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Reply | The Season is Done
at 23:27 19 Feb 2026
We could also end up in a relegation fight! Just as likely - in fact, history suggests possibly more likely than a play-off push, especially if Leicester win their appeal. Three defeats in a row and back in it.
42 points on the board to play for and we need around eight to guarantee safety, 13 to beat last year's total.
All to play for. If the players think the season is over in February then they'll soon discover it's not... |
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Reply | The Season is Done
at 18:35 19 Feb 2026
There are 42 points left to play for! That's just two fewer than we have already.
Saying the season's over is obviously an (understandably) negative opinion given you started the thread 40 minutes after we lost miserably 1-3 at home to Blackburn.
But QPR could go on a four-match winning run and get in the play-off positions still or go on a four-match losing run and be sucked down into a relegation scrap. Loads to play for, for every club. We've still got to get 13 more points to beat last year's total, which is very important for several key club employees. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 18:10 18 Feb 2026
Of that kind level player, this summer I reckon we could sell Dunne, Field, Cooper, each for between £2m and £4m. Throw in Smyth?
(I actually think Dunne is worth more but I have already been jeered on here for saying so - though watching 34-year-old Luke Ayling for Boro has not dampened that suspicion: those kind of teams - Sheff U, Burnley, Boro, maybe Leeds - will always want a Dunne type, and he's 27, so there's three or four years there still in his prime).
So, we could sell all three or four, maybe Varane or Madsen. But will need to recruit heavily in midfield, and it becomes a roundabout. We have to start selling more regularly, however. [Post edited 18 Feb 18:12]
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 15:49 18 Feb 2026
We could wait for Simon's reading of the accounts. But I reckon the verdict is already in.
Etc. Not a named poster among 'em. |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 10:10 18 Feb 2026
"My latest module is sports finances and these are good"!
At least three now telling us how solid these are in the context of...not sure actually.
Interesting that though we are 14th for wages, Millwall, Coventry and Preston all pay less in wages. |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 09:51 18 Feb 2026
Interestingly, there are quite a few of the anonymous, most prolific QPR X accounts quickly telling all that - actually - these are really pretty good accounts. |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 08:44 18 Feb 2026
We can now perhaps see why they snuck out the Q&A on the Friday evening before these accounts were released, rather than after.
Wonder if there'd have been quite as much focus on questions about rotating the ground, half-time pie action, after-match beers, painting the stands and so forth if they'd asked for questions post-accounts, as they should've?
Because the main question is: are you spending the money well and are you protecting the investments you are making wisely? (Also, 'how much did you spend paying off Cifuentes and Furlong' might be more pertinent now, along with 'does Lee Hoos draw a wage?') |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 23:53 17 Feb 2026
Absolutely not. We can't! Which games have we "gone for it"? Wrexham away, Leicester at home? Maybe Coventry home, but we only had 39% possession at home so I think it's more they lost control than we went for it (fun though it was). Any others?
I don't think we have the personnel, even if fit - which they haven't been and weren't for any of those. The players available for Oxford, Pompey and Charlton could not have created more. We got an attritional hard fought point each time because that's the limit of those players, maybe could squeeze a 1-0 win or lose by same. Championship gruel. Take a point.
There's just not enough there. West Brom I didn't see. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 23:29 17 Feb 2026
The Sheff U 0-0 came after we'd lost three on the bounce, broke that run with the hard won 0-0, and we then won the next two. After that 0-0, Sheff U won four on the bounce.
In that context, the "mindset" of going for a clean sheet away from home was spot on.
The idea that this squad, these players, in this form and fitness, just need to "go for it" to win more often is disproved constantly by reality. I reckon Stephan knows that better than anyone.
This is not a very good QPR team and certainly is quite a ropey one at the moment. Cifuentes knew that, Stephan knows that too now. The next bloke will find out soon enough as well. |
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Reply | Budget?
at 14:15 17 Feb 2026
This is true. Here are our last ten seasons on February 20th in the Championship, with our eventual position in brackets.
