by Royal Ginger » 15 Oct 2019 20:21
by Stevie G » 15 Oct 2019 20:23
HoundStrandedroyal_rumble
Haha, the amount of naivety on here is amazing. I suppose Anton is still coming back to buy that 51% hey? The Thais weren't just after the land? Gourlay was a competent senieor exec?
I've based the above upon the operations of Reading over the years, that is seems to have been (and continues to be) poorly run by people with conflicted interests.
All I will add, if Bowen was such a snake why have 4 coaches that Gomes brought with him chosen to stay on? Usually when a manger goes the majority of their coaching staff go too - would 4 really stay to work for the man who got Gomes fired?
maybe they all stabbed Jose in the back as well?
by Snowflake Royal » 15 Oct 2019 20:25
strapwindermereROYAL No mention there on length of contract.
The snake confirmed in its Berkshire Live interview:
Contract
It's till the end of the season. I didn't think about the length of the contract.
https://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/new-reading-fc-manager-mark-17086617
So when it takes us down into League 1 at least there won't be a massive pay-off required to sack him. Maybe Mr Dai isn't as stupid as he looked when making this appointment on the snake's recommendation.
by Royal_jimmy » 15 Oct 2019 20:27
by leon » 15 Oct 2019 21:18
by Royals-For-Life » 15 Oct 2019 21:58
by Only one Trevor Morley » 15 Oct 2019 23:04
by URZZZZZZZZ » 16 Oct 2019 08:06
strapwindermereROYAL No mention there on length of contract.
The snake confirmed in its Berkshire Live interview:
Contract
It's till the end of the season. I didn't think about the length of the contract.
https://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/new-reading-fc-manager-mark-17086617
So when it takes us down into League 1 at least there won't be a massive pay-off required to sack him. Maybe Mr Dai isn't as stupid as he looked when making this appointment on the snake's recommendation.
by Snowflake Royal » 16 Oct 2019 08:33
URZZZZZZZZ Some superb narrative has been concocted with this appointment, and in true Reading fans fashion there has been an absolute meltdown.
Jose was quite rightly sacked because he oversaw a transfer window where we spent big, and all the signals were pointing towards us not getting out of the losing run we found ourselves in.
Paying off Jose and finding a replacement would be costly, and given we stretched ourselves from a FFP point of view over the summer we decided to go with the ‘cheap’ option with Bowen. All of which would have been determined by the owners (and possibly the agent), not Mark.
Get behind him ffs and stop throwing your toys out the pram about a completely fabricated story. If he turns out to be rubbish then by all means apply some pressure, but don’t have a go at the man for something that simply isn’t true before a ball has been kicked.
by Stranded » 16 Oct 2019 08:47
Snowflake RoyalURZZZZZZZZ Some superb narrative has been concocted with this appointment, and in true Reading fans fashion there has been an absolute meltdown.
Jose was quite rightly sacked because he oversaw a transfer window where we spent big, and all the signals were pointing towards us not getting out of the losing run we found ourselves in.
Paying off Jose and finding a replacement would be costly, and given we stretched ourselves from a FFP point of view over the summer we decided to go with the ‘cheap’ option with Bowen. All of which would have been determined by the owners (and possibly the agent), not Mark.
Get behind him ffs and stop throwing your toys out the pram about a completely fabricated story. If he turns out to be rubbish then by all means apply some pressure, but don’t have a go at the man for something that simply isn’t true before a ball has been kicked.
If we had enough money to buy Joao and Puscas, a settlement with Gomes and new manager is easily affordable.
Why does everyone seem to think that a no mark manager with no pedigree who was brought in as third choice would be on a big wedge?
Maybe, there just weren't many desireable options available who would consider us and Bowen has actually impressed people here.
Could we not just dismiss every new manager as a cheap yes man for a change?
by Forbury Lion » 16 Oct 2019 08:52
Some possible reasonsStranded All I will add, if Bowen was such a snake why have 4 coaches that Gomes brought with him chosen to stay on? Usually when a manger goes the majority of their coaching staff go too - would 4 really stay to work for the man who got Gomes fired?
by Millsy » 16 Oct 2019 08:53
Snowflake RoyalURZZZZZZZZ Some superb narrative has been concocted with this appointment, and in true Reading fans fashion there has been an absolute meltdown.
Jose was quite rightly sacked because he oversaw a transfer window where we spent big, and all the signals were pointing towards us not getting out of the losing run we found ourselves in.
Paying off Jose and finding a replacement would be costly, and given we stretched ourselves from a FFP point of view over the summer we decided to go with the ‘cheap’ option with Bowen. All of which would have been determined by the owners (and possibly the agent), not Mark.
Get behind him ffs and stop throwing your toys out the pram about a completely fabricated story. If he turns out to be rubbish then by all means apply some pressure, but don’t have a go at the man for something that simply isn’t true before a ball has been kicked.
If we had enough money to buy Joao and Puscas, a settlement with Gomes and new manager is easily affordable.
Why does everyone seem to think that a no mark manager with no pedigree who was brought in as third choice would be on a big wedge?
Maybe, there just weren't many desireable options available who would consider us and Bowen has actually impressed people here.
