Reading's Non-Fairytale Ending

Reading has 138 years of existence and they have only been in the Premier League for two seasons. 

Reading was close to being promoted back to the top flight but they lost in the league playoffs to Burnley, and the problems are just beginning. 

Steve Coppell has resigned as the manager. He was the guy that took them to the Premier League. With many names out there rumored to be the next manager, the team has more problems than just finding a new manager, there are players that could leave this summer because they want to play in teams that are in the Premier League.

What the owners need to do is to find a way to keep their best players Shane Long, Kevin Doyle, Leroy Lita, James Harper etc. and find a manager that can improve the teams record so they can be promoted. 

Something important is to find a guy that can communicate with the players is important because they do not want to the same things happening with what happened with Mark Hughes and Manchester City players. 

Another important thing is a guy that has connections and even a good scouting team to find the talent that they are missing. Watching the two playoff games against Burnley they were missing the midfield creativity that teams in the top flight have. 

Shane Long was the guy that created most of the chances when they did attack and he is a striker. What will it take for Reading to get with the picture of finding talent outside of Ireland and England.  They barely have talent outside of Europe—Hahnemann, Federici and Bikey are the only guys that come to me that are from outside Europe. 

Maybe this summer they should go scout some games in the World Cup Qualifiers, hey there is even a Gold Cup tournament in July. There are talented players in North and South America just take a look in Brazil. 

Also they need to improve their defense because Burnley had all day to shoot their two goals, especially their first goal. The Reading defense gave Burnley all the time in the world to shoot. The second goal was due to a awful clearance from the Reading defense.  Reading seemed at moments scared to allow a goal than to win the game. 

Something else that is important is to strengthen the academy team. Manchester City, Arsenal, and Manchester United have extremely talented academies that produce great players.  Reading has produced some pretty good players already like Alex Pierce and Simon Church who could be big names in the near future. 

But Reading needs to have a better academy team if they can build a great academy team they can build a future and be a continuing threat.

If Reading could be promoted next season they will need to find a way to stay in the Premier League one way will be to build a bench to have just in case if the big names get injured but something they really need is to have more creativity on the pitch. 

They have the players to be promoted they just need a better strategy, especially at home if you want to stay in the Premier League you have to win at home.  Important points that Reading did not get because they drew at home. 

It's in the hands of the owner, if he wants to get back to the Premier League he has to find a great manager and he needs to travel and find talent.