Julio Cesar...almost done...according to Sky

[Shania]

If Cesar accept 48000 a week then he earns less than Green? Pretty interesting

If his Wife is a singer, Model etc, etc, I don´t think their household will suffer.

[Ji Sung Park Rangers]

If Cesar accept 48000 a week then he earns less than Green? Pretty interesting

how much does Green earn a week?

[Gtleighsr3]

50k,but he keeps spilling it.

[Shania]

I really can´t imagine he is that type of person..

[stainrodisalegend]

Hughes has said several times he intended buying two goalkeepers. I would assume the he told Green this.

No way was this planned. This is a massive and expensive mess up by the club. Hughes said he wanted two keepers, but said he would have been happy for one of those to have been Kenny (who was prob on say 20k a week and would have been the reserve). Clearly the aim was to make Green number one. cant believe any board of a club our size would sanction the purchase of a reserve keeper on 50k a week out of choice. clearly they have now decided green isn't up to it. i know it sounds churlish to complain about the board when they have invested so much but it is still a scatter gun approach, hoping to do things cheap but ending up spending more. So if they had spent a few million to buy whats his chops who went to West Brom it wd have been job done.

[maddix]

No way was this planned. This is a massive and expensive mess up by the club. Hughes said he wanted two keepers, but said he would have been happy for one of those to have been Kenny (who was prob on say 20k a week and would have been the reserve). Clearly the aim was to make Green number one. cant believe any board of a club our side would sanction the purchase of a reserve keeper on 50k a week out of choice. clearly they have now decided green isn't up to it. i know it sounds churlish to complain about the board when they have invested so much but it is still a scatter gun approach, hoping to do things cheap but ending up spending more. So if they had spent a few million to buy whats his chops who went to West Brom it wd have been job done.

To be fair ....There were many (myself included) who felt that getting Englands No 2 on a free (even if we are allegedly paying £ 50 k/week) was fairly good business !!

Hindsight and all that is a wonderful thing but Green is not the same goalie I've been watching for the last 5 or 6 years !!

[Rsonist]

stainrodisalegend spot on there.

[Rsonist]

To be fair ....There were many (myself included) who felt that getting Englands No 2 on a free (even if we are allegedly paying £ 50 k/week) was fairly good business !!

Hindsight and all that is a wonderful thing but Green is not the same goalie I've been watching for the last 5 or 6 years !!

Green hasn't lost a leg. He's the same man who's had a long career as a first choice goalkeeper. If he's in a bad patch for whatever reason then Hughes and his team need to get to the bottom of it. Bench him for a while if need be and play Cerny or Murphy instead. But to throw him on the scraphead completely after two games...? Can only be seen as lunacy.

[stainrodisalegend]

To be fair ....There were many (myself included) who felt that getting Englands No 2 on a free (even if we are allegedly paying £ 50 k/week) was fairly good business !!

Hindsight and all that is a wonderful thing but Green is not the same goalie I've been watching for the last 5 or 6 years !!

cant argue with that, i also thought it wasn't bad business. but if the club had been watching him consistently before they signed him why are they effectively writing him off after two games, because make no mistake he won't be happy sitting on our bench? a player doesn't become terrible overnight. tbh im not sure what i wd do if i were in the club's position, but all this smacks of massive panic. we seem to be signing players for fairly short term gain (green, nelson, aj) rather than players like ki and mbia for the future. of course we need some experienced prem players but so far other than diakite I have seen little evidence of the hughes/ rigg brilliance in finding great players from under the radar. instead we have seen quite a few fairly obvious players who are just a bit ordinary. not writing anyone off yet but not sure we have quite lived up to our PR - so far at least.

[Felt]

cant argue with that, i also thought it wasn't bad business. but if the club had been watching him consistently before they signed him why are they effectively writing him off after two games, because make no mistake he won't be happy sitting on our bench? a player doesn't become terrible overnight. tbh im not sure what i wd do if i were in the club's position, but all this smacks of massive panic. we seem to be signing players for fairly short term gain (green, nelson, aj) rather than players like ki and mbia for the future. of course we need some experienced prem players but so far other than diakite I have seen little evidence of the hughes/ rigg brilliance in finding great players from under the radar. instead we have seen quite a few fairly obvious players who are just a bit ordinary. not writing anyone off yet but not sure we have quite lived up to our PR - so far at least.

Agreed.

[DouDou_87]

It's all well and good to question the lack of signings that match the Rigg/Hughes transfer network mould, but we need to be realistic. We have only had Rigg for 5 months and the scouting team have only just finished being assembled. Effective and productive scouting networks take far longer to establish than 5 months, with a little bit of patience, we will sign better players.

I agree that the signing of Caesar seems a bit ridiculous, but Hughes has ALWAYS stated he wanted 2 quality keepers, so when Kenny handed in a transfer request, it meant Hughes had to go into the market again. Caesar is class and for a free transfer is a ludicrously good piece of business for the club- very similar to Van De Saar joining Fulham after they went up. Instead of everyone viewing it in such a bad way, why not consider we have 2 very very good keepers battling for one spot- I can't remember the last time we had competition like that- especially in goal.

We will continue to sign out of contract older players with bags of experience until next summer IMO, by which point we should have identified 2/3 younger players we can bring in and then gradually reduce the average age of the squad whilst not risking our Premiership safety.

[RoryTheRanger]

Where is everyone getting Green on 50k a week from??

From what I remember several well respected journo's said he is on less here than what West Ham offered him to stay, which was about 42k a week.

[w12dave]

Julio Cesar at qpr right now

[Ji Sung Park Rangers]

Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews

Inter Milan goalkeeper Julio Cesar arrives at Loftus Road for talks with QPR

[Fraggy]

He is now expected to complete the transfer in the next 24 hours, after passing a medical.

Cesar will sign a three-year-contract, and will be on reported wages of £80,000-a-week.


Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footbal...#ixzz24qyKIYew

80k a week!