Reading City Football Club is delighted to announce the signing of talented, young forward Ikhon Ward a product of club partner John Madejski Academy’s Football Performance Programme.

Ikhon is an exciting young prospect and has featured for Yateley United this season at Step 6. We can’t wait to see how he gets on on Step 5.

As a club we have a proven record of pushing players on to higher levels in the non-league pyramid & are very proud to act as a stepping-stone for players who have the potential to progress.

With First Team Manager, Simon Johnson away on his honeymoon we asked First Team Assistant Manager, Michael Butcher for his thoughts on our new signing, a player he knows well as Director of Football at John Madejski Academy’s Football Performance Programme and here’s what he had to say:

“Delighted to bring Ikhon in to the group. He has made excellent progress during the first half of the season at JMA and gaining senior experience at Yateley and will add something different to our forward options.”

Ikhon is in contention to feature in tomorrow night’s Southern Combination Challenge Cup clash against Epsom & Ewell and will hoping to make his home debut at the first opportunity.