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Tshibola Confirms Move To Aston Villa
10 July 2016
By Hob Nob Anyone?
This summer is starting to follow a similar pattern as key players continue to leave the club to be replaced with cheaper options. The departure of Aaron Tshibola to Championship side Aston Villa for five million pounds was confirmed this weekend. It is a huge disappointment to see such a big prospect exit the club, but there is nothing the club can do to stop talented players like Tshibola leaving when big money offers come in. The player was clearly determined to leave for a "bigger club" and five million pounds is the kind of money the Royals were never going to turn down when money is so tight.
Tshibola signs with Villa on a four year contract, which is clearly a great deal for the player and absolutely the right move for him. He will will link up with Steve Clarke who is now assistant manager at the just-relegated club, and obviously had a very high opinion of the player from his time with the Royals. Tshibola is a player on the up after establishing himself as a first pick for the Royals this season and having a great season when the Royals were generally struggling.
After releasing a number of players, and following the return of loanees at the end of the season, the squad is currently looking a bit light as Stam looks to strengthen on the cheap with the limited funds the club will allow him.
Forward player Jospeh Mendes became Reading's third summer signing last week, arriving at the club from second division French side Le Havre, and signing a two year contract. Mendes breaks the trend of the flow in of Dutch players, having being born and played most of his football in France. Having arrived in Le Havre two years ago, he went on to make 59 appearances for the club and scored 11 goals before his move to Reading.
Mendes follows the signing of Dutch midfielder Joey van den Berg, which completed on 1 July. Joey van den Berg, 30 years old also signed a two year deal. The only other signing so far this summer was fellow Dutch player Danzell Gravenberch who was confirmed as an early summer signing. It is seems clear that new manager Jaap Stam will need to find further players to strengthen what looks like a squad that will seriously struggle in the Championship this season.
Discussion On This Story:
Nameless
Despite having only 45ish games under his belt he looks like a seasoned pro. One to hold on to. There is a big difference between ex managers having names on lists and players moving of course.
Maneki Neko
would sit on their benches not getting a game, whereas he would play every game next year here.
I guess the champions league(1 game?) or bigger money could be enough to tempt him though, if he backs himself to push into their teams
would be bloody awful though.
at least with Gylfi we got a season out of him
paddy20
Cant believe you are saying that. He is quality and was about to play for England u 21's until he got injured. This will show whether the Thais are serious about developing a challenging team. Unless we get an offer in the region of £10m its essential we build a team around our best young players.
Royal1988
Celtic - Brendan Rogers as Manager
Aston Villa - Steve Clarke as Assistant Manager
Crystal Palace - Alan Pardew as Manager
Not sure what the connection to Norwich would be, but hopefully this means that it is just the papers coming up with stories that are just based on the linked teams' connections to Reading.
Royal1988
Ah yes! there we go. I completely forgot he was their U18 manager now. That links all the clubs mentioned to us then, and all of the links have been at Reading at the same time that Tshibola has been at the club too.
Wouldn't tish have been about 10 last time Murty was involved here?
He Joined in 2008 at the age of 13. Murts left the following year in the Summer of 2009, just before Rogers' brief spell. 1 season is not that long admittedly, but it was still a longer time than BR would have been involved with him!
Tommio
Wouldn't tish have been about 10 last time Murty was involved here?
He Joined in 2008 at the age of 13. Murts left the following year in the Summer of 2009, just before Rogers' brief spell. 1 season is not that long admittedly, but it was still a longer time than BR would have been involved with him!
Chris Davies is at Celtic, who working with Brian and also would've known about Tish
Nameless
I think you'll find he'll go, dont think it'll be Palace as game time will be limited unless they loan him out ? ..
I doubt you have a clue what he'll do, and of course it's primarily down to whether we get any offers and whether we want to sell him !
Where he might go would be about who offers the most, and you'd think a Premiership club would be able to offer a very significantly higher wage than a second tier side.
Longhorn1970
I think you'll find he'll go, dont think it'll be Palace as game time will be limited unless they loan him out ? ..
I doubt you have a clue what he'll do, and of course it's primarily down to whether we get any offers and whether we want to sell him !
Where he might go would be about who offers the most, and you'd think a Premiership club would be able to offer a very significantly higher wage than a second tier side.
watch this space and we'll see where he goes ..
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