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"When you watch Dozzell for QPR, when he’s on the pitch, he’s their supply line. He feeds them, he plays forward all the time. Every time he touches it he plays forward."
If Marti can reproduce this past season's results, then we probably have to accept we'll lose him, unless our promotion prospects look good and he wants to take on that challenge with us.
It has "raised eyebrows at premier league sides" reportedly.
And rightly so, clubs will now get relegated on purpose,rebuild in the championship under the relaxed rules and come back to steam roller the PL. gimme a break.
With more sky money, it does seem to be a bit odd to relax the rules. We’re still talking businesses that run on losses of more than 10m a year. The aim should be to get clubs in a healthy financial position. I’ll allow some slack, as football clubs are way more than normal businesses and have a big community impact, but we shouldn’t have clubs showing losses (paid for by fans to some extent) just to afford 50K a week salaries at this level.
“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.
we could get lucky and have 30m to spend if Eze, Chair and JCS moves all go through for the figures going around. Could do pretty decent squad revamp with that.
But personally I would like us to see some tweaks built around at least 5 or 6 we have now. A rip it up and start again approach always scares me.
Save some money for January to strengthen then if needed.
I suppose it all depends on what the club’s realistic target is for this season. A sensible approach imho would be to steady the ship, get us a safe mid table finish and then build from there.
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.
Plymouth, Blackburn and Birmingham all on better goal difference as it stands, so they need to finish BELOW us.
The best situation for us is Huddersfield beats Birmingham this weekend and, to add an extra measure, WBA beating Sheffield Wednesday. Even then we're not out of the woods yet, unless we get something from the Leeds game. Then we are 100% safe.
Blackburn could easily lose both remaining games (Coventry and Leicester), so there is an escape option also.
I don't see Plymouth getting nothing from Milwall away and Hull home, so I would guess they would still pick up some points.
Beat Leeds and we're safe, no matter what. Simple as that.
agree with Atnti. I played rugby at a high level and never ever did me or my team ever want to not win, not matter the circumstances or situations. Not caring about a result was unheard of. I hated losing and I am sure many footballers do too.
Rumours being raised again, it is reported in South Africa that he has refused to sign a new contract with Chippa United and will leave as a free agent.
27 years old and already a Nigerian international, could be a good signing. But we're not the only ones being linked with him.
Also ... means we have to find a decent back-up goalie every other year when he is away on Nations Cup duty.
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 am really getting annoyed with Sincs. Apart from being totally ineffective and wasting everything, his reaction to anything that goes against him is childish and won’t win him any favors with referees. That’s some MC should address.
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