Wycombe Wanderers chairman Rob Couhig has admitted that Reading FC fans have ‘caused issues’ over the sale of Bearwood Park.
Wycombe declared on Monday that they were placing the deal “on hold” because of issues with planning permission, following announcements from both clubs last week that they were in talks to sell the training facility at Bearwood Park.
“We’re disappointed, our club will continue to move forward and we will continue to look for a great training ground that fulfils what we want to do for a club. We will hope for the best for Reading Football Club in their journey,” Couhig stated in an interview with the “Heroes of HP12” podcast.
“We were planning to provide those people a loan this week to aid them with their ongoing financial crisis, so that was part of it.
“In this past week the Reading fans, or at least a small portion of them, have caused issues.
“I don’t know if it’s causing issues, but it has been an uncomfortable situation.
“We don’t need that so we announced that we’re not going forward. I feel bad for them but they will come up with some other solution I suppose.
“I feel bad for us because it would have been the right step forward for us as a club.”
Couhig expanded on some of the problems that Wycombe has faced and the backlash that he and Wycombe received on social media.
He continued: “We live in an age where everybody has an opinion regardless of everybody not having the facts.
The people who take off on their keyboard warriors and make absurd claims.
“When you witness individuals scattering objects across the stadium’s gates. In several aspects, they have restricted our capacity to offer Wembley tickets. It’s merely annoying.
Although it’s not the main motivation, that is one of the reasons. The entire atmosphere became a little too much.
“Their club has already lost three points due to them. I genuinely appreciate the fans, and I can relate to their nervousness.
“I think there’s a place and time for patience. Observe till everything is resolved. How do they intend to proceed? Who are you going to make buy it when they’re going to kick these people out? I’m not sure what their strategy was.
“Nobody asks these anti groups what their plan is, what’s the alternative, what are they going to do about the wages? Nobody thinks about this stuff it seems to me. “It’s a tough issue. It’s a great club and the relationship they’ve had with the ownership hasn’t been good.”
