New manager rumours and speculation

[Snowflake Royal]

Dai not making the decision would be a very good start.

[Royal_jimmy]

Former Southampton manager Rubén Sellés has agreed to take charge of Reading to oversee their attempt to return to the Championship following relegation last season.

The Spaniard, 40, has been in talks this week over becoming the successor to Paul Ince, who was sacked in April with Noel Hunt seeing out the campaign as interim manager at the Madejski Stadium.

An agreement has been reached between club and manager, with the deal at the paperwork stage before an announcement is made. His arrival will be subject to work-permit approval, which was granted by the Football Association when he was appointed at St Mary’s.

While at the south-coast club, Sellés earned wins against Chelsea and Leicester City to raise hopes of survival but they were the only victories during his tenure. One of his team’s best performances was at Arsenal but conceding two late goals meant they could only draw 3-3.

After relegation was confirmed, Sellés revealed his disappointment at not being able to turn around results after taking over from Nathan Jones in February.

“You saw an identity, you saw a team that wants to play together,” he said. “I tried to put everything every time with this sort of mentality and in that part I did my best and that’s the reality.”

Sellés will join a club who have the threat of a second EFL points deduction in 18 months hanging over them. They have been charged with failing to pay their players on time and in full on three occasions last season, for the October, November and April wage bill.

Owner Dai Yongge has also been charged with causing the club to be in breach of EFL regulations.

It has been announced that Yakou Meite has left the club after turning down a new contract, while Romania international George Puscas has turned his loan to Genoa into a permanent deal.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/06/21/ex-southampton-boss-ruben-selles-set-to-take-reading-job/

No, NO!!!

Ffs

[Royal_jimmy]

No doubt he will fail like all the other recent managers. In the recent 1871 Coppell interview podcast, his main piece of advice for aspiring managers was pick the right club as at many you have no chance. That probably sums up his Soton spell and now this appointment - RIP his managerial career in England.

Hope I'm proven wrong, but once again we don't look remotely set up for a manager to succeed, which is why we have to scrape the barrel with our appointment.

Tbf, we're an easier job to not completely fail at in L1 than Champ, even with our issues.

We're an easy job to fail at even in L1

[Ascotexgunner]

F*ck!!!!!!!......just f*cking f*ck f*ck f*ck.
Can we get a refund on the season ticket.
I can't take another season of watching the same sh*tty smash and grab failed bullshit with f*ck all shots and attempts on goal.

Is that super"c*nt"agent behind this? Lots of managerial options and this is what we come back to.

[NathStPaul]

So many damp mattresses tonight.

[Snowflake Royal]

F*ck!!!!!!!......just f*cking f*ck f*ck f*ck.
Can we get a refund on the season ticket.
I can't take another season of watching the same sh*tty smash and grab failed bullshit with f*ck all shots and attempts on goal.

Is that super"c*nt"agent behind this? Lots of managerial options and this is what we come back to.

Have you considered overreacting more? It might help.

[Blackbag]

Hopefully Selles gets confirmed tomorrow and we can start getting some players in and move forward. As I’ve said before everyone has got to start somewhere and you just never know he might be really good, you can’t just write a man off before he’s even started

[Royal_jimmy]

[SouthDownsRoyal]

F*ck!!!!!!!......just f*cking f*ck f*ck f*ck.
Can we get a refund on the season ticket.
I can't take another season of watching the same sh*tty smash and grab failed bullshit with f*ck all shots and attempts on goal.

Is that super"c*nt"agent behind this? Lots of managerial options and this is what we come back to.

You ok hun?

[nailseabiscuitman]

F*ck!!!!!!!......just f*cking f*ck f*ck f*ck.
Can we get a refund on the season ticket.
I can't take another season of watching the same sh*tty smash and grab failed bullshit with f*ck all shots and attempts on goal.

Is that super"c*nt"agent behind this? Lots of managerial options and this is what we come back to.

I'd like to know who all these options are, all weve seen is speculation, the only concrete one seemed to be Wilder and hes turned us down. If getting a manager was that easy why havent Man Utd won the league since Fergy . Just calm down and support him, you never know, the Southampton heirarchy obviously saw something in his past record. He might surprise you !

[Royal Rother]

A well respected coach, 40 yo, Spanish... what’s not to like?

Rather that than a grumpy sour faced Yorkshireman whose best days are clearly behind him.

A decent appointment.

