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Post by QPR Report on Apr 23, 2009 15:38:12 GMT
Sounds so unlikely - and not a good use of money
- London Informer/Paul Warburton - Well-travelled Warnock comes at quite a price for QPR-
QPR ARE torn over whether to cough up a whopping £2million to bring Neil Warnock to the club as their new manager - or go for a much cheaper option.- The Crystal Palace boss has jumped to the head of the queue after Rangers cooled over moves to reunite Luigi Di Canio with caretaker boss Gareth Ainsworth. - Fans' favourite Ainsworth will be retained in some coaching capacity, but Rs have dropped interest in their former Italian manager, who left the club last summer.- However, Warnock openly praised the set-up he found at Rangers when he visited for the 0-0 draw between Hoops and Palace at the beginning of the month. - He has friends on the Rs board - but the fly in the ointment is around £1m in compensation the Eagles will ask for the much-travelled coach as well as Warnock's own wage demands. - Your favourite local paper has learned owner Flavio Briatore is warming to the idea of the 60-year-old taking over, even though he knows he will get a larger than life character that regularly hits the headlines for better or worse. - The QPR chairman is in no hurry to appoint, however, while he mulls over 20-plus applications from a host of top names. Luiz Felipe Scolari, Sven Goran-Eriksson and Roy Keane are three of the latest to be linked with the job - none are likely to be interviewed.
- * QPR WILL make around £100,000 from a five-day tour to Bahrain at the end of the season as part of their sponsored tie-in with Gulf Air. - The Hoops fly out just two days after their final game of the season at Preston, with one or two grumbling over cancelled private holiday arrangements. However, even the walking wounded will be the club's ambassadors on the tour that sees them take on the Bahrain national team on May 7. London Informer
Dazzling Taarabt top of QPR's wish list - Apr 23 2009 London Informer - QPR WANT Adel Taarabt for the entirety of next season after the Spurs youngster's impressive performances over the last five matches. - The 19-year-old Moroccan has dazzled the faithful with a blend of audacious dribbling skills and enthusiasm for the Rs cause that resulted in the winning goal in the 2-1 triumph over Bristol City last month. - Tottenham are unwilling to sell Taarabt to Rangers, but will view a longer loan campaign in the Championship as a learning curve in the midfielder's development.
However, the jury's still out over whether to offer Spanish midfielder Jordi Lopez a new deal when his current contract runs out in July.- The former Real Mallorca player scored a stunning free-kick in the same Bristol match as Taarabt - but injury curtailed a perfect run in March and earlier this month. And doubts over the 28-year-old's fitness scuppered his move to Birmingham in December. An Rs insider said: "It will depend on how the new manager sees things, as well as Jordi's wage demands." London Informer
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Post by andyg199 on Apr 23, 2009 15:44:50 GMT
I would not understand why Lopez wouldn't be signed. He seems to be reliably fit despite earlier injuries, and he has played very well most games (not just because of a headline grabbing free kick). He tackles, works hard and has good passing and vision. And he seems to care a lot.
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Post by Zamoraaaah on Apr 23, 2009 15:47:49 GMT
I agree Lopez looks very good at this level and will only improve as he adjusts to the league. I wonder if it has anything to do with him being a Sousa signing?
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Post by sandyhoops on Apr 23, 2009 16:52:44 GMT
Lopez looked very fit when he came back into the side against Sheff Weds and, again, at Wolves - I dont see his fitness as being relevant, do you?
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Post by QPR Report on Apr 23, 2009 16:56:34 GMT
Anyway I don't see how the fitness of a player should have any bearing on whether we should sign him
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Post by eusebio13 on Apr 23, 2009 16:59:29 GMT
Actually Lopez is more influential than Taarabt (whom I like immensely), we missed him hugely against Palace who out muscled us. This is all about people not understanding balance in teams and many people who when asked what team they'd play will fill them with skill players and you wonder who will win the ball. PS £2m for Warnock is preposterous
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Post by blockhead on Apr 23, 2009 17:02:20 GMT
good evening.
two million- is that the pay off, but paid in advance?
I cannot see our board taking a risk like that, do we actually want a manager anyway?
the set-up would have me believe that anyone with the badges would fit the bill.
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Post by sirpiechucker on Apr 24, 2009 8:05:52 GMT
Will the money becoming out of the budget for buying players?
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Post by Markqpr on Apr 24, 2009 8:33:11 GMT
Lopez looked very fit when he came back into the side against Sheff Weds and, again, at Wolves - I dont see his fitness as being relevant, do you? I have to disagree as Lopez in my mind is only 80% fit. If he got a pre-season (he was not attached to any club last pre-season) with us and was fully fit he would play 90mins every game. In fact my one gripe with him is the fact that he is not fully fit and so we have to sub him nearly every game which costs us a tactical substitution and means we lose one of our better players for the last part of the game (with Di Canio as manager that would be suicidal!) He is without doubt a priority signing for me. Eus is right (standard), Lopez makes a huge difference to our midfield and I would have his name down on the team sheet before Taraabt. I think he would be crucial in our development of a stronger squad for next season. He is also a player who I like to watch. He knows when to track back, how to read the game, how to tackle, is brave, intelligent, knows when to make a simple pass, is always looking to go forward and start an attack and makes few mistakes for a player with no experience in this league. Played alongside Rowlands and not Miller and he would be even more effective. He is also a free transfer and I doubt a better player is out there for cheaper. Oh yeah, the post topic: doubt we will pay £2m for Warnock but then I doubt the validity of this story as it comes from an exceptionally ill-reputed source whose lawyers are the biggest earners in their office. Another story without so much as a quote or fact to furnish their theory just public knowledge. If I had a quid for everytime Warburton put 2+2 together and came up with 5....................I'd pay for Lopez! I've an idea Warburton. Put down the keyboard, pick up a notepad and pen, leave your desk and actually report a story that exists with actual facts after you have actually spoken to the people involved. Stop just dreaming up theories with no actual reporting. Lazy journalism again.
