Seems good on paper, though knowing the Greek overlord, he’ll be gone by December as whomever we sign this summer fails to have us in the top 6 by October 31st….
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I presume we've hired him to tell all the richer clubs just how good Danilo and Murillo are.
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Nuno will be gone too if we're aren't challenging for the playoffs.
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Wouldn't be surprised if Nuno went in the summer.
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If he was offered a comparable new job, would he take it? I reckon.
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Reading U21 v Forest B is at Select Car Leasing Stadium (Madejski) tomorrow at 2pm.
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Playing in a souless bowl, home to a club dying because it's been moved outside of it's city. Will be nice for future Forest players to get a view of the future of the club.
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Because of course Reading was a thriving powerhouse of a club during their time at Elm Park, before Madejski put his money in? The "because" in your statement is doing a fuck-ton of heavy lifting. In the 102 years at Elm Park (1896-1998) the sum total of their achievements was winning the 3rd Division / Division 3 (South) 3 times (25-26, 85-86 & 93-94), and winning the 4th Division once (78-79). Oh, and the Full Members Cup in 87-88.
They have always been a tinpot club.
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Yeah, it was a bit of a stretch and Reading's best days were probably in that stadium.
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Wouldn't have had Brid down as a supporter of the move to Toton.
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Interesting take.
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I’m not, but I do think as a fanbase we need to get real about what we actually want. Building a sustainable, top-half team in the modern ‘Ship (which our fans have been saying they want for at least 25 years) requires a vast amount of dosh. El Greco could afford it, but the rules won’t let him - so we need to generate a lot of revenue. We can’t stay in the crumbling, archaic CG (which we all love) AND keep ticket prices low AND hang on to our best players (& you know that's what people will say when we sell Murillo / MGW) AND build a successful club. So which do we want?
Plan A is definitely redevelop the CG, and I imagine that’s why the club have spent c.5 years and millions of quid in working towards that. But if the state of the Council’s finances makes that impossible, they have to at least think about other options.
Too many of our fans seem to think that we are uniquely immune to the financial realities of modern football, because we once found a carpet fitter in Long Eaton who turned into a good centre forward.
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And a centre half too. If you ask him nicely he’ll tell you all about it. Or don’t ask him, and he’ll tell you anyway. Numerous times.
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I never knew CBW used to live in Long Eaton.
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Glad you're sure on that, I'm not.
Cartledge makes a lot more from a brand new ground.
