Reading haven't had the best record when it comes to spending money in the transfer market. The club has often brought in a lot of players who struggle when expectations are high.

There have been quite a few flops over the years, but it appears as so more and more have appeared over the more recent times at the Madejski Stadium.

Here are FIVE of the biggest Reading flops...

Vydra came to the Royals with excitement, and many supporters were thrilled with the capture of a player who knew how to score in the Championship.

Instead, he did just the opposite and looked so low on confidence. He missed chance after chance in what was a fairly dismal loan spell.

Now, Drenthe joined and with him brought a lot of potential if he could reach the ability that he'd shown in the past.

Instead, he was lazy, on a big wage and kept doing tricks to give the ball away. All in all it was a terrible signing that Reading will regret making.

Mutch was brought in on loan to strengthen the midfield options in a bid to get automatic promotion.

By the end of the campaign he wasn't near the match day squad and had let the team down with his work-rate in games against sides such as Norwich.

Now Clement was someone who had a lot of technique, but he failed to show it time and time again.

As soon as he'd get a chance under a manager, he'd then perform poorly and in truth as soon as Jaap Stam left, his time at Reading was up.

Fae was brought into the club as a record signing and the excitement was brewing around the Madejski to see how good he was.

The answer was not very good, and he only made 11 appearances in total before departing the club.