Thanks for the fantastic memories Adel. As Norway said, it will be a while before I feel that same excitement upon hearing his name on the team sheet. I truly hope he gets his attitude sorted out and shows everyone just what a talent he is. Good luck Adel!!
He must have indicated that he was prepared to sit out the last year of his contract. For the sake of the million, I would have put him on gardening leave.
Thanks Adel and all the best! Glad this sorry saga has come to an end now whatever the reasons were for his absence on the pitch
Thought I'd never see the day. A day of celebration for QPR now that we're rid of this constant poison that has plagued the Club for last 4 years and disgraced the badge we all purport to hold dear with his conduct. The biggest regret is that this could all have been avoided. Once we won promotion it was painfully obvious he wouldn't be able for the Premier League for anyone with a pair of eyes in their head. Our long vanquished friend Queens said to me near the end of that season "mate, we have to get rid of him now". We didn't and we suffered the consequences. Only a handful of games into the following season & he stuck two fingers up at the Manager & threw a strop forcing COLIN to dump him. The pandering to him could not work at this level like it did in the Mickey Mouse one we just left. It was the big boys league now. Every Manager that came in after that came to the same conclusion as did the Fulham one. This last season was the most despicable of all but thankfully its ended in our deliverance. Never said this about a player before but I really hope he goes on to have a car crash career & ends up thinking what might have been. A total waster who set the tone for our subsequent horrid signings and who will go down among many fans as the worst we've ever had. Don't let the door hit your fat arse on the way out asshole
That's the thing, Watford. He could have been a superstar. he showed us all what was possible. The fact that he then became so apathetic is a disgrace. So much so that I'm thinking of digging out the old "was SWP our worst signing" thread and changing my vote. Boswinga was never going to be anything but an utter twat for us. Adel could have been the opposite, but chose not to bother.
I'm not saying he wasn't a disgrace. Just think it's wrong to say he was never good for us in the Prem, as Swords and others have alluded to.
That's what can happen when people's memories go fuzzy. He was only around at the very start and the end. Fat lot of good he was to us for the huge chunk in the middle when he stuck two fingers up at the Club. A number of shocking incidents occurred, the most notorious one being the bus thing at Fulham. There were many others that people have forgotten during that first season including slagging the Club off to a foreign reporter. I'll never understand how QPR supporters took so much sh*t from someone disrespecting their Club on a weekly basis. Short of walking onto the LR pitch at 14:55 on a Saturday afternoon, pulling down his pants in front of the crowd and shi*ting on the Rangers jersey, he couldn't have degraded QPR any more. (Besides he was a woefully poor PL player for us when he did play)
Ok smarty pants. It's just a shame with your high level intelligence that you aren't able to deal with any level of complexity and its all so black and white. The point is that you need a balance. Neymar and a Busquets, Le Tissier and Francis Benali, Adel and Derry! To be successful. Team full of grunts get you know where. Team full of 'fancy dans' ( revealing you use a derogatory phrase) also gets you no where
Surely even if you take his time at AC Milan out of it you don't seriously believe that smarty pants? We can all dig up pass stats about 2nd to Suarez in chance creation that season after promotion. Also I think your three games comment is more about single handed match winning performances rather than 'good games', and even that is way off the mark
No he hadn't. You could count them on one hand. Put it this way, Jamie phukking Mackie - a guy with about as much footballing skill as me - had more good PL games than he had bad ones. Taarabt with about 20 times the skill had a handful of good games and 90% of disinterested, unfit, show-pony sh*te. And that's forgetting the whole sideshow he created about himself off the field, distracting the focus and making it more difficult for those who wanted to play for QPR.
Who's changing their mind now? When we DID play Taarabt this season, it was the same as just playing 10 men - he couldn't be arsed, and did nothing. I'm delighted he's gone. Oh, one more thing - I apologise for using the term 'fancy dan' if you think that's derogatory. In any case, "fat lazy bastard" is probably more accurate, so let's use that instead...
Believe what you want. I saw almost all Taarabt's Premier League games and you could definitely not count then all on one hand unless you're from the West of Ireland. You don't have 1% of the ability of Jamie Mackie.
