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Reply | players
at 13:35 12 May 2024
A prime minister was once asked what drove his decisions. “Events dear boy, events,” came his reply. So with transfer windows for clubs in our financial plight. If Eze sold, great, maybe we can go for it. If the right offer comes in for JSC, Field, Dunne, Paal (anything is possible) then they have to go and we seek out the next one of those players (they are out there, being released by Premier League clubs for free). |
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Reply | End of Season Review - Live Now On The Patreon
at 13:25 12 May 2024
All the points used to counter jeffranger are clearly correct. Just in his very partial defence his unthinking views sadly reflect majority opinion in the country at large. Folk who are very happy to spend four or five quid on a frothy coffee are not prepared to spend a couple of quid on a quality newspaper. So investigative journalism died along with much foreign reporting etc. When people who can write as well as Clive (I used to be in the media so hope I can make a professional as well as a personal judgement here) and do so largely for free, we as a fan base should be hugely grateful. You only have to see some of the wannabe writers and podcasters out there stumbling and shambling through half-formed opinions, statements of the bleeding obvious and cliche after cliche to understand the difference. |
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Reply | Players we should have kept
at 13:25 10 May 2024
Stand to be corrected but think the OP was PROBABLY referring to home grown players who we released. If so I would argue that in recent years, of those we released - as opposed to having poached from us - if anything we have hung on too long hoping player x or y will come good. I don't really understand what we were doing keeping players aged around 21-24 who haven't made a serious breakthrough. A lot of the players we do release struggle to make a career in league 1 or 2, let alone the Championship. Am struggling to think of a single one who makes any of us seriously weep into our pints lamenting "if only we still had him". Marti is ruthless and we are bidding a fond farewell to the Kakays, Drewes and no doubt many more to come. Sure, it is sad when players have been with us since the age of 8 in many cases but we need to be run like a business. If we release a handful of our own youth players who haven't quite made the grade it frees up budget to bring in a JSC or a EDB. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 13:44 9 May 2024
Isn’t that journo mixing his cliches?
I thought in transfer argo the window “slams” shut while clubs “slap” a [fill in clearly ludicrous figure] transfer fee on a player? |
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Reply | QPR New Deals
at 13:41 9 May 2024
The reason Dykes takes so few shots is because he lacks all positional sense so for a centre forward never attacks the near post or follows up a shot. A predator gets so many “cheap” goals that way.
But I fear some fans are being way too optimistic thinking we can “get rid” - who on earth would buy?
We have three - possibly four - strikers under contract. This could significantly reduce the chance of landing a striker (other than possibly a loan) for yet another season.
Our search for a striker continues… |
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Reply | Ilias Chair
at 19:41 29 Apr 2024
Criminally undervalued.
Criticisms of him are all true but if that decison-making problem werent the case he would be playing for a much more successful club. It’s odd because as fans we tell ourselves that maverick Number 10s define our club but when it comes down to it we vote Paddy Kenny over Adel Tarrabt and the number 10s are blamed for what they don’t do rather than what they do. And even for a creative player Chair gets far less love than Willock who went missing for most of the season when we really needed him and has apparently been running down his contract. I always remember Chair being interviewed when Eze left and asking if he would like to join him - his response was “why can’t qpr get back to the premier league and re-sign him then we can play together again.” Can’t imagine any other saying that. |
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Reply | Anderson on the win, the team, the crowd and staying up
at 00:21 27 Apr 2024
At the risk of national stereo typing, why do Scandi players always seem ridiculously eloquent compared to others? Listened to a Dykes I/v after Preston and he could barely put one word after another.
Interesting to hear the human side about the tension from the inside, how the players were clearly so invested in it, and most of all the optimism for next season.
Delighted for Andersen hope he grows to become a key figure. |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 18:49 24 Apr 2024
You do sound quite cross. A bit like someone orating in front of the mirror with lots of hand gestures before their first parish council meeting where they believe they have something very, very important to explain but are worried that the other villagers will just be too dim-witted to understand its magnitude or genius.
