Admin Maesknoll Red Posted November 5, 2017 Admin Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 Interesting article with Tony Fernandez being candid about mistakes made at QPR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmerred Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 Any chance you can rotate the picture please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 Here's a link https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tony-fernandes-interview-i-never-thought-players-would-take-a-salary-and-do-nothing-050s0tvzn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 I mis-read this & expected a thread about Lansdown's Grandchildren's Christmas play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 21 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said: I mis-read this & expected a thread about Lansdown's Grandchildren's Christmas play. I heard the g*s supporters` club has had to cancel theirs. It seems they had plenty of donkeys but couldn`t find three wise men and a virgin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveybadger Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 4 hours ago, palmerred said: Any chance you can rotate the picture please. You'd have to ask the Times to do that but I think they'll say it will ruin the rest of the paper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elhombrecito Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 4 hours ago, palmerred said: Any chance you can rotate the picture please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olé Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 I know Freeman has done well for them, but I had no idea he was their most saleable asset now (third last paragraph). I wonder what our sell on clause was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Fred Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 3 hours ago, Red Right Hand said: I heard the g*s supporters` club has had to cancel theirs. It seems they had plenty of donkeys but couldn`t find three wise men and a virgin. Nervous donkeys.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 Not the chairman's nativity , Major . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 Interesting. We were talking to a Sunderland fan last weekend about their problems and he said that their Chairman hadn't been afraid the splash the cash, but has been consistently badly advised. What they needed, he thought, was someone to work alongside the chairman and the coach/manager who had a thorough knowledge of football. Someone with managerial and negotiating skills, not coaching skills, and someone both could trust. sound familiar? I thought then that's exactly where we were three years ago, and what a difference since Mark Ashton arrived, and since we started to think about the whole management structure from chairman to director to coach as a single team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 14 minutes ago, italian dave said: Interesting. We were talking to a Sunderland fan last weekend about their problems and he said that their Chairman hadn't been afraid the splash the cash, but has been consistently badly advised. What they needed, he thought, was someone to work alongside the chairman and the coach/manager who had a thorough knowledge of football. Someone with managerial and negotiating skills, not coaching skills, and someone both could trust. sound familiar? I thought then that's exactly where we were three years ago, and what a difference since Mark Ashton arrived, and since we started to think about the whole management structure from chairman to director to coach as a single team. We do seem to have been much more professional and hard-ball in that area. I’m hoping the likes of Kodjia transfer reflect a better position, but I suspect we’ve also paid out more innsigning on fees and wages etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curr Avon Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 4 hours ago, Vincent Vega said: I mis-read this & expected a thread about Lansdown's Grandchildren's Christmas play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampshire Red Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 Ole is right some hoops think freeman is better than some of their dross but he'd be nowhere near our team now, not even 2nd team. Liked the guy in two thirds of Cott's Double team but useless since with those pointless step overs and no cross. Appalling assists and goals ratio to time on the pitch with us at this level QPR can go down with Sunderland for all I care with two clowns as manager and owner. Again one. Cant even start to compare them with our two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCulturalBomb Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 QPR really were a lesson in self destruction, similar to Blackpool but in their own way. Money couldn't buy them the long term success they wanted and foolish decisions went against them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 It`s an interesting article but it`s obviously a big `mea culpa` from Fernandez and is designed to help their appeal against the fine (which I am sure they won`t have to pay anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myol'man Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 7 hours ago, Olé said: I know Freeman has done well for them, but I had no idea he was their most saleable asset now (third last paragraph). I wonder what our sell on clause was. or a buy back clause? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted November 5, 2017 Author Admin Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 3 hours ago, Red Right Hand said: It`s an interesting article but it`s obviously a big `mea culpa` from Fernandez and is designed to help their appeal against the fine (which I am sure they won`t have to pay anyway) Undoubtedly you are right about the ‘mea culpa’ but, I also can see how easy it must be to get carried away, I am not convinced that our own SL hasn’t done the same, albeit, not with huge transfers, but there have been rumours of high wages, impromptu and ultimately wasteful buys, that seems to have settled down now, so maybe QPR are on the same track. For what it’s worth, I have a level,of sympathy with any club that has an income from the league, which is below that of the highest parachute payment. To even the playing field in the Championship (whilst not always necessary) clubs that are in a position to match the highest parachute payment, should be allowed to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiled Posted November 5, 2017 Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 I have no sympathy for Fernandes or QPR. It's easy to dismiss their financial stupidity as their own problem but over-paying for players (transfers and wages) distorts the market for clubs like BCFC. I hope they have to pay that £40M fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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