QPR considering contract U-turn for revitalised winger please log in to view this image Date: 19th March 2016 at 7:00 pm Written by: Elliott Wheat-Bowen | Comments (0) Football News 24/7 According to The Sun, although it was reported that Junior Hoilett’s career at Queens Park Rangers was coming to an end, he could, in fact, be getting a shock contract renewal. please log in to view this image Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has begun to shape his squad at Loftus Road and he isn’t afraid to make the difficult decisions regarding players’ futures at the club. One player that look destined to leave the club despite heavily featuring for QPR is Canadian international, Junior Hoilett. The winger seemed to be out of favour at the club and on his way out. However, Les Ferdinand’s comments suggest that he might have a future at the club. Hoilett looked to be leaving as his mammoth £40,000-a-week contract was the main deterring factor however if he was to take a wage cut to fit the current wage structure then he may stay at the club. “Junior in recent months has improved and is performing how we know he can,” said the R’s Director of Football. “If he can sustain this form then there is a conversation to be had. But he’s on a contract where he must need to fall in line with the budgets we have.” Hasselbaink’s side currently sit 11th in the Championship and the Ducthman will hope his can earn a play-off place with his men just nine points behind sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday.
As reported previously, he'll only stay with a pay cut. Just depends whether another club would pay more than £20k a week which seems to be our limit now...
Surely if this £20k a week is correct it is an average payment per player for the 1st team squad. Some of the new young players should be on less, while the very best can probably demand above this amount. The market in top football will dictate that.
We need to set a policy and manage to it. If we don't we'll never get away from the perception we are a gullible club for signing 'name' players on salaries they don't need to justify. Time to let others do that and get back to being a club players want to play for. Look at Leicester, the perception is that they have a tight knit squad playing for each other - they get results, the fans are enjoying their football, the players are enjoying their football. We need to get there, and we won't do it overnight, or by overpaying underperforming players. We can find good players, we'll find some duff ones along the way too, but it needs to be done. It may delay us getting back to 'the promised land' but if we don't our club will keep moving backwards.
20k is the maximum. Les said last summer that the average should be 10k at most. So for every player on 20k we need one on 2k.
If Junior in this form would stay for 20K, I suspect they will bite his hand off...but suspect he would get what he is earning now in China or Turkey or at Derby/Hull/Middlesboro/Burnley on promotion What is the maximum when we are in the championship is not the max when in the Premiership...obviously it will change if/when promoted. All these rules are not/need not be hard and fast forever....circumstances should sensibly dictate....Hoos is employed to manage this part of the structure and imho is doing well at the moment The players will expect to reimbursed for a promotion drive....and that is what we fans should want too We should be rewarding success, not failure (as we have done in previous years)....Fer and Hoillet for example...these two came to us from relegated teams..We seemed to say come to us and we will give you a hefty wage... Far better.. Conor and ElK...When we said....come to us...and if promoted you will get a re-imbursed
He said that? That is what I meant in theory anyway. I'd be surprised if there are more than 1 or 2 on as low as 2K, and that even next season that we will have an actual max of 20K and have a team with much chance of a top 6 spot.
With the quality of football in the Championship £10k a week as a pretty generous average However, there is an enormous disparity in the division between those that can afford to pay and those that can't Our owners have clearly decided that sensible, tightly controlled spending is the way forwards, and I for one support this. A club like ours with limited supporter income - and with the FPP rules - simply can no longer continually live beyond its sustainable income. If this means we stay in this division for some while I won't be too disappointed. I don't see promotion to the Premier League as the be all and end all and would only want promotion when the club is really ready. At the moment we really aren't
Spot on regarding the finances, we are hamstrung by the tiny real income we generate. The transfer market is the only way to boost this at present, and to do that we have to start selling players for more than we bought them for rather than letting them run down their contracts and have cheap, just as good, replacements lined up. Tough business model, but the same as most ambitious but sensible clubs, like Burnley.
Junior's recent decent efforts makes it easy to forget how totally unforgettable he's been for us for years. JFH has to make a judgement based on Junior's character, whether if he renews, he's likely to sit back again on a cruise for the money, or continue the improvement.
Burnley won promotion last time with an average of £8k a week, that shows that with the right management and players with the right attitude it is possible. If Junior is holding out for a similar deal to what he is currently on we should get shot of him PDQ...
Fact is we never really know who is on what money and we never will. What a ****e article though, sports journalism really is the pits. On the finance side of things at the fans forum (which I believe is what this article is based on) Lee Hoos laid out our greatest income sources and it ain't much - season tickets, parachute payments etc.
