The Reading Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Reading say no — this time
The offer from Milton Keynes Dons for Randell Williams was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Derrick Williams 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Paddy Lane
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Reading
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Reading training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kortney Hause is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Lewis Wing
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lewis Wing, and the manager let it.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Henry Graham joins the Reading first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Henry Graham is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Reading promote Harry Murphy from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Harry Murphy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jack Atkinson steps up from the Reading academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jack Atkinson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Match Cardiff City take the points off Reading
- Squad Will Keane dropped after a run of poor form
- Boardroom Reading turn down the training-ground plan