| Nourry on the transfer window 14:43 - Feb 3 with 1609 views | FDC |
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CEO Christian Nourry has provided an update after the closure of the January transfer window on Monday evening.
Firstly, I want to say thank you for the electric atmosphere that you created at MATRADE Loftus Road on Saturday. I hope you feel that the team and our coaching staff did you proud as they demonstrated that this group can beat any team in the division. I am excited to see what we can achieve in the final 16 games of this campaign.
Ronnie Edwards and Justin Obikwu
We are very pleased to have added Ronnie and Justin to the QPR family on a permanent basis this January.
Ronnie has been a player that our recruitment department has been interested in since 2021 when the player was at Peterborough. Last January, we acted very fast to bring him in and we were struck during his six-month loan spell with us by his maturity as a man and a professional, as well as by how deep his genuine connection and love for the club is. As was widely reported, we did attempt to sign him in the summer but were unsuccessful - we believe that Ronnie can be a critical player for our present and future. The board has been incredible in its backing of our staff to strengthen the team this year. Finally, I want to thank Johannes (Spors) and his team at Southampton for working with us on this.
As for Justin, his profile was one that we looked at in a lot of detail in the most recent summer transfer window as a very good fit for one of the three different profiles of centre-forward that we seek to have in the squad in order to be successful in the Championship. A lot of the underlying strengths that Justin has demonstrated in his EFL and U21s career to date are similar to Rumarn (Burrell)’s. However, Justin is earlier in his career and we want to give him adequate time to settle and develop with the help of our specialist individual development coaching structure.
Christian Pullella
We continue to believe strongly in the quality of the athletic and physical development that young Australian footballers receive between the ages of 10 and 16, especially in key population centres like Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. We are excited to have brought Christian in on his 18th birthday to bolster the Development Squad - he is highly thought of up and down the Australia national team youth structure and in a position of increasing global market demand as a left-back.
Michael Frey
It was with a lot of emotion that we completed the sale of Michi to Grasshopper Zurich. In a different context upon my arrival at the club when we were under significant strain owing to our P&S position, Michi made significant sacrifices to join us and he was the first player we brought in. I have already spoken at length about what he and his partner brought to the club. Whilst we planned for him to have a more significant role in 2025/26, a combination of the timing of his injury and other centre-forwards hitting the ground running meant that the reality of the first half of his campaign was different. But I hope that I speak for staff and fans alike when I reiterate how grateful I am for his contributions in the last 24 months.
Sam Field
Yesterday, we permitted Sam to join Norwich on loan until the end of the 2025/26 campaign. In November, his camp very respectfully informed us that Sam was unhappy with the amount of playing time he was getting and asked that if an opportunity arose in January for him to get more minutes for the second half of the season elsewhere, then could we consider it? Sam has been at the football club for half a decade, always respected the fans and the shirt and therefore as a board we felt it was appropriate to grant this request. I wish him the best with Norwich ahead of us regrouping with him at the end of the season.
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| Nourry on the transfer window on 15:00 - Feb 3 with 1480 views | Toast_R |
All seems very good at the moment. |  | | |
| Nourry on the transfer window on 15:03 - Feb 3 with 1461 views | MrSheen |
Interesting. Nothing on Morrison?
Sounds like Michi isn’t the only person with a Michi tattoo!
I’m going to have to face the fact that I’m never going to have a “camp”. |  | | |
| Nourry on the transfer window on 15:12 - Feb 3 with 1406 views | OakR |
I quite like it, as Sheen says bit strange no mention of Morrison, but generally positive and hopefully a sign cooms continue to imrpove. |  |
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| Nourry on the transfer window on 15:21 - Feb 3 with 1344 views | dannyblue |
It would be nice if it was a grown up conversation with Sam along the lines of 'we as a club think you're great, we respect what you've done, how you've behaved and want to help you get what you need. We back the manager now and he's not using you, but if anything changes we'd love you to be involved in the future'. |  | | |
| Nourry on the transfer window on 16:15 - Feb 3 with 1168 views | NewYorkRanger |
| Nourry on the transfer window on 15:21 - Feb 3 by dannyblue |
It would be nice if it was a grown up conversation with Sam along the lines of 'we as a club think you're great, we respect what you've done, how you've behaved and want to help you get what you need. We back the manager now and he's not using you, but if anything changes we'd love you to be involved in the future'. |
hard to know from the statement how this was handled, but at face value it seems like the club have treated him fairly (as they should have done) [Post edited 3 Feb 16:16]
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| Nourry on the transfer window on 16:44 - Feb 3 with 1008 views | TeddeRs |
| Nourry on the transfer window on 16:15 - Feb 3 by NewYorkRanger |
hard to know from the statement how this was handled, but at face value it seems like the club have treated him fairly (as they should have done) [Post edited 3 Feb 16:16]
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The language re Sam seems mutually respectful.
From what I see of Sam I think he’s a professional on and off the pitch.
I hope over the summer a good future is worked out for even if we lose him. | | | |
| Nourry on the transfer window on 16:53 - Feb 3 with 956 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
Copilot, the tone should be empathetic. | | | |
| Nourry on the transfer window on 17:16 - Feb 3 with 850 views | OldPedro |
At least the language he is using in his last couple of statements sound more human rather than the ChatGPT/AI feel of his previous statements |  |
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| Nourry on the transfer window on 18:23 - Feb 3 with 600 views | daveB |
Tin hat on, I thought that was quite a good update from him.
Does explain the Field decsion in a bit more detail which is fair enough.
Interesting Ronnie was on our radar when at Peterbrough |  | | |
| Nourry on the transfer window on 18:42 - Feb 3 with 511 views | Superhoops2808 |
| Nourry on the transfer window on 18:23 - Feb 3 by daveB |
Tin hat on, I thought that was quite a good update from him.
Does explain the Field decsion in a bit more detail which is fair enough.
Interesting Ronnie was on our radar when at Peterbrough |
Hope you've got two tin hats then because I agree. Respectful to Sam which in my opinion is no more than he deserves. I hope he comes back in the summer and remains with us. I am sure we will have those 'ITK' tell us otherwise though |  | | |
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