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Reply | We need a Director of Football
at 22:14 6 Apr 2025
If you do it on money spent, not on player volume, and success per spend - as any good recruitment operation is judged by - it changes considerably to the negative.
The big money marquee signings have been total flops and will affect our club for years to come. Making a mistake on a dev squad player, like a Bennie, is not the same as a multi-million one in Madsen. Everything is not created equal.
When you finally get to spend money, like we did this year, you just cannot be getting the big ones wrong. |
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Reply | We need a Director of Football
at 20:45 6 Apr 2025
Probably was a 9/10 if they had run the process effectively. Doesn’t take a lot to analyse DOF performance across Europe, find a few up and coming ones, and create a short list.
Instead, they gave it to a guy a couple of years out of uni, with not even a permanent job to his name. No background in managing people or teams. And literally no background in anything. |
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Reply | We need a Director of Football
at 17:46 6 Apr 2025
Nourry is on record for shopping in European markets and other World markets as they provide a much bigger pool for finding value. It was one of many changes driven by Nourry as the new DOF. |
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Reply | We need a Director of Football
at 15:31 6 Apr 2025
Perhaps it has something to do with the owners own upbringing and careers.
Unlike most, who have to work their way up and become experts in their field, honing their skills and experience over years, they were born into not only money, but business empires, and went right in at the top. See Amit and Ruben.
So perhaps their core belief system, and their own career paths, that one “just needs to be given a chance to show what they can do” vs “one requires experience, knowledge and expertise as a precursor for success”, may well be influencing their decision-making when making senior QPR appointments.
There is most definitely a (negative) trend of handing out senior positions to those who would not be in the running at any other club, let alone make it as the chosen candidate. So we get this continuous “learning on the job” culture, barely treading water, making mistake after mistake, with recruitment, contracts, academy etc.
Rather than learn from it, and seek out those who have been there and done it, they continue to make wild, high-risk decisions, none more wild that the appointment of Nourry - a candidate who has zero experience of CEO or DOF. And then give him both roles. Mind-boggling. That said Lee Hoos also has a key role in all of this, having bought Nourry into the club and recommended him to the owners. Still very much in the background. |
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Reply | Development side .
at 20:43 1 Apr 2025
It’s not really challenging the information from what I am reading, more berating it. It is overly aggressive, which says more about the accusers, than the sharers. And I don’t mean you specifically DM. Information is being shared with QPR fans in good faith. Either keep an open mind, or ignore it. |
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Reply | Development side .
at 19:04 1 Apr 2025
Pretty sure this topic has been bought up on here only recently.
If someone has access to inside knowledge, it is highly unlikely there is going to be any kind of verification process. “Name your source otherwise I won’t believe you”.
Easy to say if you aren’t caught up in it, but unless said person wants to betray contacts, relay private conversations, and publicise sources, then it isn’t a reasonable request.
So you are left with a choice, believe it, consider it, or ignore it. But no need to keep beating a stick. |
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Reply | QPR finances released
at 00:31 24 Feb 2025
Neither Saito or Dembele listed so the figures given appear to exclude these. |
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Reply | QPR finances released
at 14:08 22 Feb 2025
It’s listed as the last piece on the financial report under “post reporting date events”. |
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Reply | QPR finances released
at 12:48 22 Feb 2025
A key highlight for me is that we spent 9m this summer. 6m NET transfer value is given at the end of the report. Assuming we got the reported 2.5m for Armstrong (minus 500k sell on) and 1m for Dykes, gives 3m outgoing, and 6m net.
Meaning Madsen really was a 4m signing 👀 |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 19:22 1 Feb 2025
It’s pretty obvious the gaslighting is coming from above and Calm is just following orders. It’s not as if the CEO doesn’t have previous here. |
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Reply | F A Youth Cup
at 18:36 19 Jan 2025
To be fair, this is standard practice across all clubs. Promote and fast track your best prospects through the age groups. Extremely odd that we weren’t doing it until now. And given that all clubs do it, it’s not an excuse why the u18s are bottom of the league. Because every other club is in the same boat whereby their best youngsters are “playing up”. It’s a level playing field. [Post edited 19 Jan 18:37]
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Reply | Kieran Morgan - Looks So Comfortable.
at 00:16 2 Jan 2025
I might be wrong but I think he was predominantly considered a centre half at spurs. He even trialed for QPR at centre half, and was absolutely stand out in the game I saw him play. What seems to have happened is that he has been given an opportunity in CM at QPR by Marti, that he didn’t get at spurs - probably because they are stocked with young talent in CM.
