Ricardo Santos

[Snowflake Royal]

Bolton and Swansea fans really don't appear to have a very high opinion of him.
However, the Pompey lot seemed to really rate Paddy Lame so.............

Bolton fans said he had 4 great years, then a mixture of illness and injury in his final year which meant he didn't feature much and looked awful when he did. He has since made 1 Swansea appearance where he looked awful.

Seems like a risky signing, even if a couple of years ago he was one of L1's best CBs.

if its a loan I'm ok with this. the comments from the Bolton fans are very worrying. say his legs have gone, lost all his pace and not been the same player since he got pneumonia

Captain Flipflop here, back to very firmly NO if that's the feedback on his more recent appearances.

[MR. CYNICAL]

Who are you referring to? Rushesha is the only player I can think of that we've signed from Swansea

1986 - Nigel Stevenson, played 4 or 5 games I think as Reading tried unsuccessfully to dodge promotion in the 2nd half of that season.

Ah. Fair enough, I was -8 years at the time. Was sat for ages trying to figure it out. Some recent ones are Leroy Lita, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Tivonge Rushesha, Nelson Olivieira, Mo Barrow, Ben Hamer, Finley Burns

We didn't sign Sigurdsson, Hamer or Lita from Swansea

[Hound]

Agreed a fee for him apparently..

[Brogue]

In brogue we trust.

[Sutekh]

Samy at the Chronic on the ball too

Swansea fans reportedly delighted…

[WestYorksRoyal]

Let's hope we're getting the good Bolton version of him

[Greatwesternline]

Anyone else of the view that one of the great downsides of being in League 1 is every transfer rumour is someone you've never heard of and even the ones you end up signing you have to look up to see if they are any good, and when you look them up its a mixture of failed here, did ok there etc.

Back in the glory years and we swoop in for Ian Harte and you're like, awesome, i know him, he was fantastic, if he can deliver some of that form for us we're onto a winner.

You get so little of that instant gratification in these nether regions of the pyramid.

[Brogue]

Anyone else of the view that one of the great downsides of being in League 1 is every transfer rumour is someone you've never heard of and even the ones you end up signing you have to look up to see if they are any good, and when you look them up its a mixture of failed here, did ok there etc.

Back in the glory years and we swoop in for Ian Harte and you're like, awesome, i know him, he was fantastic, if he can deliver some of that form for us we're onto a winner.

You get so little of that instant gratification in these nether regions of the pyramid.

It all seems quite incestuous too. This guy for instance has the same agent as Marriott…

[Hound]

As long as that’s not S Hunt

[Snowflake Royal]

I would say we'd all heard of O'Connor, Lane, Marriott though, right? And generally looked at them and went 'cool, they've got a good track record at this level' with the possible exception of Marriott who is a bit older and had some question marks over whether he could still do it.

It's not like we’ve really done much big name signings even at the height of our success... ooh Royston Drenthe, he's succeeded everywhere! That Emerse Fae, I know all about him. Cracking player!

Even the example of Harte came to us from a lower division.

[Greatwesternline]

I would say we'd all heard of O'Connor, Lane, Marriott though, right? And generally looked at them and went 'cool, they've got a good track record at this level' with the possible exception of Marriott who is a bit older and had some question marks over whether he could still do it.

It's not like we’ve really done much big name signings even at the height of our success... ooh Royston Drenthe, he's succeeded everywhere! That Emerse Fae, I know all about him. Cracking player!

Even the example of Harte came to us from a lower division.

I used Harte as an example as even though he was from lower league, because we were still big time our transfers were still for famous players who were good.

I maybe an outlier but I've literally never heard of any Reading transfer targets these days. I don't pay anywhere near enough attention to know the players if other teams in league 1 is struggling in championship.

Matt Richie was different as he had played lots of PL.

signing players like Duberry, Soul, McAnuff, Pogrebnyak Guthrie,. You always instantly knew who they were. It was all just a bit more fun.

[Snowflake Royal]

I would say we'd all heard of O'Connor, Lane, Marriott though, right? And generally looked at them and went 'cool, they've got a good track record at this level' with the possible exception of Marriott who is a bit older and had some question marks over whether he could still do it.

It's not like we’ve really done much big name signings even at the height of our success... ooh Royston Drenthe, he's succeeded everywhere! That Emerse Fae, I know all about him. Cracking player!

Even the example of Harte came to us from a lower division.

I used Harte as an example as even though he was from lower league, because we were still big time our transfers were still for famous players who were good.

I maybe an outlier but I've literally never heard of any Reading transfer targets these days. I don't pay anywhere near enough attention to know the players if other teams in league 1 is struggling in championship.

