So, the turmoil goes on. According to the club website Noel Hunt has been offered and accepted the role of Manager. No mention of temporary. Not surprising as I can not see any out of work manager would come here at the moment. It wouldn't surprise me if the under 18's manager steps up to the u21's job and the senior ball ball (or girl) takes over the U18's job.
That's a good summary of the events leading to where Reading are now, and how the Football League's rules (set and agreed by the owners of its member clubs) were powerless to stop a rogue owner acting against the interests of their club, the Football League as an organisation and the whole sport in general.
Kia Joorabchian is the super agent in question, his like will gravitate towards football club owners with more money (at least initially) than sense or football knowledge looking to "chase the dream", rather like pushers make a beeline to those addicted to chasing mythical fire-breathing creatures.
This is a brilliant summary - thanks. I couldn't help but wince nervously at this bit:
"He has never shared his ambitions for the club, unlike most, if not all new owners do and remained silent about the affairs of the club which gave some fans (me included) some doubts about his motives."
I could be wrong but our new owner has been involved with our club now for 18 months after lending Rob money at the beginning of last season but to my knowledge has never set foot on the Adams Park turf or openly spoken directly to us or the media about his intentions.
He continues to invest in Harlington and Adams Park, plus the wage budget for the first team. We are reaping the rewards. Thank you.
Would love to see you at AP and hear you talk about our club. Would mean a lot to me and I suspect many others.
openly spoken directly to us or the media about his intentions.
He did a podcast earlier this year where he mentioned, in passing, that he's bought the club in order to improve football in Kazakhstan and this will happen in three steps.
A) Improve the training and academy facilities. B) Move the team up the leagues. C) Improve Kazakhstan football.
Dan Rice has spoken at length about A, mentioned B briefly and lay down and pretended to be dead when asked about C.
It might go all Yongge if C doesn't happen but until then COYB, Up the Wyc, etc.
Thank you @theRoyalBiscuit for the detailed summary. I always find it interesting to see how fans react to new ownership, us included.
Whatever happens to Reading, and I hope it’s not the worst case scenario, don’t ‘do a Derby’ and very quickly forget the situation you are in. It will help manage expectations going forward and will allow you to operate slightly more sustainably.
We know it's MLs money being invested in WWFC and the academy but isn't it EduardVyshnyakov who is invested at a personal level I the project.
As a billionaire ML has to do something with his wealth and, I suspect, it's Eduard who had the real vision for improving Kazakhstan football.
So far the project is going well, possibly even too well as I doubt it was expected that MB would get us to the top of Lg1 in NI ember and playing such good football. Let's hope we can continue on this trajectory.
No football team deserves an owner like Yongge, he seems to be positively spiteful towards Reading and their fans. Hopefully today we can show them what they are missing and how it could be if things were managed correctly. We need local rivals and I would much prefer Reading to join us in the Championship than either Poxford or MK (although they are going the other way, thankfully).
Good luck @theRoyalBiscuit and hope the sorry mess is resolved soon for you, you'll be so much better off when Yongge is gone.
Protesters have been out in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, for a fourth night after the country's bid to join the European Union was put on hold by the ruling party, Georgian Dreams.
Fireworks were shot towards riot police on the steps of parliament and a water cannon was fired at demonstrators.
Apologies for bumping this thread, but the latest developments in the Dai Yongge story following on from the latest scandal involving Woking Pizza Express's brand ambassador have taken an even more sinister turn, though it may explain why Rob Couhig appeared to bite off more than he could chew...
Apologies to all those who broke the Twitter habit. The thread contained the revelation that Dai Yongge is a member of the same Chinese Communist Party organisation as Prince Andrew's mate, which was cited by the Home Office as part of the reason they expelled him from the country.
The point of the tweets was more that EFL should be more careful waving through new owners of clubs, especially if they are have membership of CCP organisations that the Home Office consider to be a significant risk factor that they are engaged in espionage.
With a 'spy' for an owner and the club quite near Pinewood Studios the sorry affair could be the next Bond film. DaiYongges are Forever, Dr No way is he ever going to fucking sell....the list goes on.
Couhig as a rather surprising choice for Bond. Our manager as M (Bloomfield) and our owner as LommyPenny.
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Noel should go all 'This is SPARTA" tomorrow though it might be a lot easier to lock the team in the dressing room and take the 3-0 forfeit.
I am sure Reading fans are hoping that it is Dai who gets kicked down the well.
The football purist in me: If you have the ability to play the ball on the ground (as we now do) the wind shouldn’t be an issue.
The old skool fan: We need to kick Lewis Wing up in the air minute one as a welcome back gift.
So, the turmoil goes on. According to the club website Noel Hunt has been offered and accepted the role of Manager. No mention of temporary. Not surprising as I can not see any out of work manager would come here at the moment. It wouldn't surprise me if the under 18's manager steps up to the u21's job and the senior ball ball (or girl) takes over the U18's job.
