From Skysports: Wayne Routledge's agent claims that Queens Park Rangers have not agreed a deal with Newcastle for the winger, who is set to return to Tyneside in the summer. Routledge joined QPR in January and has helped them to cement their place at the top of the Championship as they look set to seal promotion to the Premier League. QPR boss Neil Warnock has made it clear he wants to keep the winger and insinuated a deal was already done. But the player's agent Will Salthouse says the 26-year-old is heading back to Newcastle at the end of the season. No deal "Wayne's going to come back to Newcastle United in the summer. There's no deal in place between QPR and Newcastle," he told The Journal. "There's an option of a permanent move as part of the deal but nothing has been agreed at the moment and he's looking forward to returning. "He'd like to come back to Newcastle United and show what he can do, to be honest, but obviously if Newcastle don't want him then it is difficult for him. "But at this moment in time he's looking forward to coming back and trying to fight for his place at Newcastle. "He's enjoyed his time so far and has two years left on his contract, so he's certainly not looking to move on unless Newcastle want him to."
I hope they can agree I like routledge I think our system fits for him unless warnock has other plans.
Derby draw was like winning a cup - Warnock By Yann Tear Apr 17 2011 0Share Add a comment Recommend NEIL Warnock admitted the draw at Derby was a key moment in QPR's season. Tomorrow's visit of the Rams brings back happy memories for Rangers, who rescued a lost cause to draw 2-2 at Pride Park in August. "I think it was the main moment of the season," Warnock said. "I think it turned everything around in the space of three minutes. We were outplayed on the day and the players went from being disappointed, miserable and doubting themselves to believing we could come back against anybody if we keep going. "It was like we'd won the cup. All the substitutes were up hugging each other, even if was a bit early in the season to be doing that." Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest QPR news. Read More http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/lo...-a-cup-warnock-82029-28532844/?#ixzz1JlvGCt9z
What if' factor is still a worry for Tommy Smith Julian Bennetts 18 Apr 2011 Ads by Google Looking For Chelsea Deals Rates from 1.99%. ã200,000 home loan from ã332/mo. Get a Free Quote www.LendGo.co.uk Qpr Football Get Seen By Premiership Club Scouts Find Your Nearest Trial Today www.GetSigned-Up.com/Club Manchester United Tickets Join The Season Ticket Waiting List For 2011/2012 Today. Sign Up Now! manutd.com/Season-Tickets Pension Transfer Advice Find Local Advisors in Liverpool Free Independent Financial Advice www.Which-Advisor.co.uk/Liverpool Tommy Smith has insisted that QPR cannot relax when promotion is secured as the Alejandro Faurlin affair hangs over tonight's possible celebrations on clinching a place in the Premier League. Rangers will be all but assured of a return to the top flight after a 15-year absence if they beat Derby at Loftus Road tonight, as they will be 11 points clear of third-placed Norwich with just four games remaining. But Neil Warnock's side must then wait until the day before their final game of the season to see if the Football Association will deduct them points for alleged irregularities in midfielder Faurlin's transfer from Argentine club Instituto in July 2009. And Smith admits that the players are in the dark over the punishment and are aiming to finish the season at least 10 points clear of third place so that they will be unaffected by a possible deduction. "We want to seal promotion as quickly as we can, but then we have to win as many games as possible so that we avoid any problems if we are deducted points," said Smith. "We have no idea what will happen, but there is a little feeling at the back of your mind, thinking 'what if'. "Even without the possibility of the points deduction we would try and win as many games as we can, but with that looming we should make sure we pick up as many points as possible. "Anything can happen, and we can't allow ourselves to relax, even if and when we do seal promotion." And Smith admits that it could be an uncertain summer for much of the club as Rangers appear certain to spend the amounts of money that would justify their 'richest club in the world' tag. Warnock will be given funds to overhaul a side which is based on experienced Championship campaigners who have not necessarily made the grade in the Premier League, and Smith admits promotion could lead to a number of players leaving Loftus Road. But having gone months without being paid at cash-strapped Portsmouth last season, Smith admits he can barely believe how quickly his own personal fortunes have changed. He added: "We are all aware of the money that the club's backers have, so most players probably would have thought about it (if they will have to leave if promotion is secured). "We will worry about it if it happens, we have so many experienced players here who know that in football anything can happen. "But I'm sure it won't dampen anyone's spirits if we do go up, and we will make sure we enjoy the moment. "It's pointless looking at who we might end up signing in two months time.
