QPR treading dangerous path Michael Graham | 22/08/2012 | Comments (2) Michael Graham worries about QPR spending, and looks at two players on the move who need to deliver. Every evening, one of our writers will give their opinions on some of the dayâs big football news stories and transfer rumours. Today, QPR continue their spending spree, while Steven Fletcher and Tom Huddlestone are both on the move with plenty to prove. Fine line between ambition and recklessness QPR have once again flexed their financial muscle by trying to complete an ambitious swoop for central defensive pair Michael Dawson and Ricardo Carvalho. The Loftus Road club have agreed a fee with Tottenham for Dawson believed to be approaching £10million, whilst a season-long loan deal for Real Madridâs Carvalho also looks likely. It is easy to look at such deals at face value and declare them massive coups for QPR. In a sense they unquestionably are, and Hoops fans are sure to be excited by them. But they also raise another, perhaps more unwelcome, point. At what point does ambition become recklessness? In the last year QPR have spent heavily, ensnaring established Premier League names such as Shaun Wright-Phillips, Djibril Cissé, Bobby Zamora, Park Ji-Sung, Anton Ferdinand, Nedum Onuoha, and David Hoilett, as well as acquiring the hefty wages of free-transfer signings Joey Barton, Andy Johnson, Kieron Dyer, Jose Bosingwa, and Robert Green. What is more, barring a couple of exceptions, they are all players who are approaching the ends of their careers and possess no real re-sale value. With the club at the moment locked in a ground with limited capacity and in a city which has fierce competition for fans affections, questions must be raised about QPRâs ability to sustain this kind of outlay. Clubs like Stoke and West Bromwich Albion have led the way in showing that more modest clubs can grow and blossom into well-run competitive Premier League clubs whilst living within their means. QPR look intent on taking the short cut path, though, and it is wrought with danger. Just ask Portsmouth fans.
