QPR must be patient in search for players – Hasselbaink

[Stanley]

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has insisted that QPR must be prepared to bide their time in the transfer market. Rangers hoped to have a new striker on board by this stage of the summer and are looking to sign at least one winger before the season begins. But manager Hasselbaink says he and director of football Les Ferdinand are determined to add to the squad without overpaying.

“We are doing our best. If you see what we are trying to do, you see that we are trying to form the team. If it was up to me and Les all the players we want to bring in would already be in and would have had a full pre-season with us, because that is the best thing to do for everybody. But it doesn’t work like that, especially in England. You have to wait and try to get your targets for the right price. You don’t want to overpay. We have done that in the past and it hasn’t worked.

We are also going in a direction where we want to develop younger players and want hungry players who want to play for QPR. We want the right characters – the right individuals that fit into that family. That’s not easy. But we are trying and hopefully there is a few more coming. We are a little bit thin in certain areas. We have to be patient and do business in the right way and in the best way for the club.”

http://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/football-wls-hasselbaink-qpr-transfer-wait

[hal9thou]

This is what is so difficult about being Rs. 1/4 bn gets sprayed around the premises and next thing we haven't got enough for a bacon sarnie. Feast or famine, no change there.

JFH is working on a shoe string, maybe because we're being totally reactionary or maybe because the board simply don't trust team les not to blow the wedge all over again. But not finding the middle ground will cost us long term imho.

[knocker]

Sounds like we will be starting with the poltergeist up front.

[jmelanie]

Sounds like we will be starting with the poltergeist up front.

Overreaction. He didn't say we weren't going to sign anybody.

[knocker]

Overreaction. He didn't say we weren't going to sign anybody.

He said we have to be patient. The season starts in just over 2 weeks. Polter to start.

[Hitman34]

This is what is so difficult about being Rs. 1/4 bn gets sprayed around the premises and next thing we haven't got enough for a bacon sarnie. Feast or famine, no change there.

JFH is working on a shoe string, maybe because we're being totally reactionary or maybe because the board simply don't trust team les not to blow the wedge all over again. But not finding the middle ground will cost us long term imho.

Cracking post mate. Problem here is no middle ground.
They were getting it right with the signings of austin and philips.
Now it seems to be scraping barrels.

We are 3 players away from having a cracking starting 11.

What we need to be doing is investing in quality now. We should not be ####ing away our great defencive strength with signing cheap slop up front.

[Stanley]

What we need to be doing is investing in quality now. We should not be ####ing away our great defencive strength with signing cheap slop up front.

IOW you're completely agreeing with JFH's comments. Otherwise we would have already signed "cheap slop up front" this pre-season, as opposed to being patient and waiting until the right player at the right price can be found, as he is saying.

[West Acton]

Few fans need man up. Moan moan moan

We have tried the splash the cash route it never worked, because of that approach for four years and building up a reputation of Barry big bol locks where sides added extra zero to our price and we paid it were now in a transition period where sides were dealing with are slowly adjusting to our new expectations.

When it was all going wrong the tears were for we want our rangers back the old rangers done their business well, quietly and paid fair price what appears is what we're trying to do now.

Begs question which Rangers do you want back the loads of money Rangers or sensible one

[Shania]

A fit and inspired JET would be almost like a new signing. Make no mistake, we need another one as well, but I bet he will surprise a few this season.

[hal9thou]

IOW you're completely agreeing with JFH's comments. Otherwise we would have already signed "cheap slop up front" this pre-season, as opposed to being patient and waiting until the right player at the right price can be found, as he is saying.

So you're saying ONLY cheap slop has been available to date? Don't think so. Our very recent history tells us that playing late in the window can be expensive and futile. I think Hitman's point is that it doesn't have to be dross or over paid, disinterested mercenaries, and much needed balance could be restored by making a signing which partly reflect the ambitions the club aspired to when JFH was appointed. It really is no use appointing someone to get us up - that was the idea - and then giving him a few quid for the meter. There has to be a middle way in the totality of our business dealings, we've lurched from one extreme to the other when the reality is that a more judicious hand on the purse strings would have seen us spend less than 0.25bn for greater reward. IMO, of course.

[geejaybee]

A fit and inspired JET would be almost like a new signing. Make no mistake, we need another one as well, but I bet he will surprise a few this season.

I'd love to think you're right Shania.I mentioned him a few years ago on this forum when JET was a teenager with Arsenal.I'd love him to do well this coming season.

[Fordy]

To be fair to Les and Jimmy there's not many decent strikers about if you think about it. And if they are decent e.g McCormack, Wells, Assombalonga they cost an absolute fortune. I reckon we will get a loan in as any decent striker is well out of our price range or we can go league 1 again for someone like Lee Geegory.

[Stanley]

So you're saying ONLY cheap slop has been available to date? Don't think so. Our very recent history tells us that playing late in the window can be expensive and futile. I think Hitman's point is that it doesn't have to be dross or over paid, disinterested mercenaries, and much needed balance could be restored by making a signing which partly reflect the ambitions the club aspired to when JFH was appointed. It really is no use appointing someone to get us up - that was the idea - and then giving him a few quid for the meter. There has to be a middle way in the totality of our business dealings, we've lurched from one extreme to the other when the reality is that a more judicious hand on the purse strings would have seen us spend less than 0.25bn for greater reward. IMO, of course.

Blimey, there's so many inaccuracies with this post.

I think you're being too impatient and generally your posts have a tendency to be quick to find fault. JFH's comments IMO come across as fair and reasoned given our current financial position. You also don't seem to take into account the FFP situation which is, as yet, still unresolved.

All summer we have been linked with strikers and wingers, so it's clear that the club have been targeting and attempting to land some of them. But they also have to be within budget, fit within our wage structure, and crucially they have to WANT to sign for us, which it's quite feasible that they did not.

Furthermore, you are also agreeing with JFH's first paragraph by saying "Our very recent history tells us that playing late in the window can be expensive and futile."

Finally,

It really is no use appointing someone to get us up - that was the idea - and then giving him a few quid for the meter.

It WAS the idea only when he was appointed. Then when we weren't promoted it was no longer the priority - instead it became a long-term rebuilding approach. This has been stated countless times. I'm surprised you haven't grasped that yet.

[West Acton]

Blimey, there's so many inaccuracies with this post.

I think you're being too impatient and generally your posts have tendency to be quick to find fault. JFH's comments IMO come across as fair and reasoned given our current financial position. You also don't seem to take into account the FFP situation which is, as yet, still unresolved.

All summer we have been linked with strikers and wingers, so it's clear that the club have been targeting and attempting to land some of them. But they also have to be within budget, fit within our wage structure, and crucially they have to WANT to sign for us, which it's quite feasible that they did not.

Furthermore, you are also agreeing with JFH's first paragraph by saying "Our very recent history tells us that playing late in the window can be expensive and futile."

Finally,

It WAS the idea only when he was appointed. Then when we weren't promoted it was no longer the priority - instead it became a long-term rebuilding approach. This has been stated countless times. I'm surprised you haven't grasped that yet.

Good post

The club can't do right for doing wrong with some

[Pinkie]

Id of rather us try to challenge for promotion instead of all this building rubbish,for all this building malarky & trying to find bargains and gems for the future it could also backfire and we wont go up for years again like our last 15 year stint before we went up,there needs to be a balance which should involve a quality signing especially for upfront otherwise we could pay for it in my opinion!