QUOTE Kranjcar will produce where Taarabt failed, says QPR legend Marsh Rob Brennan Wednesday, October 16, 2013 5:00 PM QPR legend Rodney Marsh believes Harry Redknapp has a better player in Niko Kranjcar than Adel Taarabt. Redknapp signed Croatia international Kranjcar on loan from Dynamo Kiev in the final hours of transfer deadline day, in light of Taarabtâs move to Fulham on a season-long loan. The manager has since indicated his desire to see the Moroccan remain at Craven Cottage on a permanent deal. Kranjcar, meanwhile, has made an impressive start to his QPR career, and former Rs No10 Marsh believes he has all the attributes missing from Taarabtâs game. âI think Taarabt is one of those fantastically skilled players that will end up in his career scoring about 20 goals total,â said Marsh. âIt has always been the same in football. It is not enough to be talented. You have to apply yourself to your career and you have to apply yourself to playing football matches and you have to produce. âSome players will produce a hell of a lot more than others. Some will average 20 goals a season throughout their careers. âOne year in the Championship he was fantastic and rightly got all the credit but the bottom line is you have to do that over a 10 or 15-year career and I just donât see him doing that. I do like him though. He is similar to me without the production. âWhereas Kranjcar is a much more productive player in general terms. I think he is a top quality player.â Marsh is surprised that no Premier League side came in for Kranjcar, who recently admitted he was desperate to return to England after an unhappy season in Ukraine. âWhen he was at Spurs he scored some fantastic goals and I donât think he got a fair shake there,â added Marsh. âI donât know if thatâs because of managers coming and going but now he is with a team that likes him.â Marsh believes that his old side have the quality to achieve promotion this season, but must avoid a repetition of the mistakes that hampered their two previous seasons in the Premier League. He added: âThe squad of players that QPR have got at the moment is certainly good enough to get automatic promotion back into the Premier League but I donât look at it as one year at a time. âIâve said this for years and years and years, I look at it in a three, five and seven-year plan. âIf I was the owners of QPR I wouldnât be looking at this season. Iâd be looking at next season and the season beyond that. âThe definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same thing and doing the same thing, and expecting a different outcome. âI fully expect QPR â should they go up â to make the changes that they failed to do under Mark Hughes. âI think when you re-evaluate your squad you have to bring in the type of player that isnât just coming for money alone. âI like players like Clint Hill â they are my type of players. Now you have to have the flair players â people who can create and score goals as well but they have to be joining for the right reasons. âUnder Mark Hughes there were 13 or 14 players and most of them only just came for the money. âIn my earlier days I would have looked at Mark Hughes or whoever the manager was but as you get long in the tooth you realise that ultimately the buck stops with the owner and chairman. âIf they screw up and they donât make the necessary decisions then you end up with what happened at QPR.â UNQUOTE Quite a bit of sense here, but hardly rocket science. And after his final comment, I'm not sure we'll see him much in the guest seats in South Africa Road!
Bloody hell Goldie...............do you know what you've done? (Wait for it.......................................................) NB: I'm still not convinced about Kranky. I will make a judgement after 10 games or so.
Great article, and as Col says, not rocket science, but ..... This thread cant turn into another Taarabt whinge
Morning All, and let me say what a good morning it has turned out to be. Sun is shining and not a cloud in the sky. As for the post, I dont really need to say anything If you wont listen to me & Swords And you wont listen to Sir Rodney Then i guess there really is no hope for you.! Reserve judgement on Krank who a regular in a good national team..now you really are having a laugh.!.. Have a good day / night all....
Exactly. The man simply hasn't a clue. Kranjcar has only played two matches for us. In one he was decent (apparently, I wasn't there) and the other (Barnsley) he wasn't so great. He lives in Florida these days. The coverage of Championship football in Florida I would imagine is non-existent. Losing respect for a former great with these stupid comments.
Well actually Rodney just put into words what Harry did with actions. Shifted Taarabt quick, quick, and got Nico in ASAP !! But if Harry rates Nico higher than AT, that's good enough for me !!
I don't think ANYONE can argue with what he says about Taarabt. He simply does not apply himself to his career. If he trained hard, like Robert Green at the moment, then the sky is the limit. But he's going no where fast with no one to blame but his own ****ty attitude. That is why Krancjar is better. But I was sad to see Taarabt go and we HAVE. Missed him at times this season. But what makes me even sadder I seeing a great player who's been at QPR for so long throw away his career because he thinks he's too good to work hard. We can't have that attitude in the team.
