http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/qpr/q...ll_not_allow_remy_to_join_newcastle_1_3187119 Tony Fernandes will not sanction the sale of Loic Remy to Newcastle United this month, despite Harry Redknapp encouraging the Premier League club to make a bid. Remy joined Newcastle on loan in August following QPRâs relegation to the Championship last season, and has scored 12 goals in 21 appearances so far. Redknapp this week revealed he was surprised that Newcastle have not made a permanent offer for a player he believes is now worth £16m â twice what QPR paid Marseille for the 27-year-oldâs services back in January. But while Redknapp is keen to sell Remy, the Times understands that QPR owner Fernandes is unwilling to part with his prize asset, and will dig his heels in to prevent a move. Fernandes is convinced that Rangers can return to the top flight at the end of the season, and sees Remy as a key part of the clubâs future. Redknapp told West London Sport: âI donât know what the deal is. Youâd think theyâd want to snap him up, wouldnât you? If they donât then someone else will. For what we got him for, heâs probably worth double that now. Heâs scored goals in the Premier League again this year.â On the prospect of Remy helping QPR in the Premier League, Redknapp added: âThatâs all ifs and buts. Youâve got to get there first, and if someone came and offered £15m or £16m for him, Iâd sell him if it was my choice. But itâs not, itâs down to the chairman.â Fernandes, who convinced Remy to sign for QPR and has a good personal relationship with the player, also believes Remy would prefer to return to Loftus Road rather than remain at St Jamesâ Park at the end of the campaign, and would only consider leaving if an offer came in from a Champions League club. Meanwhile, Redknapp is set to step up his hunt for a striker in the coming days, after failing to agree a deal for Everton striker Nikica Jelavic. Jelavic scored twice against Rangers in last weekendâs FA Cup third round tie, and Toffees manager Roberto Martinez wants to keep him at Goodison Park. Could we yet see Remy playing for us? I know Rednapp wants rid because he didn't want to play for us in the Championship, but we did pretty much tell him he was free to leave if we didn't survive. But if he's willing to stay and play if we are promoted, then I think we'd be stupid to sell no matter how much is offered, within reason. But obviously its all irrelevant if a Champions league team come in.
I think he's just trying to keep the price high by letting clubs know we aren't desperate to sell. Can anyone see remy fitting into a team under redknapp?
Redknapp has gone even more negative since then. Remy is a finisher, he doesn't get involved in the build up, he needs chances to be effective and we don't create them. That's exactly why arsenal are the perfect fit, they create loads of chances but miss loads.
Reminds me of the Good Cop, Bad Cop routine. Just possibly they are playing this one together like a good pair of strikers - Big Tone & Little Arry.
I think we create loads of chances, create as in having more of the ball up to the opposition penalty area where we then proceed to miss them or shoot widely wide. BBC game facts support that that is the case in a large majority of our games. Remy, if playing for us in those games would have only needed to convert only a handful of those for us to be top of the league at this moment....and we all know he could easily do that. Before anyone says our chances up to now are only long range efforts etc and not REAL chances...well I'm sure if we had someone clinical in or around the box that the other players knew could finish then passing to him rather than shooting themselves would happen more often.
We have lots of shots but the are usually 25-30 yard pot shots miles off target, we rarely create clean cut chances. Most people know our problem is creating chances, not scoring them and that will only get worse if we go up. Remy will hurt our overall play and we will create even less with him in the team. Just look at the donny game, the first goal only happened because their player fell over the ball and the second was a header that Austin had no right to score.
We don't need to sell arguably the best striker I can recall at the Hoops since Sir Les. We are not a 'selling' club are we? Christ we struggle to loan players out IF we go up AND TF has a word with Remy I'm not convinced he will leave. London + bundles of cash = possibly happy Remy
Sorry but can't agree. You think if Remy was playing, making runs or free anywhere near the box that we'd continue to take pot shots from far out? Not a chance. The reason we're doing that now is because we have only one type of forward playing for us....and he's different from Remy. If our problem was just creating chances we'd have a much lower number than all our opponents...which we don't...That's a fact. We create EASILY enough each game for a player like him to hit double figures....even for half a season. And most of our efforts are NOT 25-30 yard efforts as you say. Systems change with who you play. People here screaming to play one system or another depending on who's playing. Play a big guy up front...you get long balls to him, play a poacher you get lower type passes. We can pass the ball better than we can lump it. If Remy had played in the Donny game would it have played out as it did? Maybe our tactics would have changed and maybe having a better striker would mean we don't have to rely on other players falling over. I can't quite work out how someone who says regularly we're so bad, inept, boring, play over aged limited players etc (paraphrasing) would not want a better class of player, proven, young help change the problems we have here...which is score goals.
Sorry Gloucester, love you're posts but think you're off the mark here. We could have Messi playing up front for us and we wouldn't have scored much more. We have loads of possession due to playing five in midfield but we're bordering dysfunctional in the creativity department. I would love to see a quality forward like Remy back in our hoops. IMO, Remy coming back would mean us reverting back to two upfront as I don't think he's capable of playing as a lone frontman.
That's what I'm saying. Playing him would change the way we play...be it into a new formation. Let's face it, we're not exactly inspiring confidence in where we'll finish up by the end of the year. So change is needed...in some form. Players like Kranky would drool at the thought of a player on his skill level playing in front of him and he wouldn't be cracking off shots 3-4 times a game....instead feeding a player that can hit the net with frequency. We'd have a new outlet and our dysfunctional ways in front of goal would improve dramatically. It's my opinion....
I broadly agree with you. Imagine this: --------------------------Green------------------------- Simpson------------Onuoha---------Hill--------------BAE -------------------------Faurlin------------------------- Phillips-----------------Kranky/Taarabt------------Traore -------------------Remy------Austin--------------------
Agreed. I was trying to use only players we have now. Hoilett on form would be better, but he doesn't seem to be able to do it for us. In the Premier League you'd have to substitute Dunne for Hill too I suppose (I just love Clint!). At least BAE would get some help from Traore, he wouldn't from Hoilett.
Redknapps so negative that he won't play 2 up front in a promotion chasing side. So why would he suddenly change that in a side that would be battling relegation? http://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/redknapp-reluctant-to-have-two-strikers837332-wls-football âYou have to be able to control the game to get chances to score. Weâve played with two up front and had chances, and had two and not had a shot.â âIâm happy with how weâve played,â he insisted. What a fool. This is as good as it will get folks.
I really, really, really don't want to see dunne signed if we go up, he makes hill look like usain bolt.
