Rio deal will lift whole club, says Harry

[alanfullerqpr]

Exclusive: Manager confident former England defender's arrival will have positive impact and persuade Steven Caulker to sign from Cardiff

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IMO I do feel the club will sign some decent young players this window but it will all depend on Rio coming in if he comes I think others will follow.

[QPR Richard]

If reports are to be believed, he was on £200k a week at Man Utd, and wants £80k a week to join us.

That's way too much for a player in the twilight of his career for a club our size IMO.

[WCE]

I read somewhere that the offer for Rio was around 35k a week plus add on's, a bit like Cole's deal at Roma. Anyone guess what the add on's are?

[Kirill]

I read somewhere that the offer for Rio was around 35k a week plus add on's, a bit like Cole's deal at Roma. Anyone guess what the add on's are?

Humongous?

[Yousef]

SSN: Rio Ferdinand to have QPR medical today.

[alanfullerqpr]

SSN: Rio Ferdinand to have QPR medical today.

if he signs expect caulker to follow hopefully

[Shepherds Mush]

I read somewhere that the offer for Rio was around 35k a week plus add on's, a bit like Cole's deal at Roma. Anyone guess what the add on's are?

That we stock Rio's merchandise in the clubshop....

[stanistheman]

hopefully he will lift the mood far better than the signing of Park from Man U did.

[stanistheman]

If reports are to be believed, he was on £200k a week at Man Utd, and wants £80k a week to join us.

That's way too much for a player in the twilight of his career for a club our size IMO.

I would not offer more than £30-35K pw with a huge bonus if QPR stay up.

[Nick]

I don't think money's Rio's motive, don't get me wrong he wont play for peanuts but let's face it there's a hell of a lot of clubs out there that would pay him a lot more (premiership, US etc). All he wants do is play for a team he likes and not at a really high level with expectations (UTD, City, Chelsea, Liverpool etc). HR IMO is a massive reason he's coming here. Hes obviously known him since he was a kid (Rio that is). And apparently a few of the players are starting to follow him on twitter so they probably got a bit of banter going on. I genuinely think he's coming here because he wants to play for qpr not the cheques.

[Connell10]

mmmmm ill keep my powder dry on "young" rio until i see him play and see how his back holds out!