As a Bolton fan I feel for Reading. Any rivalries aside this is appalling what is happening. We were so close to losing our club due to the EFL allowing owners like this guy. I said when we had trouble we were the tip of a massive iceberg and that is appalling. Bury and Macclesfield should never have been allowed to happen and I hope Reading get a new owner like ours now. One that cares, one that is open, one who runs the club right and one that is honest with fans. All the best Reading FC me and my son really enjoyed our visit there this season even though we lost. We met some great people there
Macclesfield and Bury fans remade their clubs, but that's not that easy to do... Shut out to Macclesfield for getting 3 straight promotions and being in the 7th tier as quickly as possible!
@@aleksavasic2612 that is true but it should never have got to that point. I listened to the bury chairman on talk sport with the bury captain and he was a disgrace. There's no love lost between Bolton and Bury but I was shouting at the radio that day when that toss mongrel was on.
@@dwarfmash9 Even as a Carlisle United fan, I feel bad for Reading fans, despite the relegation battle... I feel bad for the teams like Bury and follow the first 7 tiers of English football, so I celebrate every time Macclesfield win...
I’ve got a housemate at university who’s a big Reading fan - genuinely think he should’ve applied for extenuating circumstances for his exams this month
Sone Aluko Striker £7m 6 goals in 102 appearances over four years I genuinely had to rewind that back to check I wasn’t going completely insane Jesus 😢
Who sanctioned the transfer?...my club Sheffield Wednesday are very good at those kinds of transfers... Jordan Rhodes and almen abdi must be 22m plus in fees and wages...they both did nothing except take huge wages and pretend to be injured then leave for free...in our situation some shadowery portuguese group was giving advice to the clueless "chairman" 3:04
I'm an American Bournemouth Supporter since 2016 and this video has shown me how lucky we've been as fans to have back to back solid ownership. Readihg fans deserve better!
From a swindon supporter: This is terrible to see one of our neighbour clubs be in such a dire situation, and I really hope you are able to resolve it :( Forget locally rivally... no team, or their fans deserve this Good luck my friends!
Nice comment mate. I’ve never understood people fighting because the other person wears a different shirt. I hope one season, all 3 of us, you and Oxford are in the same league. Although, playing you both this season due to the EFL trophy was a nice surprise
Hope you guys get the tyrant owners out, and find some stability. Just have a look at us at SN1, a skint Aussie plumber in charge...you can't make it up...Would be nice to have the local derbies back again in better circumstances.
Yes, as a Reading fan it’s truly heartbreaking, I used to work at the club and still know people there. The stories are hard to listen to. Glad the story is finally coming out and glad to hear support from other fan bases. This is a situation where we put rivalries aside and fight together as fans to protect our clubs. Who knows who the next victim will be
I understand what the fans feel right now. I'm a Brighton fan and seeing as we went through a similar event in our history, I sympathize with the Reading fans.
@@frfbarca6 What kind of question is that? It was the football league division 3 where we just tipped Hereford with a 1-1 draw to stay alive and in the football league. I may not be old enough to have lived it, but I had the conscious to read up on my club's history instead of just blindly supporting them.
Feel sorry for Reading, as a Leyton Orient fan. No club deserves to go through this mess. We were so close to losing our club during the painful Becchetti years, suffering back-to-back relegations. The EFL should look at themselves for letting these owners run football clubs.
I feel for Reading Football Club and the fans, Im a Scunthorpe United fan and ive been through all of this with my club, we barely managed to dodge liquidation and the club completely folding. What we didnt do was give up believing, whether that meant physically protesting or boycotting games. Reading should never ever stop believing in their club, and hopefully they will have a happy ending like we did ❤
There was a Fit and Proper Owners Test done by the EFL, but it was relatively weak, and at the time he had clear income streams and hadn't really been in financial trouble.
If clubs ran as proper businesses, the owner's wealth wouldn't be an issue. That's the absurdity of what fans are allowing. With almost every club I've seen going through this, you go through the social media timeline and you see the same pattern: (step 1) Fans screaming for x,y, z to be bought When x,y, z don't pan out, then complain than a,b, and c weren't bought instead Rinse, and back to step 1 until Owner realises they are just losing money to go nowhere so decided to get out. Then if a New owner comes in, it's back to step 1 until the owner can't find anyone willing to take on such a basket case. Fans keeping an eye on their club's finances and having the courage to tell the club to stop overspending would do a lot more than any ownership test
The sale of Nelson Abbey and Tom Holmes behind the managers back was heartbreaking. Abbey especially who was bought by Forest via Olympiakos to dodge their ffp issues. Abbey is just 20 and playing for England u19s, he is a beast of a player and captained the club. He is quick, strong, and great distribution and the owner and his sidekick Pang have given him away for a measley 400k.....
Grew up in Reading, left when I was 19 but it’s my childhood home. I remember when the Madejski opened, my Dad booked tickets for us to see them (he hates football, but is an awesome Dad and enjoyed the pies). Loved my visits to watch Reading. Such a shame seeing this club being abused like this. I hope they survive and recover.
Maybe you could cover the situation at my local club Nuneaton Borough? From playing Middlesbrough in the FA Cup 3rd round in 2006 to resigning from the league mid season after our landlords locked us out of our ground and we became homeless; a truly badly run club with multiples restarts over the last few years.
absolutley incredible video mate been with reading for the 18 years of my life so far watched us go from the prem to where we are now. Thanks for spreading thee word to your fans and everyone else who sees. The higher the engagment towards our situation the better
I’m from Berks County in Pennsylvania. The big city in the area is Reading (same pronunciation). Because of this, I picked Reading as my team to follow in English soccer. I just hope to see my team play on American TV one day.
