RUMOUR - Robert Beric

[JIM]

Beric turned down ROYALS offer. Good, now back to realistic transfer gossip,
(source, News now reading)(Tilehurst end report)

[yuomi]

Beric turned down ROYALS offer. Good, now back to realistic transfer gossip,
(source, News now reading)

Try again. This time reading more thant the first five words...

[JIM]

Beric turned down ROYALS offer. Good, now back to realistic transfer gossip,
(source, News now reading)

Try again. This time reading more thant the first five words...

No. Player rejected terms, wanted more euros,

[Sutekh]

Beric turned down ROYALS offer. Good, now back to realistic transfer gossip,
(source, News now reading)

Try again. This time reading more thant the first five words...

No. Player rejected terms, wanted more euros,

Beric has turned down a new RAPID offer not ROYALS offer. Be difficult for him to turn down our offer seeing as we can't put an offer to him until RAPID have agreed to sell....

[72 bus]

JIM's having a bit of a mare here.

[72 bus]

No. Player rejected terms, wanted more euros,

JIM, read it slowly and form the words with your mouth as you read it, Dave says it helps

[WoodleyRoyal]

JIM's having a bit of a mare here.

it's not the first time, and i'm sure it won't be the last

[genome]

Is he even that good? Can anyone honestly say they have properly seen him play?

27 goals in 31 starts in a country's top division for the country's biggest team is certainly worth a look.

[Royalwaster]

Is he even that good? Can anyone honestly say they have properly seen him play?

27 goals in 31 starts in a country's top division for the country's biggest team is certainly worth a look.

FWIW it's not the country's biggest team - Red Bull Salzburg is .... and the Austrian league is pretty shit to be honest.

[JIM]

You are right, I stand corrected. just for that I hope he signs.

[genome]

Is he even that good? Can anyone honestly say they have properly seen him play?

27 goals in 31 starts in a country's top division for the country's biggest team is certainly worth a look.

FWIW it's not the country's biggest team - Red Bull Salzburg is .... and the Austrian league is pretty shit to be honest.

Rapid Wien have 32 titles, right? The most of any. And the biggest fanbase.

And remember, Reading are in the 2nd tier having struggled the season before. This would be a big signing. 27 goals in any top professional league indicates that you know where the goal is, so he must have something.

[Coppelled_Streets]

Hope BF is right, he's done well recently tbfth.

[tidus_mi2]

genome is right, Rapid Wien are the biggest club in Austria, Red Bull Salzburg are very much the Man City of the Austrian League.

[Platypuss]

Time to calm down to a panic and get realistic, m8s.

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/reading-fc-transfers-beric-donaldson-9601793

"Howe did confirm that Royals are interested in the Slovenia international and they had seen a ‘good’ offer rejected by the Austrian club.

But he insists they will not be held to ransom in terms of how much they pay for the 24-year-old striker, who scored 27 goals from 31 starts last season.

“We certainly didn’t bid €5million but we were prepared to pay a good fee,” said Howe.

“I think the trouble is that speculation and interest from lots of clubs do drive the price up.

“Whether he will sell for that sort of money I doubt.

“But certainly it might price him out of what we would like to pay.”

[Royalwaster]

Some quotes from Rapid Fans on their forum - in response to a question I posed on what kind of player he is:

"He's great at protecting the ball and uses his body extremely clever to ensure the posession of the ball. Most of his goals seem to be easy goals but in fact he's much more than a clinical striker. Most of the time our team plays possession football, therefore he's important. Robert is great at participating in "Kombinationsspiel"( I don't Know the correct english word for this one sorry ) as already said he's also good at ensuring quick crosses into the half of the opposition. All facts considered Robert is a player who can reach the top of his personal Performance if his team is dominating their opponent and having the ball Most of the time"

"Beric is a classic striker, who knows where he's to stay at the right time and that's his major strength. He's not the fastest one but he works for the team. last season was pretty good but in my mind we understood how to involve Beric's strength into our game so in my mind if he comes to your club it will be hard for him to keep his performance (I saw few games the last season also games with Reading and I'm not convinced if the championship is really made for him "

"Beric needs pacey wingers and a CAM which can feed him with passes. He is not a Player who can make damage on his own. "

"Beric is neither fast nor a good header.
hope that helps. "

[Coppelled_Streets]

Some quotes from Rapid Fans on their forum - in response to a question I posed on what kind of player he is:

"He's great at protecting the ball and uses his body extremely clever to ensure the posession of the ball. Most of his goals seem to be easy goals but in fact he's much more than a clinical striker. Most of the time our team plays possession football, therefore he's important. Robert is great at participating in "Kombinationsspiel"( I don't Know the correct english word for this one sorry ) as already said he's also good at ensuring quick crosses into the half of the opposition. All facts considered Robert is a player who can reach the top of his personal Performance if his team is dominating their opponent and having the ball Most of the time"

Not too disimilar to Jason Roberts by the sounds of that, although he also had a bit of pace about him in his earlier years.

[Michael Meaker]

"Beric is neither fast nor a good header.
hope that helps. "

This is encouraging

[fedders1871]

Time to calm down to a panic and get realistic, m8s.

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/reading-fc-transfers-beric-donaldson-9601793

"Howe did confirm that Royals are interested in the Slovenia international and they had seen a ‘good’ offer rejected by the Austrian club.

But he insists they will not be held to ransom in terms of how much they pay for the 24-year-old striker, who scored 27 goals from 31 starts last season.

“We certainly didn’t bid €5million but we were prepared to pay a good fee,” said Howe.

“I think the trouble is that speculation and interest from lots of clubs do drive the price up.

“Whether he will sell for that sort of money I doubt.

“But certainly it might price him out of what we would like to pay.”

I assume this means Samuel will have another season out on loan and cox will be sold?

[72 bus]

"Beric is neither fast nor a good header.
hope that helps. "

We've got one like that already

[Ian Royal]

It does make all the gnashing and clawing on this wonderful board just a couple of weeks ago look a tad daft.

But its so unlike the team board to overreact based on minimal evidence so we should probably forgive them

This would be proper bonkers.

But let's not get carried away. We thought we had a rich owner who was prepared to commit plenty of money to take us places before. He certainly committed a lot of money for the club. Shame he never actually had it. To be honest this sort of signing makes me more worried, not less.

But I am weird.

I'm normally very sceptical but I think the difference was with Anton we had something to lose in a well run club.

Since he fcked us almost to administration, then if the same happens again with the Thais we won't be any worse off than without them.

I don't believe any of them have claimed to be billionnaires and if you look at Nurin N then his full-time job is general manager of a tuna company (possibly the world's biggest) owned by the Dad of the new sheff Wed owner. To me he seems like a highly paid executive for sure, but a multimillionnaire in GBP?

However if not personally rich then they do appear to all be serious business people, Sasima S seems to have impressive credentials and qualifications.

The contacts with Carabao and Thai airways and the Bangkok reception seems to reinforce the impression the Thais are serious and have a plan to make money. And you only do that in the premiership.

So is it worth chucking say ten million quid at a promotion attempt and keeping Steve Clarke happy, even if you don't have all the cash and need to borrow it. (for all I know they may have it, I'm just assuming worst case.)

For the increased 100m+ jackpot? Easily.

So Beric....yes please as a statement of intent.

From the video of his goals though I reckon I'd have scored most of them!

But you don't make money in the PL without getting relegated with ease. We made a total of about £10m profit across our three PL seasons. All that did was clear some of the debt from previously running at a loss.

The £100m windfall stuff is nonsense. It all goes on increased costs.