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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 08:50 28 Jan 2026
I agree so much I just tried to upvote a second time.
Forgetting all the muscle injuries (sorry, no, that's a three-month 'contact' injury), we just look knackered in every game well before the end. Saturday we came out first half all guns blazing but could not maintain anything like it in the second. By the 60th minute lots of players looked cooked, particularly the wingers and midfielders, by the end we were totally scrambled - exceptions, of course, such as Dunne (who incidentally often posts pics from his insta of post-match work he does away from the club), but overall other teams appear fitter. Certainly, Wrexham grew throughout and were outrunning us in the second.
Remember how the club made a big show of posting on socials the relative running stats in the glorious defeat away at West Ham? I think the fact that's the only time they have posted that post-match tells its own story.
Incidentally, someone made mention of Amos and Willock's careers elsewhere after they left us. Well, watched the highlights of Willock's man-of-the-match performance for Cardiff last night. Ten points clear of third and he looked absolutely back to the player we had under Beale. Two goals and an assist. He's only 27. He certainly looked better than any of the wingers we currently can pick from. We'll be seeing him soon enough to judge, i suppose. |
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Reply | Christian Nourry - Two Year Anniversary
at 20:05 27 Jan 2026
The training ground was opened in June 2023, one week after Ferdinand announced he was leaving.
Nourry's audit of the club began later that summer and was based at the training ground.
Can't really credit him for the training ground "for starters". It had nothing to do with him. It existed before he was employed by QPR in any capacity. |
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Reply | Frey
at 19:24 27 Jan 2026
1/ Of course it's total speculation. This is a QPR fan messageboard filled with 1000s of threads where dozens of QPR nerds like us speculate wildly. It's the point of the thing. Would love you post under every theory in all new threads: "this is just total speculation."
2/There is only speculation about the fee because both QPR and Zurich describe the fee as "undisclosed". If QPR started to disclose transfer fees and contract lengths as they did for many decades without mishap we could stop speculating about them.
3/ Just because Frey signed a contract, it doesn't mean QPR held out for a fee. Nourry says Frey came to him as he wanted to play and the club acquiesced to a move. My guess - speculation - is that the club shook hands on the contract with him and Zurich took it on. That's the £500k "deal" described on WLS, instead of a fee they might usually describe. He's got a deal until 2028 at Zurich now and we've lost an obligation to keep paying a guy who is nowhere near the first team for [redacted]. A good deal.
4/ Who cares? It's only small print speculation. The word "fee" appears nowhere, it is not reported as a fee. Deal is reported so we can speculate about that deal. That's not spinning - who would I be spinning for anyway? |
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Reply | Frey
at 17:11 27 Jan 2026
Since this is probably the only place that QPR nerds can geek out over what may make up a transfer, allow those of us who wish to speculate do that. Seems harmless, no?
No, it wouldn't be a free transfer while his contract is still active.
He would not be leaving for free unless his contract is paid up, as it's six months old, has either half a season or a season and half to run, and is worth to him at least £300k. Probably nearer £500k. Either QPR pays it up or the new club pays it up.
He and his missus may be lovely but they aren't ripping up contracts for free.
Why is there subterfuge? Nobody knows. Why is there subterfuge over contract lengths, or why a muscle injury might be described as a contact injury without saying what the contact injury is. There's no reason for any of it. It's just the way QPR does things now.
Why would Dave clarify? Not his job. But look. In one WLS transfer story Frey leaves in "a £500k deal". In the previous story Obikwu "joins QPR for an initial fee of £500k".
https://www.westlondonsport.co
https://www.westlondonsport.co
Two subtle but important differences. [Post edited 27 Jan 17:12]
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Reply | Christian Nourry - Two Year Anniversary
at 15:11 27 Jan 2026
The metric that really counts is the trading model.
In his two years we have invested a lot of transfer fees compared to the previous financial cycle on:
Celar
Dembele
Madsen
Varane
Vale
Morrison
Poku
Saito
Burrell
Kone
Edwards
Obikwu
+ some DS transfer fees that all add up, on Smith, Akindileni, Adamson, maybe more
We like a lot of those players, but success will be measured on whether the investment matures or depreciates. It's in the balance overall, I think. Plus I don't imagine wages or loan fees have gone down hugely compared to even the Warburton splurge season. We need to be selling some of CN's signings. Being congratulated on selling the previous DOF's hires seems rich.
