The Reading Chronicle
Squad26 Jun 2028
Benjamin Wood damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Reading agree $2.1M for Jacob Chapman
The clubs have shaken hands with Huddersfield Town; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Player ratings26 Jun 2028
A brace, and Daniel Kyerewaa takes the afternoon — 8.32
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Daniel Kyerewaa provided it, and the 8.32 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Daniel Kyerewaa is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.47 with 20 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market26 Jun 2028
André Vidigal puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Reading, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market26 Jun 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.
Match24 Jun 2028
Nobody wants to play Reading right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad26 Jun 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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Words at Reading training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andy Rinomhota 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Mees Eppink
- Match Daniel Kyerewaa sends Reading past Mansfield Town
- Market One of our own: Robert James joins the Reading first team