QPR have had a £5m bid for Blackburn Rovers defender Christopher Samba rejected. Manager Neil Warnock has made the 27-year-old Congolese his first permanent target of the January transfer window. Warnock, backed by Malaysian tycoon Tony Fernandes, has promised signings to help QPR climb away from the Premier League relegation zone. He has signed Manchester United striker Federico Macheda on loan but admitted he needs to strengthen his defence. Samba, who joined Rovers for £450,000 in 2007 from German side Hertha Berlin, has made 160 Premier League appearances, scoring 16 goals. Blackburn deputy chief executive Paul Hunt told BBC Radio Lancashire that the player was not for sale. Warnock may return with a larger offer, but he could have a fight on his hands to sign Samba as Tottenham Hotspur are also reported to be interested. Blackburn also confirmed assistant manager Paul Clement has left the club to join Paris St Germain to be reunited with his former Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti.
Hopefully all going through the motions if first offers being rejected ? Hopefully this wont alert other teams to the benchmark!
Remember when NW was asked "if you had unlimited funds,who would you buy". NW replied "Phil Jagielka". Really,???
I can see a higher bid going in for Samba...especially when Blackburn's bank realise that they had a chance to get some cash out of the club and start turning the screw tha little bit tighter. Maybe as sweetner, we could get the Venky's a shop down the Uxbridge Rd to sell thei chickens......
Let's face it every club is going to hold us to ransom, they all know we're desperate, they've all heard we've got money to spend and they saw the way we threw money around at the end of August. We haven't been very shrewd with some of the quotes coming out of the club "we've got money to spend in January", "we can buy ourselves out of the position we're in" etc etc. it also devalues and demoralises the players we do have.
Well they wouldn't say we're not spending anything. The team is too weak to stay up and money has to be spent. The alternative is to continue our nosedive to the bottom of the table...
As any good businessman knows play your cards close to your chest, loose lips sink ships! "Weve got 20 million to spend" was one of the quotes I believe.
So this time the quotes MUST be true? We all know, managers and players know and club directors know that quotes in the papers are 50% ballcocks made up by journos. 40% are put out there by clubs/players/agents as disinformation. So 10% may be accurate. There is even a quote from an "inside source" saying that Man U are going to sell Rooney during this window! If Ferguson has truely had enough of him it might be an opportunity to take him on loan until the end of the season (Manure paing 90% of his wages, etc, etc,) Football today is just a pantomime with everybody playing along. From the play acting on the pitch to the "oh yes he is, oh no he isn't" remarks made by managers and 2nd rate pundits.