Dai his heart was originally but just spent horribly. Then he realised it wasn’t going anywhere so stopped carrying. The Reading story through out the years is just mad
Such a shame , this shouldn't be allowed to happen. Thanks as always Vizeh , i love the content you put out and love the way you present it , you always give such a honest opinion. Wishing the absolute best to you and your loved ones. 🙏❤.
Not only are your videos interesting and well researched but it's genuinely impressive you can do this in a foreign language. You don't get enough credit for this. Fair play.
Reading fan here, very well presented and researched vid. Proud to admit I was one of the ones on the pitch against Vale. Just want my club back, nothing more, nothing less.
As a lifelong Evertonian, I have a really bad feeling that we'll be next. I take no pleasure seeing clubs going bust, my best wishes to Reading supporters, hopefully you can recover from this mess.
As a Bolton fan who's been through a similar experience, I have sympathy for Reading fans. The fact this owner was even allowed to own the club shows us that the 'Fit and Proper' tests the EFL use for ownership is an absolute joke. I'm just grateful Bolton got bought at the 11th hour and now our owners have brought such a positive atmosphere back to the Reebok and, more importantly, the community. We need the EFL to change otherwise we're going to keep seeing this happening and end up with more Bury's and Macclesfield's.
I can only feel sorry for the fans. What was once a team in the Prem are now near the bottom of league one. It's so sad to see this downfall, one of the worst of the bunch. As a Lincoln City fan I'm still so shocked that they're beneath us.
@eddiemitchell1539 I may support your arch-rivals Blackburn Rovers, but I feel for Reading too. We can wish them all the luck in the world as friendly rivals.
It’s truly tragic; still have vague memories as a kid of Reading playing in the Prem! To see a club “ownership” (more like dictatorship) poison a club like that is repulsive.
Bolton Wanderers went through exactly the same thing with a rogue take over. The FA just stood bye & watch the club nearly go into liquidation. Thank God for the Britain family ( loyal Bolton fans ) that saved the club From extinction.
Shame we aren't a fashionable club, otherwise we might have actually seen some support at a time before things became as completely dire as they are now. Wish the football community was more active on these issues
Allegedly Dai Young wanted to buy Hull City but was not not allowed by the premier league because Hull was a premier league club at the time. I do believe that it’s optimistic to state everything will eventually be ok given this owners track record of football club ownership in other countries. In my opinion I would aledge he is a asset stripper.
Not a reading fan but I am from Berkshire, the only team we have in berks in the efl. Reading was a very convenient away game for me (boro fan) it was a bit of a running joke that there was no atmosphere but clearly there's a reason for it and now I'm more aware of the situation. As a boro fan sometimes there's a lot of frustrations due to lack of spending but our chairman is by far the best in the efl because he is militant about financial fair play. This is starting to get beyond a joke the amount of teams dieing due to bad ownership. It's not just football teams that die, it's part of the towns or cities or in this case a part of an entire county.
Viseh one thing not mentioned when talking about the transfers is the relationship with Kia Joorabchian, Dai has taken advice from Joorabchian who isn’t even a registered agent, the likes of Mannone, Aluko, Barrow Baccuna we’re on ridiculous wages Aluko above 30k per week and Liam Moore at the same time in that ball park while the club were having mediocre finishes in the championship. Just awful mismanagement by someone who doesn’t know football working with someone who wants to line his back pockets. I’m a Reading fan and it’s such a shame to see, in the current situation I don’t know how this is sustainable and how the club will survive.
As a Blackpool fan thats had to fight for our club back this hits close to home. The EFL need to be held accountable for allowing clubs to be ran so poorly
Rivalry aside (Swindon fan) its shocking to see a club being run into the very ground it stands on. Unfortunately, its more and more common that these chancers fancy playing football club owner and its the fans that have to suffer these total bellends ruining the clubs we love
I remember going to see Port Vale at Reading at Elm Park in 1998. There was a pitch invasion that day too, but under such different circumstances from now. Back then the owner was well liked and it was the manager they wanted out. Since then Reading have had some real highs, but this is a tragic low. I can only hope they can get a new owner and start the process of recovery.
Been following this club since I went to my first game, as a 4 year old in December 1991. I’ve seen lows, the highest of highs and right now, the threat of the club dying and a lot of fans (myself included) spending their Saturdays at Scours Lane to watch Reading City on the regular, seems like a real possibility. Very well made video Vizeh, I hope that, if a sale happens and even if we go to League 2, the only way would only be up from here.
Geez...I recall going to Sheff Utd to see Reading in the Premier League. Reading had a cracking team. They won 2-1 and had a good season that year. What has happened since?
People will say United fans are spoilt with wanting the glazers out, but the club would be in this exact same situation if it already wasn't a big club with high revenue, over paying for useless players, insane wages is how you destroy a club like it's happening with Reading... there needs to be something done about terrible ownerships they get off too easily while killing historic clubs
Yep, but at least we are not “Doing A Leeds”, even with our high debt, wasting a billion on bad transfers since 2017, and club infrastructure being neglected. It is just that Manchester United have some of the highest standards every year and expect consistent success thanks to the fans and toxic English media and tabloids. There is hope for Man United as Ratcllife is bringing in a new CEO to modernize the club along with a Director of Football, new board members, recruitment staff, and sporting director. Although, the Glazers are still bad owners who care more about making money than being successful on the pitch especially after SAF retired, which pisses off fans who grew up watching the team dominate English and world football, and almost all the fans want them to sell the club fully from the Stretford Enders to global fans like myself. They have been hated from the very beginning with a breakaway club founded after The Glazers bought Man United called FC United of Manchester. Man United will bounce back because of the legacy built by Sir Matt and Sir Alex, large revenue, and fanbase, just like Liverpool did under Klopp.