QPR on February 20th in..
2016 : 14th (finished 12th)
2017: 16th (18th)
2018: 15th (16th)
2019: 19th (19th)
2020: 16th (13th)
2021: 13th (9th)
2022: 4th (11th)
2023: 17th (20th)
2024: 22nd (18th)
2025: 13th (15th)
February 17 2026: 13th...where will we finish?
The big difference is in the last nine months QPR have spent £13m in transfer fees, bringing in £3.5m for Kelman.
I doubt we spent anywhere near that in any two year period on un-recouped transfer fees in the last decade. So, there's more pressure now to get a bit higher, as is to be expected and as Warburton discovered to his cost (as all associated did, in fact, other than Hoos, who got a cosy promotion. Amazing)
Injuries insist that that higher position may be hard this year. Fair enough. I do think if we are here again next February three years into this project's un-recouped spending, questions will become much more pointed.
It's not "catastrophising". It's just wondering what consists failure and success now. Is being 13th in 2026? Yeah, maybe, nearly, if we don't implode. In 2027, though...? |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 09:58 17 Feb 2026
Small point too: we actually got £500k for Bright.
Was remiss to let those contracts run down, a mistake we didn't make with, say, Dieng subsequently.
And not a mistake we'll make again, as so many players are on extended contracts for (redacted) number of years. We'll see which policy is better long-term. Let's hope none suffer recurring, unresolved injury issues. |
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Reply | Blackburn Reflection
at 18:35 16 Feb 2026
But the timeline's important:
Gallen was appointed DOF in May 24, after Rowett and Edwards had left, while Neil Harris was manager. Bit like Cifuentes, Harris was doing a decent job, had steadied the ship, got them up to 11th, was obviously popular - but there was a personality clash between him and DOF. But instead of whispering campaigns and gardening leave, he left in December.
Gallen then appointed Alex Neil, who got them up to 8th first season. Sold and invested well in the summer window, now they're 3rd. So nothing appears to be unravelling since he joined them.
I don't know Steve Gallen personally. But it remains insane to me that he wasn't appointed at QPR. Here was a guy who'd worked throughout the youth set-up at QPR. Left and was made DOF at Charlton in league below for seven years, did his apprenticeship. Learnt his craft. Made for QPR, his club. And at that moment in 23/24, was between jobs, so free.
But we went with the guy who has a hack. I personally don't think QPR need a "sporting CEO" who answers every question for the fans, whether it be about about pie service, pitch drainage, youth recruitment or game models.
I think we need a proper DOF and a CEO working together, not a ceremonial chairman. But QPR looked at that fork in the road and chose to go down this one - and we've spent a lot of money this year going further down that road. Big couple of months coming up for everyone driving that. |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 17:02 16 Feb 2026
"It beyond more than results... ethos": so, vibes yes. I see. It's always about results in team sport.
I wasn't "comparing ourselves to our highest points". I was literally just looking exactly five and ten years ago. Our best teams and "ethos", ie the Warburton team of Eze, Bright, Chair, Manning would smash this one, was higher in the table and produced a much better 'ethos'.
But ultimately it's all much of a muchness at QPR over the last decade. And it's neither better nor worse right now.
Let's check back in after this next run of games to see if it's really about "more than results". |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 16:49 16 Feb 2026
"We are doing better than previous": expand, please.
QPR are today 13th in the Championship on 44 points having played 32 games.
Five years ago, on February 23 2021, QPR were 14th in the Championship, on 39 points but from only 29 games.
Ten years ago, on February 13 2016, QPR were 14th in the Championship on 39 points, having played 31 games.
So, yes, we are one place better off (having played more games). We have invested significantly more in transfer fees than those seasons, though, thanks largely to fees received for players that were signed by previous regimes. We have yet to sell a Nourry signing. So on that front too, jury is out (as is Celar, on loan).
