Last Updated: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:10
Club captain Graeme Murty is looking ahead to his loan spell at Charlton but insists he wants to remain a Reading player.
Murty is fighting his way back following injury which has kept him out of the side and, due to a lack of reserve team matches, he has opted to join Charlton on loan for a month to gain some match fitness.
"I want to keep playing for Reading but we only have one reserve game this month. I could have stayed and kept training but I decided to go and play - because every player wants to play.
"I have come here for regular first team football, and to help out Phil Parkinson, who I have great admiration for. I played with him for years and he was one of the people I most enjoyed lining up with.
"He has made a great impression on me and is one of the people in football that I truly have great admiration for. When he phoned me and asked me to help him out I asked Steve Coppell about it first of all.
"As soon as he said it was alright I jumped at the chance."