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In: Edwards - really needed at the time and will probably feature a lot more Min-Hyeok - important cover for Smyth and maybe even more Vale, Esquerdinha, O'Brien - not expected to feature for 1st team (yet)
Out: Santos - if all buy-option rumours are true, excellent business.
Contracts extended: Chair Kolli Morgan Lloyd
A fairly conservative, but probably sensible, window of activity. Which I guess means we're happy to see out the season with whom we have and expect enough bodies to return to fitness to see us through.
Only one I am disappointed about, is EDB. Would have loved to see him go out on loan. So either we think we need him, or other clubs perhaps don't rate him. Hard one for me to judge.
In hindsight, the players that left us in the summer were all "good business". Not least because we got money for them. And I really like the attitude (confirmed by CN recently) that if you're into you're 20's and still in the dev squad, you're not going to make it with us.
Willock on a good day could perhaps still have played a part, but all the others have been replaced by better options.
Kakay arguebly better than Santos, but neither would get a look into the squad as it is now.
Also interesting (a relief) to see that no-one that has left and made an impact or progress elsewhere. The opposite in some cases.
Christmas present for the kids, we're taking them to London for a few days during their Feb school holidays (15-23 Feb). Only QPR home game in that period is Friday the 14th. No ticket information yet, but should we be able to get tickets for a family of 4? For that day we need to take the kids a day out of school also, so if you guys think tickets will be a problem, we might as well pick dates later in the window. Have to book flights and hotel soonish.
For as much as we (are allowed to) know, who are in the last year of their contracts?
Cook, Colback, Frey, Anderson in the 30+ bracket. They all seem to enjoy what they are doing now and for lack of offers from elsewhere considering their age, might stay on. If featured in our plans of course.
Paal, Chair, Dunne. Who else? The younger lads are a tougher sell to keep hold of, I think.
At this stage I would like to see the bulk of them, if not all, stay on. All depends on how the new lads settle in and Lloyd, Kolli, EDB, etc progress enough to become regulars.
“That means each Championship club will receive around £5.7m per year under the new domestic deal.
Meanwhile, the EFL announced this year Pitch International and Relevant Sports will distribute internationally, in a deal worth £147.7m over four years.”
How much did we get before? 5.7m seems a tidy figure we can use to plug a few gaps.
I’m not sure how much of the international part we will see, the distribution between the EFL leagues is not specified. But every bit helps.
Are the players off already, or still reporting every day and perhaps doing some light training and post season analyses? I would imagine they have to wind down the training and not just stop and go sit on the beach for a few weeks?
I would also imagine a really busy time for the backroom staff now, planning for next season, searching transfer targets, contract talks, etc? Phones must be buzzing.
I was watching Ajax this weekend and it struck me how much Sincs reminds me of Brian Brobbey. Both young "raw talents" that are extremely strong and fast, physical, often fouled and gets nothing from the referees and then both go into "the world is against me" mode. Similar style of play. Both playing for clubs in crisis, although QPR always in some sort of crisis while Ajax, by their standards, probably going through the biggest crisis in their history. Topped off with a record 6-0 loss last weekend against big rivals Feyenoord.
Except. Brobbey has scored 19 so far this season.
(Ajax got kicked out of the cup by an amateur team earlier this season, first time in their history. A very QPR thing to do)
Hmmm. Watching this, actually, I realise Sincs is nothing like Brobbey.
I was at the KNVB campus today, work thing. Where the Dutch FA have their offices and the training complex of the national team is. Impressive facilities.
But look what was hanging on the wall right next to the coffee machine.
I finally broke my duck and correctly predicted our 2-0 loss against WBA only to find my "result" and "bonus" totals still on 0. Anyone else noticed an issue with the prediction league scores?
I was at the Ajax-Feyenoord game yesterday with my daughter. Assume most of you have read and/or seen what happened.
Absolutely mental what the club has done. Appointed a new foreign director who totally ignored all input from the coach and spent 110m on players no-one has heard of before. Top of the list of crazy things is the 12m he spent on Akpom, who has (from the few minutes I have seen him play here) been totally useless and clearly out of his depth. Middlesborough must be having a very good chuckle about that one.
The director is now under investigation also, seems like one of his own companies benefited from these transfers, which would explain a lot of this madness.
We are always complaining about manager gets what manager wants, but this is a rare case of the exact opposite. This is going to take some time to put right. Club has lost its identity with all these no-name foreign mercenaries.
(Coach and director not on speaking terms now. Someone going to get axed soon)
Suppose things keep going in the right direction and the likes of Armstrong and Smyth continue to blossom. Aren't we supposed to sell them for big money in January, at he latest next summer? What we failed to do with the likes of Willock when they peaked.
I'm over the moon with the signings that have been criticised for not fitting the model. We'll get a good year, maybe two out of most of those while they play an important role in helping the youngsters come through. Not to mention the role they are playing in helping us win games at the moment, which has a positive effect all round.
While I understand the need to get youngsters in, develop and sell with profit, you can't build a team to compete in this competition with playstation kids. You need a few old heads in there as well.
Like all things in life, I suppose its getting the balance right.
Has changing a manager ever been aligned with changing playing staff, i.e. only allowed in a transfer window? Would make for an interesting debate ...
Personally think the transfer window thing is strange in the light of labour laws. "We desperately need a new accountant to handle the new workload". Sorry lads, hiring only allowed again in January, we just have to lose out to the competitors until then.
Brings back memories of the Bosman ruling. I bet if someone goes to court with the transfer window thing, he makes a decent chance of winning. Why would you not be allowed to move to a new job if the opportunity arises and you are desperately unhappy at your current one?
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