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Thursday Diary — Warnock hoping to sign Miller
Thursday Diary — Warnock hoping to sign Miller
Thursday, 27th Jan 2011 21:16 by Clive Whittingham

Neil Warnock says he is looking beyond Ishmael Miller's initial three month loan deal at Loftus Road and wants to sign the big target man permanently.

 

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Miller has missed huge swathes of action during the last three years with a cruciate knee ligament injury and other niggles but Warnock is unconcerned and wants to turn him into a Loftus Road favourite.

Warnock told the Kilburn Times: "I think Miller needs someone like me, if I’m honest, and I’m looking forward to working with him. I hope it’s a long, long-term contract. I’ve always liked him a lot – because he’s so big and so quick he needs to do a lot of prep work during the week, but our physios are very good at that type of thing. So we’re optimistic we can get him fit and keep him fit. Other players have been offered to me over the last few weeks, but I’ve always wanted Miller really. Say what you want, some people told me never to touch Clint Hill with a bargepole because of his injuries before I took him to Palace. You can’t believe everything people tell you.”

Miller said: “Neil Warnock was probably the main factor in me coming here. I’ve spoken to him a few times and he said he’d give me an opportunity to play regular football, which is what I want. I did well a few seasons ago and since then I’ve had some terrible injuries, but hopefully it’s in the past now. I’ve got a lot more to come and I want to get some goals for the team. We’re clear at the top and we want to keep the momentum going. The main thing is going up and hopefully we can do that.”

Elsewhere defender Clint Hill has also been speaking to Ben Kosky at the Kilburn Times, praising the impact of new signing Wayne Routledge since he returned to the club and looking forward to the weekend trip to Hull.

Hill said: “I’d rather have him on my team than playing against him. You always knew you were in for a tough game against him – he’s lively, quick and a quality finisher, so it’s great to have him on board. If the club can continue to bring in players of that calibre, that’s got to be good. Promotion’s what we’re trying to aim for and you need that competition to help the squad.

“When we were going to play Hull they were struggling a bit, but they’re flying at the moment. Nigel’s done a great job there, he’s a good manager and he’s got his team playing well. It looks another dangerous game and hopefully we can go there and get a result. It’s important that we win our home games, but also that we keep nicking points away from home.”

Jay Simpson, who spent last season on loan at QPR, is hoping to return to the Hull side to face his former colleagues on Saturday after two games as an unused substitute. Simpson, who scored twice in a behind closed doors friendly game with Leicester during the week, said: “I want to play, like with every game, and especially against my old club it would be nice to nick a goal as well. QPR have done very well this season. Last season, they started well and then were battling against relegation, so to maintain their place at the top shows how well they've done this year."

Sheffield Wednesday chairman Milan Mandaric has today confirmed that the Owls are trying to bring in Lee Cook on loan. QPR have circulated the availability of Cook, Martin Rowlands, Gary Borrowdale and Antonio German among league clubs.

Finally Frankie Sutherland, one of the brightest prospects in the QPR youth set up, has been nominated for the Irish Player of the Year award at Under 17 level along with Shane Byrne of Leicester City and Sean McGinty from Man Utd.

Former R's

For the first time since Blackpool’s remarkable rise to the Premiership Ian Holloway has had to put up with some negative media attention today. Pool have been fined £25,000 by the league for fielding a weakened team contrary to Premiership rules in a defeat at Aston Villa before Christmas – Holloway had said he would consider resigning if his club were punished for his decision to change ten of his starting 11 from the previous game.

It has also been revealed today that Olly has a clause in his contract entitling him to a percentage of any transfer fee the club receives for one of his players. This is nothing new, Holloway had the same clause in his deal at QPR and Plymouth, but it has called into question, in the press at least, the motives behind his steadfast refusal to sell star midfielder Charlie Adam this transfer window.

Holloway told The Sun: “"I do get rewarded with anybody I coach and make a profit on. My chairman looked at my record of producing players and helping players and selling them on and he wanted that at Blackpool. That's not what I'm doing it for. I'm on a far bigger bonus to keep us in the Premier League and Charlie Adam can help me do that. If you're saying I'm doing this because I'm getting 20-30 per cent of the Adam money I'll not be very happy - it's miles away, absolute nonsense."

Two of our former charges were on the scoresheet in a Reserve Combination fixture between Brighton and Wycombe last night. Emmanuel Ledesma, who has been training with QPR again recently in a move that has attracted some criticism, is on trial with Gus Poyet's table topping Seagulls and equalised after a quarter of an hour. That came after our former traineee Scott Donnelly had put Wycombe ahead with a penalty he won himself. Donnelly is on loan at Wycombe from Swansea where he was signed from Aldershot by Paulo Sousa just a week before he left for Leicester. New manager Brendan Rodgers has found little use for Donnelly since he took over and his former boss at QPR Gary Waddock has taken the opportunity to give the player first team football. Brighton won the game 2-1.

