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Reply | Ziyad Larkeche contract extension
at 12:55 1 Jul 2025
What concerns me most overall on Larkeche is he played 30 games for a side that finished 3rd bottom in the SPL, wasn't far off being in the relegation play-off picture, and who have signed a striker from Barrow this summer to come into their first team squad.
Absolutely nowhere near English Championship level.
At least Lee Wallace played for Rangers and had European experience.
Obviously I'd love Larkeche to come back in and be brilliant, but I have doubts. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 12:47 1 Jul 2025
Yeah, one of my childhood heroes but I never seem to hear him say anything positive about the club. Even the way he stuck the knife in on Ollie MkII and Ainsworth was very disappointing. |
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Reply | Julien Laurens, Raphaël Brosse, Jonathan Johnson all on the Patreon now
at 12:18 26 Jun 2025
Hopefully its just my natural pessimism and of course I want the guy and QPR to do well, but every summer it feels like clubs spend loads of money shifting players in and out only to end up just as good (or bad, depending on your outlook) as they were before it all started anyway, and we've basically just done the same in the managerial position. |
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Reply | Catastrophe, ou formidable? Stéphan steps into Loftus Road hot seat - Column
at 12:15 26 Jun 2025
How can a website claim to have club wage bills for the 2024-25 season when literally not a single one of them will have released financial results for the year, and given their year ends are generally between March and June won't be until the back end of this year and early months of next?
Websites like that are an absolute crock of sh*t.
In addition, Kieran Maguire of Price of Football has got years and years and years of data showing that the vast majority of the time (and there will always be outliers) its wages spent = league position, rather than transfer fees.
But presumably he is wrong and Stainrod's Capology is correct, plus ca change.
Worth my regular reminder that Neil Warnock's low cost team of 2010-11 heroes did in fact have the 2nd highest wage bill in the league, Sheffield United being the big outliers that year in having a high wage bill and in fact getting relegated. [Post edited 26 Jun 15:35]
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Reply | Leicester in more do do
at 12:53 18 Jun 2025
There is a QPR Condor plane flying around Europe though, one of my friends snapped a picture of it when flying recently (not this pic, obvs)
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Reply | John Terry's gaff
at 09:29 13 Jun 2025
No wonder so many footballers go bust within years of retirement though. Easy place to buy and own when you're raking in £150k+ every week but somewhere like that is going to be very expensive to maintain when you're not playing anymore and your earning power has collapsed through the floor, unless you are one of a very lucky few to make it at top level coaching.
Even if he invested lots of money wisely I'm not convinced he'd have enough coming in to keep that place running post-retirement. And he doesn't strike me as the most intelligent to have an investment fund keeping him going. Easy £100k+ per annum to maintain that place, probably way more. |
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Reply | 50 years ....
at 17:14 12 Jun 2025
In his autobiography Stan said he felt the away draws against Sheffield United / Burnley and some others who finished low down earlier in the season were what ultimately cost us rather than the defeat to Norwich. |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 10:16 12 Jun 2025
And as I said on another post somewhere, its all very well doing it and feeling smug and clever until the team is on a giant losing streak, at the bottom of the table, and everyone is screaming blue murder on matchdays. Then you just look stupid.
I see Donald Trump is having a birthday military parade soon, perhaps when its Christian's birthday we can have a parade past the Director's box of all the QPR playing squads, from senior men down to the kids? |
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Reply | Nice work if you can get it!
at 12:43 10 Jun 2025
A couple of our ex-goalies have been recipients of this pension top up in recent years - Tom Heaton back at Man Utd where he started as a youth and Alex Smithies at Leicester. |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 13:36 9 Jun 2025
The thing young Christian is going to learn to his cost very soon is that whilst social media can be used to influence people in the political world and the rights/wrongs/results etc are always subjective and open to intepretation, there is no hiding in football when ultimately all that matters is the result on a Saturday afternoon and when the form table reads "LLLLLLL" there is no hiding place and Gen Z, or any other Gen for that matter, will be on your back very, very quickly, regardless of how much social media buttering you try. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 13:16 9 Jun 2025
You jest of course but I do sometimes wonder how teams would do if they were just left to their own devices in comparison to how they do with a management team. |
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Thread | Premier League Prize Money
at 19:43 27 May 2025
Estimates but I've seen this graphic on Reddit from the Athletic.
£110.9m for Southampton for coming last. Our entire turnover for the 2024 accounting year was £25.9m.
Absolutely, utterly, impossible to compete. Ridiculous state of affairs really.
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Reply | Anyone else not renewed yet?
at 12:47 27 May 2025
As a DD payer the club nicely emailed me about a day after the sale announcement to thank me for renewing my ticket, even though I've technically got until mid-June to cancel.
I will keep it for next year although with a baby at home now I definitely won't do midweeks, and overall probably plan to only do 12 home games to be fair to Mrs SLM. Like others I fear the worst for next year so might be a good year to do it!
I'll aim to try and sell my ST seat for the games I don't go to to recoup some cash, might be this way for a few years until little one is old and bigger and I can inflict misery on her for the next seven or eight decades (all being well!) of her life. |
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Reply | Is it time to admit that Ultras are the way forward?
at 18:59 17 May 2025
They make lots of noise and it makes a fun atmosphere to listen to, better than a dead stadium.
I watched the last couple of Scottish Championship games on BBC and noticed the large groups of youngsters watching the games making lots of noise, and yeah the fashion etc may be cringe but you know what, good for them for going out with their mates to support their local club and not joining the Celtic/Rangers bandwagon and never going near a football ground in their lives. |
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Reply | Eze watch - Cup Final
at 18:57 17 May 2025
Oh what we could have done this last decade with the sort of competent leadership and management Palace have had...
Good for them, and pleased for Eze. But sad to know that QPR's best days were long before I was born! |
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Reply | Clubs must submit list of released players by May 17 to EFL
at 22:15 16 May 2025
You can announce players you are offering contracts to as part of that list though, so Jimmy Dunne may appear on an out of contract list but that doesnt in itself mean he's definitely off (although of course the longer we go without an announcement the likelier it is...) |
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Reply | Cup final tangential thoughts.
at 22:14 16 May 2025
Given Dundee's league performances this year I think if we're expecting Larkeche to come back and be our #1 left back we are in big trouble. |
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Reply | Famous people you have met on a plane
at 13:19 12 May 2025
I don't think I have at all, crossed paths with the Southampton squad in 2006 at Heathrow airport, on their way to a pre-season camp somewhere.
My Dad & Step-Mum shared a flight with Huw Edwards to Portugal when the Maddy McCann stuff was going on. Obviously everyone now has a very different view of Huw Edwards to what they would have back then... |
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Reply | Jonathan Varane contract extension
at 08:41 9 May 2025
I really like Varane, I think he had some excellent games last year and showed the potential to be a big player for us. Definitely lacked consistency but he's still young and it was a first year in a new country/new language etc. I have big hopes for him. |
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