The A Team

Place for the winning team to discuss plans.

Hello, right, so first things first, who should be project manager?

I think we should get the Reading squad here for starters, and evaluate it's strengths and weaknesses.

Task

It is preseason and the new rich owners of Reading have decided that Brian McDermott is not the man to take the club forward, and your team have been recruited to oversee the plans that will ultimately see them stay up in the Premier League.

You will find a suitable new manager and have been given £20m for buying players to achieve this target. The cost of player purchases will be those on [Only admins are allowed to see this link] plus 20%. You can raise further funds through players sales – the price you will receive will be [Only admins are allowed to see this link] less 20%

You will present your new manager and squad list (with details on all ins and outs), plus any other innovative ideas you have that will help the quest of staying up. This should be posted on this page no later than midday on Tuesday 17th July.

You will be judged on which team makes the best, most innovative and most realistic choices to keep Reading up.

I concur

Rotten abuse of admin power!

Reading's current squad
1 GK Adam Federici
3 DF Nicky Shorey
4 MF Jem Karacan
5 DF Alex Pearce
6 MF Brynjar Gunnarsson
7 MF Jay Tabb
8 MF Mikele Leigertwood
9 FW Adam le Fondre
10 FW Noel Hunt
11 MF Jobi McAnuff (captain)
12 GK Alex McCarthy
14 MF Jimmy Kébé
15 DF Sean Morrison
16 DF Joseph Mills
17 DF Kaspars Gorkšs
18 FW Simon Church
19 FW Hal Robson-Kanu
21 FW Karl Sheppard
22 FW Mathieu Manset
23 DF Ian Harte
No. Position Player
24 DF Shaun Cummings
25 MF Jake Taylor
28 MF Michail Antonio
29 FW Nicholas Bignall
31 GK Mikkel Andersen
33 FW Jason Roberts
35 DF Michael Hector
37 MF Jordan Obita
39 FW Brett Williams
40 DF Lawson D'Ath
43 DF Nick Arnold
45 MF Ryan Edwards
46 DF Angus MacDonald
47 MF Charlie Losasso
49 FW Gozie Ugwu
- MF Danny Guthrie
- MF Garath McCleary
- FW Pavel Pogrebnyak
- DF Pierce Sweeney

The URL that is showing as [Only admins are allowed to see this link] for some reason, should be the transfer market value website

sodhat wrote:I wish I was on your team, mine's full of idiots.

But if you lose, there's a lot more to put into the firing line to protect yourself.

BigFellasAfro wrote:

sodhat wrote:I wish I was on your team, mine's full of idiots.

But if you lose, there's a lot more to put into the firing line to protect yourself.

Nando

Right, for me, we should split up the work, one person should be responsible for each position, so four of us, one for each of goalie, defense, midfield and attack. The project manager should do the goalies as it's the least work and they can help out others where needed.

I'm happy to project manage only if nobody else wants to, Championship football is not one of my strengths.

I'm also not hugely knowledgable on the Championship, ironically Cherry probably is!

Well Reading had the best defence last season but will obviously need to improve that as its up a level

I know the Championship like the back of my hand

Cherries should project manage then He has good knowledge there probably.

yeah me PM

everyone take a break we're start tomorrow

Alright mate

Cherries, think you'll be a great PM.

cool

Right guys, think we need to get our thinking caps on.

How many of these players are half decent or should we just dump the lot of them and use the cash to make a new squad?

Fernando wrote:everyone take a break we're start tomorrow

Nando the other team will steal a march on us if we rest on our laurels, we need to get cracking.

screw that take a break their a bunch of numpties anyway prbs can't even spell reading..

I think selling the lot and building a squad is a good idea, doesn't say anywhere you can't. Maybe get Van Persie off Arsenal if we can get the cash together?

Right, new day, new ideas.

We will have about 40m to build the squad, if we sold everyone.

So, where do we begin?

preferably by deciding who to release

Release everyone, we haven't got a clue about the Reading side and we can start from scratch. 40m can build us a good squad.

Allright lads im your new team member. Lets work as a team and complete this task to the best of our abilities (this means you too cherries). Looking at the Reading squad I would have to agree with trebs and say we release everyone and start from scratch. They have a player called Le Fondle which imo would not sell that much replica shirts which is not good for our club as we would not be making money. Sell everybody and buy new players. Someone check how much we can get for selling all of our current squad please.

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So whats the happy haps with the task lads? At this rate we all deserve to be fired as no one seems to care about the apprentice.