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Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Is Reading v Tottenham Hotspur on TV? Kick-off time and how to watch friendly online
Reading tackle Tottenham Hotspur in a pre-season friendly with Thomas Frank's reign underway for the 2025/26 season after Ange Postecoglou was sacked. Frank made the move to Spurs from Brentford and will guide the Londoners into the Champions League this term. The Spurs squad have had 12 days together, with the players eager to impress the Dane. Advertisement They'll have four pre-season matches before taking on Bayern Munich in the Telekom Cup on 7 August. They'll also be involved in the Uefa Super Cup against Paris Saint-Germain, prior to their Premier League opener at home to Burnley on 16 August. Here's everything you need to know about the friendly: When is Reading v Tottenham Hotspur? The match will kick off at 3pm UK time on Saturday 19 July at the Select Car Leasing Stadium, Reading. How can I watch it? It will be live on Royals TV and Spursplay, which will have live and on-demand video content for Spurs' five pre-season matches this summer. Predicted line-ups Reading predicted XI: Pereira; Yiadom, O'Connor, Burns, Jacob; Wing, Savage; Osho, Knibbs, Camara; Ehibhatiomhan Advertisement Tottenham predicted XI: Kinsky; Porro, Takai, Van de Ven, Spence; Maddison, Bentancur, Sarr; Kudus, Solanke, Son Tottenham Hotspur pre-season schedule
Yahoo
19-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
How to watch Reading vs Tottenham: TV channel and live stream for friendly today
Tottenham begin their pre-season preparations at Reading this afternoon as head coach Thomas Frank makes his bow in the dugout. A little over two months since winning the Europa League under Ange Postecoglou, and ending their 17-year trophy drought, it is another summer of change at Spurs. Postecoglou was quickly replaced by Frank. Mathys Tel and Kevin Danso have turned their loan deals into permanent stays and Mohammed Kudus has already joined for £55million. Kudus and fellow new signing Kota Takai could make their debuts for Spurs at the Select Car Leasing Stadium - formerly the Madejski Stadium - as fans get their first glimpse at Frank's plans for his squad. Players who spent last season out on loan - such as Manor Solomon, Yang Min-hyeok, Alfie Devine, Ashley Phillips and Alfie Dorrington - will also be hoping for a chance to impress. Reading are a little further on in their pre-season preparations, with their domestic season beginning a week before the Premier League, having beaten Hungerford and Swindon and drawn 0-0 at Gillingham. Where to watch Reading vs Tottenham TV channel: The game will not be broadcast live on TV in the UK. Live stream: Spurs fans will be able to stream the game live on SPURSPLAY. A 12-month subscription costs £45. Reading will be showing the game live on their RoyalsTV service for a one-off payment of £5. Live blog: You can follow all the action on matchday via Standard Sport's live blog, with expert insight and analysis from Sam Tabuteau at the ground.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Rob Couhig aiming to utilise Reading location for 'exciting' stadium plans
New Reading owner Rob Couhig has revealed that he is hoping to utilise the town's location in the 'hub of the IT community' to make some 'exciting' upgrades to the Select Car Leasing Stadium. Couhig finally completed his long-awaited takeover on Wednesday, having originally tried to purchase the club back in August 2024. Keen to increase the club's revenue streams, the new Royals chief believes that the club can become good partners with the IT community, the Thames Valley famously dubbed the UK's Silicon Valley. READ MORE: Reading FC new chief feeling good' ahead of summer of change Supporters are keen to see the squad progress on the field, but have been calling for improvements to the stadium for months, the much-loved home of the club since 1998 beginning to show its age during Dai Yongge's miserable reign. "I'm glad you brought up the stadium," Couhig said to the media on Wednesday. "There' will be some things happening over the next three months with the stadium that I think will be very, very much exciting to the fans, very much part of how we see ourselves getting fixated into the future. The world is changing, whether we want it to or not. We're not going to go back to the great halcyon days of Reading 25 to 30 years ago, we want the best days of Reading being in the next five or 10 years, because after that what can you do? READ MORE: Reading FC boardroom changes after Companies House movement "One of the attractions about Reading is where it's situated, right there in the hub of the IT community. Expanding out from there, we expect to become great partners of that industry and utilise it, and it utilise us, to really put Reading on the map worldwide." Taking over with the club in the third tier for a third season, Noel Hunt's side missed out on a play-off place by just three points with a final day defeat to Barnsley. Speaking on aims, both long-term and short-term, the former Wycombe