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Reply | Ronnie returns, but is it the handsome deal QPR hope? – Signing
at 11:08 10 Jan 2026
Think we're pretty much agreeing on all this.
But just to stand up for Les...he did sign those three! That's his work. Can't really bash him for not achieving the market value when he's not here to do the selling. We're still trading on the profits of one of his development sales. Nourry needs to sell some of his own signings at a similar mark-up before I congratulate him on being a tougher negotiator. [Post edited 10 Jan 11:09]
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Reply | Ronnie returns, but is it the handsome deal QPR hope? – Signing
at 11:02 10 Jan 2026
I'd also say Tangana at 26 for the same money having played fewer than 75 pro games is a bigger risk (as he is proving this season). He's 18 months younger than Dunne. John Egan at 31 cost Hull £2m....yeah, you're right, doesn't happen often!
Probably ambitious at 7m. But West Ham (and others) will be desperate and I think £5m is plausible. |
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Reply | Ronnie returns, but is it the handsome deal QPR hope? – Signing
at 10:38 10 Jan 2026
Thinking more about this...
We could sell Dunne in the summer for some serious wedge too, possibly. Club captain, versatile, reliable, leader, a totem of the club - sort of guy Birmingham might buy for too much or a newly relegated team - let's say West Ham, who will need defenders and experience, and are addicted to spending too much.
Selling Jimmy Dunne to one of the above or Chris Wilder for £7-10 million at 28, at the top of his game having signed for very little and rinsed the best from him...that would be the development model if Ronnie Edwards is the replacement. |
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Reply | Ronnie returns, but is it the handsome deal QPR hope? – Signing
at 10:19 10 Jan 2026
Great to sell players, but bit early to say if they're upgrades really. Armstrong, Kelman and Kone's records are pretty similar this season. We'll see. Burrell and Kone definitely seem to be more of what we need and like, and I'm happier with them, but at 22 and 24 at two similarly placed clubs it's impossible to say Kelman and Armstrong have worse careers than Kone, 22, and Burrell, 25, after four months.
The key thing is, we didn't make any significant money on the upgrades. Maybe a couple hundred grand difference between Armstrong and Burrell?
For this model to be working in this particular instances it should be:
Buy Liam Morrison in July 24 for £500K; sell Liam Morrison for £6 million in August 25.
Buy Ronnie Edwards in Jan 26 for £4.5 million. Profit and a better player.
Instead we have Morrison still here, not playing, worth the same still probably, and have still spent £4.5 million to block the path.
This is not a development model. This is a financial timebomb, and probably not great vibes for the defenders hoping to be developed by QPR. [Post edited 10 Jan 10:21]
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Reply | Ronnie returns, but is it the handsome deal QPR hope? – Signing
at 09:18 10 Jan 2026
Yeah, lassel needs to get his story straight on this as elsewhere he's actually said "I told you so" in saying the sale was long agreed for this window, in which case it couldn't be due to the post Dec 26 results. But he's right about both Edwards and Saito being for the gallery as much as for the team. |
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Reply | Ronnie returns, but is it the handsome deal QPR hope? – Signing
at 09:12 10 Jan 2026
No, I do get all that, they replace with better each time they sell.
We're just not selling anyone yet. Buying incrementally better players only works if you're selling for incrementally higher fees each time. We're buying Smyth, then Dembele, then Vale, then Poku, then Saito...but we're not selling any of them. Not even Chair or Kolli, who we should definitely both sell for this to work (but who are both possibly too physically damaged to do so).
We need to sell, not just buy.
Burrell by far the best chance of a low-cost buy going for serious money now he's got ten goals...which is why the possibly serious hamstring injury is such a disaster. If he gets 15-20 this season, sell high in the summer to Stoke, B'rum or Sheffield U, replace with cheaper. Get this going. |
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Reply | Ronnie returns, but is it the handsome deal QPR hope? – Signing
at 00:07 10 Jan 2026
Brentford bought Watkins for £1.8 million in 2017, sold him three years later for £28million in 2020. They then bought Ivan Toney for £10million in 2020, sold him in 2024 for £40 million. They spent £30 million on Thiago as Toney's replacement, got badly injured on debut, barely played...16 goals this season already, looks mustard. 24 years old. How valuable would he be to a Champions League team?
