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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 13:57 28 Aug 2025
You'd hope not. I love Ilias to bits but he's literally a foot too short to be an effective box to box midfielder in the current game.
And, this being QPR, he is injured anyway. |
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Reply | This transfer window
at 16:34 25 Aug 2025
The only significant transfer income we've had this summer is from Kelman and the Eze sell-on. I do know that.
And as has been said, having to loan out the current DoF's marquee striker signing after a single season is the financial equalivalent of shtting the bed one year, then throwing the mattress out the next.
Not sure Brentford or Brighton will be taking notes just yet, or that this is the moment to start having a dig at Les in comparison. [Post edited 25 Aug 16:35]
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Reply | This transfer window
at 16:18 25 Aug 2025
The only reason the club have got anything to spend in this transfer window is through players bought in by other DoFs. Maybe we should be less dismissive about the work they did? |
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Reply | Ben Williams - Disasterclass?
at 13:11 25 Aug 2025
People are missing the bigger picture here. The more members of our small first team squad are made unavailable through long term injuries sustained in training, the greater the competitive advantage for QPR.
1) The opposition simply won't know who to prepare for.
2) Once we actually have no fit players left to take the field at all, there will be a dramatic decline in associated contact injuries.
Get it now? I know we're only thick idiot football fans, but we can at least pull together and put our faith in the club. Onwards! |
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Reply | Julien Stéphan
at 09:45 25 Aug 2025
That players this apathetic and directionless on the pitch are only a symptom of a much bigger problem with the whole culture of the club - which as you say, comes from the top. |
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Reply | Julien Stéphan
at 09:24 25 Aug 2025
Who sets the culture of an organisation? |
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Reply | Recruitment ?
at 08:17 25 Aug 2025
We should probably sack Les then, I suppose.
Can't wait for the upturn in results once that happens. |
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Reply | Recruitment ?
at 08:04 25 Aug 2025
Ah, I think we can see who the fall guy is going to be. |
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Reply | We had a perfectly good manager in Marti…
at 11:48 24 Aug 2025
Others know a lot more than me about how this might play out at the training ground etc, but it all just smacks of an entire club culture of back covering and avoiding responsibility, which comes from the top and filters down.
We have owners who are never around, and who in their absence have set up an entire structure to insulate them from the actual fans. Hoos has now done the same with Nourry, who then in turn has devoted massive amounts of energy to a set-up where he himself avoids as much accountability as possible (unless by some freaky chance we've actually won a game).
However shiny the training ground might be, how could the message to the players be anything *but* bank your contract and look after number one? Who at any senior level of the club is telling them to do anything else? [Post edited 24 Aug 11:49]
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Reply | Andy Sinton
at 11:12 24 Aug 2025
Always a class act - fingers very much crossed for a quick and full recovery. |
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Reply | Protesting together
at 10:53 24 Aug 2025
We were a Premiership team in 2011 when Tony Fernandes and Ruben Gnanalingam bought us, with all the income that involved coming into the club.
All of that was wasted.
We were based in a part of London that was about to experience an unprecedented period of development and opportunity.
All that was wasted too.
The one thing the owners have done very successfully is distance themselves from the ruinous shambles they've made of a club that means a huge amount to many, many people. The fanbase isn't stupid, whatever the likes of Ben Williams think, and people are very aware of how precarious football can get. Many of us were there passing round collection buckets in 2001, long before even Christian Nourry began his long career in senior football management.
But we survived. And the terrible decision-making and lack of genuine care of *these* owners have brought a lot of people to the point where they feel so alienated from the club, it feels half dead anyway. [Post edited 24 Aug 10:57]
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Reply | Owners OUT, Nourry OUT
at 10:18 24 Aug 2025
But the ground was the ground when Fernandes and Gnanalingam bought the club, as it was when Briatore bought it before them. In some ways LR is a headache for whoever owns us, but I really don't think it makes us untouchable.
If you're trying to sell a house and no-one takes it off your hands, it might be that the place is uniquely blighted. But it's probably just that you're asking too much money for it. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 09:01 24 Aug 2025
Even if we can afford Edwards, though, would he want to come? He'd get minutes, which he isn't at Southampton, but no player wants to be associated with the punchline team of the league. In terms of their own value and career progression, they'd be better off staying put.
Look at Morrison – a talented player, but now probably worth less every time he plays for us. Look at Varane, also talented, but not getting any sort of move, despite the club obviously being very much open to offers. Look at our injury list. Which bit of this says "come to QPR"?
The irony is that Nourry has got his job on the promise to do one thing, which is making players worth much more than they were when they come to us. And yet the only example of that has been Kelman, whose value dramatically shot up in a season where, oh yeah, he wasn't actually playing for us.
Meanwhile, the only reason we now have money to spend is Eze, a player who left the building 5 years ago. For all the faults of the set-up under Les, he was always clearly a very special player, that the club had done well to identify, who was also then well managed by senior people then at the club.
If he was here now, and involved in games like yesterday, who'd be paying £20mn for him? As it stands, the real lucky break for the club is that our best player in the last decade came through in what is now a different era. [Post edited 24 Aug 9:03]
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Reply | Julien Stéphan
at 19:47 23 Aug 2025
The manager's clearly not very good, but it's Nourry and everything he brings with him that is even more clearly going to get us relegated. |
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Reply | The Queen
at 23:22 12 Sep 2022
And of course, this tagalong bellend has to get involved.
Why am I not surprised?
I'll leave Clive's oddball friend to upvote your post and say goodnight.
What a shower of cnts. [Post edited 12 Sep 2022 23:23]
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