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Post by grumpyolde on Apr 24, 2009 8:59:09 GMT
2 million sounds like a lot of money to me for someone to be Ainsworths assistant.
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Post by sirpiechucker on Apr 24, 2009 10:06:44 GMT
Lopez looked very fit when he came back into the side against Sheff Weds and, again, at Wolves - I dont see his fitness as being relevant, do you? I have to disagree as Lopez in my mind is only 80% fit. If he got a pre-season (he was not attached to any club last pre-season) with us and was fully fit he would play 90mins every game. In fact my one gripe with him is the fact that he is not fully fit and so we have to sub him nearly every game which costs us a tactical substitution and means we lose one of our better players for the last part of the game (with Di Canio as manager that would be suicidal!) He is without doubt a priority signing for me. Eus is right (standard), Lopez makes a huge difference to our midfield and I would have his name down on the team sheet before Taraabt. I think he would be crucial in our development of a stronger squad for next season. He is also a player who I like to watch. He knows when to track back, how to read the game, how to tackle, is brave, intelligent, knows when to make a simple pass, is always looking to go forward and start an attack and makes few mistakes for a player with no experience in this league. Played alongside Rowlands and not Miller and he would be even more effective. He is also a free transfer and I doubt a better player is out there for cheaper. Agree about Lopez. I think Taraabt is a good prospect but don't understand why we bought Cook if a few weeks later we've already replaced him? Great competition for places but it seems like we've signed someone who the club don't fully back.
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Post by Zamoraaaah on Apr 24, 2009 10:13:14 GMT
Maybe Cook's knees really are gone? *looks up at the sky for Flav's black helicopter gunship*
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Post by andyg199 on Apr 24, 2009 10:14:21 GMT
I think it's just Taarabt is better and it's never too soon to bring in a better player. He can't cross like Cook though, and doesn't use the ball as well most of the time.
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Post by sirpiechucker on Apr 24, 2009 10:19:54 GMT
I think it's just Taarabt is better and it's never too soon to bring in a better player. He can't cross like Cook though, and doesn't use the ball as well most of the time. I've absolutely no problem signing better players and creating competition amongst the squad but to sign someone permanently in January who has spent the entire season under performing and then to bring someone else in doesn't make financial sense.
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Post by sirpiechucker on Apr 24, 2009 18:19:45 GMT
Tonight's London Lite says that Zola will sign a new £1m a year deal to manage West Ham. If this figure is right and the figure about Warnock it would mean Warnock is demand the same money as a manager for mid table Premiership team.
Hmmm....
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Post by londonranger on Apr 24, 2009 21:03:59 GMT
No mates, he has to give us 2 million to manage. Brie feels anyone connected to QPR should pay for the privilege.
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Post by Markqpr on Apr 25, 2009 9:16:23 GMT
Agree about Lopez. I think Taraabt is a good prospect but don't understand why we bought Cook if a few weeks later we've already replaced him? Great competition for places but it seems like we've signed someone who the club don't fully back. The reason we blindly bought Cook back is symptomatic of our problems with our transfer policy. The first reason is simply after 1 season without Cook we failed to find a replacement. At the time the club was living hand to mouth on handouts though and so a scout to find that replacement was not there and so neither was the replacement. We ended up with Hogie, who I like, though was played out of position to fill the gap and suffered as a result. He is much better down the middle with freedom to go out wide but he is not the like for like winger we needed. The second reason was to satiate the supporters when the ticket price rises were announced. It worked, we got 'our' Cook back on loan, we accepted the prices and turned up with optimism at the start of the season. The loan deal was with a view to a purchase if Cook played a certain number of games in order to prove his fitness, which he did, so therefore we were obligated to buy him. All in all we sold a player who needed surgery to another club, who payed for the surgery and Cook's wages during his recovery, got him back up to first team fitness and then bought him back at a cheaper price after receiving his signing on bonus as a donation. If Cook gets his form back next season then that will be a perfect deal! I would give him another season to prove himself, some players take their time coming back from an injury and in Cook's case I hope that is so.
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Post by QPR Report on Apr 25, 2009 9:22:49 GMT
Except I think we paid in the million pound range for Hogan - and he was bought during the Briatore era... And also paid in the million pound range for Cook. And if we made that "must buy after certain number of games" - Not such a great deal.
But I'd say you make a valid argument. And at least you're not using the argument that BECAUSE Cook is a QPR fan, gave us money, means ipso facto, he's beyond critique. Now would be interesting if Sousa actually said what the poster claimed he said.
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Post by QPR Report on Apr 25, 2009 10:47:25 GMT
And a poster on dot.org is also pretty certain it's him. Now maybe it's all bs. We'll find out.
On the other hand, never forget, the man did turn down Chelsea, so that's one feather in his cap already!
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