@tonyfernandes: Working on some great appointments which will thrill the fans for the future. In the whole football development side. @tonyfernandes: We will be working hard on creating a culture at QPR. And the academy will feature strongly on that. @tonyfernandes: I will update l on the academy. Key in the academy is not fancy buildings. It's great pictches and great people and great scouting. @tonyfernandes: And the belief that players who join the academy can progress to the 1st team. That's what I have done at AirAsia. @tonyfernandes Tremendous work being done at QPR. Big big week. Been working quietly but effectively. Well done to our scouts boys Steve hitchin and Ian butterworth. 2014-08-02
The 1st tweet at 1st I took that to be signings but upon reading again I don't think this to be the case but maybe back room staff , wast Hoddle mentioned a few weeks ago?
Conclusion ............. TF seems to be thinking long term, which is good from a fans perspective, knowing that he plans to be around for some time.
Reading between the lines i think hes realised how much a new training facility will cost and therefore softening the blow
He's probably right about training facilities not needing a swanky new development. If, as you suggest, he's also getting cold feet about a new stadium that's an entirely different matter. Our future depends on it. I don't think that's the case but I will withdraw my membership of the TF fan club if so.
I haven't seen or heard anything about getting cold feet about Old Oak Common. Are you mischief making BR?
I Know nothing other than I said I'll only believe anything when they break ground, along with 1 or 2 others on here, it didn't happen. Without a compulsory purchase order Old Oak is also a non starter. I hope I'm wrong and am just a being a misery, wouldn't be the first time. Warren Farm was the easy project.
Well, technically, as long as the current owners write off the cash they have given the club, we don't need to leave LR. If we are prepared to play in the Championship and below for the rest of time of course. Which would be ****. The stadium is core, though I am disappointed about the training facility. Our biggest selling point - West London - is also our biggest handicap in moving forwards. And I follow Wubba's expertise in not expecting a stadium until long after 2018. Interesting that Real Madrid are facing legal challenges about redeveloping the Bernabeu - they want to put in hotel, entertainment, shops and a retractable roof. I really hope we go for the roof - in terms of generating extra income it will be key (especially as Arsenal have been told they can only have 3 concerts a year at the Emirates), a real advantage over Wembley and other places.
Positive tweets, but I am disappointed about the training ground. We do need a brand new modern facility, not just an upgrade on Harlington. All the best academies have great facilities, and I am sceptical whether Harlington can offer that. Brighton are about to build a brand new facility, which will apparently be the 2nd best in England. Surely we can match that. I know land etc in London is much more difficult to get hold of, but its not impossible.
Chelsea's training ground is about 16 miles south of the Bridge, in Cobham. May be we have to go 15 miles west on the M4
Not about to, it's finished. I used to live very near to where that is, my parents still do, and i've got a mate who lives right by the entrance, apparently it's pretty impressive.
Ughhh! I hate it. How do you fight spin, broken promises and an empty bucket making a helluva lotta noise? Teflon Tone gets it and uses it while he stays one step ahead of the wheel spinning on his latest gamble. A pub-walkaround here, a free season ticket to an impoverished student there and, despite the pledge to stay off Twitter, the Tweets. Buzz words in the first three are "working...great...thrill...academy...great...great...great....". Still it's not as if he'd hosted a fans forum with pre-approved questions where we got tractor prduction statistics thrown at us eh? We keep getting told he's a succesful businessman like we should be impressed by that alone or we've no right to question how our club is being run. This is no argument. Freddie Laker was a succesful businessman. His company went bankrupt. So was Chris Wright, and his actions, however well-intentioned, brought us to the brink of ruination. Where's the bucket? This is where it's going again with this hubristic maniac at the helm.
