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‘DISMAYED’ ROYALS VOW TO FIX ISSUES

By Tom Blackett

READING have insisted they will ‘learn the lessons’ after being deducted six Championship points.
On Wednesday, the EFL confirmed the points would be knocked off this season’s tally, with a further six points suspended until the end of the 2022-23 season, after admitting to breaches of the EFL’s Profitability and Sustainability rules (P&S).
It followed a review of the financial submission from the Royals for the four-year period 2017-18 to 2020-21 where it was determined the club had recorded a loss of £57.8m, £18.8m in excess of the £39m upper loss threshold.
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