According to the Reading website, it's James Rowe they've signed from us, as said above Joyce has joined them from somewhere in Ireland.
http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~1369990,00.html
If someone else is willing to pay his wages, I think he'll go. He wasn't used much in pre season, and not on the first day of the season either was he? He's pretty much forced his way into the team, much as the others should be allowed to do.
Having been sold this idea of a young team, with no negative old journeymen, it's just depressing that we are now offloading our top 'young' players as well. Players like Davies and Surman are what I hoped we would build our team around. And on top of this, it looks like we will be stuck with several of the expensive old players.......
It's not a great time to be a saints fan.
I wouldn't be surprised at all. He's probably on big wages, and we've seen pretty clearly that the approach being taken is to offload anyone on more than a couple of grand a week.
Which is fine, and I agree with you. But the only player we signed while Crouch was chairman was Davies. All the others signed while Wilde or Wilde's appointees were running things..........