The Reading Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ryan Beacroft damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Emmanuel Osho out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Reading will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Matthew Smith would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Matthew Smith is living that version at Reading, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mamadi Camará asks to leave Reading
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Reading
Derrick Williams was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Josh Stokes
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
Reading and Doncaster Rovers take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market24 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Reading and Matthew Smith
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market24 Aug 2026
Andy Yiadom is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Reading has been clear about where Andy Yiadom stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Market Alemão brings the grey hairs Reading lacked
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Daniel Kyerewaa
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Paddy Lane