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Reply | Time to play our own
at 10:35 3 Mar 2025
Southampton currently have 39 first teamers, including those they’ve had to push out on loan because they can only name 25.
They’re going to have to do a hell of a lot of wheeler dealing this summer to reduce the bloat even before the manager gets his ‘own’ players in.
Edwards will 100% be out in loan next season, as will Yang which is kind of the whole point of QPR taking them in January.
But as said, let’s just burn our relationship with Spurs and Saints as we aren’t going up. |
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Reply | Time to play our own
at 18:38 2 Mar 2025
Agreed, let’s burn our future relationship with two ‘haves’ with bloated squads. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 18:34 2 Mar 2025
So let me get this straight.
MAGA insisted that Biden had wide open borders, nobody was ever caught, and those that were were just waved in with a Green Card and a bank account.
Now that undeniable fact shows Biden was deporting 50% more than Trump, apparently that’s because Biden was is it stopping so many at the border it was easy for him.
It would be embarrassing if it wasn’t just so pathetic.
Pretzels. |
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Reply | Sh*thousery by the Referee
at 08:48 2 Mar 2025
Has to recover and report it to the fourth official so the club can be fined. |
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Reply | Sheffield Utd Thread
at 18:30 1 Mar 2025
Not really much to say other than that the quality of strikers ultimately decided the game.
Frey unfortunately appaling once again and Sheff have an abundance of riches in their department. |
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Reply | And breathe... - Simon Dorset's annual deep dive into the accounts
at 11:34 27 Feb 2025
If we work on the agreement that the numbers are more or less right, it shows exactly why we had to have signings last season agree to defer most of their salary to this season, as the wiggle room accounts to c.£25k a week in wages, which doesn’t go far these days in the Championship. |
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Reply | QPR finances released
at 16:15 24 Feb 2025
I’ve been (naively, I accept) transparent about how I’ve come to hear some things about the current day to day at the club.
Of course I don’t know to the £ how much players are earning - you can count on one hand how many at the club do and it would be an enormous GDPR breach for them to disclose. And Nourry who approves the deals is hardly Mr Informative. Without being a cnt about it though, I’ve been told a rough figure for some of these guys. As to what the clubs working on much lower budgets than us pay their best players, of course again I’m guesstimating, but if the likes of Oxford, Pompey, Plymouth, Preston, Millwall, Coventry, Derby are paying what we are then whatever naive hopes I had for the future of football is gone.
Put it like this, Cook turned us down the first time for Forest and moved his family away from the south coast because he got his last long term, PL wages deal. He didn’t agree to rip that up and move his family again for a few grand a week. Colback didn’t turn down other clubs and move his family for a few grand a week. Both of those guys had to work with us on the phasing of their deals as well because of our FFP situation meaning year 2 would always be much higher. Frey and Andersen didn’t tear up their contracts at Liege and AaB and play the second half of last season for practically expenses in return for a few grand a week this season.
Fully respect that you see it differently, I’m happy to bring this thread back in 12 months though and we can compare the wage bills for this season and last. I’m comfortable it will have unfortunately increased a hefty amount. |
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Reply | QPR finances released
at 15:58 24 Feb 2025
You’re both right ultimately.
We have spent £6m net, so whatever we recovered for Armstrong & Dykes we also spent on top of the £6m to get the gross outlay.
On the £1.66m, Dembele definitely wouldn’t be included in that as Nourry insists we’ve agreed a permanent deal, so he would be in the £6m. If Saito is an obligation to buy under certain KPi’s, he would also be in the £6m.
My best guess would be then that the £1.66m is Madsen, Celar and Varane performance add-ons. |
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Reply | Paal/clueless Rs players post-match
at 14:22 23 Feb 2025
Seems a bit self-defeating from the club to rope Paal into PR duties. We also know the club was desperately trying to flog him this summer and he wasn’t offered a new deal so is understandably completely checked out.
Like beaching a tanker and then asking someone on their beach their thoughts on the oil industry. |
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Reply | QPR finances released
at 14:18 23 Feb 2025
Not much to add on the latest accounts other than that they spell out what people were repeatedly saying last season - we were extremely tight on FFP and had to be creative to get anyone in.
The concern for me is on this season - any savings on Dykes, Willock, Adomah, Begovic will have been easily swallowed up by the likes of Madsen, Varane, Nardi, Celar. We also have Frey, Andersen, Cook & Colback earning extremely good money this year, all individually on far more than half the leagues highest earners, so we are going to be looking at another c.£25m loss this year and then hopefully two seasons of common sense and tight belts rather than allowing a Beale-esque blowout this summer, plus also likely needing to move a couple out for decent fees. |
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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 11:09 23 Feb 2025
Late to the party as with a newborn there’s more to life than getting worked up about our average championship club.
Others have probably already said it, but stooping to Pompeys level and providing such a vindaloo dump of long ball slop was not only hard to swallow, but also self defeating as you’ll never outfarm a team used to playing farm football.
Frey as bad as performance as he’s ever given. Worst spend of 5 figures for the week since that Escort Cosworth with 200k miles was going around on Autotrader.
Lloyd then showing why we have to play Frey when put clean through and not only failing to work the keeper but closer to setting off the collision warning for the Isle of Wight ferries out of Gunwharf than hitting the target.
Dunne back to playing as the footballer that made Cifuentes give up on him as a CB and dump him out wide, Chair at his wasteful worst just after being his clinical best.
A shitshow from which nobody emerged with any credit. And as said during the game, Hayden couldn’t have telegraphed his feelings for Nourry any more publicly if he’d had them tattooed on his chest and ripped his shirt off celebrating the goals. Which he nearly did.. |
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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 16:17 22 Feb 2025
Interesting that nobody celebrated their goals harder than Hayden.
Clearly no love lost between him and Nourry. |
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Reply | Kakay Departs
at 08:27 12 Feb 2025
Sometimes you just have to recognise when people are operating on another level to mere mortals, and Rashford’s PR woman and Kakay’s agent are two such examples.
If he can get a contract at that level I’m going to reach out and see if I can get us both a trial. Literally anything is already possible. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 10:12 1 Feb 2025
He spent much of last summer trying to get the Burnley and Sunderland jobs… |
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Reply | Santos gone.
at 10:03 1 Feb 2025
Football is an extremely small world, and anyone doing their due diligence on Kakay is inevitably going to be told that he rejected the chance to play football, preferring to see out his contract - the reasons behind it that are entirely understandable as a fellow new dad will be deemed irrelevant.
The same club would also be watching his tape from 2023/24 when he was costing us a goal a game and it’s going to scare most off. Some good games in prior seasons are going to carry less weight as you’re always only ever as good as your last game. |
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