Flashback to the Faurlin Signing

But it was all Magilton and Gorman, right? Because those financial details sound like they'd take some working out

But seriously, the agents cut is very important.

www.colosia.com/groupcsportslaw.htm

London Paper/Gerry Cox - New QPR signing Alejandro Faurlin is tipped to be a crowd-pleaser by Hoops boss Jim Magilton
Manager impressed by Argentine's ability to create chances

Jim Magilton says he needed just one look at new signing Alejandro Faurlin to realise that the Argentinian midfielder can become a real crowd-pleaser at QPR.

Faurlin became Magilton’s first signing as the new Rangers manager when he agreed a £3.5m fee with Argentine club Instituto for the 22-year-.old.

Magilton and assistant John Gorman had spotted Faurlin among hundreds of DVDs sent in by agents, and he said: “He stood out, so John flew to South America to see him in action. We got him over on trial and straightaway we could see what he was like.

“He’s been terrific in training, his attitude is good and he has a real hunger. I think the fans will take to him, and we hope he can hit the ground running.”

Gorman added: “He’s a big lad – 6ft 2 ins – with a great left foot, but he doesn’t just sit out on the wing. He loves to get in there, he can create chances and make things happen.”

Both men are fired up by the challenge ahead at Loftus Road, with Magilton admitting that he had learned from his first experience of management, at Ipswich.

"He doesn’t just sit out on the wing. He loves to get in there, he can create chances and make things happen"
He was replaced by Roy Keane towards the end of last season, which was disappointing after he had taken to the fringe of the play-offs the year before.

He said: “There are areas where I know I went wrong, and it is important to analyse and reflect on the good and bad things. What I do know is this division and the players in it, and John and I are ambitious for this club.

“You can’t knock enthusiasm and a love of the game, and we’ve got a surprisingly good group of players here.”

He revealed that former David Connolly could yet be signed if he impresses in pre-season.

The former Watford and Ireland striker is a free agent and training with QPR as part of his rehabilitation from almost 18 months out with injury.

“We will see how he gets on,” said Magilton.

Thanks London...

I'd say after all we've seen, skepticism is always the order of the day: As Ronald Reagan used to say "Trust, but Verify"

Meanwhile we supposedly have an International Forward. More research required!

Assume that players, agents, managers and directors move around from Club to Club. They do.

Assume that it doesn't take them by surprise. They know it.

Assume that they intend to move around from Club to Club.

Managers take players they like from one Club to another. Assume they intend to do that all along. Their loyalty is to their own 'stable'. Their agent, their players.

Assume they negotiate their contracts - and the players do the same - on the basis, not that they'll be staying for years, but that they'll be on the move very quickly.

Assume that the directors - like the manager and the players - know that any Club will win some, lose some.

And they all know that sacking time is during a losing streak. It doesn't take long to realise that most managers, like most players and most directors, have no idea how to win things.

Assume that they aren't trying to. Not with any expectation that they will succeed. Most of them must realise they're not up to it very early in their careers.

Assume that the supporters notice this very quickly. They do.

So the manager and players must be prepared to move on fast. Especially as the tendency is to hype them way beyond their abilities. Hope soon turns to hostility.

Assume that a managr isn't replaced because losing isn't good enough, but because losing is when you replacea manager. And he isn't replaced because his successor knows more than him, but because his successor is someone else.

Assume that the whole point of making a change isn't to get a better manager, but to get another manager. The manager isn't the issue, the change is the issue.

Change something, and you can start making all the same mistakes again from scratch. And restart the losing money process as if it's from scratch. Leave the existing debt intact, and pile on even more liabilities.

Tell me that hasn't happened at QPR, United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Fulham and anywhere else. It has. And the process is accelerating. We've lost £6 million, double what we lost just a few years ago.

Assume that Clubs run on losses and debt not because they must pay for success, but becasue they must pay for failure, and pay fast because the failures will be soon on their way.

Inept players, unknown players, hopeless managers are fed back into the system at a slightly different point every time to siphon off everything that is of value at a Club. It is amazing how players who've been useless at 10 Clubs end up at QPR, as great white hopes.

