Reading FC legend on importance of the ‘successful’ Academy
The former Wycombe Wanderers owner, an American lawyer, agreed to purchase the team “in principle” last weekend and is anticipated to formally approve the deal this week.
With a 4-2 loss to Barnsley in the season’s final game, which was attended by almost 21,000 fans at the SCL Stadium on Saturday, Noel Hunt’s team finished in seventh position.
Madejski, who owned the team from 1990 to 2012 and managed two Premier League promotions, has emphasized the value of the team’s youth system as it looks to the future.
Following their success at the Under-21 level last year, they made it to the final of the Under-18 Premier League Cup. However, because of years of transfer bans, the majority of the team is composed of Academy graduates.
“Our Academy program has been among the most effective in the world. “We must cultivate as much of our own as we can,” Madejski said to BBC Radio Berkshire. We now have a fantastic young team, and I believe that the fact that they feel somewhat at ease knowing that they will be paid next month encourages them to focus on doing more of the same.
“Rob will undoubtedly be completely on top of everything because he is well aware of how to accentuate fresh players. He works really hard; I only saw him working yesterday. We should all be really thankful that Rob Couhig is coming to take over the club because he will do it as well as anyone can.
“I’m delighted it has happened at last because we’ve been waiting for this for two long years and I am afraid the Dai Yongge administration was a disaster from top to bottom.”
The club lost more than £180 million under Dai Yongge’s eight-year tenure, was demoted to the third division for the first time in more than 30 years, and was continuously in debt to organizations.
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