Seriously, are you ******ed?
Rather be in the Championship? I bet you were one of the many QPR fans creaming their pants last season when you escaped relegation, so don't give me that. You would honestly prefer cold Tuesday nights at Peterborough and Bristol City rather than Saturday afternoons at the Emirates and Old Trafford? What an idiotic statement to make. As for the models you would rather not base yourselves upon, you could do a lot worse than the teams you mentioned, but I guess operating on a shrewd budget with players who are playing for more than just their paycheck wouldn't really appeal to a club like yours.
WBA are a million times the team you are right now, so credit where credit is due.
I have given them credit in the past on here Bandit. My point is that QPR have always been a football club that has been associated with flair football ... that is factual. We have been purchased by a wealthy bunch because of out flair and just as importantly our location ... West London.
I apologise if any offence was taken but I hope you may be able to see where this premiership is headed as the top league of world football. It is marketed that way with extreme powers and backed all the way by Barclays. Every seven or so days the world now looks at it and the riches that come with that are massive. Just to survive in it is no longer a footballing matter ... its a commercial one.
The business of football goes on regardless of the nit picking we do around the game. Everyone wants to win Everybody has to win.
Only three teams go down and three come up. In 10 years I believe smaller clubs won't be allowed up as 30k minimum crowds to that QPR is a foundation club for a business. Our current model is to buy our safety and generate a worldwide brand. Now you may not see that but at QPR that is happening my friend as our Asia friends reap the benefits. Cardiff are doing the same. Man City, Chelsea have purchased trophies.
Our off pitch stuff is being put into place so like other outfits we grow new players as well but that won't happen for 7 years or more.
Would I personally go back to the championship if it meant growing our foundations in the correct way ... still the answer is yes
Business men have built their business models but can't get their nuts around what happens on the pitch can't be quantified its the biggest variable there is but like gambling they can't stop themselves ... money and power.
I love football, i used to live to play the game.. its changed ... credit to the clubs who have done it and established themselves for the big party that is coming but I guarantee you that all clubs that find themselves at the top table will have to rethink the whole thing in the end.
On pure football ethics I admire the teams i mentioned but just being there and not being in the bottom three is a vacuum. The fight for the title is one thing and sewn up the fight for relegation is just as exciting if not better viewing to the world.
WBA have at the moment have a great head of steam but I think it's unlikely that they will get anything from the season. If you do then what of next year? WBA become a team that can break into the top four? that without a lot of money etc will be a fragile dream
We may well fall but I bet you this our machine as much as i hate it will return and these business men will do everything to get this football club up there. If the power changes at the top of our club then now someone else will step in ... If the Mittals ever go solo on this then you may see another sad super club born in London. they are all ifs and i know we have to be in it to compete. In a way I hope big business fails hence my view come what may i will still be there at QPR.
QPR fans to the outside world have little choice in being deluded I'm afraid. I said that at the start of all of this ... as for our posters on here well it all there in writing .. so many infected while we argue how good or bad SWP is ... I maybe considered a clown but i know things others can't even see