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Reply | QPR - State of Play
at 20:19 19 Nov 2025
Tuck was subbed on 42 minutes in his last game, and hasn’t been seen since, suggesting an injury is the cause of omission? |
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Reply | Kolli
at 18:40 8 Nov 2025
Let’s see how sure you are of your expert opinion, and where you will put your money as you said.
I’ll have £500 with you that Kolli will go to a top two league in England, France, Germany, Spain or Italy post-QPR. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 10:35 8 Nov 2025
Kolli has played only 1164 minutes, which translates to only 13 games of football. With 7 goals / assists. Meaning goal contribution every other game.
Those kind of stats for a 19 year old (now 20) are up there with the best at that age.
So your “expert” opinion is only in your head. Perhaps cut the young man some slack. He’s one of our own, has been with us since 8 years old, and is an exciting young talent only just starting out.
Making repeated judgments on such a small sample size, not backed up by any kind of data - which in fact says the opposite, is pretty wild. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 18:37 6 Nov 2025
I too have spoken with him on two separate occasions before he made it into the first team. He is an extremely down to earth lad, with QPR at heart. Having watched him, and the academy for over 10+ years, he is a stand-out talent in the same talent category and potential as Eze and Chair before him.
I watched both of those in the 23s and commented on here at the time we had 2 x real talents on our hands. Rayan is 100% only the 3rd player id placed in that bracket over all this time - whereby we have another top young talent coming through. No one else in the setup before or after comes close.
99% don’t ever make it as a professional footballer in the QPR academy, let alone at championship level. Rayans ceiling is premier league, and someone above Christian Nourry and sidekick Ben Williams, must step in, and sort this ego nonsense out for the good of the club. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 23:49 5 Nov 2025
I retract what I said earlier today.
Bennie over Kolli is laughable.
Play the lad.
Ben Williams got a lot to answer for. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 10:43 5 Nov 2025
I don’t think any of this is do with anyone being out of favour.
As more and more injured players have become more available, first Kolli, and now Morgan, have been overlooked. The club is evidently favouring older players (Frey over Kolli; Hayden + Field over Morgan).
What I don’t understand is that this is directly counter to the so-called model and strategy held up in shining lights last season. |
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Reply | Young team?
at 18:45 26 Oct 2025
Selling a 25-26 for 10m+ has proven to be the exception not the norm in the championship. So banking on this kind of strategy is not only extremely high risk, but also unlikely.
Buying players for 1m and selling them for 5m - sounds good in practice. In reality you’ll be lucky to sell 4 of those in 4 consecutive seasons to bank 16m profit. That’s 4m a year profit with perfection. Again, won’t move the needle. .
The smart clubs who are truly executing the player trading model at scale, and that’s the key word, are not the ones trading a player every season in the 24-27 year age group, but executing big bang sales for truly young talents. |
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Reply | Young team?
at 18:15 26 Oct 2025
You’ve imagined something that wasn’t even written or implied.
The point is what constitutes a successful and scalable player trading model at this level - which is the stated club aim.
If you get 3-5m sales here and there, for players aged 24-27 like Les did - Smithies, Freeman, it won’t move the needle and we’ll have another 10 years of going round in circles. |
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Reply | Young team?
at 17:44 26 Oct 2025
Most of those players are aged 24 and above and have about 1 year to pull in reasonable money, after which, aged 25 and beyond values plummet. At that age the market is a 3-10m range.
Will take some going to flip those and be successful with a player trading model any time soon.
The reality is the big bucks goes to players aged 18-21, playing regularly, sold to the prem in the range of 10-25m, and that’s how you develop a successful and scalable player trading model. |
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Thread | Young team?
at 08:27 26 Oct 2025
I keep reading we have a young side but in reality it’s a young squad, not first 11.
It has to be in context with the other sides. And most of the division has gone a lot younger this season.
Only on the first day did we field a team that was the youngest championship average.
Since then, we’re middle of the range.
Yesterday for example;
Nardi - 31
Dunne - 28
Mbengue - 23
Cook - 34
RND - 26
Vale - 22
Madsen - 25
Varane - 24
Saito - 24
Kone - 22
Burrell - 24
Average: 25.7.
That’s a typical championship turn out pretty much par for the course. |
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Reply | Devs v Cardiff
at 13:06 25 Oct 2025
Good post.
