"""""""""""""""" SAMBA: I OWE THIS CLUBtwitterfacebookemailprint PUBLISHED 09:00 5th December 2012 by @OfficialQPR Diakite relishing opportunity to repay everyone at Loftus Road ⦠Harry is a big manager, a big coach. He has great qualities and knows how to interact with players." Samba Diakite SAMBA Diakite admits he is relishing the opportunity to put the smiles back on the faces of the QPR faithful, confessing he owes everyone connected to the club for helping him through a tough start to life following his summer transfer to Loftus Road. Diakite, of course, joined Rangers from Nancy on a permanent deal in the summer transfer window following a hugely successful loan spell in W12 in the second half of the 2011/12 season. However, his first few months as a fully-fledged QPR player proved quite taxing, with the midfielder having to return to France owing to personal problems. "It was a difficult start for me this season. I was quite ill, so it was quite difficult for me,â he told www.qpr.co.uk. "Thanks to the support of the fans, the staff, the manager and the rest of the players I came through that tough time and I feel much better now.â Like his fellow team-mates, Diakite is somewhat perplexed at the Râs start to the current season, but insists the arrival of Harry Redknapp will kick-start the Hoops season over the coming weeks. "We've got a very good manager here. A good coach who knows all about the Premier League,â he said. "We are together as a team and all that matters now is that we get results and get out of this position we are in.â He added: "Harry is a big manager, a big coach. âHe has great qualities and knows how to interact with players. "He has the drive that players love. "The players are working hard for him. We are adapting to his methods and we feel we will get wins soon. "We're creating chances now, which maybe wasn't the case a few weeks ago. "Once we convert the chances we will get those wins on the board, I am so confident of that.â Redknappâs arrival has coincided with an improvement in form - if not results - for the Râs, with Diakiteâs central midfield partnership with Stephane Mbia providing Rangers fans with more optimism heading into the all-important festive period. It is a belief that is shared by the Malian midfielder. "Stephane has been great for me personally,â he said. "He has a lot of quality as a player and has great experience. "I feel more secure and safe alongside him on the pitch. He is a quality player and I know I can rely on him on the pitch. âIt's very important to have someone in the side like Stephane, especially for a player like me who likes to get on the ball and go forward in bursts. "If he's there backing me up, that gives me great belief.â Read More >> """""""""""""""""""""""
I read yesterday that someone from ACON was annoyed that players were putting clubs before country and calling them a disgrace or words to that effect and Samba was actually named by this person.....well it's the club that pays his wages and i for onw am glad he is putting the club first......where do thes people get their ideas?
Sam Sam sooper Sam, Sam Sam sooper Sam, Sam Sam sooper Sam, samba diakite. We need more songs for boys, like the old days. Let em know we love them.
Really like him Col but he lunges into tackles and picks up stupid yellow cards that makes everybody nervous. He needs to learn to stay on his feet and therefore on the pitch
I like him too the problem is that the refs already have his card marked before the game which is totally unfair as he is not a dirty player, clumsey yes. A good example was against West Ham his very first tackle he was booked and it wasn't bad just slightly mistimed the second yellow was just clumsey, compare that to Noble's over the ball leg breaker and he gets nothing!!
I think he's getting better at that tbh. Players like him are always going to pick up yellows with the way the game is these days. That means there's going to be the occasional red too I guess. Much rather that than players who don't give a **** mate.
I said "IF", and could just as well said China ! But Robbie Keane did come to mind sometime after I wrote midfielder, and before I got to America!