[Stranded]

Former Southampton manager Rubén Sellés has agreed to take charge of Reading to oversee their attempt to return to the Championship following relegation last season.

The Spaniard, 40, has been in talks this week over becoming the successor to Paul Ince, who was sacked in April with Noel Hunt seeing out the campaign as interim manager at the Madejski Stadium.

An agreement has been reached between club and manager, with the deal at the paperwork stage before an announcement is made. His arrival will be subject to work-permit approval, which was granted by the Football Association when he was appointed at St Mary’s.

While at the south-coast club, Sellés earned wins against Chelsea and Leicester City to raise hopes of survival but they were the only victories during his tenure. One of his team’s best performances was at Arsenal but conceding two late goals meant they could only draw 3-3.

After relegation was confirmed, Sellés revealed his disappointment at not being able to turn around results after taking over from Nathan Jones in February.

“You saw an identity, you saw a team that wants to play together,” he said. “I tried to put everything every time with this sort of mentality and in that part I did my best and that’s the reality.”

Sellés will join a club who have the threat of a second EFL points deduction in 18 months hanging over them. They have been charged with failing to pay their players on time and in full on three occasions last season, for the October, November and April wage bill.

Owner Dai Yongge has also been charged with causing the club to be in breach of EFL regulations.

It has been announced that Yakou Meite has left the club after turning down a new contract, while Romania international George Puscas has turned his loan to Genoa into a permanent deal.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/06/21/ex-southampton-boss-ruben-selles-set-to-take-reading-job/

No, NO!!!

Ffs

Have you actually looked at how the bloke has built his career, pretty much constantly in an upward direction - has generally been poached by clubs higher up the food chain and in his time has been a specialist fitness coach, data analyst before moving into the assistant coach role - it is an impressive climb - it absolutely does not mean he will be successful here, more likely he will fail but most managers will fail at our shell of a club at the mo. However, looking at his record objectively, the skills he is likely to bring to the table matching absolute gaps that we have had for years there is reason to be optimistic about this appointment -if it happens.

I say this fully expecting him to be gone in December when we sit 23rd following a 12 point deduction because that is just the way the club works these days.

[YorkshireRoyal99]

I'm fairly optimistic about his appointment to be honest. Tough to judge his time at Southampton as he was hoisted into a situation with a team that clearly weren't good enough for the division, although there were some positives to be taken from his time there (though a few).

And I think he's more promising that Karl Robinson, Danny Cowley or Steve Cotterill anyway, so that's a plus. Not my first choice, but not our worst choice either.

[Sanguine]

Don't know enough about Selles to take a view, but as above if this is a Bowen appointment I'm happy enough. We need management in place asap and to build a squad for the new season. It doesn't feel right, but according to Wiki we only currently have two senior midfielders on the books.

[Sutekh]

Don't know enough about Selles to take a view, but as above if this is a Bowen appointment I'm happy enough. We need management in place asap and to build a squad for the new season. It doesn't feel right, but according to Wiki we only currently have two senior midfielders on the books.

Presumably those two are

"Permacrock" Hutchinson
and "bad boy" Ejaria

[Silver Fox]

F*ck!!!!!!!......just f*cking f*ck f*ck f*ck.
Can we get a refund on the season ticket.
I can't take another season of watching the same sh*tty smash and grab failed bullshit with f*ck all shots and attempts on goal.

Is that super"c*nt"agent behind this? Lots of managerial options and this is what we come back to.

Have you considered overreacting more? It might help.

Didn't you yourself once demand a season ticket refund because of a change in manager?

[Ascotexgunner]

A well respected coach, 40 yo, Spanish... what’s not to like?

Rather that than a grumpy sour faced Yorkshireman whose best days are clearly behind him.

A decent appointment.

If Pep Gladiola or his unknown brother who managed an under 12s team as caretaker, brother were offered to us, this useless s*ithead of an owner would pick the brother.

[windermereROYAL]

Mikel Arteta was only a coach before Arsenal picked him up, just sayin.

[Ascotexgunner]

Mikel Arteta was only a coach before Arsenal picked him up, just sayin.

The setup at Arsenal is different. They have money and excellent staff.
They could be patient whilst they went through a change.

We have Mark Bowen, an embargo and an owner who clearly has no idea.

[Snowball]

:lol:

We have Mark Bowen, an embargo and an owner who clearly has no idea.

Yeah, but apart from that...