by RoyalBlue »
26 Nov 2009 09:11
WoodleyRoyal looks like we wont be getting anyone in
http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/sport/roundup/articles/2009/11/25/43151-hammond-cools-loan-striker-interest/ROYALS director of football Nick Hammond admits it is "highly unlikely" they will sign a striker before tomorrow's loan transfer deadline.
Clubs have until midnight on Thursday to complete any business but Reading appear to have called off their chase following three knock-backs in past couple of weeks.
Boss Brendan Rodgers is understood to have been rebuffed by his old club Chelsea in the last few days after enquiring about 18-year-old Italian starlet Fabio Borini.
Hammond told the Chronicle: "I think it is highly unlikely something will happen before the deadline.
"We have been asking questions about players but they weren't available and we're not bringing players in for the sake of it."
"Appear to have called off their chase following three knock-backs"??!!
Effing hell!
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How good it is to see a club with such determination, fight and persistence!
"We have been asking questions about players but they weren't available" - No doubt they weren't available for the peanuts that our skinflint chairman was prepared to pay!
Every player/club has its price it's just that Madejski doesn't want to pay.
So we will now try to make do with a striker who struggles to make two games in a week and two others struggling to get back to fitness and who aren't exactly setting the world on fire when they are fit!
As the Chairman is so set on displaying his ambition for lower league football why doesn't he just bugger off now - at worst it can only accelerate the decline that we are already in!
Wimb Can we start a 'Premiership Years Moaning' fund, for everytime someone mentions the fact we didn't spend in the PL etc etc.
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It could never match the value that should be in the 'Spouts guff about PL ambition fund'!
Smoking Kills Dancing Doe Would be disappointing.
Not like anyone else has signed a striker that would have been a realistic target though.
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So the Arsenal youngster that Brentford have just signed on a three month deal (England U19) couldn't have added anything to our crocked and paper thin strike force?