not sure how TF plans to make money at QPR with the wage bill hes rapidly building. On 7 players alone they have a est. bill of 445k a week. Even if all of Norwichs squad earn the max 15k, that puts the entire wage bill at 375k per week, 19.5 million a year. Add the rest of QPRs players at 15k and theirs is 715k a week, 37.2 million a year. That's all the TV money gone. And with the lowest league attendance of the league at 17,000 average, they haven't got a lot of money coming in there either. Once you add the 50 million transfer pot hughes demanded, it becomes clear that QPR need to do REALLY well to make TF any profit, and will be in REALLY big **** if they get relegated. Best of luck to them, but i'm very glad that we aren't gambling the house in such a way.
Realistically though, how many people buy football clubs to make money, and are successful on the pitch too? Most teams are bought as follies by wealthy business-people, etc. Bates might just about break even at Leeds, but at the expense of the playing squad, and the support of the fans. The Glazers, Fernandes, etc, etc, will never make a profit, but they don't exactly need to.
well they'll have to cut it down soon when the financial fair play rules come in, though i have no idea how they are going to regulate it!
Now they're discussing the possibility of Tevez signing. Are they mad? http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/120829-QPR-will-try-for-Tevez Mind you reading some other posts they really are full of themselves and haven't got a clue.
Fernandes is really flinging money out. I know QPR are financially sound but this could go terribly wrong, Hughes is steady manager he should be able to hold it together.
feel sorry for them, they lose the heart of the club to a playboy millionaire who actually likes West Ham, and when his I'll buy the best policy backfires he will dissapear into the distance saying oh sorry it was all someone elses debt chaps not my money and QPR will do a Pompey, you cant buy a football team you have to build it when will these people ever learn?
Someone on their board has just worked out that in the deal they signed for Zamora they'll be paying a 36 year old 90k a week.
Apparently there is a claim that, and I quote Any team in the league (below 8th) would die for these signings. please log in to view this image I really do not know where they get some of their ideas!
Does QPR stand for "quality personnel required" because I think it may still apply after this window...
beefy, i'm with you mate. there sporadic spending spree yesterday only highlights the massive gulf between our club and theirs. qpr fans will probably read that and think i mean we are behind them! utter nonsense. we are streets ahead of them in terms of the future and the balance we have. we've got absolutely everything we need already in place to be successful. they have absolutely nothing in place. no ground, no training facility, no youngsters. they are not thinking their deals through. zamora, a good player in my eyes but nothing more than that, is going to cost their club a total of £16.2m over just two and a half seasons. that is farcical, especially when you consider he is past his best for those two years! qpr are a small club pretending to be something they are not. it can only end one way. in disaster.
I cannot believe you 6 finger freaks are still 'banging on about QPR? Can you not Talk about marrying you sister or cousin? Look QPR are now on sound foundations and the club is being run properly for the first time in many years. The people that we have in place are astute business people who don’t fail. As if? Forget what you read about Zamora and this £90K a week rubbish as its all gossip paper crap. The club has said he is on basically the same as what he was at Fulham. Zamora wanted out and we now have a proven Premiership striker, something that we needed. As for Tevez, we did indeed make an enquiry into a loan until the end of the season but it was not to be. All QPR fans never really thought it would happen but we thought with the MH connections and agent that we could give him a place until the summer which could work for both parties. As for the money and players, I told you all before that we are backed by the ‘Mittal’ family who are the fourth richest in the world. If you have the cash, spend it. I like many QPR fans don't even care or think about Norwich and you should do the same. Seriously you need to get over this unhealthy obsession with us as you are sounding as bitter as that 15 point deduction thing you all 'banged on' about.
Spending the cash is one thing, buying success is another. Then there is the slightly thorny issue of financial fair play. As I said yesterday, football fans discussing the bigger movers on transfer deadline day doesn't ammount to an obsession with QPR. As for whether you care about us or not, well, there may or may not be comments about us on the QPR board but I wouldn't know. I haven't cared enough about QPR to visit their board. Good luck with your new signings
ellers, you're club is not being running properly. any idiot can see that. i have always liked qpr and continue to do so, but you are being taken for a ride which may well end up being one almighty car crash. i don't know, maybe you are a formula 1 driver. if you love the adrenalin rush and the excitement but are also safe in the knowledge that any little mistake could end in your own death, then good for you. i'd rather know my club is in safe hands thanks. it can all end in disaster very, very quickly. ask pompey
Prior to the start of the season a lot of rubbish was spouted by some of the so called experts that Norwich would be relegated as we didn't have much in the way of premier league experience in our squad. Paul Lambert has proved beyond doubt however that it really doesn't matter whether players have Premier League experience. Ability, attitude and teamwork are much more important factors. As for QPR, good luck to them but I am not sure their policy of buying Premier League prima-donnas and has beens on extremely high wages is the right thing to do given their precarious position. We will just have to wait and see what happens.
nedum onuoha is an excellent signing for qpr for the price tag quoted. he is a decent premier league defender. i don't think anyone can question that signing, but zamora often flatters to deceive, taiwo and diakite may or may not do well in the premier league, cisse works hard and has a bit of pace but has been on a downward spiral for some time and don't even get me started on how crap macheda is! qpr still have an imbalance in their team - now they are too top-heavy, way too many forwards! their best player this season, helgusson (who saw that coming ) will now be used less and less, the midfield still looks weak without faurlin... they've signed a lot of players for large sums of money and large wages which may or may not come off. all i'm saying is that from the outside looking in, it looks like being a car crash of a team... or rather a group of individuals, not a team. very much 50/50 as to whether qpr stay up at this point in my eyes
Unfortunately the previous board gave Warnock virtually zero funds and, knowing they were going to sell at some point, didn't allow Warnock to go after the likes of Morison and Graham when he wanted to, leaving us to pick up free transfers that were never very likely to work. Patrick Agyemang was starting up front for a couple of games, as an example, and Danny ****tu was re-signed and then didn't make the 25 purely because Warnock had no idea who he could get in and had to grab whatever players he could. What it means is we have a heap of players who aren't of the necessary calibre and the squad needs major improvements. We aren't in a position to take a chance on young players right now imo, as much as that would be the preferable move if we were comfortably mid-table, and have to look to secure our place in the league in the short-term. I think the signings we've made are sound for achieving our short-term aim and, given there are so many players who have been long forgotten by us but still on the wage bill due to the previous regime's penchant for putting Championship quality players on long, lucrative deals out of contract this summer it will free up some funds in the future. I agree with you that it looks like a Pompey waiting to happen but I think, given the disadvantage we had during the summer, it's the best way to go.