Matt Richie was different as he had played lots of PL.

signing players like Duberry, Soul, McAnuff, Pogrebnyak Guthrie,. You always instantly knew who they were. It was all just a bit more fun.

Sounds like its a you issue not paying any attention

[Brogue]

The Swansea independent is reporting the fee is around £300k

[windermereROYAL]

I thought we were well covered at CB even though D Williams is out atm we still have Des and Burns.

[Snowflake Royal]

Well that seems a lot for a recently injured 30 year old centreback who has barely played in a year and is being moved on inside 6 months at a club.

[LightwaterRoyal]

1986 - Nigel Stevenson, played 4 or 5 games I think as Reading tried unsuccessfully to dodge promotion in the 2nd half of that season.

Ah. Fair enough, I was -8 years at the time. Was sat for ages trying to figure it out. Some recent ones are Leroy Lita, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Tivonge Rushesha, Nelson Olivieira, Mo Barrow, Ben Hamer, Finley Burns

We didn't sign Sigurdsson, Hamer or Lita from Swansea

The only player I mentioned that we signed from Swansea directly was Mo Barrow. I probably didn't make it clear enough but I was just thinking of players that have played for both.

[LightwaterRoyal]

I would say we'd all heard of O'Connor, Lane, Marriott though, right? And generally looked at them and went 'cool, they've got a good track record at this level' with the possible exception of Marriott who is a bit older and had some question marks over whether he could still do it.

It's not like we’ve really done much big name signings even at the height of our success... ooh Royston Drenthe, he's succeeded everywhere! That Emerse Fae, I know all about him. Cracking player!

Even the example of Harte came to us from a lower division.

I used Harte as an example as even though he was from lower league, because we were still big time our transfers were still for famous players who were good.

I maybe an outlier but I've literally never heard of any Reading transfer targets these days. I don't pay anywhere near enough attention to know the players if other teams in league 1 is struggling in championship.

Matt Richie was different as he had played lots of PL.

signing players like Duberry, Soul, McAnuff, Pogrebnyak Guthrie,. You always instantly knew who they were. It was all just a bit more fun.

I've always preferred the lower league players that have a point to prove over established players.

At least when the likes of Karl Sheppard, Dave Mooney, Rowan Liburd, Gunnar Heidar Thorvaldsson, Brett Williams disappoint we never expected anhything of them.

Instead we're let down by David Meyler, David Edwards, Danny Guthrie, George Puscas and Sone Aluko who I think we all expected to at least be steady eddies.

[Clyde1998]

I would say we'd all heard of O'Connor, Lane, Marriott though, right? And generally looked at them and went 'cool, they've got a good track record at this level' with the possible exception of Marriott who is a bit older and had some question marks over whether he could still do it.

It's not like we’ve really done much big name signings even at the height of our success... ooh Royston Drenthe, he's succeeded everywhere! That Emerse Fae, I know all about him. Cracking player!

Even the example of Harte came to us from a lower division.

I used Harte as an example as even though he was from lower league, because we were still big time our transfers were still for famous players who were good.

I maybe an outlier but I've literally never heard of any Reading transfer targets these days. I don't pay anywhere near enough attention to know the players if other teams in league 1 is struggling in championship.

Matt Richie was different as he had played lots of PL.

signing players like Duberry, Soul, McAnuff, Pogrebnyak Guthrie,. You always instantly knew who they were. It was all just a bit more fun.

I've always preferred the lower league players that have a point to prove over established players.

At least when the likes of Karl Sheppard, Dave Mooney, Rowan Liburd, Gunnar Heidar Thorvaldsson, Brett Williams disappoint we never expected anhything of them.

Instead we're let down by David Meyler, David Edwards, Danny Guthrie, George Puscas and Sone Aluko who I think we all expected to at least be steady eddies.

I prefer that too - we need players who have a point to prove. Even older players like Jason Roberts still felt they had something to prove. Additionally, if you don't spend a lot of money - your failures don't matter too much.

As an aside, I thought Edwards did fine out of that list. The rest were poor when compared to expectations for various reasons.

[Clyde1998]

Well that seems a lot for a recently injured 30 year old centreback who has barely played in a year and is being moved on inside 6 months at a club.

It does. Swansea probably can't believe their luck at getting £300k for a player they signed for a free in the summer, who's barely played and they wanted to get rid of.

[Sutekh]

The Swansea independent is reporting the fee is around £300k

I hope the club are correct in their evaluation of him and have done their due diligence, not just looked at him in a video from 2 years ago and acted based on that.