Good article: Meet Mike Rigg

Good article: Meet Mike Rigg: - Goal.com http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896...the-man-behind-every-manchester-city-transfer #QPR

 

We spent £13.8 million on 12 players. Five were free transfers. The ones we have paid transfer fees for have all got a longevity at the club, like [Junior] Hoilett. We have released 15 and contract re-negotiated eight. We have 25 players in the squad, less than we had last year.

from the horses mouth

 

Was just typing this myself - can this be circulated to all the lazy ****e reporters out there, 13.8 Million on effectively 7 players so that is less than 2Mil on average per player...

Why do I constantly read 'Big Spending' QPR when the reality is the total ****ing opposite?

I am not complaining about the amount of investment that has been put in to the club - its a **** load for us but realistically its **** all.

This is year alone Arsenal spent 44M on 4 players, Chelsea 80M on 5 players, Liverpool 28M on 4 players, UTD 50M on 5 players, City 54M on 5 players, Spurs 57M on 6 players, all on top of existing fantastic squads.

Pie in the sky i hear you say - this sort of spending has nothing to do with us - i agree

But look at the teams we would like to be on a par with, this year they spent as follows

Villa 23M on 6 players, Everton 14M on 3 players, Stoke 25M on 6 players, Sunderland 22M on two players, again all way in excess of our spending and all on top of already quite expensive squads.

What about the lower teams and the teams that have just come up surely we must of out spent them in order to be tagged 'Big Spending QPR'

Swansea 16M on 5 players, Southampton 28M on 5 players, Westham 20M on 4 players (+ Carrol on loan)

Even the teams that spent less than us spent more per player signed...

Norwich 9M on 4 players, Reading 5.3M on 2 players, Wigan 8.3M on 3 players

How the **** A DOODLE DO do we become big spending QPR whenever a Journo starts writing an article?????

More worrying given the rumours about Mittal is the spending per season of certain teams and where they are today, if we think we have invested a lot already we should really reign in our expectations of where we should be when you see the continued investment made by other clubs who we will be competing with us in the bottom half of the table.

Club --------- Season 12/13 --- 11/12 --- 10/11 --- 9/10 --- 8/9 --- 7/8
Sunderland ----------- 22M ----- 24M ----- 22M ----- 31M --- 24M --- 40M
Stoke ---------------- 16M ----- 18M ----- 12M ----- 21M --- 16M --- 4M
Wigan ---------------- 8M ------ 8M ------ 9M ------ 7M ---- 15M --- 12M
Villa ------------------ 23M ---- 17M ----- 32M ------ 37M --- 48M ---16M
Fulham --------------- 6M ----- 16M ----- 8M ------ 4M ---- 18M --- 26M

 

Hopefully some journalists will actually see this and report it. Fed up of other fans who only go by journalists seem to think we have spend loads.

 

Thanks for that, very interesting article. Not sure he should look at Kaka failing to sign as a negative. Probably turned out as a blessing in disguise judging by how his career has gone.

 

Interesting article. he certainly sounds the real pro.

 

Great article that shows where we are heading and how strategic our board and management team has become.
Makes me feel certain that Rigg will be focussing on defensive targets for January and will have his team of scouts preparing already.
Good to hear confirmation too, on what we all thought was the case, that we haven't been splashing the cash all over the place. Maybe the reason we didn't buy the right CB was because the right one wasn't available - yet!!

 

Very good article, Rigg is a top bloke for our club to have. Most interesting is how he talks about the long term compared with Citeh's now policy. We are "big spending QPR", but only compared with QPR from before TF took over.