Queens Park Rangers

[dom9]

Those good old Wiki boys with their fancy keyboards.

[Bender]

"From my personal point of view, I don't think I was well prepared to come back to the Premier League. It is the hardest league and you need to be fully fit and really ready to compete."
Christopher Samba

[AnfieldForever]

"From my personal point of view, I don't think I was well prepared to come back to the Premier League. It is the hardest league and you need to be fully fit and really ready to compete."
Christopher Samba

Surely £100,000 a week should nudge you in the right direction?

[little dave hedgehog]

not unless he's actually carrying it around with him, in ones. with his legs.

[-V-]

Dropped for being pictured in a Chelsea shirt at a party with David Luiz.

He was already out the team before that photo. I reckon they know he is leaving and they are trying to keep Rob Green happy since he can be decent keeper for them in the championship

[Jaymo]

[QUOTE=Chazza;2634970]Well that was a non event.

Just having a look at the squad and they are going to have trouble shifting some of these.

No. Position Player
1 GK Robert Green
2 MF Samba Diakité
3 DF Armand Traoré
4 MF Shaun Derry
5 DF Christopher Samba
6 DF Clint Hill (captain)
7 MF Park Ji-Sung
8 FW Andrew Johnson
10 MF Adel Taarabt
11 MF Shaun Wright-Phillips
12 FW Jamie Mackie
13 DF Yun Suk-Young
14 MF Esteban Granero
15 DF Nedum Onuoha
16 MF Jermaine Jenas
18 FW Loïc Rémy
19 DF José Bosingwa
20 DF Fábio (on loan from Manchester United)
21 DF Tal Ben Haim
23 MF Junior Hoilett
24 GK Radek Černý
25 FW Bobby Zamora
26 GK Brian Murphy
27 DF Michael Harriman
28 DF Max Ehmer
29 MF Andros Townsend (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur)
33 GK Júlio César
34 FW Rob Hulse
36 MF Bruno Andrade
37 FW Jay Bothroyd
38 DF Luke Young
39 FW DJ Campbell
40 DF Stéphane Mbia
–– FW Angelo Balanta
–– FW Tom Hitchcock
— FW Troy Hewitt

In bold are the players I would be happy to take, as long as:

a) The wages weren't enormous
b) The transfer fee wasn't enormous

[Gibbo]

Granero on the whole has been a bit **** though hasn't he?

[Chazza]

I wouldn't touch Taarabt much as I wouldn't touch Ben Arfa.

Both don't have the right attitude imo.

[Jaymo]

I think they could both do a job for us, and like I said. The right fee and wages, they could improve our squad

[red g]

Granero on the whole has been a bit **** though hasn't he?

hence why think he has said he will stay

[Vermilion]

Tony Fernandes: Neil Warnock is the man to blame for QPR failure.
THE fall-out from QPR’s relegation bears no sign of letting up, with chairman Tony Fernandes yesterday slamming former boss Neil Warnock, claiming his signings have cost the club dearly.

Fernandes took over the club in August 2011 and had just days to strengthen a squad for the Premier League following promotion. He was new to football and although he queried some of the players that were offered to the club, he said he put all his trust in Warnock’s judgment.

“At the time when we arrived we were offered a lot of players, many on free transfers,” he said.

“We questioned a few of these and it wouldn’t be fair for me to name names, but we weren’t long in the business and we deferred to the footballing side of things. We went with what the footballing side said.

“The game before I took over, we lost 4-0 to Bolton. The manager [Warnock] came to me afterwards and said he thought we should buy this player and that player.

“There’s no doubt – and hindsight is a wonderful thing – that some of our buys haven’t worked out, but at the time we went with what the management believed in and if you believe in the management, you listen to what they are saying.”

Warnock brought in Luke Young, Armand Traore, Anton Ferdinand, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Joey Barton in that final week of August. All of them were given lucrative long-term contractsFernandes took over the club in August 2011 and had just days to strengthen a squad for the Premier League following promotion. He was new to football and although he queried some of the players that were offered to the club, he said he put all his trust in Warnock’s judgment.

“At the time when we arrived we were offered a lot of players, many on free transfers,” he said.

“We questioned a few of these and it wouldn’t be fair for me to name names, but we weren’t long in the business and we deferred to the footballing side of things. We went with what the footballing side said.

“The game before I took over, we lost 4-0 to Bolton. The manager [Warnock] came to me afterwards and said he thought we should buy this player and that player.

“There’s no doubt – and hindsight is a wonderful thing – that some of our buys haven’t worked out, but at the time we went with what the management believed in and if you believe in the management, you listen to what they are saying.”

Warnock brought in Luke Young, Armand Traore, Anton Ferdinand, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Joey Barton in that final week of August. All of them were given lucrative long-term contracts.

Barton is now on loan at Marseille after serving a 12-match ban for his violent conduct in the final game of last season at Manchester City, when QPR narrowly survived relegation.

Ferdinand is also on loan, at Bursaspor, while Young has not played a single game this season.

Wright-Phillips has scored only one league goal in two seasons – albeit the winner at Chelsea – while Traore has also been in and out of the side.

New recruits kept arriving when Mark Hughes succeeded Warnock, with Bobby Zamora, Djibril Cisse and Nedum Onuoha joining in January last year. QPR’s wage bill doubled in that first season from £27.6million to £58.5m and the club made a loss of £22.6m. The wage bill has continued to spiral with even more arrivals and in all, Fernandes has spent more than £50m on players, including £20m alone this January on Chris Samba and Loic Remy, as new manager Harry Redknapp hoped the arrival of a commanding defender and a goalscorer would keep Rangers up.

They could not, and QPR were relegated last weekend after winning just four games all season. Finding buyers for many of the signings will not be easy, given the contracts they are on with no clauses for a drop in salary in the event of relegation.

Redknapp, however, has pledged to stay to help the team make an instant return to the Premier League.

“We’ve been through who Harry wants to keep and who he is happy to let go,” said Fernandes. The transfer policy is in place now for next season and beyond.

“Every club in England have players that the manager would rather were not there. I don’t think we’re going to be in a bad position from that. We’ll come out OK.”

Fernandes believes the development of the squad since his arrival means the club are now in a far stronger position when it comes to the transfer market.

“A lot of our investment has gone into building up the squad,” he added. “Now we’re in a position where we can trade. We weren’t able to do that before – we were just buying, buying and buying.”

They will almost certainly have to make that attempt at instant promotion without Remy.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/396423/Tony-Fernandes-Neil-Warnock-is-the-man-to-blame-for-QPR-failure

[Rich]

Cannot stand Warnock but to blame him for QPR's relegation - Crazy.

[Lee]

They've got a lot of work to do in the summer.

Can't blame Warnock. Hughes started putting them into this mess and Harry has continued it.

[Muddled]

As much as I despise Colin ******, they've only got themselves to blame.

Hughes doubled Warnock's wage bill and 'Arry will have added a fair whack more as well as slicing some off for himself, therefore, the people that sign the cheques have allowed it to spiral out of control.

I look forward to hearing Warnock's response to all this, because he won't be able to keep his mouth shut.

[Fivex]

Cannot stand Warnock but to blame him for QPR's relegation - Crazy.

But funny