| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread 19:06 - Apr 29 with 340797 views | Tonto |
As they have already started, we need a thread. Suspect most of these will be wrong/clickbait sites, but lets store them in one place.
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| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 15:29 - Aug 6 with 1342 views | EuroRanger |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 14:57 - Aug 6 by dmm |
A no 9 is an out and out striker, Shirley? If not, what number does he wear? |
A 9 is usually a bigger CF who can hold the ball up and bring players in (e.g. Frey during the half-season that he's fit), where Kelman seemed to be more of a ST who could be in and around the box and score goals but who wasn't going to work as a target man. I'm also not sure what one would call that nunber-wise these days (10 normally, but isn't a 10 now an AM like Chair? I don't know).
It's part of why I think we struggle with Celar, since he looks more like a box poacher than a hold-up man. We keep asking him to hold up the ball as our out ball and he doesn't seem suited to it. Burrell might be able to do that by pace instead (i.e. balls over the top rather than for him to hold up) but that remains to be seen. |  | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 15:40 - Aug 6 with 1201 views | oldchap |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 15:27 - Aug 6 by Myke |
So much simpler back in the day;
1 -GK
2-RB
3-LB
4 - Holding Midfielder
5 & 6 - CB's
7 - Ball player
8 - Attacking Midfielder
9 - 'Big' CF
10 - 'Little' CF
11- Winger
12 - unused sub |
I agree! The current shorthand using numbers to distinguish specific roles does my head in. Why does it only apply to certain positions? I cannot recall a reference to a 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 or 11? So can a midfield player only be playing a 6, 8 or 10 role?
Is a 'false 9' really a 6, 8 or 10?.
A false 9 used to be a deep lying centre forward, I think made famous by Don Revie when he played for Manchester City? I think it was based on the Hungary team of that era?
There seems to be an insatiable appetite to make the simple complex. | | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 15:49 - Aug 6 with 1103 views | W12Mikey |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 14:25 - Aug 6 by RBlock |
Kelman had 12 months left on his contract and was clear he wasn't going to renew and wanted out. He was an asset declining in value, and we made a pragmatic decision to sell before his value further decreased. There's also the fact that everyone's view on Kelman was negatively tainted from poor appearances in the past (albeit with a very limited sample size).
If we signed Kone, we'd be getting a player who wants to be here and will be under a "multi-year contract", who's value is likely to increase.
Also, new blood. More signings. |
I don’t disagree that we had to sell Kelman if he wasn’t going to renew. But it worries me a bit that either we couldn’t /wouldn’t pay him enough to persuade him to renew or he was so unhappy at QPR that he wouldn’t stay for any money. I find it difficult to believe that Charlton offered him an unmatchable wage deal.
Or of course perhaps QPR felt Kelman didn’t fit the game model and we needed to get a different kind of striker. I personally feel that is a pretty bold decision for a team with no striker getting into double figure goals (and currently it seems no fit and available striker at all)
Or perhaps it is all about accounting. Transfer fee received mostly taken as profit in year 1 and transfer fee paid spread over the contract length.
All leaves me feeling a bit uneasy, but if we scrape a flukey 1-0 over Preston on Saturday I will be happy again! | | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 15:59 - Aug 6 with 994 views | CamberleyR |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 15:27 - Aug 6 by Myke |
So much simpler back in the day;
1 -GK
2-RB
3-LB
4 - Holding Midfielder
5 & 6 - CB's
7 - Ball player
8 - Attacking Midfielder
9 - 'Big' CF
10 - 'Little' CF
11- Winger
12 - unused sub |
Unless you were Liverpool and then it was all over the shop:
4 - Centre Back (Thompson)
5 - Centre Midfielder (Cormack, Kennedy)
7 - 'Little' CF (Keegan, Dalglish)
8 - Holding Mid (Case, Lee)
9 - Winger (Heighway)
10 - 'Big' CF (Toshack, Johnson)
11 - Winger/Attacking/Def Mid (Callaghan, McDermott, Souness) |  |
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| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 16:02 - Aug 6 with 965 views | francisbowles |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 15:59 - Aug 6 by CamberleyR |
Unless you were Liverpool and then it was all over the shop:
4 - Centre Back (Thompson)
5 - Centre Midfielder (Cormack, Kennedy)
7 - 'Little' CF (Keegan, Dalglish)
8 - Holding Mid (Case, Lee)
9 - Winger (Heighway)
10 - 'Big' CF (Toshack, Johnson)
11 - Winger/Attacking/Def Mid (Callaghan, McDermott, Souness) |
Sorry CamberleyR, fat fingers, should be a +. Well remembered. | | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 16:51 - Aug 6 with 696 views | terryb |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 15:59 - Aug 6 by CamberleyR |
Unless you were Liverpool and then it was all over the shop:
4 - Centre Back (Thompson)
5 - Centre Midfielder (Cormack, Kennedy)
7 - 'Little' CF (Keegan, Dalglish)
8 - Holding Mid (Case, Lee)
9 - Winger (Heighway)
10 - 'Big' CF (Toshack, Johnson)
11 - Winger/Attacking/Def Mid (Callaghan, McDermott, Souness) |
Tommy Smith wore the number 10 shirt when he got into the side! | | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 17:22 - Aug 6 with 513 views | 7374Ranger |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 09:21 - Aug 6 by wombat |
im the same issue we have is we dont have one who can actually play more than one game a month due to various fitness issues and lets be honest he wouldnt be a downgrade on what we presently have scoring wise |
I was thinking along the sa,e lines a few days ago. Birmingham have signed other strikers and even though they sold May, Dykes is still only about 4th or 5th choice there.