I only popped over from Fantasy Island for a gander but I seem to have stumbled into an after dinner debating society for rotarians (other posters excluded from this observation.) |
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Reply | Eze
at 16:05 24 Apr 2024
True, but we missed John Barnes, Paolo Wanchap and no doubt a load of others "not good enough"... |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 11:43 24 Apr 2024
If you have a strategy for doing that, so keeping all our best players AND bringing in vital re-enforcements (especially a striker who actually scores goals - which has been beyond us budget and scouting wise for a decade) all whilst remaining in FFP budgets, then I'm all ears...
For the record, not sure that wanting to avoid another FFP fine makes anyone a "Neo-liberal" necessarily. |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 11:37 24 Apr 2024
Yes I'm really in two minds as to whether I even want him to stay. He was excellent against Preston, but the two previous games he was dire (half-arsed, lazy). At his best he glides almost above the pitch and is probably our only player you could just about imagine on a good day holding his own at a lower Premier League club. But his good performances are fewer than his bad ones this season and when the going got tough, he often wasn't there. Chair gets stick but for all his frustrations he almost always ties - for which I forgive a lot. Willock's usual "can't be arsed to tackle" attitude must negatively impact the team. Maybe you can get away with it if you are Adel in his pomp, but as you say, 1 goal in 22 games doesn't cut it.
To be even more cynical than you, was that statement (admittedly through Marti) that he apparently "loves" the club belated realisation that there aren't a host of clubs lining up to offer him big money? If I were, say, Hull I would be wary of his attitude and fitness. Only factor against that I guess is that for another club its a free transfer so they could probably go a big bigger on wages. Here I would entirely understand the attitude if we thought "why should we reward a player who often didn't try with a massively improved salary?" |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 17:31 23 Apr 2024
When you say Dykes will need to be "let go", if only it were so simple. He (like Kelman) was given a new deal. Allegedly we even turned down actual real money for Dykes, which is just one of those things best filed away and not thought about too often or it could make the holder of such thoughts physically ill. Someone will need to buy him and is anyone with any money really mad enough to sign a striker who has failed to score away in over 50 starts and currently has one goal in 16? I fear we are stuck with a lot more of these players than we would like. |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 17:11 23 Apr 2024
Well we turned four loans for senior players into permanent deals on extended contracts (some of which we had to buy out, such as Stef). We also wasted large loan/ wages on the that waster of a striker from Watford. You might have cancelled your holiday but not sure I truly believed we had enough to go up (albeit we did very well over a calendar year). But agree we should also have cashed in on Willock, Chair etc at the start of Beale's reign. But as so often at this club, the manager gets to decide. |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 16:46 23 Apr 2024
We are losing fortunes and also need to sign players (especially a striker who is mildly less shite than Dykes). Therefore we have to sell if given the chance. Its no secret every one of our players is for sale. Its ever been thus - Bowles, Allen, Goddard, Peacock, Les etc.
The Warburton year where we gambled on a very unlikely promotion is why we have been in such a mess. The bigger worry is that no one comes in for any of our players, so making it very hard to build. The money has died in the Championship so its either a Prem/Parachutte club buying or barely worth doing.
Do fans objecting to our stated model really think Brentford fans were delighted to sell Watkins? But do you think they learned to stop moaning when they replaced him with Toney?
Of course this club has been terrible at doing that. But a decade late we might finally have some reasonably intelligent people (CEO - I'm looking at you) who will make shrewd, data-drive decisions.
You at least have to try, because what is the alternative? Eze sold possibly, but he can't keep bailing us out forever. (Brentford have sold on 5 maybe 10 Ezes). Sooner or later we are going to have to get back to doing what we once did so well: develop, sell, re-invest (think Sinton out, Sinclair in).
Its hard to do and sad to see good players go - but we aren't Chelsea so not sure what some fans don't get about our predicament? To misquote Bertrand Russel "we have already established what kind of club you are, sir, now we are merely haggling about the price." |
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Reply | Martí Cifuentes.
at 17:15 2 Mar 2024
Can we lock him into the club? Give him shares like El Tel? Actually that might make him run away faster. What a manager, and so likeable to boot |
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