SKY SOURCES: Russia striker Pavel Pogrebnyak to sign four-year deal at Reading Anyone else sense a whiff of Hull City's Premiership years developing here?
Please tell me Fulham didn't pay a transfer fee for him in January, only to offer him a 6 month deal? Reading should have offered a two-year deal with the option of a third - if they come straight back down they're screwed. Having said that, most teams are sensible and put a 40-50% relegation wage drop clause in there, unlike our idiotic selves, along with Pompey.
Think he was on loan at Fulham. Also yeah their takeover went through a while ago so they have a rather rich russian owner, but not mega rich.
The fact he is a Free Agent helps with the wages. But unless he accepts a relegation clause it wont happen, imo. I fear for Reading as they should be looking at more realistic targets. Maybe its an owner led situation more than the manager. TWT. I just dont see anything other than relegation for Reading sadly. They are not that good. Yes. He passed the fit and proper persons requirement which was holding it up. He owns 60% of Reading now i am led to understand. Not as rich as many think he is.
Reading into it it was actually a permanent transfer, but only a 6-month deal because he was unsure how it would work with his family etc, so he didn't want to be tied to a long-term deal in case it didn't work. He's since said he wants to stay in England but I've found nothing with regards to transfer fees, if there was one.
surely the any transfer fee will be relatively insignificant. its the four year salary that will cripple em!
I thought it was fairly obvious that I was referring to the Fulham transfer, not Reading. My point was that it would be quite ludicrous to sign someone for even a small fee, only to offer them a 6-month deal and chance losing them on a free so quickly.
50k/4years when did Paul Duffen get a job at Reading, they where supposed to be modeling their transfers on Swansea and Norwich not (as mussiesredhat says) on Hull City.
are you sure they where? wear did you read that? maybe they are wering there clothes close to the they're chest?
When will people stop calling it The Premiership? Im pretty sure it's been The Premier League for years now. That is all.
It was the Premiership from 1993 to 2007, most of the time the league has existed, it's hardly surprising if some people still refer to it as such.
surely the value of the deal will be in any relegation clause etc? it was that which cost us most wasnt it, wages like that are sustainable in the premier league?
Also it's a totally pointless change that makes no difference, it makes perfect sense that people would ignore it. I know people who still refer to League 2 as 'Division 4'.
And yet on the flipside people still refer to the divorced 'so hard done by' nation's sweetheart by the surname of her divorced former husband. She mustve been 'Racist' Tweedy for 95% of her life. Go figure.