The problem lies at the top of the EFL where the man in charge cares more about getting more money from the premier league instead of sorting out owners in charge of their clubs
Clubs have gone to the wall before such as ourselves, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Scunthorpe, Macclesfield, Darlington and clubs in the future will go to the wall unless the governance of English football is sorted
There was great support from Vale fans. Many joined in with the chants and fully backed the fans on the pitch. I have great respect for that. People spent good money on tickets and travel and were probably very frustrated. They still decided to support the action instead of booing. I am definitely picking up Port Vale as a second team now. If the worst happens, and my club ceases to exist, I know where my support will go.
It was 05/06, I was 10, just going through school, and my grandad bought me a season ticket for the year, one in which he renewed the year after so I got to see my home club take on the biggest clubs in the world. It’s what made me fall in love with football, and I will always love Reading FC for that, what I see now is the football club I love, being killed before my eyes, it’s heartbreaking.
I just don’t get why these owners never seem to invest in the future of the club like there’s never any money spent on youth development. You get cheaper wages and any player sold is a profit
Footballers can make their own meals. I realize this isn’t the point of this story. And I get athletes do need certain diets. But come on to complain a chef isn’t cooking for them? That’s a problem they should keep to themselves in this day and age.
Absolutely scandalous what reading are having to go through. Where is the efl in all this? It’s clear that the owner isn’t fit and proper. Sanctions should be applied to owners and not the club. Ultimately It’s the fans who suffer. As a Swansea fan I hope you Royals get out of this 👍🦢
Im not a reading fan but have lived here my whole life. Its a disgrace what the EFL have done to the club. The warning signs should have been there when the premier league stopped Dai from buying hull. Hope he finally sells and the town can have the club back
I think a list of the best & worst executives in football would be interesting: Best: Santiago Bernabeu, Florentino Perez, Berlusconi, Abramovich, Sheikh Mansour, Uli Hoeneß, Gianni Agnelli, Angelo & Massimo Moratti, Tony Bloom, Matthew Benham, Mick Harford. Worst: Bartomeu, Joan Gaspart, Jesus Gil, Luciano Moggi, The Glazers, Steve Dale, Dai Yongge, Chansiri, Mel Morris, Farhad Moshiri, Venkys. Btw, the former is only judging them on their ability to run their clubs well, I know some are terrible humans.
@@thefutbolfollower8326 yes but he is selling the clubs soul is he not as he made the super leuge ucls mean jack and should be stripped from real if they do the super leuge
I'm a peruvian supporter since almost 15 years. I feel very sad to hear about the terrible situation that the club is going through, I sincerely hope that a solution is found and that we learn from it so that it does not happen again. I only ask that the public continue to support from the stands, that the players feel the energy to perform better despite the adversities they face daily. My sincere wishes from Peru.
A far cry when I used to visit Elm park with Orient. Os fans know what it’s like to go through such times and stand with Reading. 3 points pls on Saturday though.
As a Halifax Town supporter-we know all about struggles,We went out of the football league.....twice,We went bust in 2008-and then reformed in the 8th tier,we've got a chairman who doesn't want us to progress 😥 Good luck to Reading....I hope things turn round for you
Villa could have easily gone the same way under Tony Xia and almost did. Although the were reasons for his money issues and least he knew when to respectfully sell and always tried to put the club first.
Reading in the League One relegation zone is astonishing I remember them in the late 2000s in the Premier League and as a top level Championship side They barely missed Europe and didn’t realize how close they were until now only a final day draw cost them
I’ve been a Spurs fan since 2009, the year after we won our last trophy, and have never had the joy of seeing them win a trophy with my own eyes. However, this story about Reading really can give us all some appreciation for whatever it is that we are able to enjoy from our clubs because as we can see it can all go south so fast. Best of luck going forward to all you Reading fans and I hope that you will be able to climb up the football pyramid once again
Reading fc were a bright breath of fresh air at one time and what is happening now is sad and disgraceful. I feel for supporters and players. What us the FA doing about "fit for purpose owners" ? Wolves fan and we have been there, almost out of business. You have my support and best wishes.
Coming from a Wigan fan it’s obvious there is a problem within the EFL. Rewind 10 years ago and financial problems where extremely rare, but now you’ve seen the likes of Bury and Macclesfield go completely bust. Bolton and Wigan almost going under completely. Southend and Scunthorpe still hanging on for the lives. Then teams like Oldham, Blackpool, Derby, Sheff Wed and several other clubs suffering financially. What used to happen on a rare occurrence is now happening to several clubs every year. The Leganes owner was denied a sale for Wigan, but someone who had all his money in property was allowed. Relying on sales of houses to pay for wages. Dai Yong was denied buying Hull City but a couple of years later he’s owner of Reading. The owner of Bury before they went bust didn’t know the town had a football club. The fit and proper test is a major issue and the EFL themselves wouldn’t pass their own checks.
This is why the Bundesliga is worth looking at as a model: 50 plus 1 percent rule looks pretty good to me. With that model supporters can own their own team. Get some local business support for the 20 to 30 percent not fan owned and it's pretty good sailing. Talking about buying players... would imagine that Reading doesn't have an Academy?
From playing the likes of Manchester United to playing Leyton Orient in League One and potentially playing Chesterfield next season is diabolical and even Grimsby Town will be visiting
as a leeds fan i know this hurt , we were 30mins from the winding up order being signed in 2006 its a long way back , but i've always said remember that as fans you are the heartbeat of the club , anybody anywhere just stand by your club come what may .
