McDermott Sacked

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Another baffling decision.

They give him no money to strengthen so they are playing with a championship side in the EPL and they blame him.

I've liked Reading this year but hope they go down now. Poor bloke.
 
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9 games left of the season... who'd be able to come in and save them and turn things around in just 9 games? Crazy decision to be honest.
 
I know saying Reading are mad/****ging off their board is the popular thing to do but Reading have started to look like they're doomed in the last few weeks. The prize for staying in the Premier League is so huge that it's kind of understandable that Reading have rolled the dice and taken a gamble on somebody coming in and being able to turn things around, no matter how hard that job is.
 
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Thing is the team is still ****.

I could understand if they spent a few quid and were still failing but they are no where near a EPL standard team so to expect to stay up is a push!
 
Silly thing is, they have loads of money. They could have splashed the cash prior to the season starting, instead they bought in Championship players for free. Bizarre.
 
No1newts said:
Thing is the team is still ****.

I could understand if they spent a few quid and were still failing but they are no where near a EPL standard team so to expect to stay up is a push!
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I don't disagree and wouldn't object to anybody saying McDermott has done a decent job considering the side he's had to work with but they still look like they're going to get relegated.

If by some miracle the manager coming in can get 5% more out of the player and that 5% keeps them in the League, it's worth £50m+ to Reading. They don't have a great deal to lose by making the change but have an awful lot to gain.
 
I agree with Baz, considering they look dead and buried (form and table wise), the gamble could be worth it.

Not sure who they can get though.
 
Andybtsn said:
Silly thing is, they have loads of money. They could have splashed the cash prior to the season starting, instead they bought in Championship players for free. Bizarre.
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Um no they don't, or at least seem to - all the money is with dad of the majority shareholder Anton Zingarevich.

Well thats League One football in a coupla season then! :mad::mad::mad:

Edit: IIRC the deal for him to take over wasn't done till after summer transfer window so no money could really be spent. Even the Russian forward was on a free but his wages are comedy
 
They don't have lots of money, the guys dad does, but no one knows for sure if he's happy to invest it. Lots of fans not happy about this at all and the timing stinks.

Di Canio was at the game on Saturday and as much as I wish he wasnt, it looks like he will be the next manager :(
 
So the manager that got them into the prem with the same players they have now, when it looks like they're going to have to do it again, has been sacked?

They spent little to nothing, they're reliant on a little rat and a pob lookalike for their goals, they're going to have to come back up again and they sack the man that managed it last time.

Great stuff.
 
Jano said:
They don't have lots of money, the guys dad does, but no one knows for sure if he's happy to invest it. Lots of fans not happy about this at all and the timing stinks.

Di Canio was at the game on Saturday and as much as I wish he wasnt, it looks like he will be the next manager :(
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He seemed happy to pay Pog 60k odd a week to go there. Why would they takeover the club and invest nothing, especially going into the Prem.

And why is Di Canio one of the fave's to take over, dear oh dear.
 
Trouble is, they've never put much money into players - all frees or hundreds of thousands rather than millions. Its sad to say that Reading is a Championship side, we can't afford to get promoted.
Just hope we can stay afloat in the 2nd tier of football.
 
Poorly run club who haven't really given McDermott a fighting chance of keeping them in the prem, so many average transfers but without a QPR style bottomless pit or a loan against the future earnings to try and create more funding (I compare it to Blackpool's year in the prem but with a much richer chairman).

Then again McDermott hasn't been the most tactically astute in the league, form only really improved by abandoning Roberts (who got injured anyway) combined with a slow break from 4-4-2 to a 4-5-1 style system has helped but it hasn't been enough at the right time.

Anyway silly sacking as the writing is on the wall for Reading and generally sacking at this stage (no matter which nutter is free) isn't going to fix it, not sure how someone could come in and fix the mess or why anyone would want to really when the main prospect is to manage in the champ next year...
 
Another one bites the bullet at the hands of a chancer that only brought the club for a shot at the premier millions pot.

Same at the forest and all the other clubs that have ditched decent managers this season.

Odd quote i heard on the radio, the russian bloke that took over last season says to McDermott "You realy didn't have to get promotion this season" overheard by a radio guy reporting for 5live during last seasons promotion celebrations.

Ofcourse naive radio guy took this as a understanding, building for the future chairman being fully behind the club and manager and played it across to the audience.

Im sure McDermott knew the reasoning behind that:/

He'll be a credit to the next team he ends up at reguardless, here's hoping it's a realistic club that takes what comes.... ironicaly exactly what reading was before it got sold out.

If you could ever get the truth out of John Madejski it'd be good to hear.
 
Reading are going down as it stands, new manager might be able to keep them up, give them a little extra, so from that point it's a perfectly valid thing to do.

If however they do go back down, sacking a manager that helped guide them in to the top division might seem a bit short sighted.

They also haven't improved the squad enough over the season.
 
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Poorly run club
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Not sure I would agree with that. A lot of what has been said is correct, Reading hasn't spent a lot of money on players (aside from Pog's wages) and assuming they would go if we went down the club has a good core of players we can afford to bring us back up again. We are not Pompey or the like.

Having sat through the game on Saturday and some of the others where late goals have saved us from an even worse position I am not surprised by this decision. Unfortunately his downfall was loyalty to the ageing players who helped us get promoted but just couldn't cut it at this level (MCAnuff and Leidgerwood), and his inability to get the best out of the talent he did bring in (Guthrie and McCleary spring to mind).

On Saturdays performance with the same manager we were going down. No doubt about it. Someone coming in might just turn it round enough to make it interesting.

Just please not Di Canio.
 
Wolves mark 2 here! What did sacking a manager capable of getting them promoted and scrapping survival on a shoestring budget get them in the end? 2 more managers and fighting relegation from the championship that's where!

If you get promoted and the club spends naff all on upgrading the squad you are going to have to perform a hell of a job to keep them up.

I always think when you've got a non traditional premiership club promoted least the club can do if they go down is give you the chance to get them back up again. Sack him if they're mid table in the championship next year by all means.

I know that's crazy talk though as there's no such thing as loyalty in football :p
 
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