Brian signs new contract

[wolsey]

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~2327151,00.html

McDermott signs new contract
Posted on: Wed 30 Mar 2011

Reading Football Club are delighted to announce that, in recognition of his outstanding contribution since his appointment, manager Brian McDermott has today agreed an amendment to his contract on improved terms.

Royals Chairman Sir John Madejski said, "Brian has done a magnificent job for Reading Football Club, and I am absolutely delighted with this agreement. We were rightly proactive in approaching him with this new contract, his star is rising and being on a rolling contract suits both parties, it protects the club's position and rightly rewards him for his performance.

"I have complete faith that, under Brian's management, both the team and the club will continue to move forward and we are very well placed for now and indeed the future. He and I have an excellent working relationship and great mutual respect; when we appointed him we knew he was a true Reading man and he has shown himself to be a manager of the utmost integrity and great aptitude."

Brian McDermott added, "I am absolutely delighted, this is the place I want to be and the club I want to work at.

"I've been here close to 11 years and I feel very much part of things. I'd like to thank the Chairman, the board and Nick Hammond, and I'm also fortunate to have fantastic staff and players. As a club we have continuity, it's a great place to work and a great place to be. Now we look to the rest of the season, we've got nine games left and so much to play for."

Brian took charge at Madejski Stadium in December 2009 with the club very much in a relegation dogfight, and he not only guided the club safely away from the wrong end of the table, but we came within a whisker of making last season's play-offs; a task that seemed impossible given our position when he first took over. The season ended as the ninth-best finish in our 139-year history, and in addition we made the quarter finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 1927, knocking out Liverpool at Anfield as one of our Premier League conquests.

This season McDermott's men have again performed very well, and after a seven-game unbeaten League run we are within touching distance of the top six with a game in hand. And, after waiting 83 years for an FA Cup quarter final our supporters have now experienced two in two seasons, our Wembley bid only ended by a single goal away to Premier League Manchester City.

Brian has engendered excellent relations with our fans thanks to his open approach and genuine respect for their support, and he has also got the best out of a number of players - the likes of Shane Long, Jimmy Kebe and Matt Mills were not in the team when he took over, while 75% of Gylfi Sigurdsson's goals last season came under Brian's tutelage.

This new contract renews the commitment between him and the club, and together we continue to look forward to our future with optimism.




Good on you Brian.

Never been happier to have someone to represent my team (and that includes Steve Coppell)

[brendywendy]

great news, top man.

[floyd__streete]

What a terrible, miserly move by our penny-pinching club

Woah, hold on a minute. Delightful news. I like BMc for the steady progress we've made under him over the last 15 months, but tbh I like him even more for the fact that he basically looks like a manager of a pub team - fat, bald bloke in a tracksuit.

[Royal Lady]

It doesn't say how long the contract is for does it? all I've read just says it's a contract with improved terms.

[RG30]

Rolling contract RL

[ZacNaloen]

That's all it is.

12 month rolling contract. More Money.

[Svlad Cjelli]

How do you extend a rolling contract?

[Archie's penalty]

Brilliant news. Brian is superb, so many great memories within such a short space of time, a really impressive tactician and a thoroughly nice guy.

Makes me positive about the club and we're lucky to have him.

[SWLR]

What a terrible, miserly move by our penny-pinching club

Woah, hold on a minute. Delightful news. I like BMc for the steady progress we've made under him over the last 15 months, but tbh I like him even more for the fact that he basically looks like a manager of a pub team - fat, bald bloke in a tracksuit.

I model myself on him... it was always harder under Coppell as none of my suit trousers would come up to my nipples

[ZacNaloen]

How do you extend a rolling contract?

Who's reporting it as an extension, the press release makes it pretty clear it's simply a payrise

[No Hoops]

Great news but why didn't I get this on the text service.

What a shambles.

Madjeski out

[Gordons Cumming]

We've been very fortunate with the last 2 managers.

[facaldaqui]

We've been very fortunate with the last 2 managers.

Eh?

[Archie's penalty]

We've been very fortunate with the last 2 managers.

Eh?

[No Hoops]

We've been very fortunate with the last 2 managers.

Think some one forgot Buck.

[Hampshire Royal]

Rodgers was appointed to make McD look even better. Brilliant bit of staffing by JM.

[Top Flight]

Excellent news. I'm delighted.

Well done McDermott for doing such a brilliant job up to this point. Now stop reading all the plaudits on this thread, get back to work and finish the job you started and get us back in the Premier League.

[Winnershroyal]

Rodgers was appointed to make McD look even better. Brilliant bit of staffing by JM.

Yeah he's really struggling at Swansea.

[RoyalJames101]

I love McDermott.

*no homo*

[Libertine]

Kudos to SJM for giving Brian a much deserved raise.

He deserves it...