‘All this has made me a better coach’

Big Interview: Ruben Selles
By Chris Dunlavy

Ruben Selles realised very quickly that there was nothing to be gained from sugarcoating Reading’s dire situation.
“Players aren’t stupid,” explains the Spaniard, who took charge of League One’s most dysfunctional club in June, a month after suffering relegation from the Premier League as interim manager of Southampton.
“If you lie, you become part of the problem. So the first rule we have is that we tell them the truth every time. No matter what.”
At Reading, the truth can be difficult to discern, and even harder to swallow. This season, their f...

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