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Who knows, not me! I hope they'd do some due diligence, take references, chat with him, all that. Not my job, happily.
Yeah, he can't get in that Palace team ahead of Eze, Clyne or Lerma. None of them are dropping to the Championship for a good few years. That Palace squad is underachieving for my money, though.
I doubt it'll happen. But if he's fit and motivated, even a 32 year-old Schlupp improves us. We need another left-footed wide player this window who can cover Saito and especially Paal better than Ashby or Fox, I think.
He's also a year younger than Cook. He can play in multiple positions where we are very light - left wing, left back, possibly left mid - and has played regularly in the PL for the last decade. He's won the PL, he won the Championship, is an international and has no doubt got two good years at this level in him at least. If either Saito or Paal got injured and he deputised, I think we'd all pretty quickly see the value. His wages have to be way out of reach though.
He did this April. Not sure Colback has managed similar for a little while longer...
I reckon he might give Walsh a game in goal, but it'll definitely be a team that Cifuentes imagines is strong enough to win. It'll be made up from the eleven and bench from last night, surely, but perhaps in a different order.
I'd be amazed if Santos plays - but he did score in the cup this season already!
Love all this "best team" business. What's our best back four? Not the one that started the last two games. Who's best at pressing a PL level back four (Coady excepted!)? Probably not Frey, possibly Kolli. But who's the best finisher?
Leicester will eat Fox and Dunne alive in the centre. But is JCS fit for 90? Do we know enough of Edwards? Does Dunne go RB in our best team?
Colback looked very calm when he came on. Is he better or worse in this kind of game, of which he has much experience, than Varane or Morgan who have zero? We have spent an enormous amount money (relatively) on a technical midfielder in Madsen: might this game suit him more than some of our other midfielders?
I don't know. But I'm not watching hours and hours of Leicester games, with all the QPR data to match, not privy to training nor injuries, and am in no way qualified even if I was to pass judgement on any of it really (just like all here). Marti Cifuentes is.
Marti was talking about playing Frey last night and bringing on Lloyd because of the opposition. Does that mean they're better than Kolli? Don't think so. It means he's looked at the bigger picture rather "best elevens" or any of that old fashioned nonsense.
He'll pick teams for each task, each game, as the squad gets fitter. If he brings in Saito for Smyth, or JCS for Fox, Colback for Varane...is he weakening the team? If he keeps the same eleven, that's not his best team but it's a winning team.
So...I'm just gonna wait until 1:00pm on Saturday and trust in Marti. If we get beat 3-0, well, Swansea did that. No need for banners whatever the outcome.
Spurs. I don't know why they're not rioting against Levy every week. Football definition of hubris.
First season, Pochettino got Spurs to their highest league placing since 1990, then after that their highest since 1962 - over 50 years - in coming second, got them to a CL final playing the football that the grumpy fraud Postecoglou keeps advertising is coming soon, signs a new contract, and *six months* later got sacked after a hungover bad run but still top half in *November*. They fired someone who's way out of their league, they'll never get that close again. And they'll never get a better manager at a better career age again either.
Spurs. I'm old but the first season I really got obsessed by football every week, QPR were playing in Europe and Spurs were relegated.
"In all seriousness", he's got four from the last six points, has seen out 1000 games, is three points clear of relegation and has in fact not been sacked by Christmas.
Karl Ready won the player of the year 97-98 (in an admittedly dreadful squad). He played another 100 games or so for us after that and it's hard to think of good one.
i watched it in real time, you WUM. It was intentional, violent and I have absolutely no doubt very painful and shocking to Morgan.
Your view is entirely irrelevant to me therefore.
Just to add: Kenny McLean was sent off against Luton two years ago for an identical incident when he "accidentally" caught Tom Lockyer in the head with a straight-arm smash. He then also spent five minutes also chasing after the ref as he did Saturday. That's the player. This is his second four match ban of this season for violent conduct.
Morgan was "poleaxed" because he was blinded-sided by a swinging forearm aimed at his face. First, he was in agony. Then, shock when he got up and finally blind rage. I watched it unfold in R block. It was disgraceful.
Would love to get you together with Morgan to explain why in your judgement it probably didn't hurt as much he made out.
"I'm afraid I see it differently". Who cares? Are you on the disciplinary panel?
Why are watching clips of QPR and wading onto QPR message boards to pompously pronounce? Are you banned from Brentford fan sites? Understandable.
"If I'm playing inside Ossie Kakay I'm talking and encouraging him for 90 minutes, step, hold, get tight, not hanging him out to dry"
The "if" in this sentence is doing quite a lot of work. *If* I'm playing right wing for QPR, I'm placing at least ten perfect crosses a match on the striker's right foot and forehead and we win the league.
