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20.04.2007
Three-year deal for Bikey
Reading will tie up a permanent deal for Lokomotiv Moscow loan star Andre Bikey by the end of the week.
Royals manager Steve Coppell has decided for certain that he would like to take up the option of signing the Cameroon international and is set to land him on a three-year deal worth £1.2million.
Although the transfer window is now closed, Reading can sign the player now under the initial terms of the loan agreement.
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Reading’s director of football Nicky Hammond, who is abroad on a scouting mission, told the Evening Post: “We are looking at the option of getting Andre permanently and we’re trying to move discussions forward with Lokomotiv and complete a deal by the end of this week. I don’t see any problems.”
Bikey has yet to win over all the Reading fans this season, but the 22-year-old has shown plenty of promise and is tipped to make as big an impact as fellow central defender Ibrahima Sonko, who also had to win over the doubters when he burst on to the scene three years ago.
Hammond added: “There is definitely potential there. Like the manager says, at times he looks magnificent and at the same time he still looks like he’s got his L-plates on.
“The important thing is he is learning and improving and hopefully we can get him to become an even better player.
“Andre is a lot more versatile than Sonks. He can play in a number of positions and, being the club we are, we like working with a tight squad.
“He isn’t as dominant or as strong as Sonks, although that is a side he is improving on, but there certainly are similarities in the fact that they are young, with African backgrounds and raw talent that we will develop.”
Bikey is desperate to stay at Reading having endured a nightmare in Russia.
As exclusively revealed in the Evening Post last year, the player suffered racial abuse and even bought a gun for his own protection.
He said: “I hope everything can be sorted in the next couple of weeks. I want to stay. I don’t want to go back to Russia – not because the team isn’t very good but because I am happy here and the level here is better.
“I am happy in this country and I want to stay. I am very happy with my performances and to keep two clean sheets is very good. It has been difficult but I have come back and we drew at Charlton and won against Fulham.”
Bikey will almost certainly make his third successive start at Bolton on Saturday. Kevin Doyle (hamstring) should be okay, but skipper Graeme Murty (calf) is likely to miss out, while Glen Little (Achilles) and Bobby Convey and Ibrahima Sonko (both knee) are all definitely out.
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