| Tim Iroegbunam 22:59 - Aug 31 with 6874 views | PeterHucker | There have been some crazy transfers fees going on this summer, but £22 million for Tim Iroegbunam is just downright insane!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/fo This lad didn't exactly pull up any trees on loan in a very poor QPR team a few seasons ago. Since then he's been at Villa and Everton, started less than 50 games, scored zero goals & 4 assists. How da fuq does that make him worth 22 million?!?!?!?!? Someone should show Hull a video of that match when we let in 6 up at soon-to-be-relegated Blackpool. Iroegbunam's attitude that night was a disgrace. Unbelievable lack of effort. That's what Hull will be getting from him in 12 months time when they're back in the Championship. |  | | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 23:12 - Aug 31 with 5765 views | Northernr | A lot of middle of the road players changing hands between middle of the road teams for astonishing sums of money. Can only be FFP/PSR work arounds. |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 23:38 - Aug 31 with 5578 views | qprcm | You could actually just watch him or football and not look at the stats which Everton fans will say how impressive he is off the ball with a very high potential.Not some random game where he was on loan at 19 where you could see flashes of how good he can be His attitude overall for a teenager who was loaned to play under a certain manager who left was very good and he scored an important goal for us against Watford |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 05:17 - Sep 1 with 5109 views | Wilkinswatercarrier | One of those players who youngsters seem to bang on about, a baller apparently. 24 next birthday and is a Championship level.player so a good fit for Hull. |  |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 06:38 - Sep 1 with 4943 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 05:17 - Sep 1 by Wilkinswatercarrier | One of those players who youngsters seem to bang on about, a baller apparently. 24 next birthday and is a Championship level.player so a good fit for Hull. |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 07:06 - Sep 1 with 4836 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 05:17 - Sep 1 by Wilkinswatercarrier | One of those players who youngsters seem to bang on about, a baller apparently. 24 next birthday and is a Championship level.player so a good fit for Hull. |
His stats would suggest he’s very much not a baller but is very good at one specific thing which is getting about the pitch and stopping the other team playing, so I can kind of see the logic for Hull who won’t have much of the ball and need some legs in midfield. Not for £22m but transfer fees are becoming almost meaningless in the Premier League. Credit to the guy in a way for, presumably going entirely on his numbers as it’s not like I’m watching Everton regularly, changing his game to play at a higher level rather than being Ballie Ballerson in the lower leagues because you wouldn’t have said there’s that sort of player in there at 19. |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 07:06 - Sep 1 with 4836 views | Gus_iom |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 23:38 - Aug 31 by qprcm | You could actually just watch him or football and not look at the stats which Everton fans will say how impressive he is off the ball with a very high potential.Not some random game where he was on loan at 19 where you could see flashes of how good he can be His attitude overall for a teenager who was loaned to play under a certain manager who left was very good and he scored an important goal for us against Watford |
I watched him a lot closer then he watched the player on his shoulder. But £50m for Rory Delap, more career yellows then goals, tops it for me. |  |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 07:48 - Sep 1 with 4661 views | nix |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 07:06 - Sep 1 by Watford_Ranger | His stats would suggest he’s very much not a baller but is very good at one specific thing which is getting about the pitch and stopping the other team playing, so I can kind of see the logic for Hull who won’t have much of the ball and need some legs in midfield. Not for £22m but transfer fees are becoming almost meaningless in the Premier League. Credit to the guy in a way for, presumably going entirely on his numbers as it’s not like I’m watching Everton regularly, changing his game to play at a higher level rather than being Ballie Ballerson in the lower leagues because you wouldn’t have said there’s that sort of player in there at 19. |
That’s interesting as it’s the main thing he didn’t do when he played for us, largely disappearing from matches for periods which drove me potty. Does seem a lot though but then I haven’t really seen him play Premiership football. |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 07:56 - Sep 1 with 4604 views | MedwayR | £13m with £9m in add-ons is more reasonable, but still a lot for a player that’s never done a lot. He was always available for us which is more than Laird, Roberts etc could say. The current premier league market is insane, no doubt driven by the wonderfully successful FFP or whatever it’s called now. Bang average players going for £50m+, half-decent players being sold for £100m+, mind blowing really. |  |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 08:03 - Sep 1 with 4549 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 07:06 - Sep 1 by Gus_iom | I watched him a lot closer then he watched the player on his shoulder. But £50m for Rory Delap, more career yellows then goals, tops it for me. |
