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By Chris Dunlavy

JOSH LAURENT
READING MIDFIELDER

ON THE BURST: Reading’s Josh Laurent is difficult to stop in full flow
PICTURE: Alamy

JOSH Laurent would probably be described in England as a box-to-box midfielder. Perhaps even old fashioned.
He’s big. He’s strong. He can tackle, run and shoot. Much like his manager, Paul Ince, the 26-year-old is a player who has no specialist skill but is physically formidable and technically adept at practically every aspect of the game.
“If you look at the key characteristics of what good midfielders need, J...

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