It’s also become clear this season that Kolli and Morgan (and Lloyd) only played last season due to needs must, not because it was part of the plan. PR disconnected from reality, again. |
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Reply | Possession, nine-tenths of the problem? – Analysis
at 20:05 13 Oct 2025
The thing is if the shift to a so called more direct style is the talk of the town, then what you don’t do - strategically at least - is follow the crowd. Once a trend is a trend, it is already too late. |
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Reply | Julien Stéphan, I mean, come on...
at 20:39 5 Oct 2025
We spent 13m in one of Les’ first windows. The European trolley dash that we went full circle on last summer under Nourry. Les had plenty of money to spend during his time at QPR, in certain periods, that window just mentioned, and the Eze money. Similar to what Nourry has now.
For me Les did neither a good nor bad job, but an average one. And I think that’s why he’s not got another job, he can’t point to enough successes here on his CV that are of interest to other clubs. And it’s not like he didn’t have enough time.
Edit: agree it’s comical to say we’ve got a small budget. Nourry spent 9m last summer and 10m this summer. [Post edited 5 Oct 20:43]
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Reply | Armstrong.
at 10:59 5 Oct 2025
From the Bristol City message board. Fair to say they rate him highly…
“Armstrong is not just ineffective, he actually has a detrimental effect on the rest of the team”
“Armstrong is absolute horse shit and it’s boring listening to sycophants defending him and Mayulu.”
“I wouldn’t quite lump him in the potential worst signings in the clubs history like Armstrong”
“We could have saved ourselves £2m by signing up one of the British bobsleigh team rather than Armstrong. They'd have the same physical attributes and can't be much worse technically.”
“Armstrong is shocking”
“Armstrong could've played until the light failed, he was never going to score”
“Mayulu and Armstrong are non league standard” |
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Reply | Armstrong.
at 20:52 4 Oct 2025
Not buying that. Doesn’t matter where you play him, he isn’t a natural footballer. Putting him out wide doesn’t solve his problem. He’s got no touch, and no technique, so good luck playing on the wing where he’ll be exposed even more. He’ll be lucky to make it at league 2 level. [Post edited 4 Oct 20:54]
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Reply | Kone v Kelman
at 22:10 29 Sep 2025
It’s possible because anyone who scores 21 goals in a calendar season, in league 1, the division below, and 27 goals all in, aged 23 and under is hot property.
That’s how the market works. He would also of been worth even more had he not been in the last year of his deal. How you use this type of striker, and get the best out of him, is another topic entirely.
As for Kone, he scored less goals, with a lot more penalties, is a different type of striker and was a year younger. Also had only 1 year left on his deal.
Swings and roundabouts.
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 15:00 28 Aug 2025
Thought the same about that comment, which really stuck out to me in that interview. Almost as if he’s like, I’m going to do it my way next game. |
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Reply | We’ve spent 20m in the last 2 summers
at 09:07 28 Aug 2025
Last years accounts show a transfer spend of 9m offset by 3m in incomings.
So the media-led values I took are conservative for last summer. Meaning someone cost more that the original values outlined. Likely Celar.
This summer we are well over 10m already. The accounts have to declare that also so we will see early next year then they are out.
Regardless, we’ve spent close to £20m or over it. That is a huge outlay for us in recent years. |
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Thread | We’ve spent 20m in the last 2 summers
at 23:33 27 Aug 2025
Since the FFP cycle eased last summer, it’s become clear the owners are significantly investing and continuing to back the club.
Not only are they covering millions in annual losses, but they are also now investing millions in transfer fees, alongside the millions previously provided for the fantastic training ground.
Last summer - 7-9m ?
Bennie - 250k
Morrison - 500k
Celar - 2.5m
Madsen - 3-4m
Varane - 1-1.5m
This summer - 11m+ ?
Dembele - 2.5m
Pearman - 250k
Mbengue - free
Poku - 900k
Adamson - 150k
Burrell - 1.3m
Kone - 2.75m
Saito - 2.8m
All those wondering how or if we will spend the Eze money? We’ve already spent the Eze money, and some.
Any further transfers eg. An Edwards, and it’s clear the owners are funding it, and as they did last summer.
It’s time for the staff and players to deliver. |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 23:31 27 Aug 2025
I’m not aware of any deal negotiated in the modern game that is based on the total sale price. No one signs that clause in this day and age, been tracking transfers for some years, and that clause appears nowhere other that in fan pub talk. |
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