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keeper
at 09:51 12 Jul 2025

If you look through the squad at what players could be sold and we have decent back up for you'll not come up with much. Possibly Nardi and Chair. You sometimes need to do that to create funds to strengthen other areas, especially if your budget has been dented by settling a manager out and hiring a new manager before you've even started.

One thing Nourry has done well with in my opinion is moving players on. Getting fees for Dykes, Armstrong etc has really helped when finances are tight.

It's a risk but replacing Nardi with Walsh and some transfer budget might be a good bit of business if they can find a buyer.
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 09:07 11 Jul 2025

So if that's true we're currently £0.5m down and hoping Marti takes a job soon to get as much of it back as possible. Fingers crossed he gets announced by Leicester soon.
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Pink and Black halves
at 09:02 11 Jul 2025

I don't have a problem with a pink kit to drive sales or halves as that's part of our history before hoops. However I wish it were the third kit rather than away, away should be red and black hoops ideally.
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So Birmingham.....
at 18:31 10 Jul 2025

This is what I've long wondered about. I understand that the League 1 accounts will be taken into account for their 3 year rolling FFP. What I don't understand is whether the accounts from league 1 are re-assessed.

So in league 1 funds chucked in by owners is ok, so you could have a rich owner fund a spending spree and have the accounts say you've broken even or even make a profit. So seeing as that's not allowed in the championship, do they go back and adjust it to reflect how it would have been accounted if they were in the championship or do they just look at the break even and use that?
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 19:02 9 Jul 2025

How many posts today for something you don't care about? In fact your first ever post on this forum less than a year ago was to defend Nourry and about 50% of your posts are defending Nourry, so you must care a bit.

Anyway it would appear one mans negative inferences are another mans reasonable assessment, so probably best we leave it there to avoid boring everyone to death.
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 18:12 9 Jul 2025

I'm not asking for a 100% record, just some transparency and to hold their hands up when they get something wrong. There was no acknowledgement that the consultancy/part time role was a huge failure, him coming back was a "re-structure" rather than rectifying a mistake. The club/Nourry didn't announce a re-structure when he switched from full time to part time either. The only benefit I can see from withholding information like this is that it allows them to create their own narrative at a later date, which should be concerning. After all there's no competitive advantage to the opposition by knowing Ben Williams is now a part time consultant is there!

As NorthernR pointed out, he didn't mention Marti in his article when Critchley arrived because we had a passing interest at that time. It's fair to conclude that he was identified by Belk as our top target back then, so I'm not sure why you are so keen for Nourry to take credit. I can see why LH might be keen for his protege to take the credit, but whether he credits him or not, it doesn't add up so should be queried rather than treated as gospel.
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 14:10 9 Jul 2025

You said identified, if he was already known to us how did Nourry identify him?

I think there was a press release to the fans saying they intended to sack Marti! Of course there wasn't, it was rumored but unless you work at the club you can't say whether the rumor was true or not.

I have an issue with people not rectifying their mistakes in a timely fashion, don't you? Especially when they are supposed to be in charge of something important. Ben Williams was a Retexo hire, so there is a pre-existing relationship to Nourry outside of being a QPR employee which could be a conflict of interest. Do we still use his old company to hire staff?
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 14:00 9 Jul 2025

That's fair enough Nix, I get that he has his own career to think about. But I'm not sure his approach to being manager in lower leagues of Spain and Scandinavian clubs would necessarily dictate what he'd do here. The Championship is a good showcase to get a job in the Premier League either by over-achieving or getting promoted. He's obviously not scared to challenge himself by moving to a new club and seeing what he can do, or taking over clubs in trouble at the foot of the table. I wonder if the difference here is that he didn't see an upside either due to FFP restrictions or our organisation that made him realise that his chances of progressing to a point where he'd be in the frame for a Premier League job here were limited. I guess we'll never know.
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 13:45 9 Jul 2025

The CEO at the time being Lee Hoos who wanted to become our club chairman as a "semi-retirement role" and subsequently appointed Nourry in as both CEO and DoF to help speed it up. Yes, when Nourry said why not hire that bloke that you nearly signed (but for his release clause) after Critchley left, he had no choice but to credit him as influential in identifying him.

On Williams, at what point in something not working do you rectify it? In this case it seem a full season, why so hesitant? Apparently keen to sack Marti in October for a poor start but sacking Williams and replacing with someone who could be based at the training ground never seemed to be on the cards. His back now so hopefully that can be put to bed, but it shows poor judgement in my option that it was ever allowed to happen and we should be worried by someone covering both roles having poor judgement as there's very few checks and balances.

I've said before that I'd not mind Nourry as the CEO with a DoF appointed to handle the football side of things. He'd be involved in hiring a DoF, so he could get someone who shares his vision for the development squad and also has a good understanding of data and want to use it for scouting, if that's what he wants. But the DoF would hopefully act as a bit of footballing knowledge to decide what our game model should be rather than Nourry deciding based on statistics or to make sure our squad is a bit more balanced. It would also act as a balance and hopefully help stop situations like Ben Williams occurring where he was clearly taking the p last season in working remotely and part time. To me that would be in the best interests of the football club, but that's not what is happening.
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 12:43 9 Jul 2025

Well, as NorthernR pointed out on another thread, we'd been interested in Marti since long before Nourry was here permanently or as a consultant. It seems a fairly transparent attempt to align himself with a positive aspect of the club, as Marti was highly liked. I think we should be able to agree that's a lie.

