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Coventry City skipper Michael Doyle has spoken about Marc McNulty’s frustration at being seemingly frozen out at Reading.

The former Sky Blues favourite is reported to have been placed on the transfer list at the Madejski Stadium just six months into his four year contract with the Royals.

The 26-year-old was signed by Paul Clement for an undisclosed fee, understood to be £1million, but was limited to just four Championship starts and nine substitute appearances under the manager who was sacked last month.

His replacement, Jose Gomes, has identified several players that he wants to move on in order to bring in his own recruits and McNulty is one of them, according to reports by the Reading Chronicle.

Doyle is close friends with McNulty, whom he helped convince to sign for the Sky Blues in the summer of 2017, having played together at Portsmouth.

Asked about his current situation, the 37-year-old midfielder said: “I keep in contact with Marc and I am sure it has been difficult wanting to play and keep the momentum from last year.

“But I think when you go into teams and they are struggling in relegation battles it’s difficult.

“I think they are playing one up front and that’s a target man so it must be frustrating.

“I know it’s frustrating for Marc so god only knows what’s going to happen.”

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Doyle added: “Sometimes it takes time to settle and I don’t know what way it’s going to go, whether he’s going to go out on loan.

“He just scored before the new manager came in and it’s a foreign manager.

“It’s January transfer window so no-one knows what’s going to happen.”

Reading are also understood to have transfer listed Dave Edwards, David Meyler, Vito Mannone and club captain Paul McShane.

The group has been removed from first-team affairs and have even been told they cannot eat with the rest of the squad, according to reports.

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