I wonder who Osman Kakay would've preferred to have playing alongside him as captain? Steve Cook or ParkRoyalR?
Chair's right footed. He's played there before and he's 10x the player Smyth is. Smyth has one assist and zero goals playing wide in a front three from eleven games. I reckon Chair can manage that.
There's a role for Smyth. But come on. Anyway, I'd play Chair in the middle instead of Madsen, working and swapping with Saito as he did best with Willock. Not sure Smyth will get away with overhitting passes to Chair and blaming him quite so often.
If we're rotating Chair with Saito while picking Paul Smyth every week then we deserve L1 next season.
Chair is the best attacking footballer at the club, proven, acknowledged in our dressing room and opposition dressing rooms as such. One of maybe three players coveted by any other team higher up the pyramid. When he's fit, he plays. Marti knows this.
He's also capable of playing on the right, in the centre or obviously on the left. In a team where Ashby plays left back with only a right foot and Dunne plays right back, Chair can play wherever he's picked.
Probably starts on the bench initially, but he must play when fit - not least so we can sell him in the last-chance window of this summer. I'd say Madsen is most vulnerable, but I'm not a coach.
Exactly. Dave Webb left Chelsea who finished 17th in '74 to join QPR who'd finished 8th. And the season after he left them, Chelsea were relegated, while QPR finished 11th. He also beat Chelsea home and away with his new club, and of course came second in the league in 75/76 with Rangers - higher than he ever finished with CFC.
It was a step-up for Webb!
Frank McLintock, on the other hand, yeah - lower club when he moved (but career-saving move).
He's not happy and every week Marti's comments are increasingly more alarming than anything on the pitch.
It's imperative that QPR keep Marti here and happy. I'd rather anyone leave - players, staff/board member or certainly newbie CEO - than this manager who keeps us punching miles above our current weight.
As pointed elsewhere: to keep clean sheets against Watford away and Norwich, the two best attacks in the league, without our best centre back, our only left back on half a leg and a centre back playing RB (and scoring), while fashioning so many chances without our best two creative players and a recognised centre forward, with two teenagers with less than half a dozen full games between them starring...
It's incredible. He's earned whatever he wants. I am only interested in Cifuentes' "game model" and "marginal gains". Nobody else's opinion should count.
We're getting a lot of catastrophic muscle injuries, calves and hamstrings. We didn't last season, because the fitness and performance manager managed the players very well - what with being at the training ground. Worth noting the club's innovative head of medical and performance Dr. Imtiaz Ahmed left in Feb too.
You can't do anything about impact injuries. You absolutely can about hamstring, calf and back injuries: the three injuries we didn't suffer much from last season but are being plagued with this season.
What's changed? Draw your own conclusions. Marti clearly has.
I've never listened to the guy's commentary, so I must assume he's good at that. But he is a dreadful interviewer, probably the worst I can recall even in the field of soft-ball football club employee interviewers. He is the pits. He never asks anything that could draw insight, about anything. The first three questions here are all variations on how did it feel to score (in itself a terrible question: the better question is to describe the goals). Ask him about getting back in the team! He makes Nick London seem like Nick Robinson.
To have him doing post-match interviews every week is like someone hitting the first man with every corner and never coming off corners. I know it's not important, really, at all, but it's just another weird thing at modern QPR. I'd love to know the internal staff gossip about this season. One day hopefully.
Harsh! All players are mercenaries: you'd struggle to pick an eleven from the top two divisions of players who aren't mercenaries.
Also "whatever that means for his career". He came to QPR for his career, to play regularly at a decent level. It was mutually beneficial for 18 months or so, but there's no question QPR's management of his body effectively broke his career. Warburton played him at Forest when he was injured and snapped his hamstring. Beale played him too often for too long when he wasn't properly recovered (but still winning games on his own, ie Millwall and Sheff U). His career will never be the same because of QPR's mismanagement of him.
Then we had the whole Ainsworth farrago of sticking him on at 93 min of games, playing Kelman instead, etc. What loyalty should he (or a concerned Dad?) have to QPR?
And going to Cardiff for a higher wage rather than staying at QPR: I mean, it's much of muchness, career-wise. Going to Saudi is mercenary. Going to Cardiff, a club who finished six places higher - not really a sell-out, is it?
He's not a lone striker, is he? Bannister, Allen (C), Spencer...none of these were lone strikers either. All great number 9s but all would be lost pressing on their own or holding the ball up against CBs in this set-up. But great to see those finishes last night. Maybe when Dembele's back offering a bit more speed and Chair behind he may be better judging on last night. We still definitely need at least one more senior striker - no club can just have two.
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