The Reading Chronicle
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Reading bid $10.3M for Róbert Boženík
The offer went to Stoke City this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market17 Aug 2026
Marcos Gómez has said yes to Livorno
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Reading have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Sebastian Jacob rejects the move
Reading had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Austria Wien, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Reading
Derrick Williams and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Reading
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Will Keane falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Đorđe Despotović
Reading asked and Austria Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stephen Watson steps up from the Reading academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stephen Watson 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Timothy Pearson joins the Reading first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Timothy Pearson 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 One of our own: Nathan Bell joins the Reading first team
- Match Reading refuse to lose to Huddersfield Town
- Match Reading and Huddersfield Town take a point apiece