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Reply | Andy Belk
at 15:32 22 Nov 2024
Cifuentes says what he is looking for - full back who can contribute in the final third, CM who can break the lines etc etc.
‘Belk’ identifies the players and Nourry does the deals. As with every other club in the world, for each position there is a list and we don’t always end up with #1 on the list.
It’s important to point out that Belk is not doing the work all himself, he has a team of ‘performance analysts’ compiling the data to create a database on players and potential managers, but of course it’s his name at the top so the quality of that database falls on his head. The biggest criticism I’ve heard of the setup is that we work more on tape than getting eyes on the the players, something Gallen and Dave Mc commented on as well the other day. |
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Reply | Mark Warburton interview
at 10:13 18 Nov 2024
We are bottom of the league and the overwhelming majority of those turning up at LR every week don’t even know who the DOF is at the club, let alone have an opinion of him.
If/when they sack Cifuentes, for the majority of fans it’ll just be next man up with a tiny minority demanding Nourry go. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 16:12 14 Nov 2024
In all honesty Twitter won’t exist in a few years as it no longer serves a purpose to Musk.
He lent a couple of $bn against his Tesla shares to get it (Russia and Saudi paid the bulk) and his net worth has gone up c$100bn since Trump won. He can walk away now to what he always wanted, which is being Trumps leash holder. At least until they inevitably fall out irrevocably. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 14:47 14 Nov 2024
Fck off, we all know you’re following men’s hair styling accounts. |
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Reply | David Coote
at 21:48 13 Nov 2024
Can’t even rail some racket while on duty at the Euro’s anymore.
Burn it all to the ground. Games gone. |
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Reply | MC has got to go
at 14:15 13 Nov 2024
Whatever level of knowledge you may believe QPR CEO requires, it’s certainly higher than that of a recruitment consultant with at best 3/4 years of work experience… |
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Reply | MC has got to go
at 13:09 13 Nov 2024
He is a guy with at best a couple of years work experience in his life and even that in shadowy/questionable circumstances.
To suggest he is in seniority level at a Big 4 Partner level is almost as generous as QPR giving him a job. |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 08:41 13 Nov 2024
I mean yeah if we were top of the league and flying then nobody would care about Nourry because he would’ve shown himself competent.
Instead we are rooted to the bottom of the table because he has shown himself incompetent and so people are extremely concerned about his expansive role within the club.
It’s hardly rocket science is it. |
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Reply | David Coote
at 21:50 11 Nov 2024
Can’t even get coked up and call a German cnt a German cnt anymore….
Games gone |
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Reply | What I don't understand
at 15:38 11 Nov 2024
As posted in one of the other threads, ultimately it’s just not that important to RG. For every £1 he loses here he makes £10+ from WestPorts which is where his focus and energy is.
QPR and LAFC are just toys, and this particular toy has been on eBay for 5 years with a silly ‘buy it now’ price. It’s basically the equivalent of someone who inherits their parents house, doesn’t need the money so leaves it in rightmove for years at a patently overpriced level because they can afford to wait for that unicorn buyer to come along, fall in love and put heart over head on price.
Some big hitters like Lindner and Textor who both already own football clubs have kicked the tyres, and passed. In the time the club has been scouring the US for a buyer, Burnley and Birmingham have found US consortiums so the inevitable conclusion must be that the asking price is not based in reality.
If the owners were willing to take what the club is worth - £10 and a £50 Nando’s gift card with £20 remaining on it - the club would’ve moved long ago . As it is, the club is drifting rudderless with an ownership team who don’t care, a chairman not even in the same country and a 26 year old recruitment consultant given the keys as he talked the talk and was willing to take the stress off their hands.
As to where we go from here, fck knows honestly. People have talked about administration as a way of getting rid of them, but they’ve to date shown no appetite to walk away from their losses so it would be more likely the club would fall into liquidation over their creditor claims than find a new buyer. Careful what you wish for. |
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Reply | Savage amusement - Report
at 15:22 11 Nov 2024
And what did we get last January?
Frey for £10 a week to the summer and then great money this year
Andersen for £10 a week to the summer and then great money this year
Hayden on a basically free loan from Newcastle as we have an arrangement with them via Jamie Reuben
Hodge on a basically free loan from Wolves who MC could never shoehorn into the team and is now in L1.
It wasn’t a good window by any stretch of the imagination. Some good management and more than a helping of luck dug them out though. |
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Reply | Savage amusement - Report
at 09:59 11 Nov 2024
The highlight for me was Nardi taking a crack in the face, clearly not knowing if he was in Leeds or Lille and the physio looking over, seeing a mid-20s FM Regen on the bench and deciding that actually he was suddenly feeling perfectly fine after all… |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 22:08 10 Nov 2024
You start up your copy of Football Manager, ‘start unemployed’, ‘go on holiday’ through to 2030 and see which managers get promoted to the PL.
Rerun that simulation 20 times to form a #dataset, throw in a cheeky xPivot and baby you’ve got yourself a managerial shortlist!! |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 18:55 10 Nov 2024
Is ultimately the correct answer.
The club have spent the past 5 years twerking around the US via intermediaries looking for “new investors” - ie mugs - silly enough to bail them out.
Lindner & Textor have both kicked the tyres and decided against coming onboard despite having experience already in the football business so clearly there is something under the covers they’re staying away from.
At the end of the day, Ruben is an absentee owner. For every £1 he loses into the QPR moneypit he makes £10 from WestPorts so it’s now just ticking over rudderless hoping someone will take it off his hands. |
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Reply | MC has got to go
at 13:40 10 Nov 2024
He didn’t ‘join’ Retexo, he *is* Retexo. Him and a mate ‘founded’ it in 2021 when he was still trying to be a marketing consultant and QPR were one of his first clients… |
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Reply | Where hope went to die – Preview
at 08:22 9 Nov 2024
Now Hunter that’s just patently untrue.
He also had a failed stint as a marketing consultant before going into recruitment… |
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