Christopher Samba could cost QPR over £30 million Lewis Doe @doelewis Christopher Samba The owner of Anzhi is quite literally having a laugh at QPR’s expense because of the accumulative amount Rangers paid for Chris Samba. QPR were out of their minds to sign Christopher Samba according to Anzhi owner German Tkachenko. They were out of their minds because the fee and the contract they have given Samba means they will pay out around £36 million for Samba if he stays with the club for the duration of his current deal; if his reported £100,000 per week wages are correct, when added to his £12.5 million transfer fee. After tax that means he’s earning about the same amount that he was receiving at the Russian side. “At QPR he will earn almost as much as he did at Anzhi. In my view, QPR have lost their minds. When they agreed to pay his release fee we wept. Samba wept. Everybody says that he ran away from the club, but that’s not true,” said Tkachenko. So is it worth it? Well, we’ll only be able to tell at the end of the season but he’s the one player Redknapp demanded from Tony Fernandes and that’s the deal it took for him to move to QPR. He wanted a move back to England so he wasn’t out of touch with his children and to legally give himself a better legal chance of being able to stay in contact with them. However, £36 million is a massive outlay for a 28-year-old who has probably now made the last permanent move of his career unless there’s a parallel QPR or version of Harry Redknapp out there somewhere. If he gets relegated, there is clearly going to be an effort to get him off the club's books, but as Redknapp's former club Portsmouth found out with Kanu and several others, its not so easy to shift high earners from your books, even despite relegation, as nobody will be able or willing to offer them a similar deal. QPR fans can’t blame Fernandes for this revelation because he was simply pushing through a deal that his manager demanded and he knows the significance of QPR trying to stay in the top English division. Now there is a greater understanding of the context around this deal, Samba is under a huge amount of pressure to make a difference for QPR in their fight for survival because he’s one of the best paid players in the league, besides the club. The club are also under pressure to stay up because there is no way they can sustain this level of spending unless they remain a Premier League side. It all seems a little ironic because before Samba even became an option, Redknapp was criticising various members of his team for earning too much.
if we stay up with his help we can all have a laugh at the ruskies expense and if we go down the commies can always buy him back
agree what a waste of 40 seconds of my life reading that crap. it's about as believable as 'Park' having a good game for QPR?
These articles are so inaccurate it's a joke, the club has already said the fee and the contract reported is very wrong!
Didn't get past the first paragraph! Had enough of reading random ****ers opinions. What happened to journalism being a talent? Some imbecile has the ability to read & write so thinks he/she should share their opinion with the world!!! **** OFF. Rant over.
This a bloody expensive deal, and it does leave me to question, whether the money would have been better spent on goal threat, the lack of which will see us relegated.
@TBGWTDT @DoeLewis Get your facts right before you attempt to write up this **** Seriously lazy journalism complete ****ing idiot
He might have the figures wrong, but the article and the question "So is it worth it? " is fair enough.
Maybe Northy but there again he could of entitled the piece: So is it worth it? He didn't and thought he would go for the biggest number he could get away with 30 million quid for 14 matches
There are now hundreds of thousands of "Freelance Writers/Journalists" out there. The Internet has made it possible for these people to write bucket loads of **** and upload it all to blogg sites, etc. Some sites will pay for content, as will magazines and newpapers. They want a story, they look on the net and buy something that has already been written for a few quid. Doesn't have to be factually correct! The number of people who call themselves "novelists" has shot up in the last 24 months as more and more people publish their own work in e-form and upload it to the likes of Kindle. That is the age of media technology for you.
Giving Harry Redknap,any say on financial deals, is like making Ronnie Biggs chairman of the bank of England
now if the muppet journo had said something like: 'Samba wanted to move back to England' 'Bit of a risk for QPR due to fitness' 'If they get relegated he would want to leave' 'they could have spent the money better on a striker' Then i am ok with that but when they start with 'Samba could cost QPR over £980M a season' or crap like that you automatically stop reading.
Even if the quotes from the owner of Anji are correct, they are bit hypocritical coming from them, the club that spent £23m and £250k a week for a 31 year old Samuel Etoo!! £13m and £120k a week for Yuri Zhirvov (yes, that Zhirkov from Chelsea). And, if Samba does stay for the length of his contract, it's still less than what they paid for him.........
I think it is wrong to speculate on the figures so cannot give the article any credibilty. Piss poor journalism