QPR move is no gamble - Hewitt Apr 18 2011 By Jon Batham QPR’s newest signing insists choosing the Championship leaders is no gamble - even if he is shunted off to the sidelines for a bit. Troy Hewitt (pictured) surprised more than a few in football when he gave Neil Warnock’s table-toppers the nod rather than accept offers from Swindon and Barnet where he almost certainly would have walked into the first team. Instead, the 21-year-old former Harrow Borough hotshot is happy to bide his time in the Loftus Road reserves. He said: "I don’t see it as a gamble to have chosen Rangers because patience is a virtue. I feel I am in a team I’m going to be able to grow with so I’m not going to rush anything. "I didn’t think too seriously about going to any of the other interested clubs because at the end of last year I was supposed to go to QPR to train anyway. "They were always like my first priority and I felt if I got a chance there I would take it. "For a while, I didn’t think it would happen so when it did, it came as something of a surprise. The Championship leaders chasing my signature was quite a big deal for me." Hewitt hit 20 goals in just 30 appearances for Harrow in the Ryman Premier League this season as well as winning FA Cup player of the round with a hat-trick against Blue Square Premier Eastbourne Borough in October’s fourth qualifying round.
So It’s Come to This As the disappointment of a weekend where we could have secured promotion but fails to do so washes away we are left to look at the cold hard facts. One win sends us up. That’s it, 3 points, a victory and we are there. Most fans would have liked to have sewn it up before our tricky final 4 but deep down we all felt that it was always going to be against one of these teams, teams we have more than a previous relationship with. I’ll start backwards just to make everyone feel better Sat May 7th : Leeds (h) Aaaahhh Leeds, the ‘Champions of Europe.’ If it has come to the last day of the season and we still aren’t up then we have either had the mother of all capitulations or the F.A have smeared their grubby fingers over our points total. Everyone hates Leeds, they are loud, brash, violent and have a sense of entitlement akin to Liverpool fans. There is already a high chance we will get to parade the Championship trophy in front of their faces, a thought which gives most football fans an erection. They have been waxing lyrical about how useless we are, bad Taarabt is and that Derry has been past it for years. To shove their entitlement where the sun don’t shine would be oh so lovely. Sat April 30th : Watford (a) Vicarage Road. The scene of so many inept Q.P.R performances where we have lost 3-0 or 3-1 and usually live on Sky. Watford always bloody beat us and I absolutely hate it. They and Reading are our nearest neighbors in the league and what could be better than clinching promotion in your rivals backyard. Watford are the type of team everyone loves and are wished constant goodwill every time they dick us live on the telly. Even this season our capitulation in front of the nation on a Friday night was a bitter pill to swallow. For all the times we have sold out our away end in their awful awful ground only to see our team fail to turn up, wouldn’t it be lovely to just once give that sold out away end the biggest celebration of all. Mon April 25th : Hull (h) How’s this for drama? Hull and Q.P.R are like chalk and cheese, they are very very Northern and see us a bunch of Cockernee Southern Dandies who have never worked a day down a coal mine in their life. The Tigers have affectionately labeled us Drama Queens Park Rangers for our overreaction to their lovely songs about London Suicide Bombers when the wounds of the 7/7 attacks were still fresh in the memory. Since then they have scored a couple of last minute winners against us and a mutual hatred has grown between the two sets of fans. They view us as everything they are not and this has fueled a lovely little internet war between the two tribes of supporters. It would be oh so sweet to swat down their play off push with the most dramatic victory of them all, a win to send us up. Sat April 23 : Cardiff (a) Really there’s only one game that R’s fans want to win to send us up and it happens to be the next one. It would be the toughest game available in the league, away to the form side with a star striker who has finally clicked and is tearing the division apart, the odds are stacked against us. If I could flash back to 2003 as a heartbroken me left The Millenium Stadium and was goaded by Cardiff Pikeys as our bus started the journey home and say ‘in 8 years time you have the chance to come back here and get promoted the Premier League’ I would have laughed. Yet here we are, going back to Cardiff, back to the scene of so much hurt for a generation of Q.P.R fans, a symbol of our time spent away from the top flight. Many fans circled this fixture in red months ago and proclaimed that it would be the ideal place to secure promotion, then we discovered it was on St. Georges Day and it seemed written in the stars. Right now though we are having a little stumble whilst Cardiff are flying, it will take the greatest result in the last 15 years of our history to pull this off, most R’s fans don’t think we will do it. Earlier this season after we annihilated Middlesborough at Loftus Road my mate commented that the next match was Ipswich away and would be an instantly forgettable 2-0 loss, we won 3-0. This isn’t like the Q.P.R sides we are used to watching, this lot are something different perhaps it’s their destiny to not only achieve the dream, but to achieve it in dreamland. http://blogandwhitehoops.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/so-its-come-to-this/
Pascal Chimbonda exit confirmed by QPR boss Warnock Chimbonda failed to start a game for Warnock's side Pascal Chimbonda has effectively left Queens Park Rangers after being told he will not play for the club again. The defender, 32, moved to Loftus Road on a six-month deal in January after leaving Blackburn, but was not going to be offered a longer-term contract. "I didn't think there was any point in not teling him early, so he could get fixed up," said QPR boss Neil Warnock. "I haven't seen him. He's not been training with us, although he'd be quite welcome to." Chimbonda had two spells at Tottenham, and also played for Wigan and Sunderland before joining Blackburn in August 2009. He was signed by Warnock primarily as cover, and did not start a single game for the Championship leaders. The Frenchman's final appearance for QPR was as a second-half substitute in their recent 4-1 defeat at Scunthorpe.