Brighton's reserve team boss Luke Williams said of Ledesma: "He did very well, worked really hard and it was a great finish for his goal. He's training with us at the moment and we certainly want to have another look at him in our next reserve outing."

This time last season Matt Hill was one of five short term signings completed by then QPR boss Mick Harford with disastrous consequences. The former Preston full back failed to impress during a three month loan from Wolves. A year on the 29-year-old has signed permanently for our Championship rivals Barnsley after impressing during an eight game loan spell - Wolves allowed the player to leave Molineux for nothing to ease the permanent move to Barnsley through. Hill has played eight times for the Tykes on loan, scoring once against Nottingham Forest.

Finally Pat Kanyuka, who was recently training with Wimbledon ahead of a potential deal, has instead been snapped up by League Two strugglers Lincoln. However the Imps must wait for international clearance for the defender as his most recent club was in Romania – and it’s that stumbling block that eventually scuppered his move to the Dons. Lincoln have agreed a deal with the former Swindon man until the end of the season.

Championship Shorts

- New Ipswich boss Paul Jewell has been reunited with his former Wigan talisman Jimmy Bullard after agreeing terms with Hull over his £45,000 a week wages. Bullard has endured an injury hit two years at the KC Stadium since signing from Fulham for £5m during their Premiership days. He has been an unused substitute for Nigel Pearson's side in the last two games and the Tigers have made no secret of their desire to get his wages off the books. Earlier this season he turned down a proposed long term loan move to Celtic but was keen to be reunited with Jewell with whom he won two promotions at the JJB Stadium once the Tractor Boys had agreed to pay 40 per cent of his salary, with Hull picking up the rest of the bill. The Tigers have used the extra space on their wage bill to sign former Inter Milan star and Tunisian international Tijani Belaid on a short-term contract.

- Leicester have signed Chelsea full back Patrick van Aarnholt on a loan deal until the end of the season. The Dutch youngster was linked with a move to QPR 18 months ago and has spent time on loan at Coventry in the Championship previously. He is the ninth player taken on loan by the Foxes this season.

- Scunthorpe must continue to wait to tie up the loan signing of left back Ben Gordon from Chelsea. A deal to take the 19 year old to Glanford Park was agreed at the start of the month but the player has remained in London to recover from a hamstring injury. The club has, however, received planning permission from North Lincolnshire Council to make the terraced end of Glanford Park an all seater stand during the summer.

- Conor Sammon, who rejected a move to Scunthorpe last week after the Iron agreed terms with Kilmarnock, is now being linked with a move to Derby while Kris Commons looks set to go the other way after a £300k deal was agreed with Celtic.

- Forest striker Nathan Tyson has admitted he is worried about his future with the club yet to begin talks over extending his contract which expires this summer. Tyson, who has been in good form of late, said: "I don't know where my future is going and so I am just playing every game like it's my last. I don't know what will happen in the next week or so - or in the summer."

- Palace have re-signed striker James Vaughan on loan from Everton. Vaughan spent three months at Selhurst Park in the first half of the season but almost joined Cardiff in this window before Everton broke off the deal in a row over payment instalments. Palace will have an opportunity to buy the player in the summer.

Transfer Window

Championship deals done so far:

Gary O’Neil, Middlesbrough to West Ham, £3m

David Wheater, Middlesbrough to Bolton, £2.3m

Aaron McLean, Peterborough to Hull, £1.3m

Matty Fryatt, Leicester to Hull, £1.2m

Adam Hammill, Barnsley to Wolves, £500k

James Chester, Man Utd to Hull, £300k

Michael Morrison, Leicester to Sheff Wed, £250k

Sean Morrison, Swindon to Reading, £250k

Jon Parkin, Preston to Cardiff, £100k

Brett Williams, Eastleigh to Reading, £50k

Sol Bamba, Hibs to Leicester, undisclosed

Seamus Connely, Galway to Sheffield United, undisclosed

Mark Duffy, Morecambe to Scunthorpe, undisclosed

Jermaine Easter, MK Dons to Palace, undisclosed

Abdisalam Ibrahim, Man City to Scunthorpe, undisclosed

Liam Lawrence, Stoke to Portsmouth, undisclosed

Mathieu Mansat, Hereford to Reading, undisclosed

Alex Marrow, Blackburn to Palace, undisclosed

Josh McQuoid, Bournemouth to Millwall, undisclosed

Andy O’Brien, Bolton to Leeds, undisclosed

Paul Reid, Colchester to Scunthorpe, undisclosed

Matt Ritchie, Portsmouth to Swindon, undisclosed

Theo Robinson, Huddersfield to Millwall, undisclosed

Marc Tierney, Colchester to Norwich, undisclosed

Marcus Tudgay, Sheff Wed to Forest, undisclosed

Tommy Smith, Portsmouth to QPR, undisclosed

Tijani Belaid, unattached to Hull, free

Pascal Chimbonda, Blackburn to QPR, free

Miguel Comminges, Cardiff to Southend, free

Lewis Grabban, Millwall to Brentford, free

Andy Hughes, Leeds to Scunthorpe, free

Steffen Iverson, Rosenborg to Palace, free

Paul Keegan, Bohemians to Doncaster, free

Lubo Michalik, Leeds to Carlisle, free

Eddie Nolan, Preston to Scunthorpe, free

Darren Purse, Sheff Wed to Millwall, free

Danny Shittu, Millwall to QPR, free

Zac Thompson, Everton to Leeds, free

Petter Vaagan Moen, Brann to QPR, free

John Akinde, Bristol City to Dagenham, loan

Marcus Bent, Birmingham to Sheff Utd, loan

Jens Berthal Askou, Norwich to Millwall, loan

Cian Bolger, Leicester to Bristol Rovers, loan

Jimmy Bullard, Hull to Ipswich, loan

Liam Cooper, Hull to Carlisle, loan

Mark Cullen, Hull to Bradford, loan

Luke Daley, Norwich to Stevenage, loan

Ritchie De Lait, Man Utd to Portsmouth, loan

Liam Dickinson, Barnsley to Rochdale, loan

Craig Eastmond, Arsenal to Millwall, loan

Nathan Ellington, Skoda Xanthi to Preston, loan

Corry Evans, Man Utd to Hull, loan

Matthew Gill, Norwich to Walsall, loan

Ben Gordon, Chelsea to Scunthorpe, loan

Brad Guzan, Villa to Hull, loan

Ben Hamer, Reading to Exeter, loan

Oli Johnson, Norwich to Yeovil, loan

Julian Kelly, Reading to Lincoln, loan

Tom Kennedy, Leicester to Peterborough, loan

Kevin Kilbane, Hull to Huddersfield, loan

Matt Kilgallon, Sunderland to Doncaster, loan

Marc Laird, Millwall to Brentford, loan

Shane Lowry, Villa to Sheff Utd, loan

Vito Mannone, Arsenal to Hull, loan

Ryan Mason, Spurs to Doncaster, loan

Joe Mattock, West Brom to Sheff Utd, loan

George McCartney, Sunderland to Leeds, loan

Ben Mee, Man City to Leicester, loan

Ishmael Miller, West Brom to QPR, loan

Danny N’Guessan, Leicester to Southampton, loan

Danny Philliskirk, Chelsea to Sheff Utd, loan

Aaron Ramsey, Arsenal to Cardiff, loan

Wayne Routledge, Newcastle to QPR, loan

Owain Tudor Jones, Norwich to Brentford, loan

Patrick Van Aarnholt, Chelsea to Leicester, loan

James Vaughan, Everton to Palace, loan

Rowan Vine, QPR to Mk Dons, loan

Andreas Weimann, Villa to Watford, loan

Aidan White, Leeds to Oldham, loan

Callum Wilson, Coventry to Kettering, loan

Yakubu, Everton to Leicester, loan

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JB007007 added 21:55 - Jan 27
The half hour that Miller was on the pitch obviously impressed NW. Mind you, he does look like he's going to be a handful. With the four signings made, we are stronger now and thats great. Add strength and depth when you are at the top, thats what I say.
Feel a bit sorry for Olly. Blackpool were asked to name a 25 man squad, so surely reserve the right to choose who they like to field and its disrespectful to those that played against Villa. Perhaps the Premier League ought to pick everyones team for the Managers now. Is Briatore now in charge of the Premier League Board by any chance!
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Northernr added 23:01 - Jan 27
It's an odd rule this. I see why it's there, because they don't want teams to simply give up when they go to arsenal, man utd, chelsea and just sling their kids in giving the game up as a defeat. But having made the teams name a 25 man squad it seems a bit harsh to then fine them for using a certain combination of those 25.

what if holloway had detected a weakness in the Villa side from set pieces and simply decided to pick his ten biggest outfield players?

And what is a weakened team? If we dropped Taarabt, Routledge and Derry it would weaken our team more than if we dropped six of the others. Is it just judged by numbers? Is seven changes punishable? Six? Five?

It' a nice idea but it doesn't work in practice.
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Spiritof67 added 11:13 - Jan 28
Can anyone in the FA clarify the rules regarding Blackpool? If the club had suffered some flu epidemic and were left with just the same eleven "fit" players (plus the subs on the bench) who played against Villa in November, would the FA have allowed Blackpool to postpone the game, or directed them to play their "strongest" team that Olly had available to him,i.e. exactly the same team that Olly selected that nigh!
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OldPedro added 11:16 - Jan 28
The rule is completely stupid imo. Holloway's job is to try and keep Blackpool in the Premier League and as such he should be allowed to pick whatever team he thinks is best for each game from his squad. No point in getting a point against one of the bigger teams uf you then lose a couple of games you have a better chance of winning. Surely the Premier League should be more concerned with referees not giving blatent penalties against Man U and the way that these poor decisions are affecting results!
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