As a Stockport County fan, I've seen my club dragged to the brink of oblivion by a cast of characters that wouldn't even be believable as story book villains. A Rugby club owner who brought us purely to gain a home for Sale Sharks and charged us extortionate rates to play at the stadium we've called home since 1902. A former footballer who made false promises and never ended up buying the club despite committing us to expenses he would never pay off, a Scouse chancer who paraded himself as a saviour on the pitch despite not having two pennies to rub together. Thankfully the supporters trust stabalised us and kept us alive but not before an 11 year drop from the Championship to Conference North. So I completely understand what is going on at Reading and exactly how their fans must feel...hopeless, betrayed, depressed and just generally awful. However we got our moment we desperately needed, a local multi-millionaire bought the club in 2021 and we haven't looked back since. The club is now as stable as it's ever been and we're doing it in a Madejski-esque way, spending more money on the academy and training facilities to produce our own talent, which just two years later we're reaping the rewards from and improvign the Stadium and matchday experience making pretty much every game a sell-out. I'm sure Reading will have their moment like us, like we ourselves, Bury, Blackpool, Macclesfield, Southampton, Leicester...it may get worse before it gets better but keep the faith that it WILL get better.
I feel sorry for reading no wonder there players will be leaving at the end of the season and subject to relegation to non league. I hope they can rise up and rebuild like 2012-13
I was at a Malaga CF game yesterday and there in division 3 in Spanish football it’s always sad to see big club like this in lower division s Bolton Reading Malaga Depotivo La Cora and other teams
Same happening at Swansea at a lesser extent. Selling all our best players and not replacing them properly. Bad owners shouldn't exist... Feel bad for Reading...
Being a 45 year Nottingham Forest fan I know the feeling.... Don't let them win.... It's your club, your life, your passion.... Fight for Reading... Fight for your club, and fight for your future.... Every fans future..... Good luck... I prey it all works out....👊👊👊👊
As a Hearts fan I know what the Reading fans are going through. I remember that Hearts very nearly went burst in 2014 like Gretna no thanks to the infamous Vladimir Romanov who embezzled all the money Hearts had and they very nearly went under. Now thanks to Ann Budge and foundation of Hearts, the club are back where they are and thriving.
I feel sorry for the fans and general club staff, but have zero sympathy for footballers. No footballer in the history of the game was ever left out of pocket or didn't get their contracted wages. Remember, to them it's just a job. It's the fans who bare the brunt.
You said it: “it’s terrifying”. It shouldn’t happen. How can an owner that has bankrupted TWO CLUBS be allowed to be involved in football. The situation is truly dire. We’ve always been a well run club who developed youth and scouted talent well leading to a sustainable club but it’s all close to collapse. Repeated fines and points deductions are not helping as we have an owner who doesn’t care about anything except recouping money. This hurts so much but thanks for the publicity with the video. Good job
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No football fan deserves to go through this with the club they love
Yeah, except for wigan. 😂
Mk dons only exception
@@issaccalotychos Leipzig would also be one
@@issaccalotychostruer words have never been spoken 😂
It's awful man
As a Bolton fan I feel for Reading. Any rivalries aside this is appalling what is happening. We were so close to losing our club due to the EFL allowing owners like this guy. I said when we had trouble we were the tip of a massive iceberg and that is appalling. Bury and Macclesfield should never have been allowed to happen and I hope Reading get a new owner like ours now. One that cares, one that is open, one who runs the club right and one that is honest with fans. All the best Reading FC me and my son really enjoyed our visit there this season even though we lost. We met some great people there
Happy to hear that you guys have been doing well since aswell
how does it feel having thogden and thogdad supporting the same club as you?
Macclesfield and Bury fans remade their clubs, but that's not that easy to do... Shut out to Macclesfield for getting 3 straight promotions and being in the 7th tier as quickly as possible!
@@aleksavasic2612 that is true but it should never have got to that point. I listened to the bury chairman on talk sport with the bury captain and he was a disgrace. There's no love lost between Bolton and Bury but I was shouting at the radio that day when that toss mongrel was on.
@@dwarfmash9 Even as a Carlisle United fan, I feel bad for Reading fans, despite the relegation battle... I feel bad for the teams like Bury and follow the first 7 tiers of English football, so I celebrate every time Macclesfield win...
Thanks for bringing light to this situation. I never knew about this and I cannot help but feel sorry for a historic team such as Reading
I am surprised you never seen it about, it's a shame that no major brands even mentioned it really until the pitch invasion
I’ve got a housemate at university who’s a big Reading fan - genuinely think he should’ve applied for extenuating circumstances for his exams this month
I hope he's doing alright
Been waiting for this one.
Hoping the best for Reading. Fans don’t deserve to see this type of stuff happening
Had quite a lot of interest in this, happy I got it done at last
Sone Aluko
Striker
£7m
6 goals in 102 appearances over four years
I genuinely had to rewind that back to check I wasn’t going completely insane
Jesus 😢
Especially for a club at that size too, that's like £30m in EFL Value on less than 2 goals a season, insane
He has 55 career league goals in 16 years through 9 clubs, absolute baller 😂
His sister says that's a goal a game....You do the math!
@@prankballs6860 is he inbred?
Who sanctioned the transfer?...my club Sheffield Wednesday are very good at those kinds of transfers... Jordan Rhodes and almen abdi must be 22m plus in fees and wages...they both did nothing except take huge wages and pretend to be injured then leave for free...in our situation some shadowery portuguese group was giving advice to the clueless "chairman" 3:04
I'm an American Bournemouth Supporter since 2016 and this video has shown me how lucky we've been as fans to have back to back solid ownership. Readihg fans deserve better!
Loved Reading during 06/07. Lita, Doyle, Shorey, Kitson, etc.
They really lit up that season!
Streets will never forget Leroy Lita
@@Vizehhe still plays by the way, at Nuneaton Borough!