I would consider resigning Dykes if this deal for Ba is not finalised soon. QPR cannot go into the last week of August with the current set of forwards. They went I to last season with just 3 senior squad strikers and Dykes was one of those. Lessons must hav2 been learnt from that almost disastrous situation. | | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 17:34 - Aug 6 with 409 views | 7374Ranger |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 14:08 - Aug 6 by W12Mikey |
I don’t really understand the excitement on here about Kone. Are people suggesting that we should take the money we got for selling League One’s top scorer (21 goals in 24/25 of which 1 was a penalty) and spend all that and more on League One’s 6th from top scorer (18 goals of which 4 were penalties)? If so, that seems irrational to me. Or am I missing something? |
I understand your concern, but the main reason Kelman was sold was because he had 1 year left on his desk and he refused to sign an extension.
If they fo spend his fee on Kone I think k it could turn out to be a good deal if he can score more than the paltry sum of goals that Frey, Kolli, Celar and Lloyd managed between them last season. [Post edited 6 Aug 17:40]
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| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 17:51 - Aug 6 with 315 views | eghamranger |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 11:20 - Aug 5 by EuroRanger |
My Twitter using friend is insistent that we're going to reveal a left back today (rumoured to be Lowe) and that we're in the running against Leicester for Koné.
I can't see that anywhere else but he's certain 😅 |
Any update on this please ??
The Club are doing a countdown on instagram and WhatsApp and I’m starting to panic a bit |  | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 17:54 - Aug 6 with 292 views | Rsole |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 17:34 - Aug 6 by 7374Ranger |
I understand your concern, but the main reason Kelman was sold was because he had 1 year left on his desk and he refused to sign an extension.
If they fo spend his fee on Kone I think k it could turn out to be a good deal if he can score more than the paltry sum of goals that Frey, Kolli, Celar and Lloyd managed between them last season. [Post edited 6 Aug 17:40]
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You could also question why we sent a player out on loan knowing that he only had a year to go when he returned.
Might have been an idea to extend before sending him on loan to cover the bases and then we’d have either got more money or he could have stayed and probably would have started on Saturday.
Now we face the possibility of starting the first game of the season without a striker. At best, it’ll be a striker that hasn’t had much of a preseason or a completely new striker that didn’t even get 15mins last weekend. Failing that, it’s Bennie or the XXS squad. |  |
| Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?
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| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 17:56 - Aug 6 with 274 views | Northernr |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 17:34 - Aug 6 by 7374Ranger |
I understand your concern, but the main reason Kelman was sold was because he had 1 year left on his desk and he refused to sign an extension.
If they fo spend his fee on Kone I think k it could turn out to be a good deal if he can score more than the paltry sum of goals that Frey, Kolli, Celar and Lloyd managed between them last season. [Post edited 6 Aug 17:40]
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How do you know Kelman only had one year left? |  | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 18:08 - Aug 6 with 170 views | EuroRanger |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 17:51 - Aug 6 by eghamranger |
Any update on this please ??
The Club are doing a countdown on instagram and WhatsApp and I’m starting to panic a bit |
Not heard anything more. I asked him earlier but he never got back to me, so I'm thinking it's nonsense tbh. Did suggest the kilo of salt.
Club countdown seems to be for the season start, though I didn't know the club even had a WhatsApp setup. | | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 18:21 - Aug 6 with 99 views | Pdog |
This Kone lad could be interesting, but I’m a bit wary… 18 months ago he was in the 9th tier Essex Senior League. We all develop at different rates, but that’s a huge step up, I’d expect him to still be raw AF.
That said, he looks like a unit who knows where the goal is. |  | | |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 18:25 - Aug 6 with 61 views | lassel |
| The QPR summer transfer rumours thread on 18:21 - Aug 6 by Pdog |
This Kone lad could be interesting, but I’m a bit wary… 18 months ago he was in the 9th tier Essex Senior League. We all develop at different rates, but that’s a huge step up, I’d expect him to still be raw AF.
That said, he looks like a unit who knows where the goal is. |
As sad as it probably is to admit, the circumstances around him being in the country make me much more wary than the standard he had played at. | | | |
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