Burnley are 8/13 favourites to be relegated this season QPR great value to be best of the Premier League new boys QPR great value to be best of the Premier League new boys The Rs are a generous 6/4 to finish above Leicester and Burnley this season QPR great value to be best of the Premier League new boys Barclays Premier League 2014/15 Top promoted club Leicester City 11/10 QPR 6/4 Burnley 7/2 View More Markets Life at QPR has been far from boring in recent seasons, with the Rs going through two promotions, one relegation and one narrow escape in four years. Despite being comfortable favourites to win the Championship, they squeaked back into the Premier League last season by virtue of a last-gasp play-off victory over Derby. That underwhelming campaign is no doubt a major part of the reason that the Rs are priced at 6/4 to be top promoted club this year, behind market leaders Leicester City, who are 11/10. However, QPR have both recent history and an impressive squad on their side in this battle, and punters should be grabbing those generous odds while they last. In the past three seasons, Championship winners have actually fared the worst in their first season in the top-flight, with Cardiff and Reading relegated and QPR themselves finishing 17th. Last season play-off victors Crystal Palace strolled to 11th under the tutelage of Tony Pulis, while in 2012-13 West Ham were also the best promoted club having gone up via the more treacherous play-off route. As with both the Irons and the Eagles, QPR boast a manager with impressive top-flight experience in the shape of Harry Redknapp, and their squad is laden with Premier League nous. They have also added to the likes of Joey Barton and Robert Green this summer by bringing in Rio Ferdinand, whose vast experience will help develop the talented Steven Caulker. In contrast, Leicesterâs summer dealings have been uninspiring, with £8m star signing Leonardo Ulloa scoring just 14 times for Brighton and Hove Albion last season. Burnley are 8/13 favourites to be relegated this season and have bolstered their squad in similarly unimpressive fashion to Leicester, with new strikers Lukas Jutkiewicz and Marvin Sordell managing just 15 Championship goals between them last term. QPRâs greater resources have already helped them assemble a fine squad, and they should stretch their advantage further in the final weeks of the transfer window.
Not even wasted time reading that whole rag but keep clutching at straws. A translation of I impressive is not signing big names on high salaries like QPR. Our transfer strategy has been a success before so no reason to doubt it. Posting at just how's desperation that we'll do badly on your part
Ps never seen such an article brown nosing QPR, if that was written but a neutral and not a QPR fan I'd be shocked
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-to-stay-up-says-marc-albrighton-9659528.html Albrighton says he will keep us up and it's in the paper so it must be true..... That comment and the article from Albrighton have as much fact in as your article which is none
Lads, at the end of 2012/13 we went on a run of one win in 17 games That following summer, we signed Bakayogo and Hammond, and that was all, IIRC. Some, including myself, would have described that transfer window as "uninspiring". So let this window be uninspiring too
Besides, it seems as though it is an article encouraging one to bet, and offering their version of a "tip", which is a "good bet". I mean, it's not like they'd want you to actually lose money or anything, so that must be what they really think "Hi, I don't work for Paddy Power, but think QPR to win the league at 5,000/1 is a cracking bet, they have a real chance, and everybody should definitely put at least £100 on it "
Well said Jack, Pearson identifies weaknesses and adds accordingly, no point in signings for the sake of signings. If people want to underestimate our squad let them at their peril
... good job we wre not all inspired by the same things eh? .... Ulloa and potentially Cambiasso are uninspiring but the signing of Rio Ferdinand is? (well I supose it did inspire me to chuckle ... Shepherds Bush fast becoming the footballing equivalent of a rest home for ex-race horses ...) ... and QPR's last bunch of insptred signings had a very humbling season as I recall ... personally I see no logical reason why their squad should be better than ours this season ... we were markedly better than them last season and the core of both squads remain the same... albeit they have the return of an injury prone striker who has been turned down by another club for meducal reasons and have acquired the services of a noticeably now over the hill ex-international defender whose main attribute used to be pace ... more than happy to see articles like that ... more than likely emanating from a London press that have for years been in denial that the football world does not revolve around the capital but has rested for the last 30 years firmly in the North west of England ... with the odd expensively funded but short lived blip ...
You make a great point Fosse, we were head and shoulders above them last season so it'd take a hell of a summers recruitment for them to suddenly have a better squad than us without taking into account our signings. Rio, Caulker and Mutch is hardly Bale, C Ronaldo and Messi is it although the way there board cream themselves over these signings.... Two things that stand out, QPR fans are desperate to cling to any article or story that puts them favourite suggesting they're insecure about their chances and second, anyone writing us off is only doing so because we have not made massive name signings with tons of premier league experience but it's shown in the past that isn't a strategy that always works, in fact rarely does work
... would that be the bookmaker with its' Head Office in Harrow ... I'll be sure to get in touch next time I'm in ..... errrrr ... London.
I'm more than content with the signings of both clubs ... combined with the disruption at Southampton, the calamity at West Ham and the lack of any transfer activity of note at Viilla, West Brom and Sunderland ,the fates seem to be conspring to give a less tough opening season than I was expecting tbh ...
Look at last season league table and ask yourself this. Who needs to buy more players to compete Leicester or QPR?
Last season was the first one in ages the bookies didn't back us as favourites for promotion. Guess what happened...
Personally, I think the lack of expectation helped greatly. Which is a good sign, judging from comments by all and sundry, expectations/pressure will be low this season too!
Because we haven't throw money around we favourites to go down. Had we actually gone out and signed Kasper Schmeichel for 5M, Marc Albrighton 2M, Ulloa 8M, Nugent 3M etc. Then the bookies would have had us to stay up. Most of our business was keeping our squad and Lloyd Dyer aside no one has left
