Hoos says quite distinctly that we need a lot of the money just to keep going, so we will not be splashing the cash. People will object but that is the harsh economics...but I can see a few roough diamonds coming in
LOG IN REGISTER please log in to view this image FYP FANZINE SOUTH LONDON'S NO.1 HOME PODCAST INTERVIEWS NEWS MATCH PREVIEWS ANALYSIS SHOP Published: 28 August 2020 Written by FYP Fanzine 0 Comments please log in to view this image Crystal Palace have secured their second signing of the summer with the arrival of Eberechi Eze from QPR in a deal believed to be worth £12m. The 22-year-old attacking player, who can play on the wing or in a more central role, scored 14 and created 8 for the Hoops last season as they finished 13th in the league and joins Nathan Ferguson in signing for Palace. Eze has been the subject to plenty of transfer speculation during the transfer window, with interest from West Ham and more recently Fulham driving interest in the player. QPR's number 10 was reportedly a target for Palace back in January too, although the clubs failed to reach an agreement on his valuation at the time. That impasse has now been overcome, with the South East Londoner signing afive-year deal at the club. Palace have been in need of attacking options following a disappointing end to last season, which saw Roy Hodgson's side fall to seven defeats in eight, with a draw against Tottenham Hotspur on the last day of the season arresting that poor run of form. The side were also one of the lowest-scoring teams in the Premier League last season. With an aging squad and a distinct lack of attacking options, Eze brings variety and youthfulness to the side, and after a successful season in the Championship, he will have plenty to prove this coming season. Andros Townsend told TalkSPORT he's excited by Eze's arrival: "He looks like some player, he’ll be a hell of a signing for us. "He’s very skilful and direct, he will definitely give us that freshness in attack. We didn’t score enough or create enough last season, he could help us get on the score sheet more frequently." Palace are being linked with a number of additional targets, with strikers and wingers at the top of the list of required signings -- you can find out more about those in our Transfer Tracker.
Typical generic response from Hoos. TF has messed the club up with his pipeline dreams and we will suffer for the next 20 years. Don’t expect anything other than relegation in the next few years.
You are definately a happy clapper Ellers Ellers I do not expect relegation this year, I am happy if we will get mid table mediocraty and financial safety in these Covid times but have a sneaking suspicion we might just do a little better than that. QPR will do a lot better than many teams who are not as well run as we are NOW, and who do not have an asset to sell. No we did not have to sell Eze, he wanted to go, it was the right time for us to sell him too, his star is at the highest right now (and would not get higher in the championship)
Why is it we seem to suffer big time from the different scenarios but other clubs, in basically a like for like situation, get off scot free so to speak and move on quickly. We seem to be stuck like sh!t to a blanket, treading water for ages. It just doesn’t seem balanced.... or right. ...... and yes, I’m having a well earned whinge.
I am not a ‘happy clapper’ that’s my problem. I listened to the board who stated ‘gone of the days of buyIn old overpriced players’ the also stated that they would build a team with young players that would move us forward. My point is as soon as our players become good they sell them? How are we ever going to progress by always selling our best players and replacing them with inferior ones? Answer is you don’t. Agree Covid and the financial problems are big factors at present but this was happening long before Covid. What worries me is that Eze scored and created goals. We have lost that now. It’s not a good day for us. Just to clarify Beth... I’m not saying we will go down this year but over the next few years there will be more of a chance of relegation than promotion especially when we keep selling the best players.
"...in a deal believed to be worth £12m". It may be just a rumour but WTF!? If the club are serious even about clearing debt let alone building for the future this would not be the way to go about it.
That's wrong. The reports say £15m plus £4.5m in add-ons and a 20% sell-on clause. Seems a reasonable deal to me.
Good luck to Ebere and to Palace. I just wish we had bought players like him back in the day. Unfortunately we decided instead, to accept questionable advice from agents and buy two (world class???) goalkeepers, Granero, Park etc etc.
Imagine seeing this as a Millwall fan One of the few thoughts which makes me happy about the fact he's gone.