Assume that this is happening at an accelerating pace because the Clubs' resources are diminishing fast. Earnings are not enough, assets have been swallowed up by debt. Attendances will fall as prices rise to cover the shortfall between losses and earnings.

Sound familiar? And even a Club the size of Liverpool are finding it difficult to meet the current instalments on their 20 year loans already. So when all the other Clubs' measurable earnings over the next 20 or 30 years have all been spent, or the period of time becomes too speculative and the moneylenders back off, what will be left to borrow against?

And what is going on now. At United. Or Real. Or QPR. Cutting back. Lowering wages. Reducing losses. Repaying debts.

Not a bit of it. If that happens, all the losers earn less and less as more and more of the Clubs' limited earnings goes backwards in time to cover losses incurred perhaps decades ago.

The worse the situation gets, the more frenzied it all becomes. the spending. Even in the face of a recession, or 15 years of failure. We're almost relegated and double the prices. Lucky we didn't go down. It might be £1,500 a seat.

But Assumptions can go into reverse. The benefit of the doubt might suddenly vanish. Instead of saviours, investors, managers, players might be treated like uninvited strangers wandering around in your house in the middle of the night. Guilty of housebreaking just because they're there.

We shouldn't make false claims ourselves. So why should we swallow theirs wholesale.

Well Ingham, thanks for your missive which helps me in one way and confuses me in another. So the Argentine move was an Ipswich immigration so thats the agents who seem to do very well thank you in contrast to the accumulative debt that is the ebb and flow or the life force or death force of football.

Meanwhile the Glazer family have told their Mancunians Spend Away buy to your hearts content despite their enormous debt. So its not all that bad especially when you can walk away from it. But switch to Formula One for a minute. If Briatore put rusted parts in his cars and engines and hired drivers with 20/50 vision he would be out of business.

But with football buy a stranger from a strange land buy cripples and unexamined and cast offs and it sells, but like you said, it doesnt win. So is that the point, winning is everything in Fl but not important in football. if you can use it as a hedge or leverage against and for other businesses.

Look at Middlesbrough, look at Newcastle, southampton Charlton, Forest, Leeds. Brilliant piece and nail-head we get what we get

and live with it or laugh or be bitter.

Alternatively Paladini in his Interview with SM

"...Moving onto the playing side now, how did we find Faurlin and what was paid for him?

Gianni started by asking me what I thought of him. I said that I really rated him, and still think he has been one of our best signings for a long time. Gianni nodded and agreed, and said what a huge admirer of him he is.

Faurlin came as a recommendation from a close friend I have at Inter Milan. They had been watching him for quite some time, but eventually decided that he probably wouldn’t be good enough to fit into their plans. My friend got on the phone to me and said “Get over there quickly, you HAVE to see this kid play, he would be brilliant for QPR” so that’s what we did. We went over to Argentina to watch him play, and of all the games to do it - he goes and gets himself sent off! But the talent that he had was clear to see, we knew he would be a great signing. We started talking with him, and found that his contract was due to expire at the end of that season. He verbally agreed to sign for us there and then.

As for the fee, it can rise to £3.5 million if certain clauses are met, but it wasn’t paid upfront. "

Dave McIntyre

Dave McIntyre/BBC606 - Magilton eyes first signing
Rangers are hoping to sign Argentine playmaker Alejandro Damian Faurlin.

- The 22-year-old’s performances for Argentine side Instituto have sparked interest from a number of Italian clubs, but QPR will this week try to persuade him to join them.
- Jim Magilton has looked to Argentina before, signing Luciano Civelli for Ipswich last season, and John Gorman recently visited there on a scouting mission.
- Following his return, an approach for Faurlin was made and the player is due to fly to London and have talks with Rangers on Monday, so more on this tomorrow.

And how we discussed it
qprreport.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=4862&page=1

Gianni, you da man, Person of the year for my choice.

Oh dear

Petey is a liar

He discovered gravity and let Newton have the credit.

Ahhhh Yrag, the consumate Left Back that Half of the top Champions League teams wanted but we needed him for our our campaign.