| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 10:07 - Jun 19 with 2508 views | Gloucs_R |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 09:28 - Jun 19 by wombat | unfortunalty the money they hoped they would get for varanne aint gonna happen , he was pony last season and actually worse than the player who joined us , we turned down what was it 5 million ill be amazed if we get anything close to that for him now . so that leaves us with madson and ? in the middle at the moment is the plan working ? |
His agent was still putting his name out there at the end of last season apparently. |  |
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| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 10:15 - Jun 19 with 2440 views | BushRanger82 | I'm surprised that we think we can afford to leave him go, to be honest. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 10:20 - Jun 19 with 2417 views | DavieQPR | I feel exactly the same as the Norwich fans and that's Meh. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 10:53 - Jun 19 with 2300 views | rbee |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 08:37 - Jun 19 by Northernr | It's a good price and deal for a player the manager didn't want, at the end of the day. Also helps alleviate the financial issue caused by Dembele and Varane going to sht last season. |
If a club finds itself in the position of having to sell a player of Sam's age, turned 28 last month, experience, character and versatility for 1.5 million then that club isn't being run very well. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 11:14 - Jun 19 with 2229 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 10:53 - Jun 19 by rbee | If a club finds itself in the position of having to sell a player of Sam's age, turned 28 last month, experience, character and versatility for 1.5 million then that club isn't being run very well. |
He's being sold for £1.5m because that is all anyone was prepared to buy him for. Nothing to do with how the club is being run. Go on the Norwich forums and their fans see him as a bench warmer who will get limited minutes. |  |
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| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 11:29 - Jun 19 with 2184 views | rbee |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 11:14 - Jun 19 by Wilkinswatercarrier | He's being sold for £1.5m because that is all anyone was prepared to buy him for. Nothing to do with how the club is being run. Go on the Norwich forums and their fans see him as a bench warmer who will get limited minutes. |
We shouldn't be needing a 1.5 million cash injection for a player like Sam. He currently ticks all the boxes for a club like ours with a limited player budget. In my opinion. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 11:49 - Jun 19 with 2107 views | stevec |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 09:28 - Jun 19 by Ned_Kennedys | His remaining contract has nothing to do with the transfer fee. He’s got a new (and probably improved) contract with Norwich so his one with us ends: seems straightforward to me. |
You’d think so but if he’s got a year left on his contract here and we want to sell him I could imagine his agent would be telling QPR to settle up. Looking at this in reverse, didn’t Cannon come here of his own volition and his old club sued for breaking his contract? Could have this wrong, but we do seem to be getting more money than you’d usually expect from a few sales in recent years so it may well be that £1.5m could include cover for us to settle Fields remains of his contract. Suddenly that £1.5m is essentially only half of that in profit. As I say, pure speculation, but conceivable. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 11:56 - Jun 19 with 2073 views | LazyFan | £1.5m with add-ons, say for appearances; I suspect that will be £2m in the end, at most. That's a very good deal in this market for an ageing midfielder. He's champ standard, but not promo chasing Champ standard. And next year we would not have got anything for him, so it was sell him now or get nothing. There are midfielders we can get on free's and also younger ones we could get cheaper than that, or spend a bit more and get even more. This £2m will also be fully ours in monies for the accounts, as he's been here so long. It will be counted as pure profit. I still suspect we may sell Saito at a loss for £2m, but we still get £2m and Fields, that's £4m, then with the costly old timers we let go, that could cover us to keep all our players and get in those three players we need, LB, GK and B2B Mid. I have a sneaky feeling we shall be going after 2 midfielders to really bolster that area up. It was time to sell him, and we got a good price for him. So, I think this is a very good deal for us in this bad market. |  |
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| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 12:07 - Jun 19 with 2021 views | KensalT |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 11:56 - Jun 19 by LazyFan | £1.5m with add-ons, say for appearances; I suspect that will be £2m in the end, at most. That's a very good deal in this market for an ageing midfielder. He's champ standard, but not promo chasing Champ standard. And next year we would not have got anything for him, so it was sell him now or get nothing. There are midfielders we can get on free's and also younger ones we could get cheaper than that, or spend a bit more and get even more. This £2m will also be fully ours in monies for the accounts, as he's been here so long. It will be counted as pure profit. I still suspect we may sell Saito at a loss for £2m, but we still get £2m and Fields, that's £4m, then with the costly old timers we let go, that could cover us to keep all our players and get in those three players we need, LB, GK and B2B Mid. I have a sneaky feeling we shall be going after 2 midfielders to really bolster that area up. It was time to sell him, and we got a good price for him. So, I think this is a very good deal for us in this bad market. |
"ageing midfielder." He's 28! He should be at his peak. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 12:31 - Jun 19 with 1956 views | wombat |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 10:07 - Jun 19 by Gloucs_R | His agent was still putting his name out there at the end of last season apparently. |
same as last summer then , get the feeling hes not one for the hard grind of the champsionship and his perfromances didnt help me think anyway diff |  |
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| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 12:37 - Jun 19 with 1932 views | Paddyhoops | Sorry to see Sam go but not suprised . Thanks for everything. Thought he was excellent for us and will miss his trick of going down for two minutes injured to give us a breather when we were under the cosh for so many of our games. Hope we give him a huge ovation when he comes back. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 12:38 - Jun 19 with 1932 views | Northernr |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 10:07 - Jun 19 by Gloucs_R | His agent was still putting his name out there at the end of last season apparently. |
He'll have to be careful, I thought we put people on gardening leave round here for stuff like that? |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 13:28 - Jun 19 with 1755 views | Blue_Castello |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 10:07 - Jun 19 by Gloucs_R | His agent was still putting his name out there at the end of last season apparently. |
