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Reply | Madsen hamstring
at 10:45 27 Feb 2026
It's too late for Steve Gallen now, for sure.
But - apologies Nix for looking back, but those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it - there was a vacuum in the summer of Ainsworth, before Watford away. That's when Gallen could've come in and built a club up. He was free, we had a vacancy in his position.
I think the owners were probably scared after all the other football people they'd employed had sold them short (ie Beale, and to a lesser extent Warburton, Les, Ramsey) and a desire for someone to identify issues once and for all. So they hired Nourry to do an audit. And they then, insanely to my mind, employed him to action his recommendations.
We have to hope as QPR fans that Nourry succeeds. It sticks in the craw that we have to listen to him bullsht so often along the way, and that letting go of so many good people at the club such as Furlong is part of that process, but we definitely all want him and the team to succeed.
Otherwise, there will be another summer of ground zero change in a year or so. |
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Reply | So ..... team for Saturday ?
at 09:57 27 Feb 2026
I think you need your better, more experienced players to change systems. To ask one rookie full back and a converted CB to suddenly play wing backs in a five with three CBs who've never played together, plus a midfield who are not used to each other or the system...
It would be suicidal from Stephan, and a big red flag if he got hammered doing it. Players can easily adapt to a 442, but wing backs is a whole new thing. Certainly would need a week on the training pitch, surely!
There's a good argument for it with JCS fit after a preseason of practice (but what happens to all our little wingers? Bin 'em?). But feels Football Manager 26 to suddenly switch after a midweek hammering.
All for adding a midfielder, though! |
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Reply | So ..... team for Saturday ?
at 09:19 27 Feb 2026
Looking at these line-ups reinforces my impression that that 0-0 at their place was a very good result, as we may discover tomorrow. |
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Reply | Madsen hamstring
at 18:39 26 Feb 2026
I meant to reply to the thread. Apologies.
Yeah, Tanganga was identified before hand, but signed on a perm after Gallen joined. For free. I mean, we could've signed him too. They first signed him on loan after Nourry officially started.
Esse, yeah youth product (£12m, plus add-ons which he won't hit at the moment on loan at Coventry). But sold by Gallen at the very top price he could get, much like Tanganga. Neither are worth remotely what they were sold for.
The cigar smoking memes would be floating alongside the Nourry is cooking social posts if CN had sold any player for half as much.
"What would you suggest we should be doing differently?" Difficult question as I would not have given the 26-year-old auditor his first job in football as CEO/DOF over an experienced and suitable DOF who wanted the job in the first place.
But let's say I had had that mental collapse as owner and was now looking at many of my expensive purchases sitting in the stand with with blown out hamstrings, I'd bring in another auditor (maybe call him Chris Ramsey - joke) and rip that medical department apart to find out. I would say that takes precedence over firing the cup-winning development lead and QPR legend Paul Furlong (I'd also announce his successor properly). But hey, this is a knotty ball of string - should I keep pulling?
Then I'd make the chairman a public and accountable face of the club, not a sinister silent figurehead. Let's have some standards.
And I absolutely would not get rid of Stephan.I think he's good and needs time and a fit squad. I have never suggested otherwise so feels odd you saying I might say get rid. Nor would I get rid of Nourry now. We have to see it through. But there needs to be a structure we can understand, there needs to be accountability. It's all grey areas, the club structure and announcements purposefully oblique.
So that's what I'd change. I would also come to every game and glare down the necks of Hoos, Nourry and Williams because that's my £2m I'm paying in every month. I'd probably poach Millwall's strength and conditioning team.
Again, maybe that's just me. |
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Reply | Madsen hamstring
at 17:52 26 Feb 2026
Well, he prefaced the accounts and contradicted the CEO's official line therein which suggests authority and activity.
From the outside, it looks like he - understandably - grew tired of being harrangued in the street and having clown paint put on his face on stickers, so he announced his retirement, hired a replacement DOF and reorganised the deckchairs so the new DOF/CEO takes all the public heat and he gets to be Chairman in the background. But he goes to every games, sits next to Nourry and draws a decent wedge according to the accounts. I imagine he's link between club and board. |
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Reply | Madsen hamstring
at 16:59 26 Feb 2026
I'm not a conspiracy theorist generally, nor have I any real information that isn't public domain about QPR's management structure.
However, it seems to me that all of Nourry, Hoos and Williams' success or failure is too tied to each other for there to be any real public accountability. That would come from on high, from the owners, ie Ruben. But he's absent. He relies on these guys marking their own homework, which is why it's good to have a Chairman who is also an investor.
There was a conscious decision to hire Nourry over Steve Gallen by the board on Hoos' recommendation. And so while Rangers repeat last season in a slightly different order of events but at a much higher fee, the striking success of Millwall over the same period under Gallen is a very loud bell being rung throughout all those Teams Meeting board dial-ins, I imagine.
It's also why there's a lot of the X trolls now telling all that Millwall are "several years ahead of us in the cycle". They're not. They're just doing a better job with similar materials. I expect some posts on here soon saying the same from new posters soon. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 16:08 23 Feb 2026
Yeah, being 7th in the PL probably means the model is doing OK for them.
Van de Berg (24), HIckey (23), Schade (24), Thiago (24), Yarmolyuk (21), Ouattara (24,), Lewis-Potter (24)...these are their mainstays and currently best players. All under 25.
They bought Yarmolyuk for £1.6m: could probably sell him three years later for £30m. So annoying.
You have to start somewhere and Madsen, followed by Kone, is probably where we have to start this summer. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 14:25 23 Feb 2026
Yeah, you do. Let's say in dreamworld you sell Madsen for £15m, you buy three midfielders for £5-10m, bank the remainder, rinse and repeat.