Wanderers chief does not think it will take long to get the club back into the Championship. "Let me explain the Couhig Philosophy on this. It's hard for most people to recognise- it would have been impossible for me to recognise when I was 45 and I was a young hard charger. We buy this thing, and we recognise it has a necessary shelf life under our care and custody. "Part of what we want to do is to make sure that when our time comes, it is easily sellable and it's much more valuable than the day we bought it. The way you do that is you put necessary resources into it to make it better in every way. It's about, for me, making it better so when the next guy or girl comes along, they say 'wow, this is really a gem, and I would love to be able to be associated with it and put my time and energy into it.' READ MORE: Reading FC chief on state of play with contract extensions "If you look at what we did with something as pedestrian as our pest control company that we built in Louisiana, the baseball team we had here, the Wycombe team we had, in every instance in our other businesses we found people who were, in my mind, going to be as good or better stewards than we are of the business, but either came in because they were younger or they had more wealth, or they had a different vision, they could grow the club." "I think it can be there [the Premier League]," he added. "I don't want to blithely say, of course, that's where it belongs until we've gotten a little bit better sense of what it can afford. Some of those clubs that are now permanent or semi-permanent members of the Premier League, in the sense that they have been up there for a while, and this thing and Brentford for example, they've done it differently than most. READ MORE: Reading FC owner addresses rumours of Academy cuts "I think the way we get back there is to recognise our strengths and our weaknesses and be prepared to do it a little bit differently, but all of this is not a day one plan. All of this is over the next three to five months. Do I believe we can successfully compete at the Championship level in very short order? Yes. Where we go from there, we'll have to see."
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Reading enter talks with new potential buyer
Reading are in talks with a potential buyer to finally put an end to the protracted takeover saga at the League One club. This is the latest in a series of "periods of exclusivity" the Royals have had, but the others have fallen through. Reading say they are optimistic the deal can be completed quickly and it would be "for the benefit of all concerned". The unnamed party are in talks to purchase owner Dai Yongge's shareholding in the club, as well as the Select Car Leasing Stadium and the Bearwood Park Training Facility in Wokingham. In the past few years fans have endured relegation to the third tier, points deductions and transfer embargoes during Chinese businessman Dai's near eight-year period of ownership. On Friday, MP Yuan Yang, who represents Earley and Woodley, joined supporters in calling for an inquiry into the ownership, which has seen protests in Westminster and at home matches. A statement on the club's website said they had "committed to a letter of intent with a potential purchaser of the club". "Whilst we understand our supporters' wish to know the purchaser's identity, at this stage, confidentiality is preferred to complete at the earliest opportunity," the statement said. "The club can confirm the agreed sale includes the transfer of Mr Dai's shareholding in The Reading Football Club Limited, as well as the Select Car Leasing Stadium and Bearwood Park Training Facility."
BBC News
24-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Reading enter talks with new potential buyer
Reading are in talks with a potential buyer to finally put an end to the protracted takeover saga at the League One is the latest in a series of "periods of exclusivity" the Royals have had, but the others have fallen say they are optimistic the deal can be completed quickly and it would be "for the benefit of all concerned".The unnamed party are in talks to purchase owner Dai Yongge's shareholding in the club, as well as the Select Car Leasing Stadium and the Bearwood Park Training Facility in the past few years fans have endured relegation to the third tier, points deductions and transfer embargoes during Chinese businessman Dai's near eight-year period of Friday, MP Yuan Yang, who represents Earley and Woodley, joined supporters in calling for an inquiry into the ownership, which has seen protests in Westminster and at home matches.A statement on the club's website, external said they had "committed to a letter of intent with a potential purchaser of the club"."Whilst we understand our supporters' wish to know the purchaser's identity, at this stage, confidentiality is preferred to complete at the earliest opportunity," the statement said."The club can confirm the agreed sale includes the transfer of Mr Dai's shareholding in The Reading Football Club Limited, as well as the Select Car Leasing Stadium and Bearwood Park Training Facility."
