Gylfi is leaving Reading

[Royal Lady]

Oh sorry - I kind of assumed you were one and the same due to you seeming to have every answer.

[loyalroyal4life]

His sale has paid for the team to fly to Boro too apparently.

This is the kind of thing that pisses me most about the club and its apparent lack of finance.

They struggle to even fly the team up north??? surely we can't be that bad off to the point we needed to sell our best player to fund a 1 way flight up north?

How can we possibly expect to have a chance for promotion when the side are not given best possible chance to prepare for games like this by reducing travelling time.

[ZacNaloen]

Oh sorry - I kind of assumed you were one and the same due to you seeming to have every answer.

I've been assuming it's Dirk Gently trying to be clever...

[Uke]

His sale has paid for the team to fly to Boro too apparently.

This is the kind of thing that pisses me most about the club and its apparent lack of finance.

They struggle to even fly the team up north??? surely we can't be that bad off to the point we needed to sell our best player to fund a 1 way flight up north?

How can we possibly expect to have a chance for promotion when the side are not given best possible chance to prepare for games like this by reducing travelling time.

Now cost it...

Hire of luxury coach to go to airport, check in two hours early, business class flight tickets (25 of them), collect bags from airport, luxury coach to hotel and to ground. Followed by the same again to come home less airfare assuming return tickets.

Or hire a luxury coach, have the team together for six hours, talk tactics, bond over card games and relax all the way there...

Coach > plane

Unless you don't like your team mates

[Wimb]

How many 6 hour coach journeys have you been on, I don't know about you but I always feel a bit jaded after a long coach trip, far better to spend an hour flying and then chat tactics and have a meal at the ground/nearby then do it all on a coach.

[M Brook]

business class flight tickets (25 of them)

They wouldn't be flying business class.

[Wycombe Royal]

I think this is being taken too seriously. THese comments from McD and Karacan were obviously tongue in cheek.......

[Uke]

How many 6 hour coach journeys have you been on, I don't know about you but I always feel a bit jaded after a long coach trip, far better to spend an hour flying and then chat tactics and have a meal at the ground/nearby then do it all on a coach.

Yeah, cos they'll take the National Express (sings "ba ba ba da...")

Shitloads of coach rides btw

[loyalroyal4life]

I think this is being taken too seriously. THese comments from McD and Karacan were obviously tongue in cheek.......

Yes but do you not think tight duck can at least spend money on quicker travelling means if he cant justify spending money on new players??

Giving us the best possible chance to win games is exactly what we should be doing

[Pseud O'Nym]

Oh sorry - I kind of assumed you were one and the same due to you seeming to have every answer.

I've been assuming it's Dirk Gently trying to be clever...

TBF I found his new name quite amusing, hiding in plain sight sorta thing.

[Woodcote Royal]

His sale has paid for the team to fly to Boro too apparently.

This is the kind of thing that pisses me most about the club and its apparent lack of finance.

They struggle to even fly the team up north??? surely we can't be that bad off to the point we needed to sell our best player to fund a 1 way flight up north?

How can we possibly expect to have a chance for promotion when the side are not given best possible chance to prepare for games like this by reducing travelling time.

If you are suggesting the club is being tight fisted by only flying one way, there may be another explanation.

I, too, elected to fly up for my only trip there and had to stay over night as their was no return flight on Saturday night.

I was lucky enough to have some nice company but, believe me, one night in Middlesbrough is always enough

[Stranded]

I think this is being taken too seriously. THese comments from McD and Karacan were obviously tongue in cheek.......

Yes but do you not think tight duck can at least spend money on quicker travelling means if he cant justify spending money on new players??

Giving us the best possible chance to win games is exactly what we should be doing

Seriously, we were always flying to this game and always getting the coach back.

[Row Z Royal]

Oh sorry - I kind of assumed you were one and the same due to you seeming to have every answer.

I've been assuming it's Dirk Gently trying to be clever...

TBF I found his new name quite amusing, hiding in plain sight sorta thing.

It all becomes clear.

Thanks uncle Google.

[loyalroyal4life]

His sale has paid for the team to fly to Boro too apparently.

This is the kind of thing that pisses me most about the club and its apparent lack of finance.

They struggle to even fly the team up north??? surely we can't be that bad off to the point we needed to sell our best player to fund a 1 way flight up north?

How can we possibly expect to have a chance for promotion when the side are not given best possible chance to prepare for games like this by reducing travelling time.

If you are suggesting the club is being tight fisted by only flying one way, there may be another explanation.

I, too, elected to fly up for my only trip there and had to stay over night as their was no return flight on Saturday night.

I was lucky enough to have some nice company but, believe me, one night in Middlesbrough is always enough

[rabidbee]

Sun Tzu - how do you KNOW he was "categorically not pressued to leave". The coaching team didn't want him to go and he didn't want to go.

Do you _still_ believe that he wouldn't have wanted to swap Reading for the top of the Bundesliga. You're mad.

[Royal Lady]

Sun Tzu - how do you KNOW he was "categorically not pressued to leave". The coaching team didn't want him to go and he didn't want to go.

Do you _still_ believe that he wouldn't have wanted to swap Reading for the top of the Bundesliga. You're mad.

Thanks.

I know, for a FACT, that the coaching team have been well pizzed off by him going. And I believe Gylfi himself wanted to stay here for at least another season.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Sun Tzu - how do you KNOW he was "categorically not pressued to leave". The coaching team didn't want him to go and he didn't want to go.

Do you _still_ believe that he wouldn't have wanted to swap Reading for the top of the Bundesliga. You're mad.

Thanks.

I know, for a FACT, that the coaching team have been well pizzed off by him going. And I believe Gylfi himself wanted to stay here for at least another season.

Why would the coaching team ever be pleased to lose one of the best players?

I'm sure he was happy here. That doesn't equate to him wanting to turn down the move.

The real fact is that we most probably wouldn't have gone up, and he'd have gone at the end of the yeat for rather less than what we got for him now.

[Hoop Blah]

Thanks.

I know, for a FACT, that the coaching team have been well pizzed off by him going. And I believe Gylfi himself wanted to stay here for at least another season.

Of course they're going to be a disappointed he's been sold. They didn't want to lose him.

The deal was too good to turn down from the clubs point of view though and although Sigurdsson didn't appear to be looking to leave he had the final say in the matter.

[Wycombe Royal]

£7m now or the possibility of a loss form or a serious injury and less money next summer.

The offer was simply too good to turn down and even a club rolling in money would have accepted a bid like that.

[prostak]

Lolzat putting FACT in capitals to show one is REALLY SERIOUS in one's namedropping arrogance tbqpfgh.