| How optimistic are you now? 19:33 - Jun 28 with 5766 views | Spen |
I know it’s very early days in this transfer window and I was going to post this a few days back, but, I think I’m feeling more confident and optimistic now than this time last year.
Last summer the narrative was what could Marti and this team do with a full preseason etc, and the general feeling around the place was positive.
Things seem to be making sense now and with the new management team in place, decent, forward thinking signings, retained players etc, there does seem something brewing here.
I guess it’s the well worn phrase ‘it’s the hope that kills you’ kicking in, especially after 2 San Miguel, but for the first time in a long time I’m really looking forward to this season. |  | | |  |
| How optimistic are you now? on 19:44 - Jun 28 with 2542 views | GaryBannister86 |
Well on the one hand, things are looking good. L1's top scorer coming back, new manager appears to have some pedigree, the signings look good on paper.
But it's just that summer period though; around this time last year most of us had similar positive thoughts but for different reasons.
I still don't see us addressing the issue we've had for years and years - up front. Are we really going to go, yet again, into a new season on a wing and a prayer in this department? Just hoping that Kelman is going to be the solution? Big ask.
Frey, Lloyd, Kelman, Celar and Kolli - is that really going to be good enough? Hope so, but.... [Post edited 28 Jun 19:46]
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| How optimistic are you now? on 20:04 - Jun 28 with 2476 views | ted_hendrix |
Been down this road before only to be pooped on.
Having said that It's a lovely evening and I've just finished watering the garden and come In to put the kettle on.
I like the look of our signings (said that before too) I'm not missing the football at all, especially the Saturday evenings after we've lost.
We'll see I guess, It means nothing to me when we sign a player that every other club In the universe were allegedly trying to sign them.
But I'm pretty optimistic If I'm honest. |  |
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| How optimistic are you now? on 20:22 - Jun 28 with 2419 views | Spen |
| How optimistic are you now? on 20:04 - Jun 28 by ted_hendrix |
Been down this road before only to be pooped on.
Having said that It's a lovely evening and I've just finished watering the garden and come In to put the kettle on.
I like the look of our signings (said that before too) I'm not missing the football at all, especially the Saturday evenings after we've lost.
We'll see I guess, It means nothing to me when we sign a player that every other club In the universe were allegedly trying to sign them.
But I'm pretty optimistic If I'm honest. |
When I say optimistic, I mean I don’t think we’ll be in a relegation battle this season. Not thinking promotion or anything like that. Just winning a decent amount of games at home and not constantly thinking we’re f*cked. | | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 20:23 - Jun 28 with 2407 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
7/10
I was 4/10 after our last game. |  | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 20:36 - Jun 28 with 2337 views | WatfordR |
| How optimistic are you now? on 19:44 - Jun 28 by GaryBannister86 |
Well on the one hand, things are looking good. L1's top scorer coming back, new manager appears to have some pedigree, the signings look good on paper.
But it's just that summer period though; around this time last year most of us had similar positive thoughts but for different reasons.
I still don't see us addressing the issue we've had for years and years - up front. Are we really going to go, yet again, into a new season on a wing and a prayer in this department? Just hoping that Kelman is going to be the solution? Big ask.
Frey, Lloyd, Kelman, Celar and Kolli - is that really going to be good enough? Hope so, but.... [Post edited 28 Jun 19:46]
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Think we have to see how JS sets up the team to have any idea of how we'll do tbh.
I think Kolli and Lloyd will be gone - sold or loaned - and I think we need a target man in.
I think Field and Varane are not the two we need in a 4 man midfield. Maybe Field-Morgan-Varane works as a three, but we don't have replacements for Varane or Field, assuming Colback goes.
I don't know whether we have LB covered witb Larkeche plus others.
