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Reply | Eze
at 12:23 10 Jul 2025
I'd say SWP was in the Boogie Nights phase of his career. Picking up a massive wage at QPR for swinging a leg, refusing to go out on loan, because he wasn't worried about the next move.
I think Grealish is at his glass ceiling (for earning) with City as mentioned above |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 13:44 9 Jul 2025
Deals can be structured anyway imaginable, but I reckon in this scenario the signing on fee was due to come out of the £2.5m coming in to QPR, which was in contention.
I think the same discussion happens around agents fees as well?
I'm sure I'd heard Lee talk about the deal on a podcast, maybe undr the cosh?
Just read this, it was £250,000 so not small change.
There is a quote here, that the club wanted more money, so Cook sweetened the deal by forgoing his signing on fee of 10% of the transfer fee, that would have been £62.k per year over the four year deal. If Fulham were Prem, maybe he was getting £15 or £20k p/w so still a big chunk of change to waive
https://qprreport.blogspot.com/2008/08/flashback-lee-cook-joins-fulham.html
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 12:30 9 Jul 2025
Isn't this situation quite common when Coaches change clubs?
Wasn't it this kind of deal that stopped Marti coming to QPR a season earlier than he did? |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 12:26 9 Jul 2025
I thought that signing on fee was holding the deal up, as it had something to do with who actually paid it.
I'm not sure it was entirely benevolent, the way i remember it was that at the 11th hour he effectively waived it to get the deal done.
Which is what MC will be doing when he takes on a new role. Giving back money paid to him, so there are some parallels to be drawn |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 11:59 9 Jul 2025
I understand the concept.
Its like paying a parking fine early and being happy it was £80 instead of £160 |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 11:19 9 Jul 2025
Because the senior management at QPR are sending a clear message that the gravy train is over. If they want a coach to leave then the payoff is on their terms. So even if you are put on gardening leave and paid for a few months, the club will try to get this back as soon as you start your next job.
This is 100% about ego's, there is no way anyone is putting them aside in this case, that's how we ended up in this farce
Isn't a similar scenario to when Lee Cook went to Fulham? Didn't he pay QPR back with some of the Fulham money to get out of his contract earlier? The spin on that was that Cook was a good guy, not that he wanted to leave, even at his own personal expense |
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Reply | Nourry on Radio London
at 10:03 9 Jul 2025
I thought Murphy looked good as well, but he is now over 21 and doesn't have any minutes above U21 level.
This is the harsh reality of what Nourry was saying, we shouldn't string these kids along if they are not close enough.
Hopefully Harry gets a new club and some much needed minutes on his CV. I'd love him to prove everyone wrong and have a great career. |
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Reply | Nourry on Radio London
at 14:59 8 Jul 2025
I think this is a uniquely British phenomenon.
We could look at a character like Boris Johnson, who to some degree has charisma and is able to speak in public forums. Yet after x amount of time the public decide they have had enough of him and public outcry forces him away.
Maybe less exposure to Nourry actually prolongs his job? |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 10:44 8 Jul 2025
I agree, for this growth model to work we need to be selling one of our better assets every year for a few years in a row to find the pipeline of bringing in more prospects to sell later.
It might even be that for the first few sales the club doesn't realise the value that the fans think they should until the club starts being able to wipe its own bum.
The only caveat is that there needs to be a strong market for selling Championship players at high value, which might actually be dropping off since Eze times... |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 15:10 7 Jul 2025
It's great that we got anything at all, but that £3m must have been dependant on Armstrong and Dykes doing XYZ, which I doubt very much if either did last year...
And I wonder how much of those Norwich sales were actual cash, or payments amortised over x years? |
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Reply | Nourry on Radio London
at 13:04 7 Jul 2025
It would be a pretty hefty non-disclosure agreement if it involved all the season ticket holders... |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 20:00 3 Jul 2025
Wasn't it always Hull (along with us) pushing Champ wages up by overpaying to get players they probably shouldn't have (along with us)?
-- Looks like those chickens have come home to roost [some simile about rugby and egg chasing, but I'm too tired to put it together] |
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Reply | Kolli
at 19:05 3 Jul 2025
I reckon this ^^ sums it up neatly for me, at least |
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Reply | Source (credibility) effect
at 14:48 3 Jul 2025
What a terrible take you have on this.
Joey Barton wants you to think he is complex, but he couldn't be more simple than an amoeba |
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Reply | Sheffield Wednesday in a right old mess
at 15:07 2 Jul 2025
Points deductions are all over the shop aren't they? I've seen infringements punished the subsequent year, as well as the same year.
I think the FA wait sometimes, as they don't want to directly relegate a club just through a deduction |
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Reply | Kolli
at 14:55 2 Jul 2025
I think we agree. Kolli is legitimately a QPR youth product, and I really think he is exciting and could come good. But he isn't it yet.
I really hope the people around him aren't telling him he's already made it, as he still has loads more development to do.
He only has to look at Willock and Armstrong to see that forcing a move away too soon isn't the best long term |
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