The Reading Chronicle
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Daniel Kyerewaa runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Reading close the window on a squad of their own making
6 in and 11 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market7 Feb 2028
Tomás Orqueida has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Reading they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market7 Feb 2028
Jay Stansfield raises the bar for Reading
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Reading heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Íñigo Martínez 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.
Match5 Feb 2028
Still nobody has beaten Reading
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Sunderland tell Reading: Simon Moore 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Reading training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Svoboda 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
One of our own: Benjamin Collins joins the Reading first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Benjamin Collins is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Reading promote Steven Price from within
- Player ratings Jay Stansfield was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Squad This league is too small for Íñigo Martínez