"We are doing better than previously": it has to mean more than vibes. Because factually, it's not true. |
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Reply | Next season’s squad
at 09:57 16 Feb 2026
Steve Gallen wanted the DOF job after LF, thought he would get the DOF job...did not get the DOF job. The board gave that job to Christian Nourry in Jan 2024.
Five months later, Gallen joined Millwall as DOF instead, with Millwall having finished three points ahead of QPR in 13th. Gallen has been doing the kind of experienced squad building and trading work at Millwall since then that QPR could have benefitted from. Millwall are 3rd now, 13 points ahead of QPR who sit 13th.
Those are the choices our board and Lee Hoos made. Of course, nothing is settled. Let's see who would've been the better candidate long-term. "Basically do what Millwall are doing", however, is exactly what we could've and arguably should've been doing for the last 18 months. |
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Reply | January Transfer Window - Patreon Podcast
at 17:29 15 Feb 2026
Really enjoyed this. Would replace Nourry with James for the football CEO stuff (and get someone else in to sort out the catering or whatever).
The Vodcast is better than the audio version, I reckon. |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 12:04 15 Feb 2026
I'm not massively happy with Hoos' performance as Chairman either. Maybe they could both take a moment to reflect on that?
Does Hoos and by extension the board now view being QPR's Chairman as being like a royal appointment? Purely for ceremonial duties, sitting in the box at all matches, a regal wave here and there but absolutely no public utterances or interviews. Is this what being a football Chairman is now?
Does he draw a wage for this? Has he invested any money in the club? He's been here for over a decade, retired from one role only to be promoted into another.
If it's only a ceremonial role, why not have someone who has actually nobly contributed something tangible to QPR - an Andy Evans or Andy Sinton, for example - in it? And if it's not just ceremonial, shouldn't he front up to us rather than employ his boy wonder to pretend to us that he can improve how QPR sell pies at half time as well as how to sell multi-million quid footballers? He surely can't do both competently at once.
Lots of questions there. Maybe one day Hoos or Ruben will deign to answer some of them. Would also love to know what Nourry's key performance indicators are. How does he fail, how does he succeed? It's their club, not his after all. |
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Reply | Blackburn Reflection
at 08:57 15 Feb 2026
It's a very similar 'philosophy' that Cifuentes had at QPR: try as best you can to get some points with the few players available, given their strengths and conflicting, myriad limitations.
It's hard to have a philosophy, I imagine, when for example you only have centre backs recruited to play right back and dozens of tiny wingers but only Saito, Bennie and Smyth fit, a trio who are a mixture of flimsy, frustrating and fancy.
I guess one of the main philosophies that both managers shared is: get Chair fit. Another I imagine is 'why have we only got one fit centre forward?' My philosophy might have been don't loan Sam Field to a rival in case of injuries.
Yesterday, QPR had a £4.5m CB playing RB, a £3.5m LW and a £4.5m CF. Plus think of all that money in the treatment room. And yet...they look at bad as at any time over that last decade, other than the Ainsworth blip. Certainly last February's QPR might have given yesterday's a bit of a doing.
I think from the start Stephan's style of play has been get to 50 points. Because if he really watched all of last year's games, he knows this club and what it's capable of. Those away 0-0s are minor feats of excellence. |
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Reply | The Season is Done
at 22:25 14 Feb 2026
February 13, 2016, QPR lost 1-3 to Fulham. We finished 12 that that season. We lost 1-3 today and are placed 13th.
Very, very slow progress.
The only two people still at the club a decade later are the two at the very top of the tree: Owner Ruben Gnanalingam and current Chairman, former CEO and international man of mystery Lee Hoos.
We never hear from either now. Everything else at QPR changes, and yet the results are exactly the same.
Nobody would have given their right arm to be 13th in February 2026 who was going to QPR in February 2016. |
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