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CFC kids on loan

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stan Dupp, Jul 1, 2018.

  1. Stan Dupp

    Stan Dupp Well-Known Member

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    Why are we never in the running? Teams as far away as Leeds are. Is it purely wages or are we just asleep?
    not just now as we have kids but when the likes of Abraham and Blackman were going on loan.
     
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    I can't remember the last time a Chelsea player came to us on loan. Michael Mancienne? I remember reading an article in the London Standard about QPR being a proving ground for Chelsea's youngsters in the late noughties when we were struggling. I think the arrangement ended after the John Terry / Anton Ferdinand affair on 23rd of October 2011, we've had no interaction with them since ... I think? Citation needed ...
     
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  3. Stan Dupp

    Stan Dupp Well-Known Member

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    You could be correct there. There must be a good reason teams 100's of miles away pick them up from under our nose.
     
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    Steelmonkey Well-Known Member

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    They did give us Bosingwa........:steam:
     
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    Ah, I think my brain deliberately forgot about that one.
     
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    qprbeth Wicked Witch of West12
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    CFCs are banned since about mid 1980s pollute the atmosphere, destroy the ozone layer...don't want any of that sort of stuff

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