add link to picture, help!

i am using this https://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/

and every work ok. Now i use this tag:

<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(75, ‘<img>’, ‘none’, TRUE, ‘? Read more’, FALSE, 2); ?>

and what you see is the <img> tag will allow to display the picture, BUT i want to add the link to it too. So when people click it, then they will enter the post.

here is my code:
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(75, '<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img></a>', 'none', TRUE, '? Read more', FALSE, 2); ?>

but it’s something wrong in this <img> tag and the a href

edit* forgot to use backsticks ??