{"id":298686,"date":"2026-10-02T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298686\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:10:07","slug":"leam-richardson-reading-manager-dismisses-bradford-city-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298686\/","title":{"rendered":"Leam Richardson: Reading manager dismisses Bradford City links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading manager Leam Richardson has downplayed talk of him filling the vacancy at fellow League One side Bradford City. <\/p>\n

The Royals boss had been made an early favourite among the bookmakers to replace Graham Alexander but denied that any contact had been made with the Bantams.<\/p>\n

Richardson has been at the Berkshire side for nearly a year, joining part-way through last campaign before leading Reading to a 12th-placed finish. <\/p>\n

He previously managed Wigan and Rotherham before replacing Noel Hunt at Reading in late October 2025. <\/p>\n

Bradford visit the SCL Stadium on Saturday and the Royals boss made it clear where his immediate future lies. <\/p>\n

“I’m certain that I’ll be in the Reading dugout this weekend,” he told BBC Radio Berkshire.<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s always really pleasant when you see interest from other teams around the country.<\/p>\n

“It means the players are doing a fantastic job, I’m sure there’s lots of other managers in the running for the job.<\/p>\n

“I think the talk comes from the common sense of them being a northern team and that I’ve worked with a lot of the players that are there.”<\/p>\n

When asked if he had been approached by the club, Richardson replied “nope”.<\/p>\n

He previously worked with Bradford’s sporting director David Sharpe who was chairman at Wigan during Richardson’s stint at the Latics.<\/p>\n

The manager has also coached the likes of Nick Powell, Callum Connolly and Stephen Humphrys who now play for the Bantams.<\/p>\n

Reading are currently ninth in League One after seven games, one point off the play-off positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading manager Leam Richardson has downplayed talk of him filling the vacancy at fellow League One side Bradford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-298686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}