Just to add: a couple of comments say he's better than Hoos. Lee Hoos is the Chairman, top of the mast. Thinking he isn't entirely involved is Keyser Soze sht. |
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Reply | Frey
at 13:29 27 Jan 2026
Not really. Dave's 100% reliable.
It's described by WLS as a "£500k deal", not fee. So, it's estimating what a £500k deal for a player on £10-20k a week with between either six or 18 months left on a deal we are not allowed to know the length of might constitute.
I imagine it's not paying QPR a £500k fee and then also paying Frey the same in wages for another deal. Mrs Frey might be really good with organising the players' wives but her husband is no longer a £1m investment. Most likely I think it's paying Frey's contract up of £500k and relieving QPR of that obligation. A "deal" that all are happy with. |
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Reply | Frey
at 10:44 27 Jan 2026
I imagine that to be the cost of his remaining contract which they have bought, rather than a fee directly to club. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 13:54 25 Jan 2026
Agree with all this, obviously. A few addendums:
1/ The reason the three game-weeks are a thing is because the players aren't fit. They're not fit to play full games, let alone full weeks. Why? It's clearly a scandal for a sporting operation. They lost that game because they were too tired physically to play at the intensity of the first half throughout and too tired mentally to make good decisions in the closing stages. And, because our best players are all injured with muscle injuries. They were notably less fit than Wrexham. There are no stats that can be presented that contradict the evidence of our eyes.
2/ The state of match-day amenities are an on-going disgrace, agree. I don't entirely blame Nourry though. Hoos repeatedly said that if the team was winning nobody complains about the rest of the match-day experience (as well as generally being dismissive of fans who raised issues around that experience, including rejuvenating The Loft, where he was clearly wrong). Hoos retired from the club to become Chairman, a key board member and very probably the driving force behind this philosophy of customer neglect as a by-factor of team investment. Flavio Briatore hated QPR fans but the match day experience is nevertheless worse now. Not in the C-Club, obviously.
3/ I think the "next season" narrative is probably wrong and possibly dangerous. It will let everyone down. The squad’s not there yet, it’s definitely improving incrementally, but I think we’re at the Paulo Sousa part of the this four-year cycle. Probably another couple of years to knit together, fill the gaps. |
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Reply | Charlton sold out
at 18:21 23 Jan 2026
Stats are funny aren't they?
You can say there's loads to play for (there always is until you're safe) because we're only 3 points off the playoffs with 18 to go. But...
There are also five teams between us and 6th - not to mention ten points between us and 3rd, and all the top three have absolutely spanked us, showing how far we are off being promotion-material.
Which is fine. I'm enjoying the season, mostly. We're a 12th placed team and that feels about right on form.
Fully fit top scorer, Chair and Saito with wind in their sails, midfield clicking, then maybe yeah, all to play for. Preston will drop out of the six...Just doesn't feel like kind of season for us, not with our best attacking players injured for a while.
Still impressive that 12th placed QPR have sold out to 9th placed Wrexham on a wet, windy January. |
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Reply | Charlton sold out
at 15:55 23 Jan 2026
Incredible that they've sold out the next home and away on the back of two 0-0s in the back end of January, one of the games on TV, when seemingly not much to play for (and not much being played either).
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Reply | WLS podcast Dave Kev James
at 15:28 23 Jan 2026
Harvey Vale is also apparently 22 but if it said on his Wiki that he was 28 or 29, I'd believe that. He certainly doesn't look older than Kone to me.
Are they conspiring together? |
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Reply | WLS podcast Dave Kev James
at 09:12 23 Jan 2026
Watching that you wonder who's coaching the strikers now - and wishing it was someone like Kevin Gallen. The bit about standing still, occupying the CBs, creating space for wide players like that instead of working so hard was really interesting.
There's a top-level former defender coaching defenders at QPR and similarly a midfielder, but there's no ex-centre forward. Would be a great job for Paul Furlong, whose overall game is not unlike Kone's. Wonder whatever happened to him? |
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Reply | Lather, rinse, repeat – Report
at 11:01 22 Jan 2026
God, you're right, just looked it up. What a mad streaky season that was: those four clean sheets were part of a 13-match sequence where we only lost once (3-0 away Swansea). Followed immediately by a twelve match sequence where we only won twice and lost seven times.
Had some good days with Marti last year, home to Derby, Watford, Luton, Norwich. Forget sometimes. But the bad runs too, desperate.
We need to win some games again soon (and some players back to do so). We need that release otherwise things may curdle. |
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Reply | Lather, rinse, repeat – Report
at 08:56 22 Jan 2026
Good report, very fair.
