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Reply | De Zerbi....
at 07:29 19 May 2024
That's what the smart money seems to be saying, given they generally open their wallets sufficeiently widely to bring in the top talent.
There is a school of thought that he might go to AC Milan. but they work more closely to Brighton's model, and do put more emphasis on bringing youth through the system into the first team, which it seems is where de Zerbi has got frustrated with how this season has gone. |
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Reply | Player of the season nominees
at 12:15 15 May 2024
Olise at Palace.
Granted, he's been injured a lot, but the impact he has made when he has been fit has been clear for all to see. |
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Reply | Women’s cup final
at 16:40 12 May 2024
Your surname isn't "Barton", by any chance is ii...?
Just wondering.. |
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Reply | End of Season Review - Live Now On The Patreon
at 10:57 12 May 2024
Well said, Antti, although to be honest I'm not sure that obnoxious idiot deserved such a polite and well formulated response as you've given him.
Mine (and I strongly suspect most other people's) would have been a lot more direct and to the point, as it will be should he decide to waste his and everybody else's time by posting again. |
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Reply | Aaron Drewe
at 17:40 9 May 2024
Flipping this around to the positive, its clear that Nourry has a very clear vison of how he wants next season to look in terms of the profile of the first-team squad, but also what the Academy should be producing, and how that whole pathway should be working.
Its not even a week since the season ended, but we've already had significant movement both in terms of contract extensions and dealing with expirations.
At youth level, Trialist A, B, C, D, E and F all seem to be making regular appearances at both U-23 and U-18 level, so it suggests that words have indeed been had..
Stuff is occurring... |
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Reply | West London Sport Podcast
at 09:34 8 May 2024
Nourry made a big play of this in his "This is Who I Am" intro interview a few months back.
With the amount of dosh that's been thrown at Heston, the "re-organisation" that saw them dump Ramsey and effectively make the DoF role redundant, I'm 100% sure that he and Ruben have "done the math" on this, especially with the headlines surrounding another Eze move and what that means for cash potentially coming into our grubby little mits. |
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Reply | Where will we finish next season ???
at 13:00 7 May 2024
If Marti had had a full season, and assuming that the points won ratio stayed the same over 46 as it did over the 32 games he presided over this term, we'd have got 69 points this season, which is the same as Middlesbrough actually managed, who finished 8th.
Lots of "ifs" in that sentence, but its still an interesting metric to consider.
Of course, there are likely to be personnel changes for next season, and there may be quite a few, depending on how contract negotiations go, but there are clearly a bundle of good reasons to be optimistic. |
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Reply | Lucas Anderson
at 12:27 7 May 2024
He believes it puts the club in a position of weakness when it comes time to negotiate extensions or sales, by giving other clubs notice ahead of time. |
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Reply | The season that was - Preview
at 11:33 4 May 2024
Clive: I just want to pick up on your "ostracised by Ainsworth" line in relation to Chris Willock, as this came up last week in the "Willock - Will He Stay?" thread.
Do we know for definite that Ainsworth proactively ostracised him? I accept that he clearly didn't play him as much as we all thought he should have done. However, you yourself pointed out that Willock's effort levels and body language had already looked to be severely lacking for some time.
I remember Ian McCullough asking Ainsworth directly about this, and the answer came back: "He needs to improve his fitness - Chris knows what he needs to do". That response doesn't sound like a manager ostracising a player. It just sounds like a manager trying to set some house rules and expecting a player to comply with them.
If memory serves me correctly, this had come to something of a head when Uncle Snake Oil Michael Boilface had just slimed his way in at Ibrox, and had very publicly declared his
supposed lack of desire to "take advantage of a situation at QPR" (very decent of you, old chap - I'm sure we all believe you) to seduce Willock into signing for him there. This clearly didn't go down too well with young Christopher, who had, I believe, already tweeted his "God moves in mysterious ways" post from his hospital bed, replete with a blue shirt, remarkably similar in design to the home kit of the club where his former manager was now residing..
Under those circumstances, I'm not sure you can blame Ainsworth for holding out on Willock, and maybe the introductions late on in games was actually his way of saying to Willock that there was a way back for him, if he just did what he was being asked to do (not unreasonably)? |
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Reply | The season that was - Preview
at 11:07 4 May 2024
I don't think any of us need to worry on that count at all.
Its pretty obvious that Christian Nourry has a massive amount of man-love for Marti Cifuentes, and I'm sure that Andy Belk will revel in being given very clear precise defined paramaters to work within, which I'm in no doubt at all he will be.
I think we can - for once - relax, knowing we actually resemble a living, breathing proper professional football club again. |
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Reply | Spackman
at 12:24 2 May 2024
is the fact that several people have given the same reasoning, in itself a Spackman?  |
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Reply | Retained list
at 14:59 1 May 2024
You would imagine they're going to go BIG on this: Interview with Christian Nourry, maybe wheel the owners out again, long interview with Marti etc all about what the Vision is going forwards and how that plays out in who we're keeping and why. |
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Reply | Gareth Ainsworth Wellbeing!
at 17:36 29 Apr 2024
As referenced on another thread, the guy lost his job in October, two senior executives responsible for his appointment fell on their sword shortly afterwards and we have a new CEO in place who was directly responsible for recommending Marti Cifuentes to the board originally, and was instrumental in his appointment this time around.
I think you can safely relax now - I would respectfully suggest that the powers at be aren't in need of having the various charts shoved down their throat that you were keen to do earlier this weekend. |
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Reply | Who do we want to get relegated?
at 15:05 28 Apr 2024
I agree, which is a real shame, given how welcoming their fans are to us, and the fact they try to play attaractive football and produce some good players.
Like the majority, I'd love it to be Birmingham for their lazy, ill-researched attempts to try to buy their way out of trouble, but I think they'll bore their way to a draw next wekend, whilst Hull are bang in form, as we know, and will be all guns blazing at Home Park. |
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Reply | How far ahead do QPR need to be for you to feel safe from losing !!
at 14:57 28 Apr 2024
Me too. I think that 3rd goal was a really significant indicator of how far this team has progressed over the last few weeks.
Even in the early weeks under Saint Marti, I don't think we'd have scored it, expecially given that it came from some clever and strong movement from Dykes.
To score that 3rd, and then to continue to go for the jugular by pressing high for the fourth - when was the last time that Rangers have truly done that? Probably that win against Reading a few years back. |
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Reply | Watch me rise up and leave, all the ashes you made out of me – Report
at 13:06 28 Apr 2024
For those of my vintage, (first LR visit in Dec '75 in THAT season) and particularly for those who are advanced in years enough to remember the very beginning of the Jim Gregory era and experienced the highs and the higher highs of a halcyon dozen or so years, that report brought tears of joy to my eyes and reminded me emphatically why we keep doing this to ourselves.
A 4-0 home win, live on Sky Sports Leeds, where even Don Goodman had to say more than one nice thing about us - PERFECTION!
And perfection from yourself to match, Mr. Whittingham. I can't see even the regular "I can't stop myself from p*ssing on your chips" anally challenged curmudgeons that inhabit our beloved Forum picking apart any of your prize-winning poetry this time around. |
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