Rinse and repeat. Always reinvest less than they received, too.
Millwall signed Tanganga as a free agent in July 2024 (obviously hefty signing fee though) and sold him 12 months later for initial £7 million rising to £10 million.
Millwall then bought Crama for under a million and could easily sell him five times that this summer.
QPR have definitely mastered the buying part of the equation. But we haven't managed the rinse and repeat feats that Brentford and now Millwall accomplish. (Selling Kelman to buy Kone for the roughly the same is better trading than usual though).
If we're selling Ronnie Edwards to Newcastle for £15+ million in two years, then we're doing this right. Hope so. The selling bit is the hard part. |
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Reply | Ronnie Edwards
at 18:39 9 Jan 2026
Who's to say? The market will say, so let's see. Burrell the only signing who could go for five times and a brilliant example of who we should sign, ie someone I've never heard of signed from a lower level for not very much money. Mbengue and Madsen could go possibly for twice or three times as much. Anyone else?
Re Edwards, if he'd been great on loan at Preston instead of QPR last season but hadn't even been making the bench for Southampton this, we'd be up in arms at spunking £4.5 million on him in January. It's a PR signing. Feel the same about Saito. It's not what we're meant to be doing.
But I am excited about seeing him play for us and it's not my money. So who cares really? |
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Reply | Ronnie Edwards
at 17:22 9 Jan 2026
Really hope it works. He was great on loan. But we're signing him two years too late at a million too much. It's one for the gallery on X.
Don't wanna be a party pooper, love watching players play well for QPR, but rather than buy Edwards in January for £4.5 million, Millwall bought Tristan Crama for less than a million from Brentford B last year and will be selling him - arguably the best, most versatile CB in the division now - for five times that at least in 18 months. Just as they did with Tanganga.
We used to be constantly outsmarted in the market by Brentford. Now we're constantly outsmarted in the market by Millwall. Two clubs who very quietly succeed with what QPR constantly tell the whole world they're going to do but rarely see through.
Drives me potty.
Anyway, sorry. Welcome Ronnie. |
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Reply | Burrel out until March
at 16:29 8 Jan 2026
Yes, he the sports editor of the Hounslow Herald. You could google him and read the quotes he gathered directly in the presser that he shares every week. That was just one quote. I'm sure WLS were on the same presser.
ps. you know the blue tick meaningless? You buy it. Dave Mc hasn't got one. |
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Reply | Burrel out until March
at 16:20 8 Jan 2026
Absolutely no way that back four starts and the team coach leaves the stadium in one piece. Imagine explaining to the club captain he's being rested for Tylon Smith in a televised game against a PL team as they're playing again in six days at Stoke.
JS claims he's picking his strongest side and that definitely doesn't include Adamson or Akindineli.
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Reply | Ronnie Edwards
at 16:02 8 Jan 2026
I hope he's the player we remember watching and not the player Southampton's coaches are seeing.
I think £4.5 million is too much for us, for a CB, when we have holes at both full backs, and up top. I can't believe that we couldn't scout another CB for a third of that (perhaps the Edwards equivalent of 18 months ago, as is the mandate), and invested the rest elsewhere...
Of course I hope it proves a bargain price in the long-run. He was a lovely player. But it sits badly with me. |
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Reply | Daniel Bennie
at 13:05 8 Jan 2026
When was the last time Kolli played 90 minutes? Or back to back games? He barely managed 70 minutes on Sunday.
We've got ten games before March, when Burrell is supposed to be training again at the earliest. And that first streak of March games is a three-game week.
So, let's call it 13 games before we see Burrell back at best. Do we think Kolli will be fit to play in seven of them?
Of course Bennie's "in contention" for a run of games. All of our hybrid 10s and wingers will be.
