Would it have been a terrible idea to take Taarabt back? Forget the loan fees etc, Fulham wanted him off the wage bill so we could have taken him. This was the top scorer in the Championship 3 years ago and a talisman for QPR... We need a goalscorer, we're looking at untested players who are not exactly goalscorers. If we're not going to get Rhodes and are looking at throwing 25-30k a week on someone. We could do a lot worse than just get Adel back and motivated. I hope this is not a Harry grudge that is going to cost us
Sometimes so-called indispensable players are not as indispensable as you think, we've done ok without Barton and Simpson and may do so without Austin, you never know till you try...
You're Adel and the choice is work with Harry who doesn't believe in you at QPR or AC Milan with Champion's League football thrown in for good measure. The ultimate no-brainer...
We could try that old tried and trusted technique from the 19th Century (known as "The Allardyce System")
Now is the time for Harold to really earn his hefty salary......could really do without his usual crap leaning out of car window routine tomorrow.......
It wouldn't have been his choice if it came down to it....but it's a mute point as he's gone now. We've played 2 games this season when he was injured...Drew 0-0 away Watford, lost 0-2 away Forest. Not easy games anyway.
Recall hitchcock for starters Think long and hard about the opportunity cost of taking the likes of Rhodes Consider the likes of Wickham on loan Consider the likes of Doyle or Ebanks Blake as back up Whats the score with this Stevie May lad?
Oh well. Before all the Harold lovers jump on me from a great height and give me a good hiding, I might as well say it. It is nobody else's fault except Redknapp's. We have been saying it for the best part of 2 months now. We desperately need another forward or two because Austin could be injured and he could not do it all by himself. Which part of that simple truth did he fail to understand? it's not as though we were asking him to understand the difference between a legitimate financial transaction and one which was dodgy. Well Harry. Care to answer the charge? You've been saying it yourself for the last few weeks - Zamora and Johnson between them cannot last 90 minutes. But that's alright we've got..............Oh no I forgot. You sold or loaned out all our other forwards Was there nobody in the whole wide bleedin' football world you thought was worth bringing in or did you not look beyond Spurs reserves? I am so pissed off.
What??????????!!!!! You will dance if one of our very best players so far this season is out for the rest of it Sylvio? I thought you were QPR and Miloan, but perhaps it's Burnley and Milan?
And while we're on the subject, whose idea was it to allow Charlie Austin to play for 30 minutes in the second half when he had been injured that badly? I don't doubt for one minute he wanted to play but the physio and Redknapp should have prevented that. After all he'd already scored and surely wasn't worth taking a risk with. I hope we don't end up losing out on promotion this season because of the desperation of the manager to save his own position.
That statement just makes me want to puke. The tubby little git had 30-40 thousand reasons per week to help motivate him. Just think of that the next time you hear of a disabled person having their paltry allowance cut or the family man who's lost his job and is finding it near impossible to keep a roof over the heads of his children and food on the table. I'm sorry Ozzie but that kind of talk just drives me mad.
Let's hope so - without Charlie Austin, Burnley sure picked up the goal scoring slack this season with Vokes & Ings, who both didn't score much the previous one.
Absolutely disaster & worst case scenario could be our promotion hopes being over. Any club is now surely going to hold us to ransom over any signing knowing we're completely desperate.
Has anyone considered the possibility that the announcement of the severity of Charlie's injury was delayed until we finished negotiating for a new striker and we just haven't had the details leaked yet?
Hope so. Ian Taylor tweeted that they had to announce Charlie's injury because there was so many rumours out there about it and he was getting calls from Journos.