@@Vizehhe was a baller for us
Leroy Lita was HIM
From a swindon supporter: This is terrible to see one of our neighbour clubs be in such a dire situation, and I really hope you are able to resolve it :(
Forget locally rivally... no team, or their fans deserve this
Good luck my friends!
Nice comment mate. I’ve never understood people fighting because the other person wears a different shirt.
I hope one season, all 3 of us, you and Oxford are in the same league. Although, playing you both this season due to the EFL trophy was a nice surprise
Hope you guys get the tyrant owners out, and find some stability. Just have a look at us at SN1, a skint Aussie plumber in charge...you can't make it up...Would be nice to have the local derbies back again in better circumstances.
The audacity that Manchester United fans have comparing the glazers to Reading’s situation
Villa fan here. It breaks my heart to see this happening. I hope for Readings sake they can get out of this quickly and re-build 💪
Top man
Yes, as a Reading fan it’s truly heartbreaking, I used to work at the club and still know people there. The stories are hard to listen to.
Glad the story is finally coming out and glad to hear support from other fan bases. This is a situation where we put rivalries aside and fight together as fans to protect our clubs. Who knows who the next victim will be
I understand what the fans feel right now. I'm a Brighton fan and seeing as we went through a similar event in our history, I sympathize with the Reading fans.
Brighton almost dissapeared in 1997. What división where they then
@@frfbarca6 What kind of question is that? It was the football league division 3 where we just tipped Hereford with a 1-1 draw to stay alive and in the football league. I may not be old enough to have lived it, but I had the conscious to read up on my club's history instead of just blindly supporting them.
I really hope reading gets back on their feet and doesn't end up as another bury, history shall not repeat itself
I think they will be ok evenutally, but they may need to go through some scares first, hope this will bring the club and it's community stronger
Feel sorry for Reading, as a Leyton Orient fan. No club deserves to go through this mess. We were so close to losing our club during the painful Becchetti years, suffering back-to-back relegations. The EFL should look at themselves for letting these owners run football clubs.
@lofcpalmex I couldn't agree more. We need decent FA owners for once, and this is coming from a Blackburn Rovers fan.
me too as a Portsmouth and LCFC fan
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I feel for Reading Football Club and the fans, Im a Scunthorpe United fan and ive been through all of this with my club, we barely managed to dodge liquidation and the club completely folding. What we didnt do was give up believing, whether that meant physically protesting or boycotting games. Reading should never ever stop believing in their club, and hopefully they will have a happy ending like we did ❤
Wasn't the FA meant to do background checks on new owners before a purchase? or was reading brought before that change?
Honestly, who knows anymore
There was a Fit and Proper Owners Test done by the EFL, but it was relatively weak, and at the time he had clear income streams and hadn't really been in financial trouble.
Look up Chris Kirchner - he passed the EFL fit and proper test and was incredibly close to buying Derby before folk realised he actually had no money.
If clubs ran as proper businesses, the owner's wealth wouldn't be an issue. That's the absurdity of what fans are allowing. With almost every club I've seen going through this, you go through the social media timeline and you see the same pattern:
(step 1)
Fans screaming for x,y, z to be bought
When x,y, z don't pan out, then complain than a,b, and c weren't bought instead
Rinse, and back to step 1 until Owner realises they are just losing money to go nowhere so decided to get out.
Then if a New owner comes in, it's back to step 1 until the owner can't find anyone willing to take on such a basket case.
Fans keeping an eye on their club's finances and having the courage to tell the club to stop overspending would do a lot more than any ownership test
The sale of Nelson Abbey and Tom Holmes behind the managers back was heartbreaking. Abbey especially who was bought by Forest via Olympiakos to dodge their ffp issues. Abbey is just 20 and playing for England u19s, he is a beast of a player and captained the club. He is quick, strong, and great distribution and the owner and his sidekick Pang have given him away for a measley 400k.....
This is so sad I remember when reading was challenging for promotion
Grew up in Reading, left when I was 19 but it’s my childhood home. I remember when the Madejski opened, my Dad booked tickets for us to see them (he hates football, but is an awesome Dad and enjoyed the pies). Loved my visits to watch Reading.
Such a shame seeing this club being abused like this. I hope they survive and recover.
Maybe you could cover the situation at my local club Nuneaton Borough? From playing Middlesbrough in the FA Cup 3rd round in 2006 to resigning from the league mid season after our landlords locked us out of our ground and we became homeless; a truly badly run club with multiples restarts over the last few years.
absolutley incredible video mate been with reading for the 18 years of my life so far watched us go from the prem to where we are now. Thanks for spreading thee word to your fans and everyone else who sees. The higher the engagment towards our situation the better
I’m from Berks County in Pennsylvania. The big city in the area is Reading (same pronunciation). Because of this, I picked Reading as my team to follow in English soccer. I just hope to see my team play on American TV one day.
Dai his heart was originally but just spent horribly. Then he realised it wasn’t going anywhere so stopped carrying. The Reading story through out the years is just mad
It's been a shit show ever since Zingarevich...
Such a shame , this shouldn't be allowed to happen. Thanks as always Vizeh , i love the content you put out and love the way you present it , you always give such a honest opinion. Wishing the absolute best to you and your loved ones. 🙏❤.
Not only are your videos interesting and well researched but it's genuinely impressive you can do this in a foreign language. You don't get enough credit for this. Fair play.
I am English mate, I just live in Poland haha
Reading fan here, very well presented and researched vid. Proud to admit I was one of the ones on the pitch against Vale. Just want my club back, nothing more, nothing less.
As a lifelong Evertonian, I have a really bad feeling that we'll be next. I take no pleasure seeing clubs going bust, my best wishes to Reading supporters, hopefully you can recover from this mess.