Where's that from let me guess social media maybe, lots of people with agendas out there, Sam always came across as a dedicated club man but when agents get involved they tend to push their client so who knows. Sam signed a new contract about a year ago so he was planning on staying, something happened to make him think he wasn't wanted by the management, if that was the case you would explore your options. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 13:30 - Jun 19 with 1747 views | TheChef |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 13:28 - Jun 19 by Blue_Castello | Where's that from let me guess social media maybe, lots of people with agendas out there, Sam always came across as a dedicated club man but when agents get involved they tend to push their client so who knows. Sam signed a new contract about a year ago so he was planning on staying, something happened to make him think he wasn't wanted by the management, if that was the case you would explore your options. |
Well quite, what's his agent going to do instead? Tell Sam "If you put an apple on Julien's desk every morning, maybe he'll think about putting you back in the team." |  |
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| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 13:44 - Jun 19 with 1694 views | terryb |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 13:28 - Jun 19 by Blue_Castello | Where's that from let me guess social media maybe, lots of people with agendas out there, Sam always came across as a dedicated club man but when agents get involved they tend to push their client so who knows. Sam signed a new contract about a year ago so he was planning on staying, something happened to make him think he wasn't wanted by the management, if that was the case you would explore your options. |
I read this as being Varane's agent rather than Sam Field's as it was in a reply to a comment about how much anyone would pay for him. The suggestion was that it would be less than what we had hoped for last summer. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 13:44 - Jun 19 with 1694 views | TacticalR | Good luck to him. One of the people who held the team together in 2022–23 when Beale's players disappeared and the form of some our existing players crumbled. |  |
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| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 13:51 - Jun 19 with 1659 views | Gloucs_R |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 13:28 - Jun 19 by Blue_Castello | Where's that from let me guess social media maybe, lots of people with agendas out there, Sam always came across as a dedicated club man but when agents get involved they tend to push their client so who knows. Sam signed a new contract about a year ago so he was planning on staying, something happened to make him think he wasn't wanted by the management, if that was the case you would explore your options. |
Varane not Field |  |
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| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 14:32 - Jun 19 with 1563 views | Blue_Castello |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 13:51 - Jun 19 by Gloucs_R | Varane not Field |
Woops..... |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 14:52 - Jun 19 with 1498 views | R_from_afar |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 22:41 - Jun 18 by Ned_Kennedys | Field started the season very badly and Stephan decided he had better options. Wanted to play regularly so the Norwich loan made sense although he wasn’t a regular for them either. Good luck to him: he’s been a decent player for us. Not sure why people are so worried we have no replacement: it’s mid June not early September and there’s a few months left to sign a few better midfielders. |
I agree with your every word there, except for the "early September" bit. Players take a while to get settled and by September, we will be quite a way into the season, plus defensive midfield is a key position and one in which we were already very light. We need a replacement on board before the season starts. We're simply not strong enough to have players bought as starters who are bedding in after the first league games. |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 14:53 - Jun 19 with 1496 views | Andybrat | Varane will step up and Swedish guy with surname I can’t hope to spell will also step up plus a new signing is my prediction. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 15:40 - Jun 19 with 1400 views | Stainrod |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 20:54 - Jun 18 by BrianMcCarthy | The old adage is that you should never sell a player unless you have three better players vying for his spot. I'm not sure we have one player ready to step in for him, so this is a huge risk imo. |
How do you buy more players if you don't sell any? We aren't Man City |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 15:41 - Jun 19 with 1398 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 11:29 - Jun 19 by rbee | We shouldn't be needing a 1.5 million cash injection for a player like Sam. He currently ticks all the boxes for a club like ours with a limited player budget. In my opinion. |
But if the manager doesn't pick him and the player wants minutes, what does the club do? Let him sit in the DS taking a wage? It's nothing to do with the club being run badly, it's the opposite. 3 years ago he would have gone on a free, like Manning or BOS etc. Now we get a fee and still the club (Nourry) has got it wrong. And he can't pass gorward, like Hayden and Varane. 2 down, 1 to go. |  |
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| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 15:43 - Jun 19 with 1390 views | Northernr |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 15:41 - Jun 19 by Wilkinswatercarrier | But if the manager doesn't pick him and the player wants minutes, what does the club do? Let him sit in the DS taking a wage? It's nothing to do with the club being run badly, it's the opposite. 3 years ago he would have gone on a free, like Manning or BOS etc. Now we get a fee and still the club (Nourry) has got it wrong. And he can't pass gorward, like Hayden and Varane. 2 down, 1 to go. |
Basically agree. The midfield needed surgery, it's getting it. Kemper in at left back. Add a goalkeeper and my optimism will really be building. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 15:54 - Jun 19 with 1346 views | Stainrod |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 11:29 - Jun 19 by rbee | We shouldn't be needing a 1.5 million cash injection for a player like Sam. He currently ticks all the boxes for a club like ours with a limited player budget. In my opinion. |
What do you mean "shouldn't need £1.5m"? After the huge financial stresses the club has faced under FFP of course QPR "need" £1.5m (and rising) for a player who isn't going to get many minutes. We are being linked with some midfield beast from Cadiz. No idea if he will sign, no idea if he will prove good enough if he does. But it would be nice if fans judged the strength of the squad by the team we field first game of the season, not in mid June. I thought as a fanbase we all got the fact that all our players are available for the right price. And that's not a bad price for a bench warmer, decent lad though he is. |  | |  |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 15:57 - Jun 19 with 1333 views | terryb |
| WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich on 15:43 - Jun 19 by Northernr | Basically agree. The midfield needed surgery, it's getting it. Kemper in at left back. Add a goalkeeper and my optimism will really be building. |
Does this mean that you are confident that Kemper is/has signed? For me, left back is our priority, followed by a goalkeeper & a replacement for Varane / or Field. |  | |  |
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