They've had to replace the ball boy with a ball? Times really are tough.
Easy for an imposter to slip on the pitch and into the action, too.
oops. Age is getting to me!
That's a good summary of the events leading to where Reading are now, and how the Football League's rules (set and agreed by the owners of its member clubs) were powerless to stop a rogue owner acting against the interests of their club, the Football League as an organisation and the whole sport in general.
Kia Joorabchian is the super agent in question, his like will gravitate towards football club owners with more money (at least initially) than sense or football knowledge looking to "chase the dream", rather like pushers make a beeline to those addicted to chasing mythical fire-breathing creatures.
This is a brilliant summary - thanks. I couldn't help but wince nervously at this bit:
"He has never shared his ambitions for the club, unlike most, if not all new owners do and remained silent about the affairs of the club which gave some fans (me included) some doubts about his motives."
Wince indeed!
I could be wrong but our new owner has been involved with our club now for 18 months after lending Rob money at the beginning of last season but to my knowledge has never set foot on the Adams Park turf or openly spoken directly to us or the media about his intentions.
He continues to invest in Harlington and Adams Park, plus the wage budget for the first team. We are reaping the rewards. Thank you.
Would love to see you at AP and hear you talk about our club. Would mean a lot to me and I suspect many others.
openly spoken directly to us or the media about his intentions.
He did a podcast earlier this year where he mentioned, in passing, that he's bought the club in order to improve football in Kazakhstan and this will happen in three steps.
A) Improve the training and academy facilities. B) Move the team up the leagues. C) Improve Kazakhstan football.
Dan Rice has spoken at length about A, mentioned B briefly and lay down and pretended to be dead when asked about C.
It might go all Yongge if C doesn't happen but until then COYB, Up the Wyc, etc.
Thank you @theRoyalBiscuit for the detailed summary. I always find it interesting to see how fans react to new ownership, us included.
Whatever happens to Reading, and I hope it’s not the worst case scenario, don’t ‘do a Derby’ and very quickly forget the situation you are in. It will help manage expectations going forward and will allow you to operate slightly more sustainably.
We know it's MLs money being invested in WWFC and the academy but isn't it Eduard Vyshnyakov who is invested at a personal level I the project.
As a billionaire ML has to do something with his wealth and, I suspect, it's Eduard who had the real vision for improving Kazakhstan football.
So far the project is going well, possibly even too well as I doubt it was expected that MB would get us to the top of Lg1 in NI ember and playing such good football. Let's hope we can continue on this trajectory.
No football team deserves an owner like Yongge, he seems to be positively spiteful towards Reading and their fans. Hopefully today we can show them what they are missing and how it could be if things were managed correctly. We need local rivals and I would much prefer Reading to join us in the Championship than either Poxford or MK (although they are going the other way, thankfully).
Good luck @theRoyalBiscuit and hope the sorry mess is resolved soon for you, you'll be so much better off when Yongge is gone.
😅😅😅😅
Mikheil is a lousy owner. Not one firework!
He's not made of money!
All snapped up by protestors
Protesters have been out in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, for a fourth night after the country's bid to join the European Union was put on hold by the ruling party, Georgian Dreams.
Fireworks were shot towards riot police on the steps of parliament and a water cannon was fired at demonstrators.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/crmnw3npke0o
Apologies for bumping this thread, but the latest developments in the Dai Yongge story following on from the latest scandal involving Woking Pizza Express's brand ambassador have taken an even more sinister turn, though it may explain why Rob Couhig appeared to bite off more than he could chew...
https://x.com/mikeygow/status/1867611129578414491?t=Iyr5qSDFnEAPYAfGr8olbg&s=19
Time for Bearwood and the MadStad to be frozen.
Unlikely they can afford to run undersoil heating so you never know.
Can anyone summarise for us non twitter users? Thanks
Prince Andrew's mate is Chinese
Dai Yongge is Chinese
You can't trust those Chinese
Apologies to all those who broke the Twitter habit. The thread contained the revelation that Dai Yongge is a member of the same Chinese Communist Party organisation as Prince Andrew's mate, which was cited by the Home Office as part of the reason they expelled him from the country.
The point of the tweets was more that EFL should be more careful waving through new owners of clubs, especially if they are have membership of CCP organisations that the Home Office consider to be a significant risk factor that they are engaged in espionage.
And you can't trust the judgement of a thick, selfish grifter?
With a 'spy' for an owner and the club quite near Pinewood Studios the sorry affair could be the next Bond film. DaiYongges are Forever, Dr No way is he ever going to fucking sell....the list goes on.
Couhig as a rather surprising choice for Bond. Our manager as M (Bloomfield) and our owner as LommyPenny.
Bloody hell, that last sentence was a car crash. Just as well I'm not a proofreader anymore.
what a mess.
Live and let Dai
Dai Another Day
No time to Dai