Bosingwa's departure is not a moment too soon for QPR Iain Macintosh Tue, 23/07/2013 - 12:01 "Bosingwa, through a very special combination of incompetence, lethargy and a pulsating aura of âmehâ, will forever be the epitome of everything that went wrong at QPR." While many were celebrating a new arrival in West London on Monday night, Queens Park Rangersâ supporters were popping the champagne corks for a departure. Jose Bosingwa, the smug face of entitled uselessness at Loftus Road, is off to Trabzonspor in Turkey. Bosingwa, who was always happy to do as little as possible in return for his £60,000 a week wage, will be delighted to know that thereâs one more free ride available to him. There are thousands of QPR fans who will happily take the morning off work and drive him to the airport themselves. If Bosingwa was in any doubt as to his importance to the clubâs coming promotion campaign, manager Harry Redknapp was on hand last week to clarify his position. âHeâs got no chance at QPR,â said Redknapp, presumably as he helped to empty Bosingwaâs sock drawer into an open suitcase. In the interests of balance, it should be said that Bosingwa is far from the only person responsible for QPRâs plight. The blame starts at the top, with Tony Fernandezâs self-destructive and lunatic trolley dash through the transfer market. It seeps down to two managers, Mark Hughes and Redknapp, neither of whom were capable of unifying and motivating Fernandesâ unwieldy squad. Then the blame spreads into the playing staff who were, almost to a man, so utterly pathetic that they should be branded with the word âfailureâ, so that other clubs know to steer clear. No, itâs not entirely his fault, but Bosingwa, through a very special combination of incompetence, lethargy and a pulsating aura of âmehâ, will forever be the epitome of everything that went wrong in West London. The alarm bells began to ring as early as September 2012 when QPR faced Chelsea in the first meeting between Anton Ferdinand and John Terry since The Incident. Prior to kick-off, all the talk had been about the ceremonial handshake and whether QPRâs players would stand in solidarity with Ferdinand and shun Terry. Now, as football supporters, weâre not stupid. We know that our local rivalries and bitter vendettas are very rarely shared by the players. We know that to many players, this is little more than a job. So all Bosingwa had to do when he trotted past his former club captain was quickly shake his hand. He could even have given him a little smile, if he really felt the need. Stopping to give him a great big hug was just taking the piss. That particular bromantic encounter could easily have waited until they both got behind the velvet rope of whichever ghastly Cristal-serving nightclub earned their patronage that evening. The QPR fans saw it. They knew then that theyâd bought a wrongâun. Towards the end of the season, after scores of laughably wet performances and one refusal to sit on the bench, as if he was better than that and not just lucky to still be involved, he was finished in West London. And yet somehow he managed to find a way to make himself even more unpopular. Having played his part in the dire goalless draw that saw both QPR and Reading flushed around the u-bend into the Championship, Bosingwa wandered off the pitch, apparently laughing to himself. Quite what it was that Bosingwa found so amusing has yet to be established, but he would have been far wiser holding it in, at least until he got away from all the people running around holding massive TV cameras. There was a time when Bosingwa was a more than useful footballer. You do not win two Champions League medals with two different clubs if youâre hopeless. But, as anyone who watched him in his final season at Chelsea will testify, whatever it was that drove him to the top of the European game, drove off again and didnât leave a note. All you can really say at a time like this is; good luck, Trabzonspor. Youâll need it
Iain is obviously a scorned Rs fan. DT won't like it but I think we should all pitch in together and take out a full page in the Turkish Times and get this published as an open letter to the cockroach.
Good piece, mate. Just hope that Trabzonspor internet services are down and this article is not viewed until he is all signed, seal and despised ................sorry, I meant, delivered.
I concede that his days were numbered but he isa great footballer IMO and was the escape goat for a frustrating season. He is of course mad which i like very much. He plays a top European game of football that is all is wrong with him ... we as a fan base thought he thought he was too good for us ... he in fact probably was
There is only one fact that we need worry about: in a season of shockingly poor performances by a vast array of overpaid senior professionals, Bosingwa's still manages to stand out for his incompetency and lack of enthusiasm. To go from a being a Champions League winner to the centrepiece of our failure in the space of a few months tells you unequivocally that the problem was attitude rather than confidence. And for this reason he will remain in the QPR Hall of Infamy for many years to come whatever he goes on to achieve.
The Bosingwa example makes a mockery of Redknapp's insistence that the problem last year was a 'lack of quality' in the squad rather than attitude problems. Whatever anyone thinks of Bosingwa, the fact that he is a quality player cannot be denied. He just had an appalling attitude and Redknapp couldn't manage him. Redknapp is now addressing the lack of quality by signing the likes of Karl Henry.
For Bosingwa to have managed to stand out from the pile of rubbish served up last season is no mean feat. He has managed to stand head and shoulders from a team full of players without enthusiasm and with poor attitude. Good riddance.
'Judo' you have reached 'agent status' for identifying such rabble, from a mountain of it. I bid you a highly commendable effort, Sir.
