Despite the club announcing on both the official website and text messaging service that Heidar Helguson had signed on loan from Bolton it turns out he hasn’t. The bad news doesn’t end there either.
Icelandic international Helguson travelled to London on Thursday last week and the deal was announced on the club’s official website that night, initially quoting a two month loan. He was expected to make a debut at former club Watford on Saturday as a much needed boost to QPR’s pathetic forward line.
However come Saturday there was no sign of the new man in the team or on the bench and rumours have been circulating ever since. It appears that Helguson was in dispute with QPR over the length of the loan deal, telling the press in his native Iceland that he did not want to be out on loan during January as it may scupper his chances of a longer term deal in the transfer window.
He is now back in Bolton although the press has today linked him with the one month loan deal he wanted – at Charlton.
QPR meanwhile have made no comment on the matter, and attempts by LFW today to clarify the situation by requesting an official statement on the club’s position have fallen on deaf ears. With Rangers playing the Addicks next we could very feasibly be in a situation this time tomorrow night of losing 1-0 to a goal scored by a player that our club’s official website states should be playing for us.
Should the statement we requested at lunchtime today be made available we will gladly publish it here – LFW is just as keen to know what is going on as the rest of the QPR supporters.
In other far sadder news the club has announced today that long serving club secretary Sheila Marson has left the club. In a terse and curt statement on the official website the club said that her employment had terminated and no further comment would be made. There will be further comment on this story on LFW later this week but for now I’m left wondering if somebody who has been with the club since 1973 and is known, recognised and loved by the vast majority of the supporters didn’t perhaps deserve a little bit more than a four line statement that didn’t even thank her for her 35 years of loyal, committed and tremendous service.
I’m happy to say it even if the club isn’t. Thank you Sheila for your tremendous work for our club and the very best of luck for the future.