I would agree but let’s give some of these Spurs signings a chance to prove otherwise. |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 08:05 - Sep 1 with 4523 views | mcqpr10 | He was one of these hyped up academy kids who although clearly had talent would have benefited from playing 100+ games in the championship. |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 08:25 - Sep 1 with 4406 views | DWQPR |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 07:06 - Sep 1 by Gus_iom | I watched him a lot closer then he watched the player on his shoulder. But £50m for Rory Delap, more career yellows then goals, tops it for me. |
£50million for Delap is a joke. North Battersea bought him for £30million last season, he did 7/8th of fùck all for them and they make a 20million profit! Looking at the BBC sports website this morning and the potential moves that might be happening today and the values for players I’ve never heard of is obscene. FFP or whatever it is now is a complete joke. Scrap the whole thing and let the big teams spend themselves into oblivion. It is so refreshing when reading that we are the lowest spending club (ok along with the financial mess that is SheffU), and yet we have put together a really decent squad for this season. Ok, we may have taken risks with Lamptey and Cirkin but on the evidence so far they look like risks worth taking. [Post edited 1 Sep 8:25]
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 08:41 - Sep 1 with 4300 views | E17hoop |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 08:25 - Sep 1 by DWQPR | £50million for Delap is a joke. North Battersea bought him for £30million last season, he did 7/8th of fùck all for them and they make a 20million profit! Looking at the BBC sports website this morning and the potential moves that might be happening today and the values for players I’ve never heard of is obscene. FFP or whatever it is now is a complete joke. Scrap the whole thing and let the big teams spend themselves into oblivion. It is so refreshing when reading that we are the lowest spending club (ok along with the financial mess that is SheffU), and yet we have put together a really decent squad for this season. Ok, we may have taken risks with Lamptey and Cirkin but on the evidence so far they look like risks worth taking. [Post edited 1 Sep 8:25]
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This is, however, why we keep buying tickets for this lottery. We caught one with Eze, and this is why we're investing in Bennie, Vale, et al., in the hope their number comes up. |  |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 09:42 - Sep 1 with 4036 views | TK1 | Some amazingly tight knickers getting in a twist about a transfer between Everton and Hull here, on this QPR forum. Just to correct the OP: it's a £12 million transfer upfront, with add-ons that could come to £22 million. If he achieves those add-ons, he'd be worth it. Bearing in mind he cost Everton just over £9 million two summers ago, has since played 50 games, with 30 coming last season when he was good value in that team. So, a £3 million mark up in two years of PL football for a mobile, strong, technically sound 23-year-old English midfielder seems reasonable, perhaps even decent value in today's deadline day market. |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 10:02 - Sep 1 with 3915 views | Hoopsie | If we get promoted, a big IF but nonetheless attainable, I am guessing our players values will see an instant markup premium Saito, 10 m Madsen, 15 m Chair, 15 m Smyth 12 m Edwards 20 m Vale 12 m Lamprey 25 m Cirkin 15 m Kone 20 m Burrell 15 m even Varane 8 m With add-ons their value will be off the roof This Iroegbunam value will make the above very believable But let’s get to the PL then their values will take care of themselves |  |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 10:20 - Sep 1 with 3830 views | LazyFan | He's an AMC, but he wants to play DMC, which he is not, as he's not a good enough tackler and does not track back the way a DMC needs to. As an AMC, he's more of a 5-yard passer than the creative player like Chair. And as he hasn't developed himself that way, as he wants to be a DMC, he therefore has not evolved as a player. Therefore, as others have said, a Champ player at best. When Hull go down, and they will go down, he will stay in the Champ with them for a long time. If, I was him, I would have stayed at Everton. Even as a sub your a prem player. Once you're out of the Prem, it's really hard to get back in again. |  |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 10:56 - Sep 1 with 3674 views | TK1 |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 10:20 - Sep 1 by LazyFan | He's an AMC, but he wants to play DMC, which he is not, as he's not a good enough tackler and does not track back the way a DMC needs to. As an AMC, he's more of a 5-yard passer than the creative player like Chair. And as he hasn't developed himself that way, as he wants to be a DMC, he therefore has not evolved as a player. Therefore, as others have said, a Champ player at best. When Hull go down, and they will go down, he will stay in the Champ with them for a long time. If, I was him, I would have stayed at Everton. Even as a sub your a prem player. Once you're out of the Prem, it's really hard to get back in again. |
