The Reading Chronicle
Squad26 Jun 2028
The knee: Daniel Thompson out for 15 days
15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Reading lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market26 Jun 2028
Haydon Roberts asks to leave Reading
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market26 Jun 2028
Ben Elliott is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Reading is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Finlay Cartwright arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Finlay Cartwright has, at Reading, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
An offer of $860.0K for Morato
Reading have gone to Nottingham Forest with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
No thanks: Tommy Setford rejects the move
Reading had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Arsenal, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Reading rebuffed over Deyman Cortés
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Blackpool have kept their man, and Reading go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Haydon Roberts in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Reading this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Reading count the cost of losing Jack Whatmough
34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout John Ryan frozen out at Reading
- Market One of our own: Alexander Clarke joins the Reading first team
- Market One of our own: Peter Evans joins the Reading first team