Takeover

[CaptainFantastico]

No but it has everything to do with identifying opportunities and moving at the right time.

Why wait for a £20m or so price drop when you'd only need to spend that to rebuild the squad after a fire sale? And have your investment doing nothing for an extra year?

Exactly. We've got a competitive team right now, with several difference makers waiting to come back in to the team.

We have no idea what the squad will look like on Feb 1st with no investment, but chances are we lose a majority of our key players, that any buyer will just have to replace anyway.

What's £20m difference in price, when the reward for getting promoted is £100m (ish)?!

Ok why don't we have a queue of eager buyers.

We have (had) more than one serious party in the process

Mike Ashley is a serious buyer who has the cash but, would rather buy Reading. This should answer all the questions.

The only question it answers is what anyone who sees where Readings ground is based and what that offers correctly tells you about the difference in motivation and opportunity