership of the means of production that h...
Something else I've noticed. Certain people on here will just go against the majority seemingly for the sake of it. Like they just love being or want to be controversial. Even Derby fans I know said it was a shocking ref and they felt they had to apologise for the poor decisions. So if Reading fans...
The referee saw a coming together. So he gave it. What he couldnt see is the handball. So he can't give a handball if he didnt see it a handball. Pereira might feel hard done by, but a better lesson to draw from this is, dont rush out and give referees decisions to make.[/quote] If he sees a coming ...
Whether or not he hand balled it before or after the collision, he could see the keeper coming and the keeper had no hope of getting the ball without clearing out the man. The keeper gave away a penalty through his inexperience / exuberance. Keeper gave ref a decision to make. A ref is behind the s...
BFTG. In all my years following Reading (24 and counting), I have never seen such a series of refereeing errors all against one team. And it wasn’t just me…..Was listening to BBC Derbyshire on the drive out of the city. Dwight Gayle said the other Derby players had told him he had handled it. He sai...
Unless there is a Premier League team in dire need of a state of the art training facility in the Thames Valley in the next month and with very high-powered property solicitors, Bearwood will not be sold quickly. Certainly not quickly enough to release funds for this season. It takes longer than tha...
I assumed it was an unpaid job (an impression I got from when the guy got sacked for his comments before a game against Millwall when McGhee was in charge there).
At first he seemed a bit over the top (hence his nick-name). But now I miss him.
BFTG. I think 98% of people are going to say the same thing about this one. Truly dreadful, insipid, weak first half. I remember the slow start being a feature of the Ince era, to the extent he addressed it in an interview - he said he told them not to do it but they did it time after time. For prob...
I have "been there" as a Newport County Fan Going out of the league and bust was horrible and frankly I thought the re-launch was a hopeless dream... We were forced to play outside Wales (at Moreton-in-the Marsh) for a fair while. With four others, I ran the 80 miles to Moreton, raising c...