They are slating him on the QPR board! Say they cant believe how bad he is! He was canny for us wasnt he????? I was a little dissapointed that we didnt get him permenantly!!!!!
I have noticed also that a lot of players that have played for us in recent years, either on loan or permanent (barring Welbeck), have struggled with other teams. Just a few off the top of my head, Bent, McCartney, Onuoha, Arca, Da Silva, Carlos Edwards, Gabbiadini, etc... Not too sure why this happens, but like I said it doesn't happen to all, but most of these players that had so much potential. Needum was a decent player, but Bardsley is a lot better.
To be honest lads, the boy didnt even want to go to QPR. I have it on very good authority that he was vertually sitting on the edge of his seat waiting for Sunderland to come in for him, an approach that never came...At which point the 66 grand a week QPR were offering made him up sticks and move to London...(a move the lad never wanted by all accounts regardless of the salary). Anyone who has seen him play for QPR this season can see the lad is not happy.
I liked the lad when he was with us but I wouldn't of wanted him back We do need competition for Bardsley but Onuoha is not the answer, look at Danny Rose on the other flank, he is very comfortable on the ball, can pick a pass, has pace, and is another option going forward. The lad is a modern day full back and sooner or later when MoN brings in another right back we need one in the mold of Rose IMO. As for QPR and Hughes this was always going to happen All of there players have gone there for the money, will there be a team spirit in that dressing room? Will the players care about the results? The likes of Cesar, Bosingwa, Park, Granero, M'Bia have came from top European teams and they are now playing for QPR, its going to be totally different for them, are they going to train the same way they did at there previous clubs and work as hard and want to desperately achieve what QPR as a football club want to or are they there for the money. The likes of Cisse, we seen when he was here he was class when things were going for him but when there were not he did not want to know, Hoilett, chose the money over the likes of us and Newcastle is he mad! Mark Hughes apart from a good year or two at Blackburn has done nothing really, never achieved anything at City and at Fulham done a on par job. I am so glad we never got him because I rekon in the summer we would of had another squad clear out and we would be further back than we are now. MoN is levels above him and has done it the right way with us, don't get me wrong as a squad on the whole we are still pretty ordinary and no one would of blamed MoN is he had let 4 or 5 more go and brought in another 4 or 5 but he has stuck with the lads, there is a good team spirit in the camp and we will add 2 or 3 quality aditions every transfer window, a good team spirit of players all on the same wave length wanting to well is more appealing to me that a team of individuals who see pound signs when they walk on the pitch. I rekon he will be out the door before Christmas
I liked him, especially after the Chelski goal, but he always looked clumsy to me and I was a bit surprised he was an England U-21 TBH. Wish him all the best, even though I wasn't that fussed when he went.
Watching Michael Turner at Norwich makes me wonder how the hell he wasn't that bad here. Think he's played twice and cost them about 5 goals.
When played in the middle he's been very good. Unfortunately this season we've had stupid numbers of injuries in defence and he's forced to right-back where he's clearly not comfortable. He actually played really well when moved to left-back for 89 minutes at Spurs. As for us, it will come good. Hughes got it completely wrong on Monday and anyone who had ever seen West Ham play would know that playing a midfield four of physically unimposing players was suicide but we got three points less than we deserved at Spurs and competed well with City and Chelsea so I'm still reasonably optimistic that the team will improve as the season goes on.