If I was pushed for just one more in, it'd be the target man. And being really cheeky, it'd be an upgrade on Frey, who I really really like but who probably isn't going to be fit for more than half our games. |  | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 20:36 - Jun 28 with 2338 views | SteveCookFanAccount |
Last summer was positive but based mostly on a strong finish to the prior season. Players who had no track record in England were getting us excited because we wanted to be excited about the team under Marti. This year we all want the manager to succeed, but given the negative sentiment around the club at the end of the season I do not think the excitement around these transfers is just generic transfer hype. Mbengue, Poku, and the unexpected renewal of Dunne which feels like a new signing, alongside Kelman returning from loan feels like some real quality additions to the squad compared to expectations. The players all have extensive EFL experience, meaning we shouldn't suffer as extensive an adjustment period as we did last year. Furthermore, the signings from last summer have had a season to adjust. Varane looks like a quality member of the squad and a head and shoulders above where he was when he signed (as supported by the offers that have come in for him), Madsen looks like a professional football rather than a competition winner (even if he's not our best midfield option and Morrison became a valued squad member by the end of the season. Kieran Morgan was an unexpected first team regular having initially been signed for the development squad. Our development squad won a competition. Vale is an unknown quantity that has almost been forgotten because of his extended injury.
We have a new manager who wants to work with Nourry and the new structured club-first head coach setup with club coaches rather than a manager's team.
Financially the club does not appear to be on a cliff edge as it has been before.
Now, there are inevitably many issues with the team and the club. Do we have the pace and power in the side to really compete yet? Have we really changed enough to improve our dire injury record? Does Christian Nourry speak like a LinkedIn chatbot with a pretentious and opaque communication style?
But, if we compare now to last summer, ignoring the Marti hypetrain after that incredible finish to 23/24 and the relief and excitement after surviving (which I was wholeheartedly a part of), are we in a better position? I think we have a stronger squad, a more cohesive coaching and amanagement team that is aligned with the board, and incoming transfers with EFL experience. As a result, we should be optimistic. QPR are doing what we have wanted for a long time in building a squad and a system that is moving towards being financially sustainable, and not built around peaks and troughs of spaffing money up the wall on one season pushes like Austin and Johansen. Maybe it doesn't work. But if Stephan doesn't work and gets sacked in November after another poor start to the season, we have a squad. and a philosophy in appointments that makes me believe we won't try and appointment Sam Allardyce and get relegated, but instead will recover and survive. And if it does go well, maybe we can finally start looking up the table and building over a number of seasons. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I genuinely think that we are moving in the right direction as a club. | | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 20:39 - Jun 28 with 2317 views | bosh67 |
It's the hope that kills you! But after the recent signings I'd settle for being severely maimed by the hope. |  |
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| How optimistic are you now? on 20:41 - Jun 28 with 2305 views | Sonic_Hoop |
More hopeful than a month ago and actually looking forward to seeing what the new faces can do, if Varane and Morgan continue to develop and if Kelman can add the goals we badly need. |  | | |
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| How optimistic are you now? on 21:01 - Jun 28 with 2211 views | Rsole |
I think the biggest variable is how the new head coach (and other coaches) work with the CEO and DoF.
New players appear to be better decisions (on paper) but if we get the same friction as last year, it’s not going to matter much.
Bob Hoping King Jules can manage/navigate the politics internally and blend what we have with what we have acquired into a squad and team capable of what we expect. |  |
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| How optimistic are you now? on 21:21 - Jun 28 with 2136 views | ted_hendrix |
I don't want to be looking at the bottom three every February--March--April of every bleeding year thinking bloody hell those bastards can still catch us.
It sounds awfully like a lack of ambition but give me a season of mid table comfortable armchair safety and I'll be happy.
The Premiership Is where the money Is but It's not for me, Its television junk food. [Post edited 28 Jun 21:23]
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| How optimistic are you now? on 21:49 - Jun 28 with 2039 views | Myke |
More optimistic than a week ago. More importantly I hope you are on holiday in Spain - no other excuse for drinking San Miguel | | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 21:56 - Jun 28 with 2015 views | WatfordR |
| How optimistic are you now? on 21:21 - Jun 28 by ted_hendrix |
I don't want to be looking at the bottom three every February--March--April of every bleeding year thinking bloody hell those bastards can still catch us.
It sounds awfully like a lack of ambition but give me a season of mid table comfortable armchair safety and I'll be happy.
The Premiership Is where the money Is but It's not for me, Its television junk food. [Post edited 28 Jun 21:23]
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Ted, you could have been in the play off places and still looking at the relegation spots for most of last season. Maybe a small exaggeration. but not much.