Ben Williams was someone signed in Ainsworths reign as a recommendation from Nourrys old company, so there is a pre-existing relationship there with Nourry which it's fair to assume allowed him to retain his job when nobody else would have. Williams quite rightly took credit for fewer injuries the season before, so why did such a seemingly key role be allowed to change to remote and part time. Turns out his return clarified that he had actually left a full time role and only been a consultant at the club but we weren't told. So why did we allow the club to essentially have a season with increased injuries and make it seem like the position was filled if not to hold it for Williams to come back. How is that in the interest of the club. Also when we had all those injuries why did Nourry come out publicly and say they were impact injuries when it was clearly an issue with muscle injuries and claim we were still below average for injuries?

It's not just the contract lengths, we still haven't heard about Colback or Fox (or did I miss that?) We get no update on someone who was hailed as key to the reduced injuries the season before essentially leaving the club we then get lies about how many injuries we've had.

You might be ok with the above but I don't see how any of it benefits the club.
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 11:38 9 Jul 2025

So we shouldn't be concerned about the actions of the man that's still here? Just ignore that and hope he changes his ways or gets better at telling lies so we don't notice? Not sure how that helps QPR.
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 11:30 9 Jul 2025

My comments on CN are not a set of positives and negatives to evaluate whether he's overall good or bad. I'm merely pointing out the actions that lead me not to trust him.

So for clarity, I am happy to say that he has done some good things, never claimed he hadn't. Also for clarity, I don't have a personal vendetta against him or hate him. I just find it hard to trust him for the reasons stated in my first post, despite his 35 years experience in football or whatever the first obvious lie was.
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Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 07:46 9 Jul 2025

I'm surprised someone of your towering intellect is unable to grasp a scenario where Marti may love the club where the fans sing his name through thick and thin and where players like Dunne give him 100% each game. Yet at the same time dislike being told to play a certain formation (game model) that our squad isn't capable of winning with while the DoF's allows the guy in charge of making sure the players are fit is allowed to work part time and remotely and was reputedly keen to sack him last September.

In that situation it seems plausible that Marti both loves the club but would prefer to be employed elsewhere.

Of course pointing that out can only mean I hate CN because we certainly shouldn't be concerned about a DoF who claims credit for signing Marti because he's popular with the fans despite him being linked long before his involvement. Or someone who allows people to phone in their role from the other side of the world, so long as they are friends/employed through his old company. Or the fact that he's trying to limit communication with fans so that in the future we're less likely to have enough information to call out his lies. We should just turn a blind eye to all those red flags because it's more important to give CN the benefit of the doubt than worry about the club.
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Jota dead
at 10:58 3 Jul 2025

Such terrible news, RIP.
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Source (credibility) effect
at 16:35 30 Jun 2025

In terms of acceptance of information depending on source, I'm not sure how this is a social media or online message board issue. We all have mates who are known as a bit of a bs'er and when they tell you something you take it with a pinch of salt and others who are more detail orientated and are always pretty much on the nose with what they're saying.

I think the difference is that when you're with your mates you can give them a bit of grief if they have a reputation for bs-ing and it's taken in good humor whereas online the same can potentially be taken as massively disrespectful even if not intended that way.
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QPR complete head-turning acquisition of Peterborough’s Poku – Signing
at 17:50 28 Jun 2025

Sounds like a good signing at a good price. Been aware of him since Peterborough were in the championship and he seems to have developed well. Hopefully he's successful here.
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Amadou Mbengue confirmed (n/t)
at 09:18 28 Jun 2025

Fair. On your last point though I think there's an element of personal perspective on what's important. He's combined two roles in CEO and DOF, so he has a wide remit and for some people it will be his signings that are most important and other people the communication etc.

Personally there seems to be a lot of stuff that doesn't sit right, especially the Ben Williams situation last season and how that was handled in contrast to Marti. Suggests a workplace where if you're mates with the boss you can do what you like but if not you're going regardless. In my experience they're not the best environment for retaining talent. The Paladini style communication is a worrying trend as well, we've been there before and it's not good. The jobs for the boys stuff, not great, are we still using Retexo as a consultant and hiring their clients?

We don't really know what's going on (seemingly by design which is a bit of a red flag) so we can't say for sure what's going on but I don't think we should turn a blind eye to it either. These things could be a massive issue down the road if even half of the above is going on. I hope he's successful because as a fanbase we deserve some good years.
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Amadou Mbengue confirmed (n/t)
at 10:13 27 Jun 2025

Wasn't that summer part of the first set of accounts in a rolling 3 year window without the Eze money? We drastically had to cut our costs to avoid a breach with Colback and Cooks contracts weighted towards the second year, yet you claim we had a bigger budget then that we do now? Not sure that's true.

I'm not a fan of Nourry but it's not really the individual signings that I'm most concerned about, he's proven to have mixed results but no worse than LF or when we left it to managers (a couple of expensive flops in Celar and Madsen excluded), possibly due to the continuity of Belk across those periods. The weakness seems to be composition of the squad, lack of cover or quality in areas and lack of physicality and speed. The main concern is his control over everything, stopping interviews with the manager, bs forums that he uses to announce contracts rather than listen to fans, the hypocrisy around Ben Williams, potential conflict of interests with Retexo clients, the use of websites he's set up to release information. It's all concerning as it seems like un-necessary things that can and probably will cause the club headaches down the road and undo any of the good work he's doing.

Anyway, this signing looks like a good prospect and a good value addition, so hopefully he can add something to the squad and develop into a good player for us.
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Eze
at 08:56 27 Jun 2025

I wonder whether the fee coming in installments will be better for FFP than getting it all in one go.

I think the reason we had the hard season financially was because we got a lump for Eze which we could use to justify spending in that season and the following 2 seasons within the 3 year window but spending after the initial income year then caused a squeeze when the Eze money dropped out of the window. So 4.5m a year extra turnover for 3 years might be better.
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Nourry on new H&F board
at 17:16 26 Jun 2025

Maybe on the Willesden Freight Terminal space?
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