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There has long been a pattern of struggling clubs cutting funding for the women's team. It is something that needs to change Jessy Parker Humphreys7 The agent of Crystal Palace winger Michael Olise has been given a six-month ban by the Football Association (FA) following an investigation into a contract agreed with the player’s former club Reading in 2019.

Glen Tweneboah, who is a registered intermediary still acting on behalf of Olise, was charged with misconduct after it was found he breached the FA’s agent rules when the forward signed a three-year professional contract with Reading in the summer 2019.

Tweneboah entered into an agreement that would see him eligible for a 10 per cent cut of Olise’s future transfer fee, which is. .. Philip Buckingham13 Stuart Attwell suffered an unfortunate incident during the early part of his refereeing career Adam Leventhal22 We have profiled four men who tried and failed to buy football clubs. But what can be done to make the game more robust? Matt Slater29 Advertisement William Storey has made a lot of noise in his bids to own a football club - but moves for Sunderland, Coventry and Reading did not progress Dan Sheldon and Philip Buckingham81 Reading owner Dai Yongge has committed to a letter of intent to sell the League One club, it has been announced.

Dai — a Chinese businessman — has served as Reading’s majority owner since 2017, a tenure that has been marked by continuous protests from supporters.

The club have been hit with a raft of points deductions during Dai’s time in charge and were relegated to the third tier in May.

Dai had held talks over selling the club’s Bearwood Park training ground to local rivals Wycombe Wanderers but has now parked that plan in favour of selling the club outright.

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The sale of the Bearwood Park training facility was confirmed on Thursday, following The Athletic’s report a day earlier. A statement last Sunday confirmed that Reading owner Dai Yongge was open to the sale of the £50million facility in order to “secure sufficient funding until new ownership is confirmed”.

Following Thursday’s announcement, Couhig shared screenshots on social media of messages he had. .. Luke Bosher17 Reading owner Dai Yongge has agreed to sell the club’s Bearwood Park training ground to local rivals Wycombe Wanderers, less than five years after the state-of-the-art facility was opened.

The former Premier League side were in the Championship then and only two years into the Chinese businessman’s tenure as owner. The 2019 move to the £50million site, set in 120 acres of picturesque woodlands only five miles from the club’s stadium, was meant to signal Reading’s ambition to return to the top flight.

That ambition is in tatters now, as relegation to League One last season has been. .. Matt Slater74 Leeds' recruitment consultant was the rational, safe-pair-of-hands they needed for their complex rebuild last summer. He has worked wonders Phil Hay and Nancy Froston43