When was the last time we had three clean sheets in a row? Is this due to Steve Bould coaching them? Seen some comparisons to Ainsworthball but the main difference is that Gareth might have tried to shthouse a 0-0 and still probably concede.
No QPR team in recent memory has needed Ilias Chair back more than this current lineup, though. In the ten, with Vale on the left, Smyth/Dembele on the right, Kone up top ideally. [Post edited 22 Jan 8:57]
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Reply | Player Sales
at 14:17 21 Jan 2026
We need Murphy Cooper's spell at Sheff W to go well as he could be sold if Walsh is number one.
I imagine Field, Morrison and possibly Dembele, though the later two are so young they're worth another 18 months development.
These are not my choices, but what I imagine the club's thinking at the very least.The model just needs some churn to work, doesn't have be a box office sales yet, just sales. Madsen and Burrell could both fetch money in next year.
And I beat this drum regularly, and it sounds fanciful, but Jimmy Dunne's performances, leadership and experience will be valuable to others even if we don't believe anyone wants a 28 year-old CB. I don't reckon he signed that contract to see out his best years with us. |
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Reply | The 3 sides of a match thread at Oxford
at 22:28 20 Jan 2026
So far, on this thread people have claimed they'd have won this game with their 5-a-side ringers, their primary school team, a local team on Canvey Island...
Lads, you and they are all in the wrong jobs! You should be coaching QPR and if they won't take you then in the last couple of months Oxford have beaten Ipswich Town, Southampton, drawn with Middlesbrough and on Saturday Bristol City - one of those clubs will definitely take you and your ringers/schoolkids/Sunday league teams...
Every year, when we're mired in a relegation fight everyone says, "oh for midtable mediocrity." This is it. And still only three points off the play-offs.
Another clean sheet, away, take the point, move on. Big shame for Esquerdinha.
Nobody in July surely expected 40 points by January 20th, did they? Stay in the pack, keep accumulating, see what we can do in the (very difficult) run-in. Nothing is decided in January. |
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Reply | Team for Oxford?
at 14:58 20 Jan 2026
Richard Kone's not even 23, actually. He's 22 until July.
He's three months younger than Alfie Lloyd, who is out on loan at the level below "to develop" but didn't make any impact at Orient.
Kealey Adamson, who we are treating with kid gloves as he slowly gets ten mins here and there at right back, is four months older than Kone.
Alex Aoraha, who plays semi-regularly for the Dev team and has completed less than a full game for the seniors, is seven months older than Kone.
I could go on.
The idea that some fans are running out of patience with Kone as he leads the line for an injury-ravaged first team at 22, his first season at this level, is absolutely insane. He qualifies for the Dev squad! He's miles ahead of any number 9 we've had aged 22 since...I can't think, Kevin Gallen? |
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Reply | And we never spoke of it again – Report
at 14:16 19 Jan 2026
I may be an idiot in your eyes. No problem with being called names by you.
However, you did write:
"Personally, I'd rather see us bummed in the gob 3-0 playing the game as it should be played."
And
"If we play anything like that at Oxford, we deserve to get obliterated - and, (not) sorry, I'll view it as a blessing."
Which reads very much like you do not in fact "want QPR to win every single time." It reads like you'd view it as "a blessing to get obliterated" tomorrow night if the terms of your conditions are not met.
How long have I been a supporter? You've asked this already. 50 years next month.
My support manifests itself by buying a season ticket, with money that the club can then use, going to matches, applauding, encouraging the team in song, abusing the away team, going away, mooning the opposition fans, etc. Generally offering tangible, unwavering, loyal support of the club, as per the description 'supporter'.
How does your support manifest? |
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Reply | And we never spoke of it again – Report
at 08:58 19 Jan 2026
Fair report. I do think it's a bigger achievement by management than we're collectively crediting them with, finding a way to get a point at a good Stoke in current circumstances.
We have a very competitive first 14 players for this league. If you strip out five of those, all starters, including our main source of goals, this is not a competitive squad for the league, not this season.
Previous managers - including Cifuentes, who I liked a lot - would have started a long losing run at The Britannia. They would not have found a way with that squad. That losing run may still be coming tomorrow - the games look very difficult for the duration of our injuries. But it hasn't started yet - surely that is better? Didn't we hate losing all the time?
The fact that Stephan can skin a cat more ways than one is very encouraging. He obviously prefers to play football. But sometimes a shthouse manager is what you need. |
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