"If I was him, I'd stay at Everton..." Amazing. If you were him, indeed. He's going to Hull because he'll get a signing on fee worth QPR's weekly wage bill, and if they stay up he'll get a bonus worth more than any player we could sign and Everton will get the balance of that £22 million. So it's quids in all round and there's no guarantee than Everton will have any kind of season or that Moyes will see Christmas there. Of course he goes. Incidentally, when did you last watch him play a full match? Because he's the not the player you describe. He and Garner play in a double pivot and were dominant in the game they drew with City last May that I watched: he's an excellent midfielder, 23 years-old with a high ceiling and over 100 games under belt. This discourse seems to be about a 19-year-old who played in arguably the most mental QPR season in a decade, under Beale, Critchley and Ainsworth. He's not that guy! |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 11:57 - Sep 1 with 3438 views | Aitch |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 23:12 - Aug 31 by Northernr | A lot of middle of the road players changing hands between middle of the road teams for astonishing sums of money. Can only be FFP/PSR work arounds. |
Outside of professional sports I believe it's known as money laundering. |  |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 12:39 - Sep 1 with 3251 views | Stocktake | He seemed to be well liked by the rest of the squad I recall and didn't down tools as others have said. Thought he was ok tackling but definitely not a Roy Keane type. |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 13:28 - Sep 1 with 3065 views | derbyhoop |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 09:42 - Sep 1 by TK1 | Some amazingly tight knickers getting in a twist about a transfer between Everton and Hull here, on this QPR forum. Just to correct the OP: it's a £12 million transfer upfront, with add-ons that could come to £22 million. If he achieves those add-ons, he'd be worth it. Bearing in mind he cost Everton just over £9 million two summers ago, has since played 50 games, with 30 coming last season when he was good value in that team. So, a £3 million mark up in two years of PL football for a mobile, strong, technically sound 23-year-old English midfielder seems reasonable, perhaps even decent value in today's deadline day market. |
Not just PL-PL transfers. Villa are prepared to pay up to £29m for Harwood-Bellis from Southampton. £29m???? For Harwood-Bellis????? |  |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 13:49 - Sep 1 with 2992 views | QPunkR |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 09:42 - Sep 1 by TK1 | Some amazingly tight knickers getting in a twist about a transfer between Everton and Hull here, on this QPR forum. Just to correct the OP: it's a £12 million transfer upfront, with add-ons that could come to £22 million. If he achieves those add-ons, he'd be worth it. Bearing in mind he cost Everton just over £9 million two summers ago, has since played 50 games, with 30 coming last season when he was good value in that team. So, a £3 million mark up in two years of PL football for a mobile, strong, technically sound 23-year-old English midfielder seems reasonable, perhaps even decent value in today's deadline day market. |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 15:37 - Sep 1 with 2836 views | TK1 |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 13:49 - Sep 1 by QPunkR | Are you his agent? |
I wish. Three new contracts and signing bonuses at three PL clubs in four years is a bit of a touch, percentage-wise, for a player destined to spend the rest of his career in the EFL, based on this thread. |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 17:49 - Sep 1 with 2588 views | connell10 |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 23:12 - Aug 31 by Northernr | A lot of middle of the road players changing hands between middle of the road teams for astonishing sums of money. Can only be FFP/PSR work arounds. |
How are Wrexham getting away with it ? |  |
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| Tim Iroegbunam on 20:48 - Sep 1 with 2264 views | nick_hammersmith |
Why do they always have stupid nick names as well? Leroy Fer wanted to be known as "The Bouncer" I doubt he could have kept the door at a kindergarten, soppy waste of space he was... |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 20:50 - Sep 1 with 2252 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 17:49 - Sep 1 by connell10 | How are Wrexham getting away with it ? |
Wrexham have loads of cash coming in, so they are well ahead on current profit and sustainability rules. Lots of tier one sponsorship, which will hopefully dry up if they continue to stagnate in the Championship |  | |  |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 22:55 - Sep 1 with 2031 views | PeterHucker |
| Tim Iroegbunam on 12:39 - Sep 1 by Stocktake | He seemed to be well liked by the rest of the squad I recall and didn't down tools as others have said. Thought he was ok tackling but definitely not a Roy Keane type. |
I must've been watching a different Tim Iroegbunam to many of you when he was at QPR. I don't care if he's well-liked by the rest of the players. I expect the same is true of the bloke who drives the coach. He certainly did down tools when he was with us. He had about as much effect on most games as other lacklustre midfielders we've had. He was basically a younger Karl Henry but people gave him a free pass because they believed the hype. [Post edited 1 Sep 22:56]
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