QPR are paying the price for Tony Fernandes' mid-life crisis BURNLEY and QPR have been relegated from the top flight, but there's no doubt about who are in dire straits. Facebook 0 Share 7 By David Woods, Chief Football Writer / Published 14th May 2015 Maybe the west Londoners' slump could prove a tipping point and stop supposedly intelligent and sharp businessmen going bonkers when it comes to football. At times, it seems like Premier League outfits are an alternative to beautiful young models for ageing tycoons going through some sort of mid-life crisis. Reason goes out of the window, with the cash being splashed with complete abandon, particularly at Loftus Road, where Air Asia boss Tony Fernandes, 51, has behaved like a smitten teenager. Be honest, is there anybody out their who thought at any time this season: "QPR have been buying wisely and planning for the future with good common-sense"? please log in to view this image UNHAPPY: Joey Barton complained about "bad eggs" at QPR [GETTY] Captain Joey Barton talked about the "bad eggs" who stunk out the Hoops' season. But the obvious question is: Who went shopping and splashed out big money without checking the sell-by date? In contrast, Sean Dyche and Burnley have been like the family that shops at Aldi and budgets with plenty of care, hoping that one day they can be Waitrose regulars. Yes, they have been relegated along with Rangers, but having not spent like the Kardashians, the Clarets could be like the wine of their name - in that they can only improve with age, particular with the benefits of parachute payments. If you were have a bet on the team to bounce back next season, surely rocky Rangers would be a stupid punt. And we haven't even talked about the likely £50m Financial Fair Play fine for QPR, a team who played in the big league with a capacity of just 18,000, but have acted like they had the same clout as Manchester United, who can pack in over four times more.
From Facebook By David Woods, Chief Football Writer - what is he chief football writer of? Very badly written article but I get his point. We have been mis-managed.
Be honest, is there anybody out their who thought at any time this season: "QPR have been buying wisely and planning for the future with good common-sense"? Be honest who thought McCarthy, Caulker, Fer, Mutch were poor signings, who thought Isla & Vargas were poor loan deals? All of those were in the right price and age bracket.....it was really only Ferdinand and Sandro that were questionable.... The writer is jumping on a bandwagon, he has totally missed the point that the squad was unbalanced and lacking in vital areas, such as up front.... Another load of bollox written by a blogger.....
Exactly this. The mistakes are mostly historic but everybody missed their chce last time (or wouldn't say a word against media darling Redknapp). If he listed the pros and cons of each transfer, I'd let him off.
Mid-life crisis, and David Woods gets paid to write this cr*p, well I'm going to get me a job as a Chief football writer then.
Preach it Brother! Bang on. One of the down sides of the internet - any moron who fancies themselves as a 'chief football writer' can have a go.
The majority of our signings were misused, and we were unfortunate with key injuries at specific points of the season. We're all intelligent in hindsight, but our lessons learnt were quite obvious; Vargas should have been played as a Centre Forward Leroy Fer should have played in the middle of midfield There was no need to sign Mutch. A more athletic, younger and cheaper box to box midfielder than Sandro would have been a wiser purchase. Isla should have been deployed as a Right Midfielder where his crossing would have been better utilised. Danny Simpson should not have been sold
It seems to me that they were all brought with playing 352 in mind and the Redknapp scrapped that plan at HT in the Spurs game, but he had no plan B....
Perhaps he needs to get out more, away from football, and let a pro run the show for him? please log in to view this image
