Hound Did get the impression Bowen was quite a big ‘leaker’

He's Welsh, loves a good leak.

SouthDownsRoyal

Royal_jimmy I hope once Dai has sold us, someone runs him over

When is he going to sell up m7?

Put it this way, you might as well park the car up and go down the pub.

Van Der Kwak

Andy Gurney
Greg Halford
Joseph Mills

Jimmy Crawford
Mark Reily
Danny Guthrie
Andy McLaren

Keith Scott
Paul Brayson
Robert Fleck

Manager: Terry Bullivant
Owner: Dai Yongge

Might be a few I could swap in/out.

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The only things I would have added to the article above are Mentioning The Port Vale match protest/abandonment - Arguably that was the peak of the protests rather than the March to the Stadium, although I guess that may not have been an official SellBeforeWeDai protest. Being forced to sell off our ...

Royal_jimmy I hope once Dai has sold us, someone runs him over

Might actually speed the sale up if he was run over first, At least the administrators of the estate will be wanting to sell.

It was previously reported the stadium has been used as collateral for a loan in BVI which was not disclosed in due diligence. Which Dai has defaulted on Now Mike Gow also thinks he's done this in HK too? https://x.com/mikeygow/status/1850629952888017276 How many more of these secured loans exist? ...

I think it will take sometime to unravel the current mess. If I took ownership now I think keeping things ticking over to the end of the season is what I would do first until I've got the management structure in place and had a deep clean of the accounts. 1. Get rid of the old regime, the CEO, anyon...

I would ideally have liked to have seen Elm Park kept as a community asset but it would have required investment to keep it going. Perhaps they could have stuck the Dome there? I guess though, it would have resulted in less income to fund the Madejski Stadium if they hadn't sold it off for developme...

Kieran Maguire not holding back on what Dai is doing in his latest podcast. Article in the Reading Chronicle. Pls can you summarize? Says Dai is sticking 2 fingers up at football. he added, "or maybe even just one". Gist of it is he's a Billionaire, he's saying can do what the feck he lik...

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Forbury Lion Let's hope the wind of change isn't something blowing radioactive isotopes our way

What, you mean like a hurricane.

It's rare to see a song pun that's so young...

Song puns.... no wonder No One Like You

SpaghettiHoop

Brogue Are the AWE Reading fans?

Scorpions

Let's hope the wind of change isn't something blowing radioactive isotopes our way

From Despair To Where? Pride Park was valued at £85m in an independent valuation carried out by company owned by Mel Morris' brother.

Sound legit.
Maybe Dai Yongge's sister did a valuation of the Madejski Stadium to back-up the loan from the lending bank

Interesting piece in this blog about the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) recently expanding something called the “Detailed emergency planning zone” (DEPZ) around its Burghfield site to include a chunk of South Reading, including the Mad Stad ... https://readingonthames.com/2024/10/20/reading-loc...

Was the stadium ever worth £55m? Nope, although you have to factor in the value of the land for redevelopment, which I imagine isn't more than the value with the stadium on it once you factor in demolition and construction costs to create, presumably offices which are already two a penny next door ...

I'm no lawyer and Couhig is, so what I'm suggesting presumably isn't a goer but I'll type it out anyway. Football company signs a binding 1,000 year 365 days a year lease on the stadium from Stadium company for the price of £1 a year (less hassle than finding peppercorns), They make this fully water...

Elm Park Kid Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

Didcot town centre?

Brogue Reading are set to complete a £50 million sale to William Storey

Just clicked on the wrong page and saw this thinking it was the latest news.... phew!

Ah. Well, where did all the beef come from regarding the car park (with the Reading saga it’s difficult follow what is fact and fiction, considering the former is often stranger than the latter). I imagine some of the potential buyers see the carpark as an asset upon which they can build something,...

The Price of Football expert, Kieran Maguire has suggested the sale to the other HK Businessman might just be a way of getting rid of the problem by including it in with the sale of something else the other guy actually wants, thereby leaving him with the problem club to get rid of.