I'm still sulking but here is an interesting article. 'Cometh the hour, cometh the Hoos' - The man behind the modern rebirth of #QPR Our latest feature looks at QPR CEO Lee Hoos, and the good work he's done over the past 5 years to see QPR come flying out of the pandemic. ‘Cometh the hour, cometh the Hoos’ – The man behind the modern rebirth of QPR 25 mins ago Champ News Daily please log in to view this image Queens Park Rangers have emerged from the pandemic in style. Buying players for actual fees, breaking their record sale and looking ahead after years of turmoil – five years on from his appointment as CEO, Lee Hoos is doing exactly what we he brought in to do. The American previously held the same position at Burnley. He left in May 2015 to join QPR and Burnley fans were delighted. They were glad to see the back of Hoos – his time at Turf Moor became tarnished in a four year spell which saw the club promoted and immediately relegated from the Premier League, minimal financial backing under Sean Dyche and an unsuccessful season ticket plan dubbed #retainergate. Burnley fans waved ‘good riddance to bad rubbish’ in their eyes, but five years on from his QPR appointment, it looks as though the bashful, somewhat cheesy corporate American has done exactly what he was brought in to do. He along with the contested Les Ferdinand and now Mark Warburton are the ‘three amigos’ behind the modern rebirth of QPR – a club finally looking back up the Football League pyramid rather than down. Given the modern examples of both Sunderland, Portsmouth and now Hull City as well, QPR fans had every right to be fearful of a similar fall. They dropped out of the Premier League with a 6-0 defeat at Manchester City in May 2015, and little over a week afterwards, Hoos was appointed CEO. That same month, QPR became involved in a legal case that would stunt their progression for the next half-decade. Their battle with FFP will be regarded as a historic one in future memoirs of the system. Initially looking at a fine of up to £58 million, QPR reached an agreement in 2018 to pay £17 million in fines and a further £3 million in ‘EFL costs’, with the club taking on nearly £22 million in outstanding loans. READ: Sheffield Wednesday hoping to land released PL youngster It was a long and arduous process for all involved with the club. Fans were fearing undoubtedly the worst, but the boards’ subsequent solution – absolutely minimal spending, a big ‘no’ to players still on Premier League wages, and a focus on youth production and recruitment – is proving to be the foundation on which Warburton’s QPR are being born. With the pandemic came angst for all clubs in the EFL, and QPR especially given their shoestring budgets in recent seasons. But they’ve emerged from the darkness of 2020 like a phoenix – they’ve signed Lyndon Dykes from Livingston for an actual fee, said to be nearing £2 million, they’ve today broken their record transfer fee received with the sale of Ebere Eze and, despite Warburton stating that there will not be a ‘spending spree’ with the Eze millions, they’re still looking a bid for Oxford United’s Rob Dickie, with more signings expected to be made. QPR then are starting to look like the QPR of old. Not spending £10 million on the likes of Chris Samba old, but starting to buy players again but this time with a view to bettering them and eventually selling them on for profit as they build a sustainable bid for a sustained period of Premier League football. All of which is giving fans optimism heading into the 2020/21 Championship season. READ: Norwich City fans react to Jordan Hugill signing Hoos, for all the criticism he’s been on the receiving end of, is the man behind all that is now positive at QPR. Undoubtedly, his tenure has overseen some mistakes – Chris Ramsey’s appointment as manager perhaps wasn’t a sustainable move, Ian Holloway may well have been in charge for too long after that, and Steve McLaren? A step in the right direction given his youth pedigree, but the name says it all really. What’s more is that, since the footballing world knew of QPR’s financial demise following relegation, clubs would ‘lowball’ them for their best assets, doing so in the knowledge that QPR would likely jump at any sort of financial income at that time. But that story is a stark one to what we’ve seen this summer – Crystal Palace had numerous bids knocked back for Eze, with QPR holding firm on their £20 million valuation and looking as though they’ll receive the best part of that figure. QPR fans’ well wishing of Eze signifies their contempt at the sale, and the way that QPR are now being run as a club. Hoos continues to make the odd mistake; granting the Kiyan Prince Foundation naming rights of Loftus Road split opinion, before berating the Championship’s restart date this year, only for his club to lose five of their restarting six fixtures, and the whole debacle with HoopsRetro. But, as Burnley fans would no doubt disagree, Hoos has done everything he has with QPR in his best interests. Fans have all seen the financial figures from the past few seasons, and they tell the story of QPR’s fall from grace, a period of financial hibernation in the Championship and subsequent awakening. Those figures are now correlating into actual changes – player sales, a profound emphasis on youth production and a manager who entails that. It’s an exciting time to be a QPR fan, and we know Hoos behind it all.
Being reported that a deal has been agreed with Leistner to leave. So some wage room created... and another centre back position that needs filling. If we are expecting two to come in we need to get them in and playing together soon.