I bet they sign someone on loan though too (and more than one). |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 09:34 7 Jan 2026
It's QPR. Of course they'll sign players. Has there been a window in memory they haven't?
They would've anyway but injuries down the spine of the first team make it inevitable now, surely, especially at CB if Morrison and JCS are out longterm (again). Smith sounds good on paper, but let's see how we really feel if Dunne/Cook are out at any point soon too and we're playing with him and Mbengue in the middle with, I dunno, Morgan at RB.
I expect at least one marquee signing - probably a CB - plus a few loans in and out. |
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Reply | thoughts on west ham in t'cup
at 22:09 5 Jan 2026
If you're coming from the east, you've got much better options all round.
I live nearby on Central Line, so...answers below.
1) Possibly the most important is. Do we need to find a watering hole outside of Stratford? I know we've been advised to, but is it necessary?
> Unfortunately, yes. Not many options and you need a home ticket anyway. But if you're coming on CL westbound, there's really good pubs aright by Leytonstone (Red Lion, plus a Spoons) and Wanstead (George) tubes, plus a good one five mins walk up Leyton High Street (Engineer).
2) As we have bus replacement on Greater Anglia services, I'm yet to decide whether to drive to Shenfield or Gants Hill. Is their still free road parking available at Gants Hill on the side roads? I suppose this question could also apply to Fairlop or Hainault.
> Central Line is a better bet if you want prematch. All the WHU fans also park by the tube stations, particularly Gants Hill. You may get lucky. May find more joy in streets near Redbridge, Wanstead and L'Stone tubes.
3) If I'm using the Central Line, is it better/quicker to walk to Leyton after the game than use Stratford?
> Hadn't thought of that! Will probably attempt it as drinking that way after.
If I was coming from the West, I'd drink by Liverpool St Station before and jump on Elizabeth Line. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 22:53 4 Jan 2026
Great finishes, and there's lots in him playing behind Kone with runners either side. Looks a good position for him, even if it may take a game or two to click.
However, he was out on his feet long before the end. He's certainly not match fit, he was blowing from about 70 mins. We thought he might be taken off as he was bent double for a bit - and then he scored.
It'll take him a few weeks to get fit. Hopefully he's robust enough, because he's a finisher and a player.
Good to see Chair on the pitch at the end (even if he didn't look too happy). We miss him badly. |
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Reply | Kone
at 13:49 2 Jan 2026
When Ferdinand was the same age as Kone, he played two games all season and scored none. The next year, 23 going on 24, he played nine and scored two (in the same match).
Let's see how Kone's doing when he's 25, 26, the age Les started scoring more often. I agree with Clive: I think he's doing well for a 22 year-old new to this level.
Edit: strongly agree about not using inverted wingers [Post edited 2 Jan 13:50]
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Reply | Kone
at 11:42 2 Jan 2026
He just needs a goal. Happens to all strikers - even those hailed on this thread such Furlong and Austen. Go through barren patches, look less than ordinary, pitchforks come out...score a goal, suddenly they are twice the player again. He looked good when he was scoring, now he's on this drought he looks clumsy and hesitant.
Only exception that I can think of as a young player at Rangers is Clive Allen. But neither Kone nor Burrell are Clive Allen, our most reliable 9. Even Les Ferdinand - not saying Kone is Les - but Les Ferdinand took a little while to hit his straps: 1990/91: 18 games, 8 goals; 91/92: 23 games, 10 goals...then he got really going. He was 26 then, though.
Kone is only 22. 22 in his first season at this level...cut him slack. He's definitely got a higher ceiling than Burrell who is 25 but they can grow together still.
Burrell is now five without a goal, too. They both need one. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 16:57 31 Dec 2025
Yes! That's right. Forgot that one. He played three (?) times in the PL at 19 for us. Looked lost.
Following season he played 30+ games in L2. Then the season after did half a season in L1 before starting for us thereafter.
Think that would be a good model for our more promising DS players next season - though not sure there's a huge line of L2 clubs waiting for them. |
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