If you're ever interested there's a few clubs that have seen the opposite of Reading recently, like Spanish club Eldense.
thank you for looking into Reading.A historic club that needs to be saved.
Watford fan here who went to University of Reading, so always had an eye out for Reading. Just hard to fathom what’s happened to the club.
As a Crystal palace fan I’m glad we got Olise out of this
In fairness he would have just gone to a different club
would be greatful if you sell him for 100M as we got a 10% sell on clause
As a Bolton fan who's been through a similar experience, I have sympathy for Reading fans. The fact this owner was even allowed to own the club shows us that the 'Fit and Proper' tests the EFL use for ownership is an absolute joke.
I'm just grateful Bolton got bought at the 11th hour and now our owners have brought such a positive atmosphere back to the Reebok and, more importantly, the community.
We need the EFL to change otherwise we're going to keep seeing this happening and end up with more Bury's and Macclesfield's.
I can only feel sorry for the fans. What was once a team in the Prem are now near the bottom of league one. It's so sad to see this downfall, one of the worst of the bunch. As a Lincoln City fan I'm still so shocked that they're beneath us.
From 2005-2012 Reading were the team to look up to for fans of Championship clubs.
100%, always at the top of the Championship table
Thank you for bringing our situation to your following. It’s scary times, even today losing our best player.
We will return.
As a Swindon fan it’s still kinda off sad to see a nemesis getting treated like this
Rivalry’s aside it’s never nice to see any club go through this mate will hopefully be around to play your lot next season
Thank you for dong this on my club, it really sad to see my club go through this
Thanks for the coverage Liam, much needed and much appreciated 💙 UTD
As a Claret and a football fan I feel very sorry for Reading fans and wish them all the best
@eddiemitchell1539 I may support your arch-rivals Blackburn Rovers, but I feel for Reading too. We can wish them all the luck in the world as friendly rivals.
It’s truly tragic; still have vague memories as a kid of Reading playing in the Prem! To see a club “ownership” (more like dictatorship) poison a club like that is repulsive.
Bolton Wanderers went through exactly the same thing with a rogue take over. The FA just stood bye & watch the club nearly go into liquidation. Thank God for the Britain family ( loyal Bolton fans ) that saved the club From extinction.
Shame we aren't a fashionable club, otherwise we might have actually seen some support at a time before things became as completely dire as they are now. Wish the football community was more active on these issues
I’m a wolves fan this happened to us in the 80s we were lucky enough to survive and bounce back good luck reading
Allegedly Dai Young wanted to buy Hull City but was not not allowed by the premier league because Hull was a premier league club at the time. I do believe that it’s optimistic to state everything will eventually be ok given this owners track record of football club ownership in other countries. In my opinion I would aledge he is a asset stripper.
it happend to us so happy it didnt get as fare as reading i am so sorry that anoyne goes through this KRO hope you get good owners soon
Not a reading fan but I am from Berkshire, the only team we have in berks in the efl. Reading was a very convenient away game for me (boro fan) it was a bit of a running joke that there was no atmosphere but clearly there's a reason for it and now I'm more aware of the situation. As a boro fan sometimes there's a lot of frustrations due to lack of spending but our chairman is by far the best in the efl because he is militant about financial fair play. This is starting to get beyond a joke the amount of teams dieing due to bad ownership. It's not just football teams that die, it's part of the towns or cities or in this case a part of an entire county.
Coming back to this video broughta tear to my eye, 8 months later and still no change, when will it end
Viseh one thing not mentioned when talking about the transfers is the relationship with Kia Joorabchian, Dai has taken advice from Joorabchian who isn’t even a registered agent, the likes of Mannone, Aluko, Barrow Baccuna we’re on ridiculous wages Aluko above 30k per week and Liam Moore at the same time in that ball park while the club were having mediocre finishes in the championship. Just awful mismanagement by someone who doesn’t know football working with someone who wants to line his back pockets. I’m a Reading fan and it’s such a shame to see, in the current situation I don’t know how this is sustainable and how the club will survive.
Yes very true although its Joorabchian
@@cshaffrey3438 butchered his name like he butchered my club
As a Blackpool fan thats had to fight for our club back this hits close to home. The EFL need to be held accountable for allowing clubs to be ran so poorly
Rivalry aside (Swindon fan) its shocking to see a club being run into the very ground it stands on. Unfortunately, its more and more common that these chancers fancy playing football club owner and its the fans that have to suffer these total bellends ruining the clubs we love
I’m glad u swindon fans have a brain and understand, that is why as a reading supporter rivalry aside I’ve always respected u lot
@@Huayra21 I hope it all works out, mate. There's no way the fans and team should be let down by an owner like that. The EFL does fuck all, either
I remember going to see Port Vale at Reading at Elm Park in 1998. There was a pitch invasion that day too, but under such different circumstances from now. Back then the owner was well liked and it was the manager they wanted out.
Since then Reading have had some real highs, but this is a tragic low. I can only hope they can get a new owner and start the process of recovery.
Been following this club since I went to my first game, as a 4 year old in December 1991. I’ve seen lows, the highest of highs and right now, the threat of the club dying and a lot of fans (myself included) spending their Saturdays at Scours Lane to watch Reading City on the regular, seems like a real possibility.
Very well made video Vizeh, I hope that, if a sale happens and even if we go to League 2, the only way would only be up from here.
Geez...I recall going to Sheff Utd to see Reading in the Premier League. Reading had a cracking team. They won 2-1 and had a good season that year. What has happened since?
