On my way home

[Martinmalta]

we let go twelve players and only signed four, two of which are loans. We got nearly a million for the Dutch defender and assume the likes of CA, Ball, Barbet, Wallace, Gray, Hendricks were on good money. That must saved some money for sure, however, if after all this we are still not making our ends meet, we may be in trouble.

[shaggy24]

Hard to disagree with what’s already been said, we got it wrong big time under TF and our ground size don’t help.

Hopefully we can bring in a decent cf and a rb. Should we flog anyone he’s gotta go for proper dollar Eze money already absorbed

[SheepRanger]

I think last season was a big investment year and the best chance to go up. Now its cut your cloth time again.

[Undecided]

I think last season was a big investment year and the best chance to go up. Now its cut your cloth time again.

Unfortunately that's the truth.

[davieqpr]

Last season we overspent this season we are underspending. We do not have to sell players if we don't want to unless teams meet our price. Why would Newcastle spend £20m on an untested player if they have ambitions of top four. It's the Brightons, with money to burn, that you have to look out for but more in the £12m bracket at most.

[FurtiveFox]

Even back in the good old days of the 80s and early 90s we were a club that had to sell to survive. We would sell a prize asset and try and get replacements from lower leagues or through the ranks or sometimes journeymen who could do a job for us. Worked for years until we got it wrong one year and then bang. Was bound to happen at some stage. Some of the incoming transfers looked good on paper but bombed.

That is who we are again now, albeit in Championship, and we haven't sold anyone bar Jordy and doubt we got anything much for him. We are therefore very limited in who we can buy. Plus side is most of who have gone (which reduces wage bill) were either fringe players or well past their best, barring Barbet who we have replaced. That means we have kept the spine of our team including our better players. Still a few weeks to lose someone but realistically unless we are desperate enough we have to sell someone on the cheap we are unlikely to lose anyone of note, exception being Willock although even with him my gut feeling is we will get a couple of late cheeky offers (possibly with add ons) from clubs looking for a bargain buy from a club needing the money.

Best thing for us is keep who we want, hope they have great first half of season, and we sell them in January for much more than we would get now.

[stainrod67]

Sorry guys but we ain’t keeping willock not a chance

[WHITECITYONE]

Sorry guys but we ain’t keeping willock not a chance

That's a very well argued point Stainrod.

You've provided thorough evidence, backed up with comprehensive reasoning.

It's difficult not to agree with you.

Willock is gone.

[Abseits]

Exactly.
I want to know how come QPR are the only club who can't exist standing still.
Clubs all around us are spending money yet we have, since relegation and Les took over, off loaded high wages after high wages.
We were promised a few very tight years 3 or 4 before we could move forward from survival mode.
Yet here we are 8 years later still living beyond our means??
What the hell is going on?

Answer is obvious. Warburton MASSIVELY failed in terms of developing any players into attractive saleable propositions. Not a single "kid" made any meaningful progression under Warburton and players like Dickie, Chair and Dykes who 18 months to 2 years ago I considered would be future cash-cows we could sell, have all stagnated or gone backwards.
We are a selling club and should expect to sell at least one of our better players every season for decent money - however, Warburton completely ballsed it up by failing to shape or polish any of our players into profitable assets.

[Jeffqpr]

Exactly.
I want to know how come QPR are the only club who can't exist standing still.
Clubs all around us are spending money yet we have, since relegation and Les took over, off loaded high wages after high wages.
We were promised a few very tight years 3 or 4 before we could move forward from survival mode.
Yet here we are 8 years later still living beyond our means??
What the hell is going on?

Have you forgotten our FFP fine Dave? That’s the reason we are not spending money or very little, we don’t get big crowds, yes other clubs are spending as they haven’t been dished out any big fines

[Shania]

Don`t forget that the owners are paying £1.5m every months just to keep us afloat

[Undecided]

Have you forgotten our FFP fine Dave? That’s the reason we are not spending money or very little, we don’t get big crowds, yes other clubs are spending as they haven’t been dished out any big fines

The fines are being paid by the owners, they are not a burden on the club, although there other FFP restraints (rolling loss of £39m per 3 year period for example), they are applicable to every club in the league. So it all comes down to money in v money out, and we have little money in.

I stand to be corrected.

[Shania]

So that says to me there is a major problem.
Pretty sure all the other champs clubs don't have to do this

We have to build a new stadium. A multi-purpose stadium.

[SheepRanger]

The fact remains that there are bigger clubs by attendance figures in L1 than we're getting. There are also smaller clubs than us in the Prem (brentford and bournemouth).

But in the football pecking order to be competitive in the championship is success in my eyes.

[davieqpr]

Well so far I have been assured that Dickie, Chair, Willock and Dieng would have been sold before the seasons starts on this board at various times. Can't see why our losses have gone up from £1m a month to £1.5m? Or does it just sound better to the doom and gloom merchants.