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Millwall Cup Tie
at 12:56 6 Aug 2026

I booked a holiday specifically to end in time for the start of the Championship season.

I did that before they announced the EFL cup would take place ahead of the Championship season, which they only announced in January.

I would've have definitely gone to Millwall at home (or away!) had I known it was a possibility. I am sure I am not alone in this seasonal planning holidays around football calendars, especially parents. I doubt very much fewer would've come three days after Pompey. I know of other fans getting back in time for that.

I'd stick my neck out, in fact, and suggest that had the game taken place after a positive result at Pompey (which has sold out for away fans), QPR would have a healthy 13-14k+ in.

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QPR break the mould with Kamara loan – Signing
at 08:00 6 Aug 2026

Two-Touch: shame they didn't punt Lisbie who just signed for Millwall our way too. Maybe we'll get Watkins on his way down in couple of years from them.

Run by Jonathan Fortune, who lives round the corner from me (and went to my kids' secondary school). I'll knock him up, see who's next in line for us.

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Summer transfer rumours 2026
at 15:16 5 Aug 2026

Just a reminder that this thread is titled "Summer transfer rumours 2026".

I meant *if* he's going out on loan, as a reply to your slightly panicked "it would leave us very light..." should Lloyd go on loan to Orient - which was the first I've heard of it. Can anyone hear an echo in here in here in here in here...

I would not be surprised if they bring in at least one more forward regardless of someone leaving. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring in another midfielder or winger or defender, or if players in each position were to also leave.

There are three more weeks of the transfer window to go.

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Summer transfer rumours 2026
at 11:42 5 Aug 2026

Bennie and Lloyd going out (and the number 9 being unallocated) would 100% mean replacement(s) coming in.

Two things that can be guaranteed about this current cycle of QPR is that players-wise, we will never be "short of cover" and that there will be more players signed.

I really would not worry about that. More to leave, more to come. Agents making gravy.

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QPR break the mould with Kamara loan – Signing
at 19:17 3 Aug 2026

A Leeds loon I know texted me to say that he couldn't believe we were signing Kamara, "he should be in a promotion team".

Annoying, but I think Clive's passing Shaun Derry comparison is apposite and, like Derry, Kamara is a better, more integral team player than we may imagine.

I'm not sure we're going to get that from clips or stats, with respect to Zac, whose analysis is excellent - players like these are eye tests.

Is he fit enough? Has he got the edge he had at Leeds and Rangers? If yes to both those, this is a very good signing and an upgrade. Like Derry, if he's in the right mix of midfield, he's too good for the Champ (but not good enough for PL).

Someone challenging Varane, someone who's 10% better at the same business than Varane, more experienced could allow Madsen, Chair or Vale to flourish in a three. Please let's play a 4231 or 433 this season.

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AFC Wimbledon Vs QPR
at 10:15 2 Aug 2026

Fair enough. Point was, he's only 21 and a winger so probably not really worth bashing his goalscoring record.

Watching the goals back, Morrison obviously does get burned by him but he shouldn't be isolated in a foot race that deep and wide with a winger. Bigger question really is why there's zero tracking, just some defence v attack training ground jogging. Which I suppose a friendly is, in a way.

Much more worried about Ward getting beaten for the second. Really weak keeping. Hopefully just rust, but shades of Nardi.

Nice to see kids playing so well, but would be surprised if there's not at least two more players signed by deadline, maybe more, as well as outgoings.

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AFC Wimbledon Vs QPR
at 18:36 1 Aug 2026

*Narrator*

"Aron Sasu turned 21 in March this year, a season when in fact he scored 4 goals. He has mostly played as a winger, sometimes as a wingback since making his pro debut as a 17-year-old schoolboy..."

I understand it's very important to rubbish young QPR players going through sticky patches at all times, but inventing careers that don't exist for 21-year-old Wimbledon kids to do so seems a bit much.

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Sky games
at 13:52 31 Jul 2026

Jesus. Does this really breach the moaning barrier? Not for me, Clive.

8pm on Friday night for a local derby is great, when Birmingham and Saints were both likely options for the slot, neither of which would've allowed for public transport home.

