\n The Reading academy graduate who spent seven years with the club between 2015 and 2022, making 139 appearances and scoring four goals has returned until the end of the season.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Zimbabwe international was named Reading\u2019s Player of the Season in his breakthrough 2018\/19 campaign, and departed in 2022 after playing a key role in helping the Royals retain their Championship status in 2021\/22.\n<\/p>\n
\n He joined Cardiff City on a free transfer in 2022 to make 82 appearances for the Bluebirds, earning their Players\u2019 Player of the Season award in 2024\/25.\n<\/p>\n
\n The versatile midfielder is already familiar with manager Leam Richardson having been on loan with Rotherham United during the 2023\/24 season.\n<\/p>\n
\n First Team Manager Leam Richardson said: \u201cI\u2019ve worked with Andy before and know exactly what he\u2019ll bring to the squad \u2014 energy, honesty and a real desire to win.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He\u2019s a great professional who knows this club and what it means to represent Reading. I\u2019m delighted to have him back and I\u2019m sure the fans will be too.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n After a successful trial period at Bearwood, \u2018Rino\u2019 could make his second debut in front of the home crowd against former side Rotherham United on November 22.\n<\/p>\n
\n Andy will wear the number 18 shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reading academy graduate who spent seven years with the club between 2015 and 2022, making 139 appearances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-32156","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\/32156","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=32156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}