Loic Remy: QPR striker set to join Newcastle on loan By Saj Chowdhury BBC Sport Newcastle have agreed a season-long loan deal with Championship side Queens Park Rangers for striker Loic Remy. The 26-year-old is set to have a medical at St James' Park on Monday. The France international was linked with a move to the Magpies last January but opted to join Rangers for a club-record fee of £8m. He scored six times for Harry Redknapp's side last season but his goals could not save them from Premier League relegation.
I think this was a decision taken by TF. As TF tweeted saying loans are good, so we can get them back in the prem. However Harry was quoted saying why would we loan them out. Absolutely stupid decision IMO
If they asking for 2mil up front then that won't be enough to cover his yearly wage? so are they paying his wages as well as putting down 2mil, seems crazy to me they should have just asked for his by out clause contract.
It will be a £2m loan fee plus his wages or a good proportion of them. He will still be worth £6m plus a year from now and I expect there is an option to purchase in any case. We may end up with him season so can't see why people are complaining really.
He won't want to come back next season even if we are promoted. Unless we cross paths with Newcastle going the other way. Not impossible but an unlikely scenario I feel.
Exactly it's a good plan ... Remy would prefer to stay in London I saw in a french paper. If we get back up then I would like to think there will be a clause. He wants to go to the World cup. TF using his head about loans IMO Adel to the fools also .. a season is a long time... Adel may not get on or he will roast the league and then a big move abroad? ... or he comes home? a win win IMO
Some of us are complaining due to: No. 1 - We are effectively only eliminating 25% of a risk portfolio (impending, potential court case) whilst losing one year of his services. At end of this year he will, should there be no further action taken/case dismissed he will have only one more year left on his contract with us and can leave for a pittance or simply run it down with a bad attitude! So your expectations of 6M next year could be off the mark. Why take the risk? N0 2 - There was clearly a better deal to be had - It may have escaped a few of you but quality forwards are in short supply and going for big, big money. It is not unlikely that one of Spurs, Arsenal, Everton, West Ham etc would have come in for him and paid the buy out clause. This is a case where Dumb has actually got it right for once - He knows that if he ever sees Remy again it wont be a good thing - It will only be because he cannot play due to needing to be housed at one of Her Majety's Residential homes. If so - we've lost the lot. Otherwise Newcastle get him for 2M now and will pay the remainder next Season if they want him. So we've taken on additional risk and for the wages of one Zamora and a little bit of Dumbarton we're missing out on 50% of this guy's remaining contract. The additional risk is that if Remy is banged up - We lose the lot!!! I wish I knew you when I was selling financial ****e in the 80s Croydon!
Didn't he sign a 4 and half year deal with us? Its not ideal, but the player wants the chance to play at the World Cup, you can't blame him for this. So rather than have him moaning and pissed off all year better to loan him out, clear his wages and if we go back up we have a good striker all set to return, if we don't and he performs well in the Prem/world cup i would of thought he will be worth a lot more than 8 mil. I would be more concerned at this stage with the buy out clause only being set at a £8mil, if as it appears we are happy to loan him out so he can try to fulfill his ambitions to play at the World Cup then i would like to see the clause re-negotiated upwards.
Shame to see him go, but stuff what Arry says, I actually see this as really quite a positive move. Like everyone else I would have dearly loved to see him play for us again this season, but I simply can’t hold it against him that he wants to play for France at the World Cup next summer, and let’s face it, that wasn’t going to happen if he spent the preceding season playing in the Championship. Loaning him out rather than selling means that there’s still a realistic chance that he’ll play for us again in the prem. Of course if may not happen for whatever reason, but at least this holds out the possibility. Good outcome IMHO.
