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Reply | Club Accounts
at 10:20 20 Feb 2026
Could you point me in the direction of any Championship club that wouldn't suffer to some or a great extent if the owner suddenly stopped writing checks - for whatever reason?
Most if not all Championship clubs make a massive loss every single year. The majority push the P&S limit as far as they can. Other clubs have much higher revenues which gives them more cash than us to invest before they get to that limit... but they do it anyway.
If any one of those clubs started to operate to break even financially, their budget would be so low they'd almost certainly be staring at relegation immediately. With our relatively pitiful revenue, that would be even more pronounced.
Any such belief that these football clubs - including ours - shouldn't be posting these types of losses is an argument against English football as a whole - not QPR - who frankly have little to no choice to behave in this manner unless they're prepared for us to sink down the pyramid.
The 'daylight' created with the Ainsworth austerity was reassuring but daylight doesn't win you points and doesn't help you compete. I'm glad and grateful they're investing and are willing to push those limits but these days doing that is practically a prerequisite in order to own a competitive Championship club. Whether that investment is going far enough is a different debate. But looking at these numbers and bemoaning the losses free of context is a bit daft.
There's some suggestion this is a recurrence of the Austin / Johansen splurge... I don't see it that way as that investment left us with practically no saleable assets whatsoever. They basically all expired. Even if we do need to make as much £5m quite suddenly over the next 2/3 years I'm confident they'd be able to A) find some of it in sudden incremental revenues (like they did last time) and B) Flog one or two players at market value to cover the gap if they absolutely had to.
Last point (promise!) - Selling a player for genuinely big money a la Eze actually gives you a problem financially because it gives you a sudden and stark spike in P&S daylight that expires just as suddenly as it came along three years later. The hankering for another big money Eze sale is a bit misplaced in a way I think. You'd be better off consistently turning £1m players into £5m players every 2/3 years, if you could elect. Which is roughly what they've done with Varane and Burrell is looking like another just like that. |
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Reply | Next season’s squad
at 13:16 16 Feb 2026
I honestly think a quality goalkeeper and two specialist full backs that can both defend and stick a decent cross in would be totally transformative. Everyone else would look miles better. |
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Reply | Charlie Oatway
at 12:56 6 Feb 2026
He was in the Brighton team with Danny Cullip and Leon Knight that won the division 2 playoffs when we got promoted in 2004. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 13:36 2 Feb 2026
Is anyone else worried about the volume of fit players we have to select from?
Saito clearly not fully fit. Dembele off injured again at the weekend. Only Chair being talked about as nearing a return.
We only have about 13 fit first team players and one of them is about to leave. Feels like it's asking for trouble. |
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Reply | Harvey Vale
at 19:59 31 Jan 2026
Proper footballer. I like him. |
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Reply | Raheem Sterling
at 08:22 30 Jan 2026
Urrr… he DID go out on loan last season. And he HAS just agreed to a termination with those cnts down the road.
Sterling has had to deal with this sort of stuff his entire career. People are very happy to generalise or assume his character. Even when arguably England’s leading light he was always more heavily scrutinised / criticised than some of those around him. It’s frankly unfair and a bit scary / worrying for me.
Listening to Ian Wright talk about his and his son’s experience during their careers and chats he’s had with Jude Bellingham on Stick to Football is utterly heartbreaking. Les has said some eye opening things of a similar nature over the years too.
Jack Grealish gets photographed practically comatose on a Balearic island in the summer or completely paralytic getting off an open top bus and he’s a ‘lad’ and it’s all bants. Same for when he can’t even put a pin in where Birmingham is on a map of the British Isles. Now imagine that’s Raheem Sterling or Jude Bellingham behaving like that - what are the headlines then? How does the press portray them?
Personally, as a product of my football club’s development and educational system, I’m very proud of everything Raheem has achieved AND the way he’s conducted himself over his entire career and he doesn’t deserve to be brandished with lazy assumption that don’t even really have any basis in fact. |
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Reply | Julien speaks
at 14:37 26 Jan 2026
Blimey we must be playing badly. Norris has logged in. |
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Reply | Mbenge
at 10:31 26 Jan 2026
Joe Walsh must be buying Mbengue his beers this week. He condeded two stoppable goals and handed one over himself free of charge on Saturday but Mbengue is taking all the flack. |
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Reply | Gaffer on tonight's draw
at 19:53 21 Jan 2026
Well… the ‘Enough’ thread seems to have somehow made the problem even worse. Huge problem now. Thread after thread after thread of reason completely spoiled and turned into playground nonsense by one poster and one poster only.
