"Good old 'Onest 'Arry blathering about 'crossed wires' and 'feeling sorry for the lad' and not knowing who's told him what. Yes, of course. A player turns up at a club, QPR know nothing about it, and we don't let him in out of 'respect' for WBA - hilarious. He was clearly told to turn up in case West Brom finally buckled and they didn't. Good on them. You wouldn't think we could become much more ridiculous, but we always seem to manage it. Redknapp is a decent manager, but a despicable operator. " http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/fb_mb.php?m=v&t=74121#35
Load of bollox! Even if we had advised him to make his way down, while we worked out a deal, West Brom have been very stupid in this saga. Firstly they have a player who is desperate to leave, a club who is willing to buy him for a decent price. Instead they mess about and ask for one of our young stars on loan and for us to pay his wages.....so they end up with nothing but an unhappy striker and mess up the whole deal, Jeremy Peace is an A class helmet!
When are people going to accept that chairmen do the deals not managers. Arry's involvement doesnt stretch much beyond giving Tony and Phil a list of players he wants.
It comes with the territory with Harold, he hasnt endeared himself towards other fans to be honest. Still wouldnt change that.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of it, I'm finding it hard to deal with our club's change of image - from a badly run but basically ordinary club punching above its weight to one which is perceived (again, fairly of not) by many as one which is brash, vulgar, unwise, gaudy and more than faintly ridiculous. God knows where we're headed in the long term.
The funny thing is carry was live on radio while this was going on. It seems WBA verbally agreed a deal so sent PO down and then tried to get hoilett out of us and it backfired big time on them.
If it were true, do you not think that Odemwingie would have thrown the blame at rednapps feet? Instead of blaming WBA as he has this morning? He is in need of a way out of this seeing as he's stuck at WBA, with their fans baying for blood, what better way of doing that than saying qpr stitched him up, if it were true. But he handy done that, why not?
You forgot the bit where we were uttterly **** and collecting money in buckets to buy dudu - god knows what other fans thought of us then; then there was the 'boutique football' era with tango and cash - 'faintly ridiculous' doesn't come close to how embarrassing they were!
But let's be honest lads most of the top clubs act that way so if we have to so be it and other club moaners should get to fcuk
Fair enough, its a personal view. To the best of my recollection we were seen as a bit of a playboy club in the 70s, with Stan in the Sun on a weekly basis, and cheats with the plastic pitch in the 80s. now we are on a death or glory path, problem is some wont even like the glory if we get there, for reasons which I totally understand - it will be bought glory. i'm loving it though.
It's because it's QPR - and because as a club we're aspirational, others dislike this. It's almost akin to wanting to move up a social status and being judged - and here's an example to illustrate: Fergie covets Dmitar Berbatov and in 2008 he makes and offer that Spurs reject. But SAF is not giving up and makes another. Daniel Levy stands his ground, but Fergie has done enough to signal his intent and Berbatov is on the hook. Cue flight from London to Manchester; and Fergie is there in his Mercedes collecting Berbatov under the eyes of the SSN cameras. Spurs say no offer has been accepted and leverage the situation by threatening to report SAF and Man Utd to the FA for making an illegal approach. Levy calls United out on this, and demands £30m no less - conditional that he will advise that Berbatov has been given permission to talk to United. No one bats an eyelid as it's United. Levy gets his deal. United get their player. The only difference between this and the Odomwingie-Gate.com from 31st January, is that Uncle Tony is not going to be dictated to by his counterpart at West Brom who wants the moon on stick in the form of David Hoilett on loan, wages paid in full by QPR, an option to take up a permanent transfer, £3.5m up front, and a 4 finger orange KitKat delivered to the Hawthorns each Tuesday morning at 8.26am for the next 6 years. Tony says to Harry - is he worth all of this? Harry says no. Agents call things off, but PO is already on the M40 and is made to look a prize mug. Cue a stand off from the Chairmen with the player caught in the middle and QPR being vilified for doing just the same as Man Utd did some 5 years prior.
