Rumour - Rafael van der Vaart

[Pepe the Horseman]

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... n-11658842

Informal talks have been held with the former Dutch captain, who currently plays for Real Betis

[genome]

Brilliant

[George_]

#TheDutchRevolution

[royalp-we]

WCBAP

Amazings if he can be talked round after a few Carabao's

[Crux]

WCBAP

Amazings if he can be talked round after a few Carabao's

And I thought we had learnt our lesson.

[TBM]

WCBAP

Amazings if he can be talked round after a few Carabao's

With HRK now gone - wages might not be that much of an issue, especially if we use the £5m from the Tshi transfer....

BUT i can't see us signing him - be quality if we do tho

[Royal Ginger]

10,000,000 hobnob points to anyone who saw that coming.

Tis truly silly season

[royalp-we]

If the club paid what he's asking; and he joined in the next 48hrs (Not that he will...)

It would certainly be a far busier Open day on Wednesday

Shirt sales would rocket; VDV lasting more than 45mins in a game is another question entirely.

[MoorgateRoyal]

Christ.

He'd be a far safer bet than Royston was, but this won't happen.

[tidus_mi2]

All very surreal but would mark a spectacular continued downturn for VDV.

Real Madrid > Tottenham > Hamburger SV > Real Betis > Reading

He still has a solid goal scoring rate from midfield and would solidify his affinity with teams that begin "Rea"

[Jano]

I can kinda understand it. A couple of bad seasons, wants to be playing football, has come out recently saying how much he misses Spurs and England, played alongside Stam and we have been desperate for some creativity for years now. I can't see him being any more expensive than Vydra was and you'd have to say it would get the place buzzing again.

[gazzer, loyal royal]

I can kinda understand it. A couple of bad seasons, wants to be playing football, has come out recently saying how much he misses Spurs and England, played alongside Stam and we have been desperate for some creativity for years now. I can't see him being any more expensive than Vydra was and you'd have to say it would get the place buzzing again.

he is worth millions, so if he was in the twilight of his career and simply wanted to play, wages shouldn't be a problem. If he wants a massive pay off before retiring then we certainly aren't the club for him

[Hendo]

I just read this on BBC Sportsday and had to do a double take, I saw Reading and dutch and thought it was just another story, but this ......



If we somehow managed to pull this one off .......

[CountryRoyal]

Holy balls batman.

[TBM]

It won't happen

[Geekins]

Video of a swan seeing its own reflection and pooing itself...

It won't happen

You got that right.

[TBM]

Video of a swan seeing its own reflection and pooing itself...

It won't happen

You got that right.

If VDV signs then i promise to release the video

[facaldaqui]

Crock.

[CountryRoyal]

He wants to go back to Ajax but I don't see a top flight club coming in for him. When he signed for Betis he was their highest earner and while its unlikely he would take at least a 50% pay cut, he regrets a lot of his career decisions and just wants to play football.

[Libertine]

So anyway what probably happened was van der Vaart called his old mate Stam to see how he was doing at Reading and how he misses playing in England. Then Stam probably mentions something in passing to someone that he had called and "was interested (in how things were going for Stam) in Reading. Someone in the press puts 2 and 2 together and comes up with 22...