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Reply | Is 3 years a fair amount of time to judge Christian Nourry as ceo of qpr
at 12:52 10 Jun 2026
I promise not to comment any more, but, for clarity:
He has been CEO for 2.5 yrs, but he has been at the club for 3.5 years. As per the club’s own statement, he had been working in an advisory capacity carrying out an audit on the club for a full year prior to be appointed as CEO in Jan 2024. His company were leading all non-playing side recruitment at the club for that year (including the recruitment of Ben Williams). Ferdinand left the club in mid-June 2023.
Been at the club in a dedicated capacity for 3.5 years. Very likely had significant influence for at least 3 years when Les went.
As for judging, I’ll leave that for others. But it would be wrong to think he walked through the door for the first time when appointed in Jan 2024. |
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Reply | New Front of Shirt Sponsor
at 19:17 6 Jun 2026
This is precisely the point.
The delta between what the club could get from a respectable/local sponsor vs an online casino, based on what has been touted around here is probably £200k at most.
That is likely one Dev Squad signing or A league punt fewer a year in wages. That’s it.
I stand by my point above, the only reason we’re going with the sponsor who pays the most, in spite of the optics, is to bring in as much revenue as possible to enable our CEO to continue to play football manager. It’s as simply as that.
The club could easily get by on one fewer Dev Squad/A league punt a year. |
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Reply | New Front of Shirt Sponsor
at 09:27 6 Jun 2026
Got to bring some income in to fund all this player trading…
Season ticket hikes and this speak to a CEO under pressure to increase income to pay for/buy more time on his player trading strategy to me…
Principles, ethos (around youth), consistency…can all take a back seat if it impedes are ability to player trade. |
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Reply | Podcast with Marti.
at 19:55 5 Jun 2026
He’s not being silly.
I heard there was a falling out and he was tapped on the shoulder in the canteen taken out and sacked on the spot. Nourry had a decision to make and backed his mate. It happened about two weeks before it was announced because it had to be a compromise agreement because of how it had been initiated, but that also meant the club’s bargaining position was weak hence it taking a while to finalise his package.
Watford now have Micah Hyde and Paul Furlong there. They used to be our 1&2 a few years back. Watford Dev squad beat ours 5-0 this season too, IIRC. [Post edited 6 Jun 12:34]
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Reply | Podcast with Marti.
at 10:32 2 Jun 2026
I liked Marti. And I like Stephan. Is that allowed? People can rate both coaches. It’s not “either/or”.
I might like the next guy too.
Ultimately, I don’t think the Head Coach is the problem, or, indeed, the solution. I think that rests elsewhere. |
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Reply | BBC Local News
at 08:27 29 May 2026
It’s definitely Palace who are called the Stripey Nigels. |
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Reply | England
at 08:48 23 May 2026
It’s an interesting squad, but not necessarily a bad one.
Personally, I’d have taken Maguire over Burn, Palmer or MGW over Madueke, probably, and Wharton over Henderson. Completely agree with Foden not going, and I can see why he made the call on Palmer.
Left back looks a bit weak. Spence and Livramento are more naturally right backs and both right footed. One of those should have been a left footed left back, the other as a utility cover for both flanks.
Glad Eze made it. Glad he’s taken 3 number ‘9’s. Glad Rashford is in given his form for Barca.
Midfield and Forwards looks very capable of competing. Slightly worried about the defence. But England should compete. |
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Reply | David Seaman - Joe Walsh
at 21:20 20 May 2026
It’s not really an opinion based thing. The stats are there. They exist. They are independent. They point to him being the worst or 2nd worst of all starting keepers in the league in terms of both goals conceded vs expected goals conceded, and variance of shots on target to goals conceded. The sample size is large.
Doesn’t mean he won’t develop from this season, gain from the experience and become very good.
But the stats are pretty clear: he was one of the worst keepers in the league this season.
It’s fair to question whether we should change keeper, especially if we’re a data led football club. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 13:26 20 May 2026
Bravo, sir.
In addition to this, I also think it would be very easy for the CEO to build bridges and actually tackle some of the social media abuse Clive and the like get. This is a guy who’s first business he set up was a social media advisory firm focused on 16-24 yr olds. If anyone knows how to influence that demographic, it’s him.
What is your stop him coming out publicly and saying:
“To put the record straight, LFW is a great fan website with decades of brilliant writing, and a passion for QPR. We all want the best for QPR. The questions Clive asked at the recent meeting with fan sites were perfectly valid. My tone was a reflection of my frustration at not having the numbers to hand not the question being asked. It is important fans hold the club to account. We are all in this together and we all want the best for QPR. We welcome challenge and will continue to do our best to engage fans and demonstrate the steps we’re taking to improve the club. But I implore all our fans not to abuse other fans who have given so much to the QPR community over many years, especially when they are asking valid questions.”
What downside is there for Christian Nourry in publishing such a message?
