http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/championship/relegation Joint 4th favourites for the drop with Burton. Currently the bookies favour Rotherham, Wigan and Blackburn for the drop. I'd settle for that just now. Madness.
It's all about beating the other half dozen teams at home now. Wigan 28th Jan; Burton 14th Feb; Cardiff 4th March; Rotherham 18th March. These are six pointers for us.
It tells you all you need to know about our club and ambitions that we have gone from aiming for 17th place in the Premier League to aiming for 21st place in the Championship in five years. Again, thanks TF...
We will see how much a darling of the faithful TF really is this January. Is he a loaded billionaire who will invest a few million to protect his quarter of a billion investment or is he really, a man with shallow pockets who has been playing the, look at me I am so rich , card for the last 5 years and I will take the popular decisions to try and make the majority happy. Talk the talk Tone or do one. Invest more money or do us all a favour and take a long walk. I say all of the above despite meeting and chatting to TF on a couple of occasions. He is a real nice guy and I love him dearly for all the money he has invested. He is desperate to be a successful owner. I would love him as my uncle or a bloke to have a few beers with down the pub, but in all honesty, he hasn't the foggiest what he is doing at Loftus Road.
? He's never been a billionaire, in pounds or dollars. In 2014 his wealth was estimated at $650m. Now it's $230m. He may well have spent/wasted more on QPR than he has left. The business model is pretty clear, new players are paid for by sales and there is a wage cap. I would be delighted if TF et al leave sharpish (as long as they have sorted out FFP and not tried to get a pathetic amount of their investment out of the club first) as running a football club is clearly not within their competence. But let's be realistic.
A quarter of a billion not enough then? Even if the owners (it's not just Fernandes) still had any appetite left for spunking more money, they can't, due to FFP.
If they have reached the end of the line, it is time to move aside and let somebody else have a go who can attempt to be more successful. Tone if you read this, you have really cocked things up despite a gallant effort, Do the decent thing and let somebody else have a go. Cheers.
It would have been, had it been spent wisely. Only at Rangers could you take over a Premier League side, spend £250m and end up 20th in the Championship, heading downwards.
As I started reading, I thought it seemed a bit sour grapes but your second paragraph balances nicely and makes it hard to argue against. I do wonder about the FFP. I think it's very odd that it is not settled yet. One reason could be lawyers racking up the fees with endless meeting. However, another possibility is that we've been told to behave and play to their rules in which case the fine will be a lot less than the £50m previously mentioned. Also agree with Stan that TF 'only' lost a proportion of that £250m. Mad world of football.
FFP is a ridiculously penal system. Clubs in trouble financially are basically being thrown to the dogs.
It's all well and good telling TF to bugger off,but where do we find someone with a substantial bank balance and the football nouce to move us forward
Red Bull have been spurned by the pornographers at West Ham. Ninesey mentioned them in relation to us. If I were TF I'd be begging them to take us off his hands, and with his F1 history he must have contacts, but doubt anyone would be interested with FFP unsorted. Like everything else - training ground, stadium, it all drags on and on with us. Red Bull took over Leipzig in the German second division a few years ago and they are now second in the Bundesliga. I'd quite happily be Red Bull QPR for in return for some professional organisation. Doubtless there would be fans' opposition and EFL blocking of any name change though, because being trapped in a spiral of **** is better than compromising some witless principle.
Apparently RB Leipzig are the most despised team in the Bundesliga due to the 'largesse' of the parent company. I'll bet they haven't blown a quarter of a billion to rise 5 divisions though...
I'll be going to see their local rivals Dresden play in a few weeks time. They are now a league below Leipzig, but the last time they played a severed bulls head was thrown on the pitch. But it's not as though we are exactly popular team in the league now, and at least we wouldn't be a laughing stock.
I'm sure Bill Gates is fighting off all the other billionaires as we speak for the opportunity to buy Rangers
