Just talk to generate interest. I’d expect him to move permanently to another PL team. Still football is a funny old game (but very probably not quite funny enough for Reading to be able to land him).

Going to be a very long season for Maidenhead at this rate. Not a surprise really, done well to survive for as long as they have. Presumably still the only part time side in the National League and only survived last season on ppg (though if their home form hadn’t have been quite so wretched they w...

I’ve only just looked at the next 7. Wycombe, Rotherham, Coventry we need to be picking up max points. Then a few points from Boro, Blackburn, Preston & Stoke should see us in a strong position prior to the crazy Xmas run of fixtures. 29th November to 29th Dec, nine fixtures! Should prove very ...

Instead of footballers being arrested and clubs going into crisis and players taking whacking great salaries for, seemingly, not much return, let’s have a positive thread celebrating the good that clubs and players do/have done in the world. I’ll start with Mo Salah showing what a great human being ...

Have we ever had a home game after the international breaks? I seem to recall it's always a long trip like Middlesborough every time. :roll: Three games after the international break last season, yes one was Middlesbrough (a) :lol: Other two were a trip to Brentford and a home game with Preston The...

My fondest memory of Hughes was scoring a belter from 40yds at Molyneux although I also remember a game at Grimsby where he and Forster ran their defence ragged and Alan Pouton scored an own goal from half way line. We played some good stuff under Pardew. I was at that Grimsby game, ball looped up ...

According to the latest bits I’ve seen it’s between Reading and Norwich with interest from Championship clubs have apparently dropped away. However Norwich have denied they’re in talks and their local paper mentions Farke’s interest in Arsenal’s William Saliba as well as the possibility of Norwich l...

Winston Biscuit Ya man at Barnsley has also quit today so he could manage in the American pro soccer extravaganza

Hannes Wolf reportedly being lined up as Barnsley’s next German manager

NewCorkSeth Apparently Gunnersaurus has been let go as part of cost cutting measures. A step too far imo.

Gooner Gunnersaurus Gone ?

RIP Gonersaurus

England U19s v Scotland U19s abandoned. Eng 3-1 up at half-time and players waiting to go out.... Players told a Covid test result of one of the backroom staff was revealed during match, causing cancellation https://mobile.twitter.com/mcgrathmike/status/1314224612448899076 I thought they did tests ...

Ady interviews Mick Gooding in the latest BBC Berks podcast

Traditional full back may have been "simple" but the role is much more complex these days. There us a much greater expectation that the player can attack and defend almost equally well, timing and decision making massively important, get it wrong and the whole defensive shape is Fubared. ...

Eddie's latest Tweet on this: Omri Luzon has told me that he visited the training ground today, where he had a COVID test, he hopes to sign when the result comes back. The new training ground wows players, and is a massive pull factor. He says he’s signing for the u23’s with a view of progression I...

Great 2-1 win for Bracknell at Chertsey last night in front of 400. Late winner from Dan Bayliss pushes the Robins up to second. Yeah was a fine win! Could defintiely go up this season which will mean finding a new stadium to play in. Wondering if Slough will be an option until they sort a new grou...

Am I the only one who hates international breaks ? As far as I am concerned it’s just an irritating interruption to the real thing:namely Championship football. No, I don’t like them either as usually it’s pointless “friendly” games being played. Even the Euro and World Cup qualification groups the...

SCIAG You’re only just wrong - most he scored for us in one season was 9.

And if anyone was wondering, Andy Hughes is now a first team coach at Sheff Wed after managing Sheff U’s u23s last season.

In his four full seasons in the Championship, Hughton has finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Championship record is... 1st with Newcastle in 2009/10 4th with Birmingham in 2011/12 3rd with Brighton in 2015/16 2nd with Brighton in 2016/17 He also led Brighton to 20th in season 2014/15 but had only been...

A good news story this evening. Dejan Tetek has said in an interview that Veljko Paunović contacted the Serbia FA about him and he then began the switch of changing from England to Serbia. With his debut for us last weekend and now on a training camp with the Serbia U19’s - what a week it’s been fo...

I think it’s unfortunate for McNulty but also not convinced he’s good enough. However...we’ve barely played him, and rarely played him when he was just signed, which was odd. The mistake the club made was signing both him & Baldock in the same window...why sign 2 small strikers? And then spend ...

Having said all that, if Esteves is ready he should come straight in. Not only is he specialist FB but he's also very highly-rated. May well be lacking match fitness. Also needs to settle in. Well he's playing for his country this week And so not likely to meet his new team mates until next Wed/Thu.