Danny Webber included in QPR squad for Cornwall trip By Paul Warburton Jul 14 2011 Share Add a comment Recommend Danny Webber Image 1 DANNY Webber will get another chance to impress QPR boss Neil Warnock in tomorrow night's friendly at Harrow Borough. The former Sheffield United and Portsmouth frontman has been training with Rangers, and has been earmarked for an appearance at the Ryman Premier outfit in Rs first pre-season game. The outing is part payment for ex-Borough striker Troy Hewitt after he moved to Loftus Road last season, and gives Webber a further chance to claim a surprise contract. Warnock said: âI think not only this match (Harrow) â but Iâd like to see how Danny does in the friendlies in Cornwall next week.â The 29-year-old was with Warnock at Bramall Lane between 2005-07, but is a free agent after being released by Portsmouth. Read More http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/lo...=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1S4cpA6g0
Can't hurt can it. Sort of player that maybe they could give a 3-month contract to , if it works then great , if not , no real harm done.
I would have preferred to have seen Webber given Clarke's contract. However, lets not forget that at time NW said that Clarke was a player he thought would have been able to do a job for us. If NW can't get you motivtaed....who can?
Poor old COLIN. It really is ridiculous that the board have reduced us to this. Never in a million years did I think, two months ago, that we'd be trying to talk up such a signing. Sure its no harm giving the lad a try but we shouldn't even be contemplating such players with the wealth of talent about. If only those morons at the top looked slightly further than the next nine months. Its bloody frustrating!
Everyone was saying that about Mackie/Derry/Hill/Orr/Kenny last season and they didn't turn out too shabby did they. For every Leon Clarke/Rob Hulse we have signed we have bought in 2 gems... I'll go with warnock on this
Yes, a good player but has gone off the boil for some time now! Always how he turned Rangers over on his own, a very bad night that was!! must off , have to open another bottle of rum . Jim Lad !!
Yes, you are right bakes8 ! My son in law who is from Iceland and a CHELSEA man mailed me to day and said that unless our leaders start to buy some top players we would not last. He thinks that is very sad after all the work done last year to win the Champ; We may not like Chelsea but they and other top teams have spent millions have they not. He thinks that to stay we must do near the same!! Weel??
In some ways Warnock has created a rod for his own back by being successful without throwing money around. There seems to be several ways of going: 1. Spend like Manchester City and Chelsea in order to buy success, but in the knowledge that the owners are pouring in money that they will never see again. Even then, when buying world class players you don't know if they are going to fit in. Lots of very expensive big names have gone to clubs, done sweet FA and been sold off again, only to go to another club and regain their mojo. 2. Try and stay up with what you have got. Blackpool tried and didn't quite make it, but they are not in serious trouble. 3. Sign a few high profile players, but you need to pay their high wages. If it doesn't work then, even with parachute payments, you can get lumbered (Bullard at Hull). 4. Try to secure a foothold in the top flight, but have one eye on what will happen in the future if the unthinkable happens. Do this with moderate spending - some canny buying and not going overboard with the wages. If the team survives then you can start increasing the amount being spent as there will be another Premiership payment next season. A reasonably good showing also helps attract players, and not just those who want a good payday. There are too many players in the Premiership who are paid much more than they are worth. It is these players that clubs don't mind selling on, but unfortunately most of these players want to keep their big salaries. QPR are not in the same position as some of the clubs with much larger incomes (bigger stadia, larger fanbase, large plastic fanbase). Unless a team has owners who are going to pump millions and millions in - expecting to lose most of it - then they have to cut their cloth accordingly. QPR certainly do not have owners who come in the Ashley bracket. So how do you survive? Ultimately it comes down to the manager and players. If you have a canny manager and a team that has bonded well and plays for the team as well as for themselves then you are three-quarters of the way there. What money there is needs to be spent wisely. Large transfer fees and high wages for a few won't help. What is happening at QPR at the moment is the sensible (and best) way to go. If it does nothing else it will help put paid to the notion that our owners have lots and lots of money and will spend, spend, spend. Other clubs will think twice before asking too high a price for transfers and agents will know that asking for ridiculous wages won't work. Warnock needs to be trusted to build a team that includes flair and spirit, a team where the players get on together, a team that doesn't have problems because the player on £65k a week isn't cutting it and isn't even on the bench and other players are going out and playing their hearts out for £15k. A team that has a system and a plan B when that isn't working. Warnock has to get the players for the system. We sit in the stands or in front of our TV screens and say "we should sign so-and-so", but we don't really know what that person is like. We hear snippets that "XYZ can stir up the dressing room" but in the right hands, in the right place at the right time, they can be a big assett. I think that we are lucky to have Warnock. He wants success and has been around long enough to know how to build a team. Whether that team is successful or not is in many ways down to the Gods. But I trust him to do his very best for the club without leaving it open to complete disaster if the very worst happens (for whatever reason). he has surrounded himself with people he trusts - coaches and players - and should be left to get on with it.
Agree with everything you say re. Warnock and team building Eamon. I'd like nothing more than to see Warnock left to his own devices for the whole of next season, win or lose. It takes time for managers to get the chemistry right. Time will tell.
I agree too. If Eccles gives Warnock the backing that Bhatia did last season (and holds Briatore at bay), NW's got it in him to do whatever's necessary to stay up - and after going down with Sheffield Utd and the shambles over Teves and West Ham- there won't be a more motivated manager in the Premiership. I see that Graham puts his move to Swansea down to immediate chemistry with Brendan Rodgers - fair enough. Whether Warnock had his hands tied by management at the time he saw Graham, we won't know until NW writes his memoirs...
Some good points raised there especially about luck going to play a big part next season. Also, football is a strange business in that the better a manager does, the more he is expected to do. A good example is managers that bring teams up against all odds (eg. Billy Davies at Derby) and get sacked a couple of months into the Prem because the team can't cope. However Blackpool did sign almost an entirely new team after going up!