This site is becoming close to unreadable. It’s such a shame. [Post edited 21 Jan 19:56]
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Reply | Justin Obikwu
at 17:10 19 Jan 2026
I've never seen him play but from written reports he's quick and wants to run beyond defences.
If so... I'd imagine they were already looking at signing him in the summer but perhaps moved more quickly as Burrell is going to miss so many games. |
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Thread | Justin Obikwu
at 16:56 19 Jan 2026
I assume that whatsapp message is confirm his imminent signing. [Post edited 19 Jan 16:56]
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Reply | Team for Oxford?
at 11:23 19 Jan 2026
I mean it did literally happen - with us - 12 months ago. It's not like Edwards is a liability as a defender either, he was arguably our best defender and our best passer in the second half of last season.
Even if the back 4 isn't 'broken' defensively, it could still be a reason the other two units aren't functioning. They have to do more than just defend.
I think we've been the most functional and balanced over the last couple of years when we've had Edwards and / or a fit and fluent Clarke Salter in the back four and I don't think that's any coincidence. The more we can get the ball to Madsen the more chances we'll create. With Edwards in the side he'll get the ball more often. It's pretty much as simple as that. We have to get him fit and ready ASAP because I think we're crying out for him. |
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Reply | Team for Oxford?
at 09:49 19 Jan 2026
But Wombat that's part of what Edwards brings.
I agree with you, Cook and Dunne have been superb in the last couple but only as 'stoppers'. They're both bodies on the line, set piece discipline type centre halves and should get a lot of credit for being so. But after January last year Edwards was arguably our most progressive passer of the ball, even / especially when at centre half. What you lose with last ditch heroics and defensive set pieces with Edwards over Cook, you gain in getting the ball toward the right players in the right spaces from an attacking sense. |
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Reply | Time wasting by goalies
at 09:44 19 Jan 2026
Between us beating Leicester 4-1 at home and the end of the weekend; you submitted 3 posts.
Between us nicking a dour 0-0 point at Stoke and the end of the weekend; you submitted 63 posts.
After any 'bad' result this forum is clogged up with your desperate attempts to besmirch players, managers, accents, tactics, team selections - basically anything you can get your teeth into. It makes skimming through the forum like walking through molasses. It makes you look like you're sat there every weekend like a glutinous medieval king at a banquet every time we don't rip through our opponents. "Off with his tete" or some sh!t. Maybe it's just your way of dealing with bad results / performances but it's beyond tedious for the rest of us.
If you have to hold QPR managers in such contempt every time they spoil your weekend with a 0-0 draw I guess that's your prerogative. But do you really have to make the rest of us suffer too? |
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Reply | Team for Stoke?
at 15:22 16 Jan 2026
Thanks for confirming.
Is having ten outfield first team players out this weekend actually good news? It would be cool if you could clarify because the deranged group think is only telling me it's probably suboptimal. Thanks in advance. |
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Reply | Team for Stoke?
at 13:46 16 Jan 2026
He's not from Beckenham way is he? |
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Reply | Team for Stoke?
at 13:13 16 Jan 2026
So... Just to clarify. With Dembele, Vale and Mbengue having tests, if none of those are fit enough, the list of players unavailable is:
Morrison
Clarke Salter
Mbengue
Dembele
Chair
Saito
Poku
Vale
Varane
Burrell
Which leaves of the established first team players:
Dunne
Cook
RND
Edwards
Field
Smyth
Hayden
Madsen
Morgan
Kone
Kolli
That's 48% of our outfield players that are injured. Someone make this make sense. That cannot be a coincidence. I have no idea how you pick a team to be competitive over 90 mins. |
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Reply | R's Away Support Today
at 15:33 12 Jan 2026
This is utterly magnificent.
Does anyone else get a bit emo watching clips like that? So proud to support this club.
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Reply | Burrel out until March
at 10:39 9 Jan 2026
Great post, this.
This injury update gives us two things to feel elated about:
A) So many influential players are going to be unavailable for a significant chunk of time / games.
B) That we know about it.
Lastly, what we should definitely NEVER do is expect the club to have elite standards in terms of preparation, analytics and fitness in order to prevent injuries. Nor should we care about or expect something so utterly fundamental as having grass on our fu<king pitch in the vain hope that it's easier to pass the ball and run / tackle without spraining your knee.
Next injury update thread I want party poppers, turbo shandies and a queue for HR in the morning.
You're all miserable pricks. |
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