The club are not controlling social media abuse and the stick Clive gets. But they could easily try to put a stop to it. |
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Reply | The Labour Party
at 13:27 19 May 2026
Do you mean the tech bros in Silicon Valley, or the factory owners in China, Baz?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.  |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 10:00 18 May 2026
Yes and no.
An important part of assessing someone is not just what they do/achieve but *how* they do it. The best organisations in the world tend to focus on this over the “what” because it’s a better indicator of long term success.
The “how” is what you control. It’s the behaviours you display, the decisions you make, the words you use, it’s how you treat people, how you carry yourself, how trustworthy and honest you are. I want QPR to be led by people who care about the “how” and who try to be good people. Chelsea have always been the sc*m in this area. The ones who’ll do anything for a bit of success, who are nasty and self-centred. QPR and all other clubs have, at times, been led by people with questionable morals, of course. But whenever possible, I’d like the club to be led by people with values, who try to things in the honourable way, whenever possible. Part of my defence of Ferdinand was because he cared, how he carried himself, and the values he tried to instill in the youth set up.
I’ve said elsewhere, I can just about hold my nose on this topic, if it delivers success. The end justifies the mean to some degree.
But whilst the end isn’t yet justifying that, and we haven’t materially progressed, the “how” is so important, more so than the “what”.
Good people are being burnt by the club’s leadership, others are fed up with how they’ve been treated, and the fan base is fracturing, which has been a deliberate social media ploy by the club’s leadership. The leadership is sowing unity, it’s sowing division.
I really dislike the “how” and the end needs to be very very good to justify it. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 21:08 17 May 2026
But as is the case with EVERY generation ever, when today’s young cheerleaders become tomorrow’s critical middle aged, they will be just that. They’ll form opinions based on experiences they’ve been through not just what they think and hope. They’ll have dealt with chancers and bullsh*tters in their personal and work lives. They’ll perhaps be a little burnt. They’ll have another two decades of frustration with Rangers. And they’ll see things differently. They won’t like hearing that. They won’t believe it. They’ll think they’ll be different. And they’ll be confident they’re right now, so won’t change. Just like the teenagers and twenty year olds will in twenty years, when they’re forty, holding a different opinion to them. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 19:57 16 May 2026
I have no problem with it either…unless they aren’t representing a fans’ group or fans media outlet.
Because if they’re just individuals there on behalf of themselves, why couldn’t other individuals join? Why even make it a closed door thing with some of the content confidential? What beneficial purpose is it serving? |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 17:49 16 May 2026
The material point is, why was he there if he wasn’t representing a fan site, fan publication, or fan group.
It wasn’t an open meeting. It was invite only. It was supposedly for the CEO to meet reps of the different fan groups.
Asking why Winton was there, and why that twitter account fella was there, just representing themselves is the right question to be asking. Their attendance would be even more questionable if either of them were given a platform to speak and address the reps of the actual fan groups. Hopefully that did not happen [Post edited 16 May 17:58]
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 16:10 16 May 2026
We know why those two were in there. Call a spade a spade. They are vocal supporters of Christian Nourry and Nourry wanted more fans with that profile attending. |
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Reply | The Labour Party
at 13:48 16 May 2026
But this is the entire problem, as alluded to by E17.
There aren’t loads of other ways to raise more revenue for the treasury to pay today’s welfare costs in the Uk, let alone higher costs, without breaking the current capital system constraints which WILL cause significant hardship in the short and medium term for everyone in the UK.
Would love to be able to afford greater pensions (I’m yet to reach pension age so would benefit if there was) and some other welfare payments. But not at the expense of causing massive economic shock to try UK and harming everyone.
Fundamentally, the UK needs to grow its tax take and reduce its overarching welfare bill with a significantly aging population. That is a hard problem to solve. It isn’t easy. There is no silver bullet. And no one will be able to get what they want “principally” when it comes to holistic policy. There has to be compromise. It won’t be fair.
Outside of some showy, but low impact tax policies on the uber rich, I’m not sure the county can stomach more tax. The bottom 2 income deciles are, when it comes to take home pay, better off today relative to the other deciles, than they were two decades ago, almost entirely due the doubling of the income tax free threshold in the last 16 years. That doesn’t mean love is easy, or we don’t want it to increase. But the whole country has to function.
If we keep raising taxes endlessly, on people and business, you run the risk of everyone getting poorer overall.
Tax take needs to increase through more people working, ideally at a little lower tax paid level. And welfare needs to reduce through fewer people being on welfare, not reduced payments, and the triple lock being ditched so pensions rise in line with inflation. It’s going to be very hard to achieve for any political party, regardless of what they tell you. |
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Reply | The Labour Party
at 10:04 16 May 2026
Would love to be able to give out bigger pensions, and have some welfare payments be bigger.
Everything the state gives back out has to be tied in some way to what the state takes in. This is the point about the constraints E17 made so well.
I don’t think the triple lock is affordable. And against other things that need to be paid for, or faced with the other approach of raising taxation, I don’t think the right call is to retain the triple lock. |
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