As ever. the championship is 24 shades of average, it doesn't take much to move from below average to above. | | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:04 - Jun 28 with 1978 views | essextaxiboy |
Send Lloyd out loan , Kolli too (IMO) or sell depending on Celar fitness , bring in a big centre forward back up for Frey and I think we are pretty much there .
Gutted about Marti, but excited to see how it pans out . |  | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:07 - Jun 28 with 1978 views | WatfordR |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:04 - Jun 28 by essextaxiboy |
Send Lloyd out loan , Kolli too (IMO) or sell depending on Celar fitness , bring in a big centre forward back up for Frey and I think we are pretty much there .
Gutted about Marti, but excited to see how it pans out . |
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| How optimistic are you now? on 22:09 - Jun 28 with 1970 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
I didn't think we'd be signing loads of players and I've not changed my mind. Maybe a couple more, say a LB and a CM, but apart from that we look good.
Two things could change that. Sale of Eze and sale of Kelman.
Overall its looking good so far, and still early in the window. | |
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| How optimistic are you now? on 22:10 - Jun 28 with 1963 views | Northernr |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:09 - Jun 28 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
I didn't think we'd be signing loads of players and I've not changed my mind. Maybe a couple more, say a LB and a CM, but apart from that we look good.
Two things could change that. Sale of Eze and sale of Kelman.
Overall its looking good so far, and still early in the window. |
Strikers, lb and CM positions need surgery. |  | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:16 - Jun 28 with 1945 views | WatfordR |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:10 - Jun 28 by Northernr |
Strikers, lb and CM positions need surgery. |
Think I said that too  | | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:16 - Jun 28 with 1941 views | ted_hendrix |
We haven't had a vicious striker for Years. | |
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| How optimistic are you now? on 22:20 - Jun 28 with 1911 views | essextaxiboy |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:07 - Jun 28 by WatfordR |
Think I pretty much said that |
You did mate . sorry . Guilty of posting an answer to the title without reading the thread properly. | | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:21 - Jun 28 with 1910 views | Hunterhoop |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:04 - Jun 28 by essextaxiboy |
Send Lloyd out loan , Kolli too (IMO) or sell depending on Celar fitness , bring in a big centre forward back up for Frey and I think we are pretty much there .
Gutted about Marti, but excited to see how it pans out . |
…and a first choice left back, please. |  | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:23 - Jun 28 with 1896 views | essextaxiboy |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:10 - Jun 28 by Northernr |
Strikers, lb and CM positions need surgery. |
We have Larkeche, Esquardinha (sp) and Vale for LB . We must get something from one of those shirley .. | | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:25 - Jun 28 with 1895 views | Northernr |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:23 - Jun 28 by essextaxiboy |
We have Larkeche, Esquardinha (sp) and Vale for LB . We must get something from one of those shirley .. |
One a kid, one not a left back, one so far shown to be a bench player at best.
We went through this last year, “oh we’ll probably be fine with that”… | | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:28 - Jun 28 with 1874 views | WatfordR |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:20 - Jun 28 by essextaxiboy |
You did mate . sorry . Guilty of posting an answer to the title without reading the thread properly. |
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| How optimistic are you now? on 22:29 - Jun 28 with 1870 views | Hunterhoop |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:10 - Jun 28 by Northernr |
Strikers, lb and CM positions need surgery. |
This.
But I am more optimistic than at the end of the season, much more so. We have made two really solid looking signings.
I’d still like an experienced EFL central midfielder to replace Colback, a starting left back, and a young back up target man from L1/L2.
Get that in, and I’ll be very optimistic. | | | |
| How optimistic are you now? on 22:32 - Jun 28 with 1850 views | NewcastleHoop |
It'll all be crap, everyone'll be injured all the time, we'll play lovely tippy tappy football and lose to teams that run in a straight line towards our goal, Stephan'll be gone in November and replaced with Grant McCann, we'll get to Christmas with Frey being the only striker to have scored any goals at all, our relegation will be confirmed with four matches to play, we'll then win all four of those matches to finish 22nd one point behind Oxford. | | | |
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