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To be fair to Kevin Gallen, he's a scout for Palace and is watching games on the continent most weeks so I'm sure he has a few CF names he could suggest, even some within budget, but he probably saves all that for his boss Dougie Freedman (one of the best recruiters in the country).
Vale is definitely a left winger but he played for Bristol Rovers as a left back, played 40-odd games there. Joey Barton - I know, I know - compared him to Ashley Cole and called him "phenomenal". I'd be surprised if we could sign him as backup though.
On January 29th 2022, QPR were 4th. Therefore, QPR were 4th in February 2022.
By the end of the season, QPR finished 11th after a catastrophic run in Feb, March and April whereby we lost eleven of the remaining 18 games, winning just four.
That was from being 4th, seemingly nailed on play-offs. Finished 11th.
Interesting how we can all see games/players differently. I thought that, yes, Ashby was calamitous in possession. But he was active, involved, did not hide and won two very important free kicks to relieve pressure consequently (the second of which injured him).
Madsen, on the other hand, jogs around without ever engaging a man with the ball unless so close to him as to be unavoidable. We consequently dropped back about 15-20 yards as soon as he came on. He just stands so far off players - the contrast with Morgan is absolutely shocking, and it's clear why Marti swapped the most expensive signing for a Development squad kid. He clearly has excellent technique with the ball, but I cannot see anything else of use in the Championship. He's just not built for it or engaged with the game whatsoever. You can't jog around like that in this league without having something else incredible to offer, which he doesn't as far as I can see. Just a tidy ten yard pass.
I really see Madsen as a much bigger liability. We can muddle through with Ashby at RB from tome to time and he'll always work hard no matter what. Madsen in the middle feels like we're a man down. (But I'm not claiming to be right here, that's just the way it appears to me).
This thread is all good knockabout fun, but nobody seriously believes this a promotion squad, do they? Oh really? But..we were in the bottom three and hopeless six weeks ago. You know what they say about pride coming before a five match losing run and a fall down the table.
(yes, please hold the line Mr Warburton, February, March and April 2022 will be with you in a moment...)
In all seriousness, it's as likely as Ian Holloway still being in charge of Swindon at Christmas.
I want to win every game QPR ever play. I want to win the Championship with 138 points and run across Loftus Road on the day we are given the trophy doing a willy copter at the crying Luton fans. I love watching QPR win.
But I absolutely loath the Premier League from the bottom of my heart. I hate the prices, I hate the politics, I hate VAR with all my soul, I hate the tourists home and away taking photos of teams scoring against their own. I hate the podcasts. I hate all the talking heads. I hate the noise and everything about it. Fcking Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher having an opinion about your team that you are meant to listen to. I hate the fact that clubs are now actively working against their fans keeping season tickets, that in a decade there will be no season tickets.
I know within a few weeks up there I'd hate it even more, that there are millions of other things I'd hate that I don't even know about yet.
I'd like to win the league with 138 points and say, 'Thanks, we'll defend this next season'. Then have a big parade and loads of drink and drugs.
I know that would be incredibly unpopular and would never happen in a million years and instead I'll be spending twice as much to watch us lose 0-4 to Bournemouth home and away. But I'd prefer it.
I live in staunchly Orient (and Hammers) territory, went to watch them a few times season before last and thought he was heavy, both in touch and girth. However, my neighbour is home and Os and was raving about him recently (having told me previously he thought he was L2!). Says his improvement this season has been huge.
Dunno. Still only 23 and played well over a 100 league games, scored lots of goals. Could be something there still. Will definitely score against QPR one day.
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.
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