Gylfi is leaving Reading

[Royal Lady]

Confirmed on Hoffs official site:
http://www.achtzehn99.de/hoffenheim-ver ... igurdsson/

i dont normally get too wound up about trivial matters such as this, but seeing that picture really fucking annoys me.

They've even copied the blue of our shirts.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

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[yappy]

Absolutely gutted to see Gylfi go, but wish him the best nonetheless. On the plus side this transfer has given us a lot of financial stability, in a time of financial instability.

Have faith in Madejski. Maybe we won't sign anyone else today, but remember we can still loan outside the window. Even McDermott didn't rule out signing anyone, if someone was to leave;

Speaking to local press at Hogwood Park this week, Brian was asked if he would be able to add to his squad in the event of a departure. He said, "It would depend how much money we got in. You would look to try and do something if a big player left, we'd have to try and do something.

"I will be absolutely delighted when this transfer window is shut, because I will know what I've got and can then move on. You've got speculation in May, June, July, August and that's all it is, speculation.

"If something happens at the weekend, you react from that. But you don't want to bring players in for the sake of it, they would have to improve what we've got. But that would all depend on one of our players going in a different direction.

"We've got players that are very, very valuable. If you look at the Championship and think 'who would go for a lot of money?' then I'm not sure there are many - but one or two of ours are in that bracket.

"If something happens, it happens, and if the club decides it's right, that will happen. We'll have to do what's right by the club [in both directions]."

[andrew1957]

Well I for one am still fuming about this.

some of you seem to think £6M is a good fee but you are bonkers IMO. Siggy was the one truly PL class player that we have in the squad. The sort of player that will most likely go for £20M plus sooner or later. He is the sort of player that could just have fired us to the PL in what is an extremely tight division. He is then the sort of player that would have given us a slim chance of PL survival. Now we have no hope other than mid table mediocrity and if we replace him with a Championship class CB and a League 1 class player in Fryatt then we really are going down the tubes. I would rather we bought no one at all as we have no hope of promotion now in any case.

I have supported the club through thick and thin but this is utter madness.

Save your anger for if no-one comes in today. I'm not happy he's left but Siggy was always going to go at some point - we were unlikely to go up this year and we were never going to get more than £6m for him.

IF we use some of the money to make the squad more balanced then this will have been a good bit of business.

Surely you are missing the point. Yes we might bring in a few has-beens or Championship standard players - who might lead us to survival but this means the end of PL ambition. I honestly believe Sig would have scored 20 plus goals this season. I do not think we will find a replacement who can do that and the rest and of the squad Matt Mills is the most likely to be top scorer from what I have seen so far. If as fans we have no hope I really wonder what will motivate many of us to turn up week in week out.

I have naively believed that the cub did want to get back to the PL at some stage but this sale clearly means that I was completely wrong.

[Royal Lady]

"we'd have to try to do something" doesn't exactly equate to, "we'll replace a player with one of proven ability" or whatever.

[TBM]

[tomrfcurz]

Fancy keeping up with today's action and the OS may not be great. Anyone got an SSN feed?

[Sir Dodger Royal]

Loans are a complete waste of space just like Madejski and companyyyyyyyyyyy

[Kitson12]

Pratley or Whittingham would be great signings, but I don't think we'd have a hope in hell of signing either of them.

[TBM]

Dont expect anything to happen today but i can see us grabbing a couple of loans next month when the loan window opens

[Gordons Cumming]

Loans are a complete waste of space just like Madejski and companyyyyyyyyyyy

How about a positive post just this once?

How would you run Reading FC for instance?

[FiNeRaIn]

Its ok boys, we've now got a shit team - but at least the club will survive.

Still waiting for the day the other 91 league clubs go bankrupt and we qualify for the champs league and win the prem by default.

[WestCoast Life]

Dont expect anything to happen today but i can see us grabbing a couple of loans next month when the loan window opens

Doing nothing is not going to be good for team (or fan) morale, especially if any more go today.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

[Stranded]

Well I for one am still fuming about this.

some of you seem to think £6M is a good fee but you are bonkers IMO. Siggy was the one truly PL class player that we have in the squad. The sort of player that will most likely go for £20M plus sooner or later. He is the sort of player that could just have fired us to the PL in what is an extremely tight division. He is then the sort of player that would have given us a slim chance of PL survival. Now we have no hope other than mid table mediocrity and if we replace him with a Championship class CB and a League 1 class player in Fryatt then we really are going down the tubes. I would rather we bought no one at all as we have no hope of promotion now in any case.

I have supported the club through thick and thin but this is utter madness.

Save your anger for if no-one comes in today. I'm not happy he's left but Siggy was always going to go at some point - we were unlikely to go up this year and we were never going to get more than £6m for him.

IF we use some of the money to make the squad more balanced then this will have been a good bit of business.

Surely you are missing the point. Yes we might bring in a few has-beens or Championship standard players - who might lead us to survival but this means the end of PL ambition. I honestly believe Sig would have scored 20 plus goals this season. I do not think we will find a replacement who can do that and the rest and of the squad Matt Mills is the most likely to be top scorer from what I have seen so far. If as fans we have no hope I really wonder what will motivate many of us to turn up week in week out.

I have naively believed that the cub did want to get back to the PL at some stage but this sale clearly means that I was completely wrong.

No, the point is his 20 goals would most likely not lead to promotion - like his 20 didn't last season. Players leave all the time and this was an inevitability as he is a talent that is far bigger than our club could ever wish to hold on to. Even if we were in the Prem, he would have been picked off at some point.

If we do not balance the squad by using this money then we are in trouble but if we do get what we need then the team might actually be better despite the sum of its parts being weaker. As has been said whilst Siggy's eye for goal cannot be doubted and was very important to us, more often than not he could be preipheral (sp?) to a game.

2 or 3 astute signings (or loans) on the back of this could well help the team out and push on to a play-off place. We have a manager who knows what is out there probably better than many due to his previous role, so lets wait and see who runs out on the 11th Sept before we spontaneously combust over a sale that was inevitable.

[YateleyRoyal]

Right up until I saw that photo I was hoping that he would reject the move and say he wanted to stay with Reading for a long time.

Gutted.

[Norfolk Royal]

He might not like his hotel room and decide it's all off.

[paultheroyal]

Its all about Antonio - time to be unleashed!!

[Super Kevin Bremner!]

I think Gylfi leaving is great news for Thomas Lyskov.

[LoyalRoyalFan]