RE: So It’s Come to This Nice one Northolt, although it might all fade into insignificance if Tractor boys can do us a favour tonite!
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/new...R-even-if-they-re-promoted-article726925.html Doubt it but I could see the owners trying to get a big name in to be recognised.
http://www.people.co.uk/sport/2011/04/24/qpr-prepared-to-wreck-play-offs-102039-23082750/ Massive bullshit in my eyes
Sounds scary the way they report it Sid, actually though it doesn't tell us that much more than we already knew. I'm going with Warnock's comments on this because I think if there was any possibility of a big points deduction, we would have seen more drastic measures during games to try and secure maximum points.
I'm expecting many more of these sorts of reports because we're seen as newsworthy at the moment. There is definite merit in thinking of who could replace Warnock -eventually. But to even consider this in our first season up would be disastrous.
I can honestly say that I would turn my back on QPR and walk away don't want to involved with a club who can't recognise talent!
This is surely just newspaper speculation. If it's true, then whoever is putting a stake in at QPR, should'nt be using blackmail, coz thats what it is, to come on board. Who is to say NW won't do well in the Premier League, providing they bring in descent player's. This is with no disrespect to Sheffield United, but they were'nt exactly flush with money, to buy the player's to keep them in the Premier. To be honest, to sack the manager after what he has done, just to keep new investors happy, is disgraceful. This story was going around months ago & now we are coming to the end of the season, it has resurrected again.
I know it wont happen - but just looking at the remaining games - Norwich should probably win all three. Cardiff should win two and then hope Burnley are out of play of contention to win a third. That would give them both more points than you currently have - you could lose all three - two tough home games and away to a team that always turns you over.
Bernie Ecclestone puts ã100m price tag on Premier League-bound QPR By CHRISTIAN SYLT Last updated at 10:26 AM on 26th April 2011 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Bernie Ecclestone indicated he would consider selling Queens Park Rangers with a ã100m price tag. Suggestions he may pull out of QPR come as the 80-year-old hinted at the weekend he may retire from his role at F1 if Rupert Murdoch’s media empire takes control. On the way up: QPR stand on the brink of promotion to the Barclays Premier League However, the motor racing tycoon admitted his ability to sell depends on former shareholder Flavio Briatore. Ecclestone has a 62 per cent stake in QPR after buying out Briatore in December last year but says at the time of that deal the Italian got an option to take back the stake if he were to sell. Last month it was reported that a group of American and Asian businessmen want to buy out Ecclestone and the club said in a statement that it ‘has entered into preliminary discussions, which may or may not result in an offer being made.’ However, Ecclestone says that Briatore holds the keys to a sale. Power: Bernie Ecclestone (left) and Flavio Briatore have helped QPR towards the top-flight ‘I don’t have any choice staying in or going out,’ says Ecclestone adding ‘Flavio would probably be the one to sell if anybody’. ‘It is dependent on Flavio.’ He adds that ‘if somebody bought that team today it would be a very good punt. It is probably worth ã100m.’ QPR is aiming for a return to the Premier League for the first time since 1996. However, its performance is not thanks to a cash injection from Ecclestone, who has made an estimated ã2.4bn from F1. QPR made an ã18.8m after-tax loss in 2008-09 when it finished 11th in the division and then lost another ã13.7m last year when it finished 13th. Invasion: QPR fans on the pitch after Monday's draw with Hull that almost sealed promotion Ecclestone said: 'You see a lot of these clubs today that are nowhere as high in the league as we are, playing people that have fallen from the top and beating them so there is no need to spend these fortunes.’ Ecclestone at the weekend hinted he is ready to quit as boss of F1 if Rupert Murdoch’s media empire succeeds in a bid to take control of the sport. Ecclestone, who has previously dismissed the idea of retirement, said in an interview: ‘I’m old enough to get a pension, so I don’t have to get a job. I’d have to be sure the people (who end up owning F1) are people I would like to work with and whether they would want to work with me.’ Murdoch’s News Corporation is reported to have held early talks with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and at least one of the sport’s big car manufacturers about forming a consortium to acquire control. Private equity firm CVC is said to be conducting a strategic review and could sell. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ne-puts-100m-price-tag-QPR.html#ixzz1KcXwUTh8