No matter what time the kick off, fans will need to queue to enter Stratford station. 3pm, queue. 1pm, queue. 8pm, queue. If you can't queue for 20-30 mins, West Ham away is not for you. Good. Demand will massively outstrip supply. All night tubes run on both Central and Jubilee, so escape is straight forward. QPR and WHU are London clubs.

This news was greeted with glee on our WhatsApp group, afternoons being booked off work as the prematch could be massive a couple of stops either side of Stratford. We've done a lunchtime there. Let's do a nighter.

And Millwall away last year at 12.30 was good too after in London Bridge, so no huge complaints.

Save the whinging for unforced club error, I think. It has diminishing impact if everything is a disaster or an affront. It's turning an old grump like me into a happy clapper.

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Rare QPR Footage
at 12:25 30 Jul 2026

So good to finally see this: my old man wouldn't yet take me on a school night, but he brought me home the programme. The days when newspaper match reports did a lot of heavy lifting. Thanks for uploading.

(You have the year as '75 in top corner, it's '76)

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Rare QPR Footage
at 08:18 29 Jul 2026

Amazing kick off, Gerry trying to lob the keeper direct. Better than going for an oppo throw in.

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This year's out of the blue signing - Tariq Lamptey
at 20:13 23 Jul 2026

Well, yes. They're obviously not perfect!

But last season they took just four points from the first 30. That's a handicap. Fired Potter. Still looked dreadful until new year when they rallied and won a few games thanks to QPR, but those first three months sunk them.

Still, they went down just two points behind Spurs, won as many as Spurs. It wasn't QPR in 2014/15.

It's hard to underestimate how much of a vibe shift it will be for them to be free of Sullivan and Brady. 50k season tickets, no protesting any longer. It's going to be intimidating.

Plus most importantly: Jared Bowen, a top eight PL striker but who has chosen to stay and captain them. They also have for the moment one very good £25m striker, one slightly underwhelming £20m striker, a £17m midfielder, one £32m CB and another £40m CB. Not all those prices are overestimates. They paid £20m for their goalkeeper. Plus, their academy is full of gold, I'm afraid to say, unlike QPR's slightly knock-off bronze.

And their manager has won the Championship before, unlike Burnley's for example. So he knows what's coming.

I dunno. It's all guess work. But I think they'll be a very different club this season, even if they were in the Prem. If they start well, they'll be hard to catch.

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This year's out of the blue signing - Tariq Lamptey
at 15:57 23 Jul 2026

Great anecdote.

Not really on topic, but on the back of you mentioning Taty ,who is no universe a Championship player, I thought I'd look at West Ham's squad last night, Jesus Christ. Taty, Pablo and Bowen as a front three with Kante and Ward-Prowse in midfield...complete cheat code squad with more to come in. If they're not promoted by March, Nuno must never work again.

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This year's out of the blue signing - Tariq Lamptey
at 12:43 23 Jul 2026

No, you're right. Mainly just reflects badly on you.

Do you even read back what you write? I mean, "Even better he won’t even be the biggest throbber at the club whilst Esquardinha is still employed…"! That's just a hugely cnty thing to write about people you don't know, have never spoken to based on...what? Who are you to make these judgements on player's characters?

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Obikwu - Injured again
at 08:43 23 Jul 2026

Players get injured. Players returning from injuries often get injured again.

I'm not comparing the two in terms of ability or whatever, but Paul Furlong spent years before joining us and then the first few months after joining QPR perpetually injured with hamstring, back and knee woe. Everyone thought we'd signed a dud, ready for glue. There was even, if I recall, an article in a paper hailing his longest run of games for seasons before a cup game early on: he'd played seven games. Then he was injured again, missing that cup game and several more...

In the end, he wasn't done. He went on his longest run of games subsequently (thanks to the quietly excellent physio Prav) and became a club legend.

Obikwu is 22. He may never come good as a Championship striker. But he probably won't remain injured. And it's July.

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Best wishes, Cian.
at 22:45 22 Jul 2026

Still at the club:

Salamon
Putman
Wilkie
Morgan
Bennie
O'Brien
Sutton
+
Esquerdinha (not sure if he is still there really, though he was in Devs this week)

So, that's 8 from 15 who appeared that night. More than two.