People will say United fans are spoilt with wanting the glazers out, but the club would be in this exact same situation if it already wasn't a big club with high revenue, over paying for useless players, insane wages is how you destroy a club like it's happening with Reading... there needs to be something done about terrible ownerships they get off too easily while killing historic clubs
Yep, but at least we are not “Doing A Leeds”, even with our high debt, wasting a billion on bad transfers since 2017, and club infrastructure being neglected. It is just that Manchester United have some of the highest standards every year and expect consistent success thanks to the fans and toxic English media and tabloids. There is hope for Man United as Ratcllife is bringing in a new CEO to modernize the club along with a Director of Football, new board members, recruitment staff, and sporting director. Although, the Glazers are still bad owners who care more about making money than being successful on the pitch especially after SAF retired, which pisses off fans who grew up watching the team dominate English and world football, and almost all the fans want them to sell the club fully from the Stretford Enders to global fans like myself. They have been hated from the very beginning with a breakaway club founded after The Glazers bought Man United called FC United of Manchester. Man United will bounce back because of the legacy built by Sir Matt and Sir Alex, large revenue, and fanbase, just like Liverpool did under Klopp.
I’m a portvale fan, we’ve had to go through ownership like this years before and I fully support the fans for going on the pitch
The problem lies at the top of the EFL where the man in charge cares more about getting more money from the premier league instead of sorting out owners in charge of their clubs
Clubs have gone to the wall before such as ourselves, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Scunthorpe, Macclesfield, Darlington and clubs in the future will go to the wall unless the governance of English football is sorted
There was great support from Vale fans. Many joined in with the chants and fully backed the fans on the pitch.
I have great respect for that. People spent good money on tickets and travel and were probably very frustrated. They still decided to support the action instead of booing.
I am definitely picking up Port Vale as a second team now. If the worst happens, and my club ceases to exist, I know where my support will go.
Keep up the good work mate vids a great love listening to them at work 👍
It was 05/06, I was 10, just going through school, and my grandad bought me a season ticket for the year, one in which he renewed the year after so I got to see my home club take on the biggest clubs in the world. It’s what made me fall in love with football, and I will always love Reading FC for that, what I see now is the football club I love, being killed before my eyes, it’s heartbreaking.
I’m sorry to hear that man, Reading was always the example for every Championship club
It is tragic to see this happening, thanks for telling us about it.
We want our Reading back!
I just don’t get why these owners never seem to invest in the future of the club like there’s never any money spent on youth development. You get cheaper wages and any player sold is a profit
Footballers can make their own meals. I realize this isn’t the point of this story. And I get athletes do need certain diets. But come on to complain a chef isn’t cooking for them? That’s a problem they should keep to themselves in this day and age.
Absolutely scandalous what reading are having to go through. Where is the efl in all this? It’s clear that the owner isn’t fit and proper. Sanctions should be applied to owners and not the club. Ultimately It’s the fans who suffer. As a Swansea fan I hope you Royals get out of this 👍🦢
Im not a reading fan but have lived here my whole life. Its a disgrace what the EFL have done to the club. The warning signs should have been there when the premier league stopped Dai from buying hull. Hope he finally sells and the town can have the club back
I think a list of the best & worst executives in football would be interesting:
Best: Santiago Bernabeu, Florentino Perez, Berlusconi, Abramovich, Sheikh Mansour, Uli Hoeneß, Gianni Agnelli, Angelo & Massimo Moratti, Tony Bloom, Matthew Benham, Mick Harford.
Worst: Bartomeu, Joan Gaspart, Jesus Gil, Luciano Moggi, The Glazers, Steve Dale, Dai Yongge, Chansiri, Mel Morris, Farhad Moshiri, Venkys.
Btw, the former is only judging them on their ability to run their clubs well, I know some are terrible humans.
Plenty of worse owners than the Glazers not listed there.
@@JohnBall-cd4cg I couldn’t think of everyone.
Sorry but perez is the worst really as he is selling real madrids soul with the super leuge
@@notsaying7018 Imao I’m too lazy to debate this, all I’ll say is Madrid have won 6 UCL’s under him.
@@thefutbolfollower8326 yes but he is selling the clubs soul is he not as he made the super leuge ucls mean jack and should be stripped from real if they do the super leuge
I'm a peruvian supporter since almost 15 years. I feel very sad to hear about the terrible situation that the club is going through, I sincerely hope that a solution is found and that we learn from it so that it does not happen again. I only ask that the public continue to support from the stands, that the players feel the energy to perform better despite the adversities they face daily. My sincere wishes from Peru.
A far cry when I used to visit Elm park with Orient. Os fans know what it’s like to go through such times and stand with Reading. 3 points pls on Saturday though.
'we're reading, and we spend what we want'
HOLDD THAT
when was that ever a chant
As a Halifax Town supporter-we know all about struggles,We went out of the football league.....twice,We went bust in 2008-and then reformed in the 8th tier,we've got a chairman who doesn't want us to progress 😥
Good luck to Reading....I hope things turn round for you
Derby County were not deducted any points for the sale of Pride Park Stadium that was found in court to be valid and the EFL did not appeal it.
Villa could have easily gone the same way under Tony Xia and almost did. Although the were reasons for his money issues and least he knew when to respectfully sell and always tried to put the club first.
Reading in the League One relegation zone is astonishing
I remember them in the late 2000s in the Premier League and as a top level Championship side
They barely missed Europe and didn’t realize how close they were until now only a final day draw cost them
I’ve been a Spurs fan since 2009, the year after we won our last trophy, and have never had the joy of seeing them win a trophy with my own eyes. However, this story about Reading really can give us all some appreciation for whatever it is that we are able to enjoy from our clubs because as we can see it can all go south so fast. Best of luck going forward to all you Reading fans and I hope that you will be able to climb up the football pyramid once again
Bro I wanna Dai Young aswell 💀💀💀
Only The Good Dai Jongge
I remember going to reading away when they we in premier league we lost 2 1. But it's awful to see clubs struggling like this.
