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Reply | Nourry Speaks! Xavi Calm may have a future at QPR.
at 09:01 5 Jul 2025
Well the language thing has been brought up as a potential issue in the past, one of the French journo guests mentioned it specifically in Clives podcast too. Clearly he's not as fluent as he'd like to be - or Marti was - but I don't see it as an issue for the players at all based on what I've heard from him (and what he said in response to the Q).
The injuries continue, which is a bit of an eye roll. As I mentioned in the Kolli thread, the thing people seem to ignore with the Kolli discourse is that he's constantly missing time through injury. Now they're having to manage his fitness after a summer break?? Makes me think he needs a permanent fix of something.
As for the Nourry section, you might be right that there's more words, but it doesn't mean there's more information... It's a quick 30 seconds of not really telling us anything definitively, which is all you're going to get from him. Like interviewing The Riddler. |
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Reply | OASIS
at 08:52 5 Jul 2025
I saw them before , including just before they split. Not the best band, or best live performers, but there's something about Oasis gigs - feels like 60,000 people on a wedding dancefloor belting out every word of 25 songs you've loved for 30 years...
Cardiff looked great, as soon as you hear Fckin in the Bushes and them walk out you start to get fomo - then you see the setlist and know it would have been great fun. Like you say let's hope they keep the energy going for the whole run because by all accounts they were on it last night [Post edited 5 Jul 10:42]
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Reply | Mr. Blonde Is Dead.
at 16:09 4 Jul 2025
One of those actors that just seemed cool as fck every time he was on the screen. Really loved him in Sin City too, although he had a v small part. RIP |
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Reply | Statement from the board
at 15:54 4 Jul 2025
You can have a look at the recent update sit down with Darragh MacAnthony by way of comparison (and this is only addressing the transfers).
I'm not saying we need to be this level of granular with the details, but this is what open and honest direct communication looks like from owners that want to treat their supporters like adults.
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 15:02 4 Jul 2025
To add to the loan discussions, the other issue that's come about in recent years is PL teams being able to get huge amounts of financial comp for loaning their stars.
It used to be that clubs in the Championship could take an academy star from the PL that could genuinely elevate the team, in exchange for a small wage contriution and giving that player some proper football experience. Bamford, Harvey Barnes, Mount, Taarabt, Guehi, Wilson, Ake, Reece James, Martinez, Gallagher, etc. Any one of those would cost millions to borrow now.
At the same time PL academy numbers have swollen, which means the only loans that are affordable for non parachute clubs are 20 something academy veterans with minimal pro appearances that will probably never be PL standard. If you want the needle movers, you have to cover wages and pay a loan fee, which means Sheff U pay £3-5m to get Rak Saki to come off their bench, and we get Ashby because we have a mate on the Newcastle board.
It's a shame PL teams aren't more strategic with their placement of young talent, sending them to places to maximise their development rather than whoever will pay the most. Would make the Championship more competitive too. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 11:27 4 Jul 2025
If the Eze stuff happens in time, I'd be straight on the blower for Barry - him and Poku arguably the best wingers in the EFL last year |
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Reply | Kolli
at 18:56 3 Jul 2025
The peaks and troughs of this thread are entertaining - swinging from a player that couldn't tie his shoes to the next Eze 
Let's get these extremes out the way - he's never going to be Eze levels, because the Rodgers, Eze, Bowens of this league are rare as rocking horse shít. Chair is a more realistic comparison/target, which is still very very high praise. On the other side of the coin, he's ahead of the other youth prospects we have and better than any we've probably seen since Ebs. That speaks more to the rarity of our academy products, but it's still shows the levels.
Despite people on here only wanting to compare him to our strikers, part of his current issue (other than availability) is not quite pinning down a position yet. He's got a skillset across the front 3-4 positions, which is again why it's important for him to just graft this season and trust the manager to put him in the best place to succeed while he figures out where he works best. He's 20, there's no issue with any of that.
