I wonder why he wanted to get away from us so much. Surely we're the better option for him, if he signed a new deal?
The Kelman conundrum. I'd love to know how much of this was just business, and how much was to do with emotional factors. Does Kelman think QPR treated him badly? Did he believe the fans never got behind him? Something else? It really is most odd to have a player on loan, the purpose of which is to develop that player and then, having had him developed, we just sell him! Oh well, we move on.
My guess is that we offered him a contract that he didn't consider worthy and he decided that he could do better elsewhere, and presumably he has. Fair play to both sides, really. If we wind up with £5m it's very good business.
Sell a 24 goal a season to buy an 11 goal a season. They know a lot more than me but buying average players from the division below doesn't normally get you promoted. * Actually I just thought about the team Warnocck got promoted - we are QPR - Maybe it can work.
It'll be interesting to see the team against Brentford, surely it will be what Stephan considers his strongest or we're going to be starting underprepared like last season...
But not as good business as getting promoted to the PL! Imagine how we'll all feel if Charlton, having purchased Kelman, get promoted on the back of his 18 to 24 goals!
If he flops and we only get £3.5m it’ll be seen as good business. If he does what he needs to do to trigger the extra we’ll be the mugs who didn’t give the guy a chance off the back of a great season as he approaches his mid-twenties.
You've obviously not been paying much attention to the pre-season games! If you think Kelman is the answer to us going up, you're a definately a glass half full type of guy. This squad so far is mid-table at best, even a forward like Charlie Austin at his very best would struggle to drag us up to play-offs.
