QPR: Is Jamie Mackie's popularity stopping QPR from accepting a very good deal?

QPR: Is Jamie Mackie's popularity stopping QPR from accepting a very good deal?

Despite all of the new, more established signings made by QPR over the past year, you will be hard pressed to find a more popular figure at Loftus Road than Jamie Mackie.

The now Scottish international’s all action displays, and key contributions at pivotal moments last season (the 93rd minute winner in the 3-2 turnaround against Liverpool and the goal that gave QPR the lead in the season finale at the Etihad spring to mind), have ensured he continues to be one of the most popular players at the club.

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Mackie has consistently exceeded expectations in his QPR career to date. He hit the ground running after signing from Plymouth Argyle in May 2010, scoring eight goals in his first seven games to fire the R’s to the top of the Championship, a position that they retained all season to earn promotion.

After a horrific double leg break in January 2011, Mackie bounced back and ended up starting 24 games in the Premier League last season. A solid return of seven goals proved that Mackie was capable of mixing it in the top flight.

As the Hoops close in on the capture of Junior Hoillett, Steve Kean has said that Blackburn would be interested in taking Mackie in part-exchange, with newspaper reports suggesting a value of £3.5m had been placed on the R’s star’s head.

However a swap deal does not seem to be something that the QPR hierarchy are willing to entertain. After Mackie scored on the recent South East Asia tour, chairman Tony Fernandes stated on Twitter that QPR had no intention of selling their man.

Whilst this news will be warmly welcomed by the majority of QPR fans, it would be interesting to know the value that Mark Hughes places on Mackie. £3.5m would be a good price for a player that is likely to be a squad player next season and only cost a reported £500k two years ago. With Hoillett, Taarabt and Park likely to be in front of Mackie in the pecking order for a start out wide, and opportunities to play in his favoured central role likely to be even more limited, it will be interesting to see what role Mark Hughes hands Mackie next season, and if it will be enough for the front man.

The arguments for keeping Mackie, at least as a squad player, are persuasive. His performances and goalscoring record in the Premier League were good for someone coming back from a serious injury and playing out of position on the wing. In addition, his popularity should not be underestimated. When QPR are behind in a game next season, Mackie may be the just the person to throw on to add some energy to the team and reignite the crowd.

Whether supersub is a role that Mackie wants to take on remains to be seen, but for me it is too early to let a man who seems to genuinely care about the club move on.

Calling all QPR fans: How much do you want Jamie Mackie to stay at Loftus Road? Do you want him to stay and fight for a first team place? How highly do you rate him? Or do you think it would be better for him personally to leave for a club that will give him first team football? Whatever your views, we'd love to hear from you.

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Absolutely agree on the bold

 

Mackie has proved everything to the doubters on here and I love that.
And all of a sudden he is out because he has played wide a few times... The formation geeks on here have him automatically wide now yet he is a out and out striker so before you put pen to paper and simply guess why not see what an option Mackie is to keep

This is another set of stories born was a quote by Keen who will be sacked by Xmas if Blackburn spultter
Mackie is not going anywhere

 

Exactly.

 

I would have thought after all the signing made last season that didn't set the world alight the answer is obvious.

JM is not a form player, he is tried and tested at the club and no matter what is going on you always get a good performance out of him.
You can't put a value on that as last season show.

At the end of the season I would suggest JM will have seen off a few of these marquee signing yet again.

 

If you had to straight up choose between Mackie or Hoilett, who would you choose?

I honestly think I'd choose Mackie because we know what we'd be getting. We know he loves the club, works hard and is not injury prone (the leg break was probably unavoidable and anyone's leg would have broken in that situation).

Hoilett is good but does he always turn up? Will he love the club? These are things we don't know. Yes, sometimes it's worth taking a gamble but Mackie is a QPR legend!

 

Is Jamie Mackie's popularity stopping QPR from accepting a very good deal?
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i certainly hope so

 

awjm. Absolutely agree.
Who would have said in September last year than JM would have well and truly seen off SWP by the end of the season.

 

Its a good thought provoking article. Very difficult to answer the question. J-Mack has the priceless ability to pop up and score at season defining moments - whilst it was early doors in the Championship season that last minute winner at Derby provided the momentum and belief that we needed for the rest of the year, and of course this year with the Goal against Liverpool (when everyone started to think 'you know what we can do this!') and of course THAT goal a city. As said difficult to decide if we are hanging on too sentiment, or as previously stated on this board is he a gem that will come on in the last 30mins and bully, with his tenacity, already tired defenders in to point winning mistakes and glory?

 

Hoilett has more talent than Mackie by a distance but I would hate to see a player leave who will give 100% for the club when we have a few about who think more about their wages every week

 

I don't know where the author of the article gets the idea that any tribunal would make us pay £3.5m to Blackburn for Hoillett (oh .. he read it in the papers ).

Similarly, all the reports I have read say that Keen would want money as well. The words PART-exchange are doing the rounds. So this is NOT the equivilent of a £3.5m offer.

Can see Blackburn struggling next year (with or without Mackie). The club is so badly run from the top down. There, but for the grace of God, go the R's. Oh, I forgot - we did go there. (But we're back!!)

Good luck to the Blackburn fans, not to Keen or the chicken men.

 

mackie is guaranteed to get us 5-10 goals next season. that's worth a lot more that £3m in my book.
jurys out on hoilett until I see him play.

 

Selling Mackie will never represent a "good deal". He brings so much to the table for us and never ever does he let us down. We got Taarabt for the skill, we NEED Jamie for his sheer tenacity. Wouldn't be tempted if the fee were £6-7m either.

 

He must have a price but i reckon it would need to be double that of the quoted amount !!

Would hate to have to play 90 mins against someone like him. He aint soft and will give you a hard time all game.

Also gauranteed to make you pay if you make a mistake. Has proved he can score when given the chance.

Probably not the most technically giftted but very good att what he does

He's Jamie, He's a Ranger and He's Ours.......stick your 3.5M where the sun dont shine!!!

 

If you're a club moving forward, then you have to sell the players that nobody wants, not those in demand. Simple as that, really.

 

Love it!

 

Jamie made his popularity by his performances on the pitch, we'd be idiots to get rid of him.

 

The number of times he's been written off as not being skillful enough or having the presence to cut it at the top flight is substantial.

The number of times he's upped his games, surpassed those who are supposedly better than him and re-established himself are just as high.

Write him off at your peril - if you had to name one person that was listening to Hughes' advice, taking it on board and then applying it without question and with maximum effort who would it be? The lad's improving and his desire to succeed and will to compete and improve are what make him a favourite.

The guys that start out in the lower league and work there way up seem to suffer less burn out and reach their peak later in their careers (Ian "no points in 10 games" Wright, Kevin Phillips and even guts Holt as examples) and JM is no exception.

 

didnt they turn down Mackie plus £2m which makes Mackie worth less than £2m if the £4m valuation is correct.

 

I can see Hughes using Mackie as a forward he has pace, can strike a ball and will chase down every ball and make defenders work

 

I was wrong about Jamie. I doubted if he be good enough for the premier league, I doubted he'd be the same player after the injury. He saw off SWP and who's to say he wont see off JR too?
He's an R's legend already