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Reply | Ba has failed his medical so not signing for QPR
at 17:54 13 Aug 2025
Sounds like it was an underlying condition/ historical issue as Shalke say it had come up in previous medicals. Clubs are entitled to take a view on such things (from memory we took a risk on Charlie Austin) but equally a club can pull out after a medical: otherwise, what would be the point of them? Until a contract is signed, no commitment is made, same if selling a house or car or anything else and can cut both ways.
We might be a little less "nice" at how we do business now, but isn't that progress? Or do fans prefer how we were run under the Hughes spending spree when by curious coincidence the manager shared the same agent as most of his signings and even Harry Redknapp remarked we had had "our pants pulled down" (before he proceeded to do much the same again).
The negativity among large sections of this board is something else, seemingly looking at absolutely anything to criticise (this not referring to you Nix, who I appreciate as a voice of reason). Now some other clubs don't like us and think we are mean at business. Well, "Boo bl**dy hoo" and "about time". |
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Reply | Ba has failed his medical so not signing for QPR
at 15:35 13 Aug 2025
So you would rather we waste precious resource on a player who might have injury issues, or who we might no longer need, or who might have prevented us signing Kone? Probably makes you a decent guy but probably also makes you not entirely qualified to be the club's commercial director. |
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Reply | Richard Kone/Saito/Rhys Norrington-Davies
at 15:08 13 Aug 2025
Hope this has cheered up a few folk on here and now the volunteers at the Samaratans can take a breather.
Welcome RIchard, massive signing for us.
And if it within site rules to say it, a small, half apologetic "well done Christian". |
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Reply | Who was this disaster down to tonight....
at 12:53 13 Aug 2025
The club leaked to WLS (their preferred outlet) that we would play kids.
We have a massive injury crisis.
Even without injuries we always play lots of kids.
Maybe the sheer number of kids a surprise but not sure that alone explains the outbreak of collective hysteria on here. |
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Reply | Who was this disaster down to tonight....
at 11:43 13 Aug 2025
If the complainers are just emoting after a bad defeat and a probably even worse
journey then that’s their right.
But if they genuinely think they are making any kind of positive suggestion about how the club could and should be run instead they are, respectfully, almost certainly mistaken.
The club has always been a business, right back to Chairman Jim’s day.
Fans have been crying out for a development strategy/ “project” whatever you want to call it.
It is implemented with consistency for the first time and some, it seems, can’t handle it.
Would they really like to go back to signing ageing journeymen like Fox and Coleback because the manager rates them, and fielding them in cup games so we can be knocked out in the second round instead, and then face even more injuries and get suckered into yet another relegation fight? All so we can claim our customary 17th place? Is this what supporting QPR means to some? In other words, just carry on as we have always done, and somehow expect that this time the result will be different?
If this is the response to a defeat in the first round of the Carabo Cup (or whatever It is now called) how would some of you cope with a genuine disaster? Am not saying that to be patronising (so apologies if it comes across that way), but some highly intelligent, thoughtful posters on here completely losing perspective.
Been hearing that Nourry’s sister has been receiving abuse on social media by some “fans” who don’t like his running of the club. Not saying anyone on here would be moronic enough to do that, but this is where all this remorseless, boring, negativity leads.
Suggest a break from it for those fans who don’t accept the new approach because this is how it is going to be. Looking at other results last night, plenty of other clubs doing the same. |
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Reply | Who was this disaster down to tonight....
at 22:54 12 Aug 2025
My god, a little melodramatic some comments on here.
I do get if you made that journey you would be frustrated.
But we have a massive injury crisis and it was reported in advance it would be a very young team, some of whom no doubt leaned a lot.
So we got knocked out in this round rather than the next round as we fielded a team with an average age below 20. If we had a repeat of, say, Chair doing his ACL in a pointless game as Ali Faurlin once did a lot of the comments would be the other way.
What’s happening in Gaza or Ukraine is a “disaster”.
On the same night a reliable journalist reports we have completed the signing of the League One player of the year. In the over all scheme of things that might just be an event from today that proves just slightly more significant longer term… |
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Reply | Richard Kone/Saito/Rhys Norrington-Davies
at 14:24 12 Aug 2025
No idea where it would finish but you are right, certainly looks tasty.
There is also Kolli and it seems very likely Saito too who arguably would struggle to get into that starting 11 given how well Dembele has started on the left.
Massive caveat is if we can ever field a fully fit squad. As Clive put it, JCS starting to seem more like an idea than a player.
Finally, appreciate that is where Field played last season but seems v up in the air how he is used this term. |
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Reply | Richard Kone/Saito/Rhys Norrington-Davies
at 22:39 11 Aug 2025
Indeed, plus Kone was league one player of the year and young player of the year - nothing against Kelman and wish him all the best but Kone looks a lot better all round player IMHO. |
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Reply | Carabao Cup
at 22:24 11 Aug 2025
Normally lament us fielding weakened teams in the cub but given the injury crisis it would be more than understandable, probably more like prudent. |
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Reply | Richard Kone/Saito/Rhys Norrington-Davies
at 22:12 11 Aug 2025
Less effective? Against minutes on the pitch he actually scored considerably more goals. Kelman didn't have half a dozen Championship clubs after him, it was Charlton or Luton. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 16:59 11 Aug 2025
Really exciting news and could change our prospects and the look of our entire team.
Not sure why the need for the caustic digs from some posters, if Nourry has pulled this off in the teeth of competition from half the Championship maybe a simple “well done” would be simpler?
Nourry talked about signing players who had overcome adversity and this player has a pretty extraordinary back story.
Not going to celebrate tho until the interview appears about how he was excited by the project… |
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Reply | Kolli needs regular football and a loan out
at 15:45 11 Aug 2025
His minutes to goal ratio is way better than Cellar.
To me he starts as a striker. Its the area we are weakest. Frey is not fit till god knows when and when he is finally fit will probably have to be used as an impact sub. Celar may come good but there is very little evidence to support that hope. And then there is Burrell, who has never played in the Championship and has had only fairly limited experience in the league below.
Kolli's performances have been patchy and he also has fitness issues but I think he has a bit of star quality and could become something. If we bring in two strikers and he gets shoved down the pecking order then sure, send him to Div 1 to do a Kelman, but if not then he is very much needed here. |
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Reply | If Celar is the answer what's the question 🤔
at 13:52 11 Aug 2025
Precisely. If he were a Heider Helguson - or even a poorer variant - battering defenders, earning penalties, bringing attacking midfielders into play I'd be perfectly happy with a centre forward who scores maybe 10 goals in 35 games a season. Which is kind of what Frey does except he can't complete enough minutes. I think fan expectations have grown reasonably muted... |
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Reply | Papa Dame Ba (Daim Bar)
at 13:45 11 Aug 2025
"Bafflement" is, I am finding increasingly, my reaction to so much in life these days, be it to world events or those in W12. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 13:42 11 Aug 2025
He (cough, cough) absolutely didn't fail the very rigorous and stringent medical overseen by our cutting edge fitness science team... |
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Reply | Preston make their point as QPR run out of puff – Report
at 13:40 11 Aug 2025
All fair comments and in the overall scheme of thing not hugely important. I would just say I was quite relieved: I feared we had another Santos who was unsuited to this league but I liked the way he got stuck in.
My main takeaway from your report is that given how poor Preston were, given how untested a lot of our team were due to the opposition, and given how makeshift our team was, we are hardly any further forward than we were pre kick off in assessing where we stand this season.
Pretty well all predictions (bar perhaps those tipping us for the automatics, and perhaps those hoping for the play offs) are still very much in play, from relegation to comfortable mid table. |
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