Could we not just dismiss every new manager as a cheap yes man for a change?
by URZZZZZZZZ » 16 Oct 2019 09:27
Snowflake RoyalURZZZZZZZZ Some superb narrative has been concocted with this appointment, and in true Reading fans fashion there has been an absolute meltdown.
Jose was quite rightly sacked because he oversaw a transfer window where we spent big, and all the signals were pointing towards us not getting out of the losing run we found ourselves in.
Paying off Jose and finding a replacement would be costly, and given we stretched ourselves from a FFP point of view over the summer we decided to go with the ‘cheap’ option with Bowen. All of which would have been determined by the owners (and possibly the agent), not Mark.
Get behind him ffs and stop throwing your toys out the pram about a completely fabricated story. If he turns out to be rubbish then by all means apply some pressure, but don’t have a go at the man for something that simply isn’t true before a ball has been kicked.
If we had enough money to buy Joao and Puscas, a settlement with Gomes and new manager is easily affordable.
Why does everyone seem to think that a no mark manager with no pedigree who was brought in as third choice would be on a big wedge?
Maybe, there just weren't many desireable options available who would consider us and Bowen has actually impressed people here.
Could we not just dismiss every new manager as a cheap yes man for a change?
by Stranded » 16 Oct 2019 12:27
by Snowflake Royal » 16 Oct 2019 12:50
Stranded JLow on the Elm Park Royals podcast stating that we did approach one manager who turned us down so may well be that we had a #1 target and when we couldn't get him the board decided the best approach was to give it to someone already at the club to avoid a lengthy delay in appointing someone - certainly may explain why Bowen just has an initial scope of til the end of the season - if he does very well, he may get a new deal else they may well go back in for whoever the #1 target was.
Indeed, the target may have made it clear he has an interest but not interested until the summer.
by Hound » 16 Oct 2019 12:53
Stranded JLow on the Elm Park Royals podcast stating that we did approach one manager who turned us down so may well be that we had a #1 target and when we couldn't get him the board decided the best approach was to give it to someone already at the club to avoid a lengthy delay in appointing someone - certainly may explain why Bowen just has an initial scope of til the end of the season - if he does very well, he may get a new deal else they may well go back in for whoever the #1 target was.
Indeed, the target may have made it clear he has an interest but not interested until the summer.
by Stranded » 16 Oct 2019 12:55
HoundStranded JLow on the Elm Park Royals podcast stating that we did approach one manager who turned us down so may well be that we had a #1 target and when we couldn't get him the board decided the best approach was to give it to someone already at the club to avoid a lengthy delay in appointing someone - certainly may explain why Bowen just has an initial scope of til the end of the season - if he does very well, he may get a new deal else they may well go back in for whoever the #1 target was.
Indeed, the target may have made it clear he has an interest but not interested until the summer.
Saw that. Been nice for JLow to have named names just for our interests sake
Wonder if it was Hughes - thought JLow hinted at him originally
HoundStranded JLow on the Elm Park Royals podcast stating that we did approach one manager who turned us down so may well be that we had a #1 target and when we couldn't get him the board decided the best approach was to give it to someone already at the club to avoid a lengthy delay in appointing someone - certainly may explain why Bowen just has an initial scope of til the end of the season - if he does very well, he may get a new deal else they may well go back in for whoever the #1 target was.
Indeed, the target may have made it clear he has an interest but not interested until the summer.
Saw that. Been nice for JLow to have named names just for our interests sake
Wonder if it was Hughes - thought JLow hinted at him originally
by Victor Meldrew » 16 Oct 2019 13:05
StrandedSnowflake RoyalURZZZZZZZZ Some superb narrative has been concocted with this appointment, and in true Reading fans fashion there has been an absolute meltdown.
Jose was quite rightly sacked because he oversaw a transfer window where we spent big, and all the signals were pointing towards us not getting out of the losing run we found ourselves in.
Paying off Jose and finding a replacement would be costly, and given we stretched ourselves from a FFP point of view over the summer we decided to go with the ‘cheap’ option with Bowen. All of which would have been determined by the owners (and possibly the agent), not Mark.
Get behind him ffs and stop throwing your toys out the pram about a completely fabricated story. If he turns out to be rubbish then by all means apply some pressure, but don’t have a go at the man for something that simply isn’t true before a ball has been kicked.
If we had enough money to buy Joao and Puscas, a settlement with Gomes and new manager is easily affordable.
Why does everyone seem to think that a no mark manager with no pedigree who was brought in as third choice would be on a big wedge?
Maybe, there just weren't many desireable options available who would consider us and Bowen has actually impressed people here.
Could we not just dismiss every new manager as a cheap yes man for a change?
Bowen has clearly impressed people at the club given this is the 3rd job the owners have either offered him or sanctioned for him since March.
The thing that is pissing me off the most at the mo is the reaction - I can understand not being a fan of the appointment but the belief that the guy just told lies in his press conference and is some evil genius who has Howe and the owners wrapped around his grubby little finger needs to stop - do you really think if he was he would have waited until 55 and 20 years into a career to do this. It simply makes no sense and that theory has more holes in it than a lump of Swiss Cheese.
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