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This year's out of the blue signing - Tariq Lamptey
at 18:45 22 Jul 2026

I look at X, yes. I have several accounts muted and am in return muted/blocked by several QPR weirdos, ironically for being too negative I think (or maybe once for not being a nazi).

But this is not X. So, if you feel you the need to dampen expectation or give doses of reality out, why not get into it with some of those sock puppets accounts, the Nourry ultras, secret club employees, wannabe club employees, ITK merchants, teenage warriors, and madmen there. I think you'll find yourself arguing with the same person often, just with a different avatar. Most QPR fans are neither on X nor LFW, and neither is a true barometer of opinion I don't think.

My experience of QPR is broad enough anyway to believe that too much positivity is not really a problem among its support. In my years as season ticket holder in Ellerslie S Block, R Block now, Upper Loft and the Loft itself, I have never, ever found myself thinking, 'Cor bit too positive here! Dampen down expectations, lads!' I don't think the guy next to me in R has said one positive, encouraging word in 15 years, and his internal monologue is always set to broadcast.

I understand if you need to temper expectations to avoid personal disappointment, though, of course. But I don't think it's a support and club-wide problem, historically or now. Some players end up disappointing my own personal expectations (Brock, Sheron, Zelic, Cousins, all our PL signings years under Fernandes) some exceed expectations (Wilkins, Furlong, Derry/Hill), but mostly it's just...he looks ok/he doesn't look what's needed. But let's see.

I'm excited about next season. But let's see. Been here before.

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This year's out of the blue signing - Tariq Lamptey
at 17:05 22 Jul 2026

I don't know what you're talking about really because I have never seen any of those valuations or expectations attached to any of those players, not even close. "Lunungo [sic] was going to be sold for at least £20m, Zan Celar was going to take us back to the Premier League almost single handily"...said no one, ever.

Certainly not on LFW, which is where this conversation is taking place. And where there is more than enough realism and negativity to go round. Certainly no balance to be redressed here, thanks.

I'm 100% certain that over the course of the last near 50 years of going to QPR I have formed pretty realistic expectations, opinions and valuations of our players through hard won experience. I'm just more on the "let's see" side of things. Let's see. Good luck to the lad and good luck to us, I can see why we signed him. He's brilliant.

This is a weird thing to say, though, frankly: "I am delighted to see many looking at the negative side and hope this trend continues with all our signings AND current players." You are delighted about people being negative about the squad? Why? Live a little, dream a bit. It's preseason. Anything is possible.

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This year's out of the blue signing - Tariq Lamptey
at 16:09 22 Jul 2026

I mean, those are league games. He's played 134 games in total, including European competition. Plus eleven full caps for Ghana, some England U21s. So, it's more like 150 games.

He's 18 months older than Kealey Adamson whose career in stats read: played three Championship games (without distinction) and a few dozen A League games, ie L2 level at preseason pace. Who's a better bet to be eased in time into the team at RB ahead of Mbengue?

Not sure what the benefit of all this pile on of misery, cynicism and negativity is. Let's see how it goes. The Tariq Lamptey who played two years ago for Brighton is so far ahead of any player we've had on the books at this level in the last decade it's laughable. And I have watched him. I also recall him twice being singled out on MOTD for analysis because of his exceptional ability.

If we get the 60% version of that Brighton Lamptey he'll be the best full back we've had since Kyle Walker. And if we don't get him fit, well, we'll play Mbengue instead.

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Rare QPR Footage
at 15:28 22 Jul 2026

The raw, icy pain of that last minute equaliser plunges into my 10-year-old heart anew. THANKS DAVE.

Under 10k in the top division and look at that pitch. God, that was a miserable season.

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This year's out of the blue signing - Tariq Lamptey
at 12:16 21 Jul 2026

This is pretty much the only response needed. I'm personally excited about Lamptey as he's been a great RB, only 25 and a very QPR-style full back.

But "best of luck, we'll see how goes" should be everyone's reaction, really. Even as a world-class cynic, am finding the misery and cynicism about QPR in some quarters really wearing this summer. Providing the midfielders we now will be signing are of a similar pedigree to the goalies and full backs, I'm excited about the squad. We'll see how it goes.

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