QPR head into the new 2013/2014 season as a Championship team but with Harry Redknapp still in charge since taking over in November last year. The club bought Christopher Samba for £12million in the January transfer window and now have sold him back to his original club for £12million. Surely a loan move would have been more beneficial as Samba was hardly going to change around the fortunes of a much maligned club that whiffs off a future club to go into administration.
Why on earth is Harry Redknapp still the manager at QPR? Redknapp is 66-years old and was manager of Tottenham Hotspur and finishing 4th in the Premier League and taking the club into the Champions League. Now Redknapp presides himself as the manager of a club that has average gates of 18,000 and has no real reason to get the club he relegated back up.
Redknapp oversaw the inevitable relegation and this was no coincidence that he feels slightly guilty if he abandoned the sinking ship. Redknapp, anyhow, could get one more job in the Premier League before he decides to retire but he will not move away from his home in Sandbanks, Bournemouth and commutes regularly to Loftus Road.
QPR’s wage bill was £56million in May 2012 and that was before the arrivals of Christopher Samba and Loic Remy but how can a club be paying over £56million on wages when they have a capacity of just over 18,000?
Yes, they have a rich owner but what convinces fans that Tony Fernandes will stay and keep funding the clubs lavish spending on player wages? If Fernandes and the Mittal family leave then QPR are staring administration in the face. Fernandes is a highly successful businessman but why would he keep wanting to plough money into a club that doesn’t have a large fan base and has a manager in Harry Redknapp who is old-school and only interested in short-term success.
Fernandes claims to be wanting to invest in the academy and they are doing so with building underway but why are intent on spending big wages on players who are coming to the end of their careers? Richard Dunne is 33-years old and even Aston Villa wanted to get Dunne of their wage bill so why has he dropped down to the Championship to play for QPR? Dunne must be another high earner.
Danny Simpson was signed from Newcastle on a free transfer and was converted by Fulham who were interested but QPR were deemed a bigger attraction. Karl Henry has been signed from Wolves; a player who has suffered two consecutive relegations and has been largely lambasted by Wolves supporters for his lack of form. But who have QPR removed from their wage bill thus far? Djibril Cisse, Samba, Cerny, Jay Bothroyd, Rob Hulse, Tal Ben Haim and DJ Campbell. They’re hardly going to dent the wage bill.
Robert Green is still there and will be collecting his £80k per week as none of the players have relegation clauses in. Park Ji-Sung, Esteban Granero, Jermaine Jenas, Jose Bosignwa, Junior Holiett, Diakite, Mbia and the list goes on. With the Championship season less than a week away, QPR should be building a team capable of winning promotion from the Championship.
Instead they have a largely inflated wage bill with the hangover of too many players on high wages still lumbered at Loftus Road. Add that to Harry Redknapp still earning £3million a year. Redknapp spoke about QPR ‘doing a Wolves’ and being relegated for a consecutive year. Strange comment to make considering Redknapp is being handsomlney paid to actually do the opposite. QPR may have rich owners but they have a squad of players who aren’t a team.
Relegation seems ludicrous for QPR; so is their wage bill. Football Clubs are not immune from financial capitulation and this is a football business losing money in a league where they don’t generate enough income to sustain it. QPR may have a sugar-daddy but it takes a second to become disinterested and pull all their money out. Just look at Portsmouth.
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How did big spenders Blackburn get on last season? Oh yeah, they just staved off relegation and had arguably the largest wage budget last year in the league and still they continue to spend, bring in overrated money grabbers who don’t care about the club. Yet I don’t see any article about them? Although I do predict QPR to finish round about the same place Blackburn did last season or who knows? They might even do a Wolves.
Can happen to any club. Current forecast is 15 clubs on the brink.
Lazy story based on others headlines, not facts. By end of transfer window over 20 players will have gone including many high earners. Rob Green’s wages quoted have already been noted as nonsense. Many clubs are screwed if the owners pull out, no evidence this is imminent at Qpr so HR is only similarity with Pompey, focus on facts please.
Not very accurate report here.
As to which players have been removed from the wage bill. Two of the players listed have already been confirmed as leaving and two more will follow shortly after. Maybe a little more research would help!!
A few more will be going to the wall soon.
Typical tripe from a person who knows nothing about qpr .The reason Fernandes and the mittals are going no were is because when they buy the land that will house our new stadium The hotels casinos and multi complex cinemas .that will also be built they will rake the money in Also were in the early stages of building a grade A training centre so that doesn’t sound like a person thats getting fed up and wants to walk away and our debt if any is to the board no one else so if they do get fed up will want that back in any sale nothing like the Portsmouth situation who owed money everywhere so in future research properly before you report something.