Transfer Rumours Transfer Rumours Summer 2017
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Have to say my heart was in my mouth when I saw the photo the Club released of him on the treatment table. Bloody typical. We buy someone who's crocked. Who happens to be someone nobody has ever heard of. We can't even afford to buy well known has-been crocks. What a relief. Everything that a footballer needs seems to be intact.
Good to have your optimism back. But really:
1 Is that all we need?
2 Are our central defenders up to it? They haven't all performed-at the same time- for a full 95 minutes- for quite a while now
Only at QPR could you need a defender but sign three forwards. Gotta love Ollie!!
It's an entertainment business after all!!
It's an entertainment business after all!!
Looks like there is a firm strategy towards mid-table mediocrity for the coming seasons while building players through the academy. I just hope that we also,pay attention to the right coaching staff at that level too, while also coaching/playing these players to the formation(s) that they will slot into in the first team. Not an easy task by any means. However it is interesting to see that the levels of performance by the youth teams has been better so far this season.
The risk is that of the PL teams just walking in and plundering players when it seems they are moving up a level (as with Sterling and Bowler). It is then that our mediocrity becomes a millstone.
It's a tough job running a football club.
Looking forward to seeing the new players coming into the team this season. Very concerned about our defence though, we seem careless right now and really need someone to step up and and lead a 'unit' at the back. We are by no means guaranteed freedom from a relegation scrap yet in my opinion, after all there is only one game between our top 10 spot and a relegation position right now (and one of those on the relegation spot beat us 2-0). long long way to go yet before we know what this team, and importantly the manager, is all about.
The risk is that of the PL teams just walking in and plundering players when it seems they are moving up a level (as with Sterling and Bowler). It is then that our mediocrity becomes a millstone.
It's a tough job running a football club.
Looking forward to seeing the new players coming into the team this season. Very concerned about our defence though, we seem careless right now and really need someone to step up and and lead a 'unit' at the back. We are by no means guaranteed freedom from a relegation scrap yet in my opinion, after all there is only one game between our top 10 spot and a relegation position right now (and one of those on the relegation spot beat us 2-0). long long way to go yet before we know what this team, and importantly the manager, is all about.
Agreed, no use bringing them up they the academy if all were going to do is sell them on.
Also, anyone decent won't want to stay with us if we concentrate on being just a mid table team.
Of course, the balancing act of it all is what matters most and having the right people in the club to make that happen will decide whether we can progress or not.
I still say we need a couple of old heads in the team for the youngsters to learn off.
By that l mean a couple of decent older players, not just has-beens.
As you say RW, who'd want to be a club owner.
Also, anyone decent won't want to stay with us if we concentrate on being just a mid table team.
Of course, the balancing act of it all is what matters most and having the right people in the club to make that happen will decide whether we can progress or not.
I still say we need a couple of old heads in the team for the youngsters to learn off.
By that l mean a couple of decent older players, not just has-beens.
As you say RW, who'd want to be a club owner.
He's trying to recreate that Blackpool team with Matty Philips he took up to the premiership
Our recent PL experience is a curse in many ways, the biggest being the fans feeling (mine included) that the PL is what we should expect and strive for at whatever cost. There are literally dozens of clubs in our position, small fan bases, limited income and infrastructure, a bit of decent history from far gone eras, and only a tiny minority will ever somehow rise above the morass. We are back where we were for all of our history pre 1968, and for a chunk of the time since then, a tier 2 (in good years) tier 3 club.
The trick for me will be finding a way to continue to dream, no matter how vanishingly small the chances of the dream coming true, while learning to enjoy the reality. Just 3 or 4 years ago I hoped (wildly) to see QPR play away in Europe just one more time in my life (away in the Europa League to Macedonias third best team would have been fine). Now I have scaled back to dreaming of somehow fluking a play off place. Soon it may be simply surviving in the Championship (given that simply surviving in the PL, now a ridiculous fantasy, was beyond us even with £250m wasted).
New times, new mentality.
On the money The best thing about our club is that we are starting again
I warned about this 5 years back and how we would change as a fan base
We have our ID back and have now three hoops kits and we build from there Lee Hoos emailed me recently as he gets it now No more maroon or orange Blue White Red Black Green and the slow task of building a team starts now and what a good start
We have QPR players who also get it
We have the best keeper in the league
The best central midfielder in MO no doubt at all and Scowen looks like he could be a brilliant water character
We have a box of tricks in Freeman and Lua Lua and really promising forwards Smith is a great weapon
Washington just needs a bit more time and Mackie will not let any side down
The Poles are both looking good
I can't fault the defenders at all as I believe they will only get stronger
This is a solid team in the making and we will compete with anyone
We will miss Perch but he is a great player