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Brian McDermott held his weekly press conference on Wednesday morning ahead of Saturday's Championship clash against Fulham.

Royals' boss gave an injury update, spoke about the possibility of resting players ahead of the FA Cup quarter-final and the formation of a possible European Super League.

Here are some of the key points to come from McDermott's chat with the media.

Vydra to miss out

Reading are almost certain to be without Matej Vydra for Saturday’s game against Fulham.

The striker has spent some time back at parent club Watford this week as he continues to recover from a hamstring injury.

He is now back at Reading and is due to return to training on Friday - but Brian McDermott does not expect him to feature this weekend.

Royals' boss said: “He hasn’t trained yet. We’re hopeful he will train on Friday but the Fulham game will be too early for Matty.

“He went back to Watford for a couple of days. The medical staff wanted to check him out but he’s back here now.

“There’s a couple of others who have knocks and won’t train today, but come Friday we’re hopeful everybody else will be fit.”

Lessons must be learned

Brian McDermott will tell his players they must learn from last weekend’s game at Charlton.

Royals claimed a last-gasp 4-3 win thanks to Deniss Rakels’ injury-time strike, but only after they had let a two-goal lead slip during the second half.

“We obviously made mistakes when we were 3-1 up,” said McDermott.

“The game started to go against us when it was 3-2 - and that’s something we’ll talk about.

“We lost our way. We made mistakes and we’ll learn from that.”

Good memories for Brian

Reading’s boss spent some time on loan at Fulham during his Arsenal days - and has fond memories of his time in west London.

He still holds the Craven Cottage club in high regard, but is determined to get one over his former club on Saturday.

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“Fulham’s a great club,” said Royals’ boss. “It was a terrific club when I was there back in the day.

“It hasn’t changed too much. It’s always been a good family club with big support.

“All we need to do is do our job and try to put on a really good performance.”

A fine balancing act

Saturday’s game against Fulham is the first of three matches in six days for Reading - culminating in the FA Cup quarter-final against Crystal Palace on Friday week.

It’s a hectic schedule, but McDermott is wary about resting players for Saturday’s game, or Tuesday night’s trip to Huddersfield.

“What you don’t want to do is go into Crystal Palace under-cooked,” he said.

“You have to make sure you get the balance right.

“But my priority now is Fulham, then Huddersfield and then we’ll go from there.”

Say no to a European Super League

Media reports on Wednesday morning suggested the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea had met with top European clubs to discuss the possibility of a breakaway European Super League.

If that happened it could spell the end of the Premier League - something McDermott would be against.

He said: “I understand what a Super League looks like but it would be massively detrimental to our game.

"We’ve been talking about a Super League for a long time. Will it happen? I don’t think I’ll be around when it does."