Post by QPR Report on Apr 12, 2009 15:46:24 GMT
And learning from experience!
Clive Whittingham's (then QPR Rivals) Interview with Paladini.
from three years ago this month: Full intervie at www.clubfanzine.com/QPR/v2.showNews.php?id=7644
"... Did Dean Sturridge go through a medical examination before signing for the club?
".... we had a report about Sturridge and Holloway was keen to get him signed up.
I tried to do a deal with Wolves, you know their guy Moxey, to get him on loan until the end of the season, three months.
This seemed fine but then at the last minute I got a call very early in the morning saying Dean wouldn't come on loan unless he got a deal for another year afterwards.
I spoke to Jim Smith (Sturridge's manager at Derby) and he highly recommended against it. He said if we signed him for a year he'll waste our money. Jim says you need to keep Sturridge hungry.
Holloway wanted him though, the transfer deadline was getting close so the pressure was on to get a deal done.
We spoke to Wolves' medical people about him and they said we could put him right. There was nothing major wrong with him and we'd be able to sort him out. I took him to Italy and everywhere trying to get him fit, it was no good.
So did he have a medical before he signed?
No.
How much money will we lose this season and next?
This season, £1.7 million. Next season I hope we can break even, maybe if we only lose two hundred or three hundred thousand pounds I'd be a happy man. T"
"...People always say "you tell lies, you tell lies, you go back on what you said" but football is like a chess game. If you tell everybody what you're going to do you'll never get anybody.
www.clubfanzine.com/QPR/v2.showNews.php?id=7644
Clive Whittingham's (then QPR Rivals) Interview with Paladini.
from three years ago this month: Full intervie at www.clubfanzine.com/QPR/v2.showNews.php?id=7644
"... Did Dean Sturridge go through a medical examination before signing for the club?
".... we had a report about Sturridge and Holloway was keen to get him signed up.
I tried to do a deal with Wolves, you know their guy Moxey, to get him on loan until the end of the season, three months.
This seemed fine but then at the last minute I got a call very early in the morning saying Dean wouldn't come on loan unless he got a deal for another year afterwards.
I spoke to Jim Smith (Sturridge's manager at Derby) and he highly recommended against it. He said if we signed him for a year he'll waste our money. Jim says you need to keep Sturridge hungry.
Holloway wanted him though, the transfer deadline was getting close so the pressure was on to get a deal done.
We spoke to Wolves' medical people about him and they said we could put him right. There was nothing major wrong with him and we'd be able to sort him out. I took him to Italy and everywhere trying to get him fit, it was no good.
So did he have a medical before he signed?
No.
How much money will we lose this season and next?
This season, £1.7 million. Next season I hope we can break even, maybe if we only lose two hundred or three hundred thousand pounds I'd be a happy man. T"
"...People always say "you tell lies, you tell lies, you go back on what you said" but football is like a chess game. If you tell everybody what you're going to do you'll never get anybody.
www.clubfanzine.com/QPR/v2.showNews.php?id=7644