Reading Roars!

So it’s confirmed: Sidwell out, someone else in.  That someone else is Boavista’s Kalifa Cisse (who?), signed by Reading FC for “just under” €1 million.

Cisse is a French defensive midfielder just 22 years of age.  Apparently there was quite a bit of competition for his signature (he was linked to Bolton back in January 2007).  He’s also “very nice”, according to John Madejski.

As for Sidwell, he’s now had his Chelsea medical and is close to signing with the London club (where he will undoubtedly earn a lot more.  Money, eh).

Good luck to the both of them, but especially Cisse, who will probably spend less time anyway warming the bench than the Blues-bound Sidwell.