After nearly two years at Reading, Jaap Stam left the Championship club in March, pushed out after a difficult run.
Reading were seriously struggling, falling to 20th in the Championship table and it’s no surprise a change was made, with the Dutchman shown the door.
It had all been so very different a few months earlier as Reading got to the play-off final after finishing third in the league.
Going to penalties against Huddersfield Town in the battle for Premier League promotion, Stam saw his team face heartbreak and then a subsequent slip down the table the following season.
Even now Reading are struggling with Paul Clement, bottom of the Championship table after no wins from the six league matches they’ve played so far.
Stam himself may be just about to move on to new things. Dutch newspaper AD reports on Thursday that FC Utrecht, who fired Jean-Paul de Jong on Tuesday, see the former Manchester United player as a ‘serious candidate’.
They want a manager with ‘a lot of character’ and it’s believed Stam could be that man.