The fact their owner has already killed two clubs should concern the FA and Football league into saving Reading before they end up like Bury 😞
Reading fc were a bright breath of fresh air at one time and what is happening now is sad and disgraceful. I feel for supporters and players. What us the FA doing about "fit for purpose owners" ? Wolves fan and we have been there, almost out of business. You have my support and best wishes.
Coming from a Wigan fan it’s obvious there is a problem within the EFL. Rewind 10 years ago and financial problems where extremely rare, but now you’ve seen the likes of Bury and Macclesfield go completely bust. Bolton and Wigan almost going under completely. Southend and Scunthorpe still hanging on for the lives. Then teams like Oldham, Blackpool, Derby, Sheff Wed and several other clubs suffering financially. What used to happen on a rare occurrence is now happening to several clubs every year. The Leganes owner was denied a sale for Wigan, but someone who had all his money in property was allowed. Relying on sales of houses to pay for wages. Dai Yong was denied buying Hull City but a couple of years later he’s owner of Reading. The owner of Bury before they went bust didn’t know the town had a football club. The fit and proper test is a major issue and the EFL themselves wouldn’t pass their own checks.
This is terrible. Reading is such a historical club, hopefully they can find new owners!
Thank you viz for bringing more light to this much respect
This is why the Bundesliga is worth looking at as a model: 50 plus 1 percent rule looks pretty good to me. With that model supporters can own their own team. Get some local business support for the 20 to 30 percent not fan owned and it's pretty good sailing. Talking about buying players... would imagine that Reading doesn't have an Academy?
Im a Hull fan, its horrible thinking that we looked at that guy as our possible saviour. I really hope it works out for Reading.
I think it’s only a matter of time until Hull are back in the Prem
From playing the likes of Manchester United to playing Leyton Orient in League One and potentially playing Chesterfield next season is diabolical and even Grimsby Town will be visiting
as a leeds fan i know this hurt , we were 30mins from the winding up order being signed in 2006 its a long way back , but i've always said remember that as fans you are the heartbeat of the club , anybody anywhere just stand by your club come what may .
They’re at the stage where you’d describe them as an “ailing club”.
“The ailing club were recently hit with a points deduction amid…..”
Keep your heads up! It can all change very quickly, BHAFC.
As a Stockport County fan, I've seen my club dragged to the brink of oblivion by a cast of characters that wouldn't even be believable as story book villains. A Rugby club owner who brought us purely to gain a home for Sale Sharks and charged us extortionate rates to play at the stadium we've called home since 1902. A former footballer who made false promises and never ended up buying the club despite committing us to expenses he would never pay off, a Scouse chancer who paraded himself as a saviour on the pitch despite not having two pennies to rub together. Thankfully the supporters trust stabalised us and kept us alive but not before an 11 year drop from the Championship to Conference North. So I completely understand what is going on at Reading and exactly how their fans must feel...hopeless, betrayed, depressed and just generally awful.
However we got our moment we desperately needed, a local multi-millionaire bought the club in 2021 and we haven't looked back since. The club is now as stable as it's ever been and we're doing it in a Madejski-esque way, spending more money on the academy and training facilities to produce our own talent, which just two years later we're reaping the rewards from and improvign the Stadium and matchday experience making pretty much every game a sell-out. I'm sure Reading will have their moment like us, like we ourselves, Bury, Blackpool, Macclesfield, Southampton, Leicester...it may get worse before it gets better but keep the faith that it WILL get better.
Much love for reading from Colchester United
I feel sorry for reading no wonder there players will be leaving at the end of the season and subject to relegation to non league. I hope they can rise up and rebuild like 2012-13
I was at a Malaga CF game yesterday and there in division 3 in Spanish football it’s always sad to see big club like this in lower division s Bolton Reading Malaga Depotivo La Cora and other teams
Yeah as a Gashead I'm sad 2 hear this as reading a good club hope they sort it out good luck
Cheers for this video mate been a fan for 22 years id be devastated if we go bust but im still hopeful we will be sold 🔵⚪️
I feel so bad for Reading fans, horrible times for them.
Reading staff didnt read about how to properly manage a club 💀
The staff dont run club you delinquent. It's the owner. Someone didnt read how a football club works 💀
Same happening at Swansea at a lesser extent. Selling all our best players and not replacing them properly. Bad owners shouldn't exist... Feel bad for Reading...
Being a 45 year Nottingham Forest fan I know the feeling.... Don't let them win.... It's your club, your life, your passion.... Fight for Reading... Fight for your club, and fight for your future.... Every fans future..... Good luck... I prey it all works out....👊👊👊👊
I have a shirt with that logo on it from before i even watched football...just a great looking logo.
As a Hearts fan I know what the Reading fans are going through.
I remember that Hearts very nearly went burst in 2014 like Gretna no thanks to the infamous Vladimir Romanov who embezzled all the money Hearts had and they very nearly went under. Now thanks to Ann Budge and foundation of Hearts, the club are back where they are and thriving.
I feel sorry for the fans and general club staff, but have zero sympathy for footballers. No footballer in the history of the game was ever left out of pocket or didn't get their contracted wages. Remember, to them it's just a job. It's the fans who bare the brunt.
You said it: “it’s terrifying”. It shouldn’t happen. How can an owner that has bankrupted TWO CLUBS be allowed to be involved in football. The situation is truly dire. We’ve always been a well run club who developed youth and scouted talent well leading to a sustainable club but it’s all close to collapse.
Repeated fines and points deductions are not helping as we have an owner who doesn’t care about anything except recouping money.
This hurts so much but thanks for the publicity with the video. Good job