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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 04:49 17 Feb 2026
Nourry must have the backing of Ruben to turn this club around and may be given 3 to 4 years. He is halfway on his tenure. I don’t think Ruben is just a hands off owner, he must have signed off on a lot is things,
I just want to highlight one aspect of the club strategy that aims to grow the club sustainably, our data based recruitment and the buy potential and sell up strategy.
We can identify the best undervalued raw talents anywhere around the world but for this strategy to work we must create a first team that is progressive each season, which means pushing upwards each seasons and threatening the playoffs and eventually get promotion to the PL. Along this journey we develop the players and sell them for profits. It is impossible to make your players in demand and increasing their value by being a mediocre championship team finishing 16th season after season. We need bigger clubs in the higher end of the championship, the Pl and foreign teams in their top division to want to buy our players if we need to make profits
The team needs balance with experience and youth. Why are we shipping out Field when we need him to be one of the leaders and mired deep with injuries?
If the playing side is rubbish everything we do trying to push the club forwards means nothing |
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Reply | Arsenal: Digging Up.
at 03:35 17 Feb 2026
Possibly the main three reasons are faced by all clubs wanting to expand ore upgrade their stadium
- financial imperative
- ownership strategy
- political trade offs
Can we now
- stay put at Loftus
- dig down and build up
- acquire Loftus road and Ellerslie roads and Imre court houses and build new residential complexes to relocate the residents, and acquire the school |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 00:33 14 Feb 2026
What is wrong if you get special terms from an agent to do business in a country far far away and you know next to nothing about?
You are assuming because he is not telling that he got something to hide. Is the agent a mate? Is he getting mate’s rate?
If he would have gone and do business with 4 different agents for the 4 players, some people would assume he got 4 mates whilst others would question his business sense in not getting special terms |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 23:21 13 Feb 2026
This thing about recruiting Australians interest me and I think it is a really good question (why we recruit Australians and what is the process) but if asked in this raw form could be seen as a bit intimidating or confrontational perhaps?
Because it suggests
1. There may been personal connection with this west London agent
2. The data and recruitment process is skewed towards a certain bias
If you would like the CEO to announce and explain his strategy perhaps that is quite unlikely because Nourry is best known to keep “trade secrets”
How about the whys and how’s like
- is the data and recruitment process in identifying players work the same globally in markets like Asia and Africa as in UK / Europe and if not, what are the underlying difference?
- is the Australian focus due to key factors like league potential (A-League standard may be “poor” but with massive potential), cultural (western oriented so easy assimilation), sporting values (Aussie spirit in sports) and a very undervalued football market in terms of players value. Also other Asian countries like Japan may have a saturated market as it is better known, perhaps?
- how is the handling of the Australian market being executed? Are the agents based locally (as in an Australian recruitment agency/cies we deal directly with) or a third party agent representing our interests? How does the setup benefit the club and is the system able to identify, trial and recruit players on a countywide basis so there is a higher opportunity to achieve success?
- how is this global recruitment (Australian market) reviewed and what are timeline and goals to affirm its success? (most obvious will be players stepping into first team and players sales for profit). We already have Bennie, Pearman, Adamson and now Pullela - are we still recruiting?
- as above, all three players are from one club Perth Glory except for Adamson (Macathur). What are the indications that the academies of these clubs produce good players for the first team / Australia youth teams)
I also wonder how much does the club recruitment know about the Australian football themselves not just through the lens of an agent or third party. I am thinking they would know quite substantially and their network expansive. This is also a question that I would like answer too. [Post edited 14 Feb 0:02]
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Reply | Field to Norwich
at 20:08 3 Feb 2026
Maybe an agreement has been reached by the club with Field for the loan, a straight loan that will see him “regrouping” at the end of the season with the rest of the team
I don’t think the club wants to sell Field, with our model of trading up young players, we need to have an experience core of senior players as the spine of the team, and bring in young players for minutes so they can learn their trade, improve and put in the shop window.
By loaning out Field, that’s means minutes for Varane, Morgan and Isak all yourg players that were acquired cheaply and hopefully up sell.
As it stands k Hayden just be udge ahead of Field and Field is on more money(?) so Norwich pay us to play him so to keep him fit and contented at least for this season
Field just signed an extension, he is no going anywhere at the moment.
If that is an understanding between club and player, than Field must be applauded for his “sacrifice “. Just looking at the sideline that this loan is cordial between club and player |
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Reply | Pen yesterday?
at 09:23 2 Feb 2026
The defender body checked Smyth and it was clear as day he moved into him.
That is clear obstruction, even if it wouldn’t make you fall. It is a foul all day anywhere on the pitch
I’m sure VAR will give it, 10 times out of nine |
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Reply | Paul Dawson of Macclesfield
at 20:04 10 Jan 2026
Meanwhile Exeter City got thumped 10-1 by Manchester City even Haaland didn’t score
Show that if you are serious |
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Reply | The Barry Bannan Master Class Match Thread
at 14:24 4 Jan 2026
For a young player, I think to have many minutes on the pitch is crucial for his development, as nothing beats being in the game to learn, and if it is not his natural position, one can assume that the coach thinks he could play there because of his talent and ability
To play in his favourite position, a young player needs to be the “best player” in the club for that position, I think we could say that of Morgan, or any of our young players including Kolli, that at this point in time they are not the best player for their position. If so, it would be quite unusual why the coach does not play his best players. |
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Reply | Opposition players you always rated
at 10:40 4 Jan 2026
Not any particular player but,
- their goalkeeper, always up against us playing a blinder
- any former QPR player that potentially will score against us
- any player that hasn’t score in his career, any striker hasn’t score for a while that you bet will be breaking their duck against a charity team |
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Reply | The Barry Bannan Master Class Match Thread
at 10:34 4 Jan 2026
This is QPR, we lose 6-1 to Blackpool and win 1-0 at Burnley, lose to Swindon Town x 2, so
….Sheffield Wednesday - negative points, good as relegated, Bannan running the show….
QPR 5 Sheffield Wednesday 1
I would like a clean sheet but our goalkeeper crisis I say we will let in one |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 07:57 29 Dec 2025
Best of both worlds, is the best I reckon
Premier league academies cast offs will be sought after for second tiers clubs
But there should also be a real desire / proper set up for our academy to nurture a player from local / grassroots, one that we can really call our own, like Gallen, Furlong and maybe Kolli? [Post edited 29 Dec 2025 8:00]
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Reply | 35 points after 23 games, what’s the realistic target after 46?
at 07:38 29 Dec 2025
You will logically think that we “should” do better in the latter half of the season, so expect 70 points minimum….
….. if the first half of the season’s games are for the team to gel with new coach, new tactics, new way of playing, then it is reasonable to expect the team to do better in the next 23 games
So 70 or more points is a logical target
60-70 points - the team is settled and consistent*
50-60 is underwhelming borders on worrying
Anything under 50 will be disappointing and relegation form, after what we have seen in the first 23 games of what the team is capable of
*consistency - much talked about in other threads |
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