And he has absolutely excelled in the position. His energy, stamina, and tireless running and pressing are a joy. But the lad can also play, has a decent first touch, gets it out of his feet quickly, has great awareness, and moves the ball quickly and decisively. Always showing as well. Well done Kieran. Now we get him signed up long term ASAP |
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Reply | Injuries
at 22:14 26 Dec 2024
If you can play 2 right footed centre backs (as we have been for weeks), you can certainly play 2 left footed centre backs. No doubt it brings really poor balance though, either way. |
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Reply | Lloyd - Lone Striker Role
at 17:33 15 Dec 2024
They do exactly this. But you still need a high level of back-to-goal talent to begin with. Again, it’s back to how good you are with this, naturally? What is your base level of ability back to goal? Do you score highly in this attribute as a kid?
The championship/ prem is an elite level sport. Furlong and Gallen likely had a back to goal game in an elite group to begin with. Or perhaps their touch was so good (talent), but the strength wasn’t there (physical), initially.
You can work with that because their natural talent is so high from the get go. But the physical is not, yet. (See Alfie Tuck). What you don’t want it is the other way around. (See Sinclair) , that’s far harder to pull off.
It’s nature v nurture. You can’t polish a turd.
Or maybe you can, but it’s still a turd! |
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Reply | Lloyd - Lone Striker Role
at 15:10 15 Dec 2024
Agree, he’ll be given a chance versus others than don’t have the electric pace. But it’s a busted flush. A striker at this level requires upwards of at least 10+ core attributes. Not meaning to be harsh, but SA has 1 of 10. That’s 10%. And a huge gap to fill.
And most of those attributes, contrary to popular belief by fans, cannot be trained (at least to the level required). It’s not normal to go from Sunday league touch, to championship-level touch, with training. Even on a daily basis. If that were the case, all sprinters would be footballers, and they are not for good reason. |
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Reply | Lloyd - Lone Striker Role
at 13:21 15 Dec 2024
I think because the allure of Armstrong is what reels you in. You witness the explosive pace, and the subsequent threat of playing on the shoulder and running in behind. And you think, wow, what potential.
But that’s a surface level analysis. Can he do the basics? Can he control the football? Does he have game intelligence? Does he have striker smarts? Does he know when to run, when to hold? Can he beat a man with a trick? Can he finish? And so on. Can any of this be trained? Can some of it? All of it? None of it?
However, the punchline is that all of these attributes - and your base starting level - determine your likelihood of “making it at a given standard”. And the higher the league - the higher the attribute(s) required. The lower your starting level, the less likelihood you have of raising it to the levels required.
How you assess needed attributes and how you score those attributes, is a matter of perspective. And how you predict the level can be enhanced to the degree needed, is again a matter of perspective. That’s the difference between a good scout and an average one. What they see, versus what you do not.
Practical & Simplified Example: If I score Armstrong at 3/10. And think he can get to 5/10. (Jumping 2 levels is reasonable via training and practice). But another scout scores him at 5/10 and thinks he can also jump 2 levels to 7/10. We have a different opinion. I assess he won’t make it, you assess he will. |
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Reply | Lloyd - Lone Striker Role
at 19:13 14 Dec 2024
Time will tell, but he’s a more complete striker than Armstrong, who has pace and that’s about it. I watched sinclair in our youth set up and first posted about him on here. The report reads as it did then - rapid and promising but no touch or back to goal game. That hasn’t changed. Which Bristol City fans are finding out, much to their dislike.
Whilst Lloyd also lacks touch and technique, he retains the ball more often, even if it is in an unorthodox fashion. Whereas playing into Armstrong was like hitting a pin ball machine. That counts for a lot - and if Lloyd can hold it up, whilst also running the channels in behind, he’ll have a better career than Sinclair. And whilst not showing it yet for the first team, he also a far better finisher based on seeing him in u21s. Again, Sinclair significantly lacks in that department. |
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Reply | Lloyd - Lone Striker Role
at 16:53 14 Dec 2024
I don’t disagree. Perhaps I wasn’t clear. What I meant to say, is I believe his touch and technique are at a higher starting level than that of Armstrong. But yes, probably the weakest part of his game. But Armstrong was like 3/10 for me. And may reach 5/10.
Lloyd is at 5/10 for me, starting at a higher base, and may reach 7/10, which will be needed to make it at this level. He’s got a lot more promise for me vis a vis. Equally pacy, but better baseline touch (that is improving), can run with the ball (versus SA kick and run), and can crash into defenders and hold the ball up (something SA could not do). Shows promise as a lone number 9. |
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Reply | Lloyd - Lone Striker Role
at 15:03 14 Dec 2024
Unlike Armstrong, he has a touch and technique to work with, that is improving game on game. He is already a real handful with his pace and power. But his dribbling ability at full pelt is what differentiates him. Puts himself about as well, and showing signs of being able to lead the line as a sole #9. Got real potential if can bring it all together in the next couple of seasons. |
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