I'd say we're ten years behind Brentford. So, Brentford 2015/16:
Having just finished 5th, they didn't consolidate as their fans surely demanded. Instead they sold all their best players for big profits:
Stuart Douglas £1.3m
Moses Odubajo £3.5m
Andre Gray £9m
James Tarkowski £3
Of that £17m incoming, they only spent £6m and banked the rest. They weren't ready. They came 9th but knew it was worth it as all those players had defects that would stop Brentford reaching promotion with them - injuries, attitude or an ambition to leave - and they got top money for them
The next season, they sold their best player - Scott Hogan - for £10m, because they knew they were signing Neal Maupay for £1.8m, Ollie Watkins for £1.8 and Marcus Forss for free in his position the following summer. Within two years, Maupay was sold for £20m, within three Watkins went for £28m and even Forss who suffered bad injuries went for £3m. And who ever really heard of Hogan after that? Ivan Toney then replaced those unreplaceable strikers...
This is how you do it. You sell your best player for as much as possible because you have a replacement in mind at a fraction.
Obviously helps if you have a top-secret, best-in-practice data recruitment system in place. We do not have that. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 12:19 23 Feb 2026
Nah, Brentford, Bournemouth showed you have to sell that player your fans want to build around every year. Then recruit again and reinvest. It's ballsy, it's risky, it's the only way. Have to trust the process. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 12:14 23 Feb 2026
If Sky Sports had not been invented, then no. We'd still be paying whatever inflation-adjusted wages and fees we were in 1991/92, when we were playing in front of 13k despite being the 11th best team in the country (and we were skint anyway!). I enjoyed it more in many ways, but it's gone.
That was 35 years ago. Now for whatever insane reason, Sky Sports believe showing matches on a Saturday lunch time, including Hull v QPR, and a bunch more in the week is worth paying £985m over five years. We rely on it, because football can't control its expenditure. That's not really Sky's fault.
Agree Madsen most likely. And a striker, probaly. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 11:40 23 Feb 2026
This is really good and clear-eyed.
Nourry will stand or fall by selling some of those players investments for much more than we bought them for. As will we. We need to see something out the door this summer, but really next summer is the one for him to sell a Burrell, Kone, Edwards or Madsen for three times as much as he paid at least. Could happen.
Also, next time we're singing "Sky TV is fcking sht" because we're on 12.30 or, Sunday week, we should perhaps pause to consider that without it, we'd have next to no revenue rise:
"QPR’s broadcasting income rose £2.5m (57%) from £9.3m to £11.8m, largely thanks to a steep increase in the central EFL distribution, up from £3.2m to £5.4m. In addition, the Premier League solidarity payment was a little higher at £5.3m."
This bit is never hugely reassuring, though.
"Audit Issue
The auditors (and indeed Lee Hoos) mentioned a material uncertainty in the accounts, as the club’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on the owner funding. This is not guaranteed, despite the presence of deeds of support signed by the shareholders.
Such a comment is clearly not ideal, as it’s relatively rare for an auditor to sound such a note of caution. However, it’s worth noting that quite a few other clubs in the Championship currently include a similar “material uncertainty” comment, so fans should not be overly alarmed." |
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Reply | A Hulluva Hard Game Match Thread
at 16:07 21 Feb 2026
Agreed. Especially as all had decent games. It's a weird impulse when watching someone slightly mishit a pass or not quite make a tackle to reach for the internet and slag them off when the game or even the same move is happening. |
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Reply | The Season is Done
at 23:27 19 Feb 2026
We could also end up in a relegation fight! Just as likely - in fact, history suggests possibly more likely than a play-off push, especially if Leicester win their appeal. Three defeats in a row and back in it.
42 points on the board to play for and we need around eight to guarantee safety, 13 to beat last year's total.
All to play for. If the players think the season is over in February then they'll soon discover it's not... |
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Reply | The Season is Done
at 18:35 19 Feb 2026
There are 42 points left to play for! That's just two fewer than we have already.
Saying the season's over is obviously an (understandably) negative opinion given you started the thread 40 minutes after we lost miserably 1-3 at home to Blackburn.
But QPR could go on a four-match winning run and get in the play-off positions still or go on a four-match losing run and be sucked down into a relegation scrap. Loads to play for, for every club. We've still got to get 13 more points to beat last year's total, which is very important for several key club employees. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 18:10 18 Feb 2026
Of that kind level player, this summer I reckon we could sell Dunne, Field, Cooper, each for between £2m and £4m. Throw in Smyth?
(I actually think Dunne is worth more but I have already been jeered on here for saying so - though watching 34-year-old Luke Ayling for Boro has not dampened that suspicion: those kind of teams - Sheff U, Burnley, Boro, maybe Leeds - will always want a Dunne type, and he's 27, so there's three or four years there still in his prime).
So, we could sell all three or four, maybe Varane or Madsen. But will need to recruit heavily in midfield, and it becomes a roundabout. We have to start selling more regularly, however. [Post edited 18 Feb 18:12]
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 15:49 18 Feb 2026
We could wait for Simon's reading of the accounts. But I reckon the verdict is already in.
Etc. Not a named poster among 'em. |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 10:10 18 Feb 2026
"My latest module is sports finances and these are good"!
At least three now telling us how solid these are in the context of...not sure actually.
Interesting that though we are 14th for wages, Millwall, Coventry and Preston all pay less in wages. |
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Reply | Nourry answers questions
at 09:51 18 Feb 2026
Interestingly, there are quite a few of the anonymous, most prolific QPR X accounts quickly telling all that - actually - these are really pretty good accounts. |
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