by RFC2CJ »
22 Jul 2006 09:37
Reading are looking to sell right-back John Halls, after an unsuccesful spell with the club following his move from Stoke in January.
Halls is now extremely unlikely to get into the first team next season with Graeme Murty, Sam Sodje and Curtis Osano ahead of him in the pecking order.
Derby, Southampton and Preston are all set to match his £150k asking price.
Reading are hoping to tie up the signing of John Mensah by the end of next week. The Royals had a £4.2m bid accepted for the Ghanaian Defender and will hold talks over the weekend, once he has returned from Ghana.
The Royals are still awaiting a response from Sunderland after making a final offer of £2m from ex-Oxford midfeilder Dean Whitehead. Steve Coppell has already had 2 bids rejected for him and says he will not up his bid again.
Coppell will also try to make three more signings aswell, one will be a striker, one will be a midfeilder and one will be a defender. The Striker will probably be one of: Mikael Forsell, Javier Portillo or Heidar Helguson. Reading have targetted midfeilder Robert Koren and are set to make a £1m bid for the Slovenian International.
The other defender will most likely be one of the following: Matt Kilgallon, Danny Shittu, Youl Mawene