Rob Couhig’s proposed takeover from Dai Yongge has fallen through, with one source calling the situation a ‘shambles’
There is a genuine feeling that had Rob Couhig, an American businessman, bought the club, as had been expected, the good times would return.“All the ingredients are there for someone to run the club properly,” Caroline Parker, a spokesperson for Sell Before We Dai, the group campaigning to remove owner Dai Yongge, tellsThe sale collapse, which took an entire fanbase by surprise this week, “makes it all the more heartbreaking”, she says.
“No football fans should have to keep going through this. The effect on people’s mental health, I genuinely think it’s taken a year or two off my life with all the stress. It’s horrendous.” A glimmer of reprieve arrived in July from a transfer that happened 700 miles away. When Reading sold Michael Olise to Crystal Palace for £8m in 2021, they negotiated a 10 percent sell-on clause, applicable to any profits. Olise’s £60m move to Bayern Munich netted the club a windfall of around £5.2m.“Every Reading fan is waiting on the last working day of the month hoping the players get paid,” Parker says. “It’s dreadful. Dai Yongge couldn’t care less.
Lewis Coombes, BBC South’s Sports Editor, posted on social media: “Good that someone from the club is talking… Not great that it was only ‘selected media’ & we were told we couldn’t film anything. All very frustrating given we’ve been asking for over a year.” Parker adds, “This is now the third potential takeover that’s fallen through. There’s a common denominator here: Dai Yongge.”There are, at least, two positives to have emerged – the thinnest of silver linings around an extraordinarily “dark period”.
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