Club Ambition

Quite clearly the mantra of the club now is to develop players like Dieng and then sell them on. It is what the club has to do.

The last 2 summers we've sold our best player at the time (Freeman and then Eze) and so arguably the club is doing well to stand still.

Losing Dieng is therefore not the issue as I see it - in some ways we'd be wrong to stand in his way - for me the concern is that our record of replacing players is still not quite where it needs to be. We need to be like Brentford where the players we bring in are just as good if not better, enabling to club to keep moving forward and repeat the cycle of buying low and selling high.

We are getting better in general, let me say that.

Dickie is a big tick, a brilliant buy who will undoubtedly serve the club well whilst with us, develop, and move on for a profit.

Willock could well be another. Amos when he is fit could be a star in 2/3 years. The club has other irons in the fire like Masterson, Armstrong, Kelman that they clearly hope will make a big profit in years to come. The seeds of progress are there.

But for every Dickie we have too many players who aren't going to make the club a big profit. Bonne and Dykes front and centre. They were big money buys by recent QPR standards and I don't see anybody paying £10 million for them any time soon. The fact we had to loan in Austin indicates they haven't been the success we hoped they would be. It is a major setback to the ambitions when we get these types of buys wrong.

So that is where the ambitions of the club fall down somewhat. It is admirable what we are trying to do and it is good to see the club have a plan of sorts, but until we can nail down our recruitment and cut out 'mistakes' we will be standing still.

Agree with you all, we are now a development club.



Your post made me smile but I totally agree,

But didn't you wife climb Everest in !975?




 

Les and Lee Hoos asked us fans what we wanted our club to become?

our answer was "can we go back to how we were in the 80s and 90s"

that answer is YES as we are now a selling club

Yes Dieng has done well this season and yes hes made our shaky defence more confident

shall we sell him? my answer YES 100 per cent sell him think he is a youth product for me he came from nowhere dont think we paid a fee for him at all so i think accepting anything in region of 1- 3 million is great business

for me Alex Smithies is a better keeper and with the money we should try and get him back

i think Aresnal and Leeds are looking at getting him for 3 million and i would bite there hands off and try and get Smithies in on the cheap for 1.5 million

this is the club you wanted so they are only goin with what us fans said

and evry season they are selling selling selling like we did in the 80s and 90s

do i think Dieng will do well elswhere? no i dont but i did think Smithies was gonna be a possible england keeper after he left us and how wrong was i then?

sometimes a club like us is perfect for some players lets face it how many players have done better since leaving us for so called bigger clubs in recent times?

Eze.......very possible but at minute lets be honest hes only a bit part at Palace
Freeman.........def not
Furlong...........not improved in my eyes only reached what he had for us when we were premier league
Austin...........in my opinion his best days were at QPR
Alex McCarthy......yes i would say hes done better only because we didnt give him the number 1 jersey thought he was far too good to be our number 2

cant think of many others that have left us for bigger things

cant count sterling as he wasnt ever really our first team player

any others anyone else can stick in the mix?

She probably did just to piss me off 

I'm not happy just surviving in the championship and I'm not happy being below Brentford and Fulham. But I think the only way we can get back to the higher level is following the route the club has taken. It just requires a lot of signings working out at the same time, constantly making money and the recruitment going up another level. We can't afford mistakes.

Let's not forget we did try and throw money about to try and become a big club again and got egg on our faces. So the current approach will probably serve the club better, it is just a hard task to constantly bring in young stars that we can sell on for tens of millions whilst still having an improving squad on the pitch.

It can be done, but whether QPR can do it remains to be seen.

Yup, all true surrey chad. I would also highlight northwesthoop's comments above: we have seen from Brentford how developing youngsters does result in successes and does result in transfer money coming in. That happened during a time when the club thought they could short-cut that process as we had won in the Play Offs. Instead of money going into scouting, new training facilities and youth development ours went into buying players who, by and large, failed to provide the performances to keep us up and maintain a PL-level side. With every season we are going to find it harder and harder for Championship sides to climb the slippery pole into the PL....