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Reply | Should we recall Celar, Field, or Lloyd?
at 14:41 27 Feb 2026
Subsequent revelations about how much we really got for Armstrong, Dykes, etc certainly suggest we aren't the tough negotiators we like to appear.
Maybe young Christian's AI prompts overlooked a few key sections when summarising Daniel Levy for Dummies. |
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Reply | Should we recall Celar, Field, or Lloyd?
at 14:20 27 Feb 2026
I take your point about it being a tough business.
I made the same point myself.
But we are in a position where we are committed to developing young players who at some point will probably need good loans.
It's in our interests to build relationships with clubs to help place our players in good loans in the future.
Stiffing other clubs just because we can might prove counter productive to us in the long run.
In a recent WLS podcast David McIntyre said Daniel Bennie was all set for a loan move but we pulled out at the last minute because of injuries. OK, I get that, but could that decision have been made sooner in the window so that everyone is clear what our plans are?
And don't forget we also stiffed Schalke in the summer by pulling out of the Pape Meisse Ba deal very late in the day.
Playing hardball is fine, as you say we aren't running a charity. But messing clubs around is not good for our reputation, especially at a time when we want to develop and trade players. |
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Reply | Should we recall Celar, Field, or Lloyd?
at 14:10 27 Feb 2026
There are good reasons why we didn't want either Richards or Celar back. But if we keep sending out duds other clubs will be wary of us at a time when we are trying to develop a crop of youngsters signed for the DS who will benefit from getting good loans.
What I am saying is that we might be shooting ourselves in the foot in the way we are conducting our business. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 12:48 27 Feb 2026
Rare financial setback for Wrexham:
https://financialpost.com/news
"Administrators for Argentex now expect customers like Wrexham to receive only 60-80 per cent of their funds, according to company filings. That would suggest a loss of between roughly £900,000 and £1.8 million. The administrators don’t expect to make payments to customers until early 2027." |
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Reply | Should we recall Celar, Field, or Lloyd?
at 12:31 27 Feb 2026
This is the second January running where a club that has taken one of our players on loan has wanted to send them back and we refused.
Last season it was Taylor Richards and this season it's Celar.
It's not a good look.
Clubs might get wary of taking our players in future if we keep sending out duds then refuse to take them back.
I know it's a tough business and there's no sentiment, but it's a bad look for us. |
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Reply | ‘Methodology’
at 22:14 26 Feb 2026
What worked for us under Venables was wholesale buying of the 'Team of the 80's' he developed at Crystal Palace.
I can't remember them all off the top of my head but I think we brought five or six of that team to QPR under Venables. |
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Reply | ‘Methodology’
at 22:10 26 Feb 2026
You are spot on Dave.
I can see the logic of the DS shadowing the first team because you might need DS players to slot in at short notice.
But there is no reason for every other age group at our club to be so narrow in their development.
We're not developing players to spend their whole career at QPR. We're developing players to trade and grow the club.
The focus should be on developing players for the market, not just the narrowly defined needs of our first team.
Failing to see this basic point is conceited nonsense. |
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Reply | In Today's Least Surprising News...
at 16:37 26 Feb 2026
"Long contract" being the crux of the matter.
As I understand the amortisation rules we can't offload him at a loss this summer because the loss will go straight into the accounts.
And that is not going to be very helpful when we need to make at least one good sale and most of our most sellable assets are crocked.
So it looks like we're stuck with hm.
And that other forgotten man Hevertton Santos is also likely to be coming back. Five starts this season in Portugal. No goals and one assist:
https://www.espn.co.uk/footbal |
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Reply | Ben Williams and his team
at 13:35 25 Feb 2026
Kelman and Frey both said they did their own thing for conditioning over the summer of 2024.
Kelman clearly bulked up a lot and looked bigger during his successful loan season with Orient.
It seems strange that the club would let players go away and do that on their own. Or that players would feel the need to! |
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Reply | Madsen hamstring
at 13:28 25 Feb 2026
I asked a similar question on the "Ben Williams and his team" thread about reporting lines and information on player fitness.
My understanding is that Ben Williams reports to Nourry but not to Stephan.
So you are asking important questions here:
Who is getting what information on player fitness and their ability to play?
Is JS in the loop on this or is he getting what Nourry chooses to tell him?
If JS is clearly getting the right information then why are we managing player fitness/conditioning so badly? |
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Reply | Ben Williams and his team
at 13:16 25 Feb 2026
1. I wouldn't mind the medics/physios having some input on team selection provided it was clear guidance about which players need resting and which players can only play a limited number of minutes.
We don't appear to have done that very well this season.
From what I understand of the management structure Williams reports to Nourry, not to Stephan.
Is Stephan not getting the right information from the player performance team, or is he getting the information and ignoring it?
2. It would be very QPR to give someone a pay rise just because he lost his side hustle. I hope there was a corresponding drop in pay when Williams opted to spend a year in Dubai multitasking several different sporting teams across multiple time zones. [Post edited 25 Feb 13:17]
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Reply | Broken Chair?
at 12:20 24 Feb 2026
When did we put Lovejoy on the payroll?
Do we really need a Head of Distressing and Glazing Performance!?
If we're trying to make a few quid off Chair down Portobello Road he must be in worse shape than I thought. |
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Reply | Broken Chair?
at 21:00 23 Feb 2026
I'm not blaming DM.........
He's just reporting in good faith what he hears from the club.
It's the club itself that's pushing this twaddle about the condition of our players.
Several times this season we've been told that players are back in training or on the brink of a return only to disappear again without explanation for several more weeks. |
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Reply | Broken Chair?
at 18:56 23 Feb 2026
If you go back to the original post it was actually a dig at all the erroneous reports the club has been steadily putting out around player availability.
Chair is just the latest example of that.
Maybe I should have just said that instead of trying to look clever!!
In other news Poku's back in training (again)
https://www.westlondonsport.co |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 15:09 23 Feb 2026
Agree with that.
But it's a tough process because the players the club can sell for big money are the ones the fans don't want to lose.
So it requires patience and a lot of trust from the fans.
You also need to factor in any sell on clauses we promised to the clubs we signed the Madsen's, Ronnie's, Burrell's etc from. That's going to take a big bite out of any funds we have for reinvestment in the squad. |
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Thread | Broken Chair?
at 13:24 23 Feb 2026
Last week WLS told us Chair would be fit for the Hull game.
No sign of him on Saturday and now he's out for at least two more games.
DM should stop publishing these injury updates from the club. They're making him look like Comical Ali (or Lord Haw Haw, since he lives in Ireland - ask your grandparents kids!)
https://www.westlondonsport.co |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 13:33 18 Feb 2026
Accounts aren't my thing but everything you have outlined sounds convincing to me.
As an aside the PL is moving away from PSR next season:
https://www.premierleague.com/
Does anyone know if this is coming to the EFL and what it might mean for us going forward if the rules do change? |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 11:12 18 Feb 2026
No love for Hevertton Santos?
Don't answer that :-)
He might not have cost much but he was Nourry's first signing. |
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