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Stealing is stealing, and fair play is fair play, I don't give a flying **** who you support.

It is incongruous to use the word steal when Reading come for our staff, and fair play when we go for theirs.

I don't like it when a player puts a transfer request in because of interest from another club, and I don't like tapping up, I know it happens, but I don't like it. If it is all fine for us to tap up Liam Moore, why do you use the word "steal" to describe Reading offering Ingarmarsson, Sidwell...

I know, my position is I don't like it, not that it doesn't happen, and I dislike a player adding pressure on the club to which he is contracted, to sell when they don't want to, or at a price they don't want to. I also understand the players wish to play at a higher level, but he is likely to...

I doubt a player would put in a transfer request unless he was pretty sure the interest was real, and a newspaper report is often wrong when it comes to player transfers.

I looked up griff, the urban dictionary gives a surprising definition.

It shows that someone has been talking to an under contract player, whilst I don't blame the player for wanting to move, in theory he should not really be aware of firm interest in him until the clubs have agreed a fee, or are close enough that Reading have given permission for us or whoever...

It probably raises the value of the bid to Reading, it is usual that the player gets a percentage of the transfer fee, unless he has handed a transfer request in, in which case he gets none of it.

I suggest he should have insisted on a release fee figure in his contract before he signed it at a level he deems appropriate, or wait till his contract expires. He signed a contract, he is their player.

Not at all sorry for Reading or their fans, it was them luring Brightons players and even Manager away not so long ago, but I don't like a player sticking in a transfer request.