The Reading Chronicle
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Reading baulk at the price for Jack Rudoni
Coventry City wanted more than $11.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Reading make their move for Ammar Ramadan
$6.3M on the table at DAC Dunajska Streda. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Will Keane yet — 8.26
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.26 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Leeds United tell Reading: Rhys Chadwick is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market17 Aug 2026
Ben Elliott attracts admirers
The name of Ben Elliott has come up in conversations Reading were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
4 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
A long bet from Reading on Joe Johnson
He is 20, and nobody at Reading signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Reading
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Kyerewaa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 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.
In brief
- Market Luke Watson steps up from the Reading academy
- Market Benjamin Green steps up from the Reading academy
- Match Reading caught on 93 minutes