Talk is that Alan Irvine is wanted by Reading, although PNE are denying any offer. Hope it’s true and he stays at Preston. It’s always flattering and you know you have someone worthwhile if a club higher in the table with bigger gates is after your staff. Then again it isn’t clear that Reading has that much potential. If they are a step up it’s not that big and it might easily go pear shaped.
Other talk is that Paul McKenna is wanted by Notts Forest. PNE have admitted rejecting 2 offers and the story is that Billy Davies has leaked it as part of a masterful type of unsettling strategy. Is it flattering that a lower team with bigger gates is after your players? Probably. Is it unsettling? Probably not.