Bit of insider info for you - not sure how reliable it is - a bloke in the pub told me his neighbour heard it from his mum who heard it on the bus from someone who read it on Twitter. QPR have today revealed their new transfer strategy, a club spokesman said, Fernandes and Bhatia have decided that in line with their own naming policy any new transfer targets need to have a least 3 vowels in their surname, any less and the club runs the risk of the media being able to spell and pronounce the names, it is thought the club are prepared to pay up to £2M per vowel. Taiwo, Onouha, Henrique all fit the bill perfectly and these deals are well on course. Although Sao Paulo demands that the £2M per vowel fee be paid on Henrique's full name of Henrique Almeida Caixeta Nascentes has been turned down It raised fresh hopes that deals might be able to be done for Defoe, Zarate, Santa Cruz, Pavlyuchenko, Jelavic, Pienaar, Muntari, and Zamora as they now all fit the new vowel criteria however the deal for Samba is now off as he is considered to be vowel deficient. The Alex deal is being put to the board and a special dispensation might be made as his name is only 4 letters long and does contain two vowels and an X... It is likely the new policy will spread to the existing squad, players such as Taarabt, Faurlin, Traore, Helgusson, Ferdinand and Gabbidon will survive the vowel based cull, but players such as Derry, Bothroyd, Connolly, Hulse, Orr , Hall , Buzsacky, Smith and Mackie and surprisingly Barton will all have to look for new clubs with a less stringent vowel policy.
Are you sure about this? I heard Hughes was using his Welsh contacts to sign striker Rhys Glyndwr from crack Welsh League outfit Mythyr Fyckyrs?