In terms of strikers though, he's currently 4th choice - regardless of 1 or 2 up top - which is cool as long as he and the 'advisors' around him accept that and understand that he's got a great opportunity this season to kick on and be a proper starter we can rely on. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 23:08 1 Jul 2025
Kolli isn't at the level yet, but I think we have seen enough to know he's got a really good chance to be. He's the best of the youth players to break into the first team the last few years, miles ahead of Lloyd as an example, but he still has some way to go.
The issue is, similar to Armstrong, that there seems to be a lot of noise around him, pushing him into the spotlight... Always linked to other clubs, demands about his play time etc.
Number 1 priority is for him to stay fit and be available, he's been a bit injury prone last few years so needs to work on managing that as best he can. Also whilst I think the best situation for him would be a loan, get 40-50 games in league one/two and see where he is next summer, ultimately I think that he stays, grafts, tells his dad to shut his noise and does his best to work his way into the new managers plans. I think he has a chance this year to be backup to Chair off the left, or depth for a front two, but that requires patience and acceptance from the people around him. |
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Reply | QPR complete head-turning acquisition of Peterborough’s Poku – Signing
at 22:43 1 Jul 2025
I am really excited about Poku and think this is exceptional business from the club, but I wouldn't have said this is a particularly important position of need relative to other gaps in the squad. Maybe we felt the chance to sign him was ultimately too good to pass up, but Poku joins Dembele and Vale, 3 very similar profiles who all have favoured positions as left footed inverted right wingers.
Interested to see how we look to accommodate them through the season, and if we're going to move them around. I also worry a little what this means for Dembele especially, as we've essentially got an upgraded version after a year where he struggled post injury. [Post edited 1 Jul 22:44]
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Reply | QPR complete head-turning acquisition of Peterborough’s Poku – Signing
at 16:58 28 Jun 2025
Appreciate it's not technically, but getting this version of Kelman back does feel like a new signing. Only 1 year left so an extension may be the thing that decides his fate with us, but if we were sat here having signed those 2 from league one and the top EFL scorer, we'd be beside ourselves. |
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Reply | Catastrophe, ou formidable? Stéphan steps into Loftus Road hot seat - Column
at 19:01 25 Jun 2025
442 doesn't work at all for half our squad. Lots of time in the window but Chair, Vale, Dembele not suited, none of our current CM's work in a central 2 either.
I like the idea of trying 2 up top, but think it only works with a back 3 atm. I think the squad building aspect was terrible last season, so very intrigued to see the balance of players brought in that are good individuals for the future vs for a specific system / way of playing for the manager |
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Reply | Club World Cup….
at 15:32 17 Jun 2025
I'm hoping this is just because it's in America, where they introduce the stars individually as part of the build up. It works in that way because you have the whole ramp up to kick off with the anthem, marches, cheerleaders, pyro, etc - but in our football it's just wánky.
This whole CWC has been a joke tbh, a shamelessly financially driven tournament played out in stadiums that are empty outside the corporate sections. I heard Bayern made £1.5m just for playing in the game they won 10-0 - which isn't far off the prize money for winning the FA Cup.
I'd rather they scrap this and just have a proper domestic Super League so all these clubs can disappear into their own golden money trough and leave the rest of us alone to play football. |
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Reply | New pub ( never to replace the C&S) The Hawthorn
at 15:25 17 Jun 2025
"The Hawthorn formerly known as The Pocket Watch or The British Queen set to reopen in May by Peter Creed & Tom Noest who have 5 other pubs in the Cotswolds"
Uxbridge Road of course being the Cotswolds of West London |
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 20:02 12 Jun 2025
1000% this. Unbelievable he has as many caps as he does - carried by a great Arsenal defence and George Graham.
There's loads though, Rickie Lambert (and half the strikers from the 2000's onwards) wouldn't have been allowed near an England team if they played in the 90s. [Post edited 12 Jun 20:03]
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Reply | Manager situation
at 15:51 11 Jun 2025
When it maximises the revenue return Clive - have you not been listening? |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 21:42 10 Jun 2025
How does your maximising revenue theory track with the home kit not being revealed until August? |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 16:30 10 Jun 2025
The strategy of purposely filtering communication and hiding decisions is disrespectful at best and shouldn't be tolerated. Fúck this ego child and his apathy to supporters. |
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