Les Speaks about the Transfer Window

[Brian Wilson]

🗣 Director of Football Les Ferdinand explains why it was important #QPR approached the January transfer window in the way that it did.

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— QPR FC (@QPRFC) February 2, 2018

[Kevin Mcleod]

If it was him and bungle and one bullet id shoot bungle and then kill tottenham les with the barrell of the gun
i want my club back, even if that means ryman leagie. Im not happy not wiining every game in the championship, but i wont mind not winning every game in the ryman.

[Hitman34]

he should stick to subbuteo

[SULLY048]

Is that the formation for Saturday in the background?

No they go in a bag later for when the team gets picked

[Hubble]

I don't know what people's problem with what he said is. Seem perfectly sensible to me.

But what if we get relegated due to a lack of a striker, I hear some of you howl. What if, what if....

Well if they have to reduce the squad and their hands are tied by FFP, and there are no bargains available, what do you expect them to do?

Paul Smyth could return tomorrow, and we might just scrape through this season, so don't slash your wrists just yet folks.

[Fozzieboy]

He makes perfect sense to me... We have to stick to Shite rules of FFP and that means with an average turn out of 14000 people we have a tiny budget !

FFP should be the target of our hate ! MAN City , PSG, Chelsea all continue to break the rules buy little old QPR has a gun held to it !

[corbray]

I don't know what people's problem with what he said is. Seem perfectly sensible to me.

But what if we get relegated due to a lack of a striker, I hear some of you howl. What if, what if....

Well if they have to reduce the squad and their hands are tied by FFP, and there are no bargains available, what do you expect them to do?

Paul Smyth could return tomorrow, and we might just scrape through this season, so don't slash your wrists just yet folks.

i get what les has said and i agree with it, we did need to trim our squad and look to our youth and fringe players more BUT we do desperately need a striker, we could have easily gotten a loan from a prem club and odds are it wouldn't have cost us a penny. guys like bamford and abraham for example came out of no where and lit the championship on fire

[topperharley]

i get what les has said and i agree with it, we did need to trim our squad and look to our youth and fringe players more BUT we do desperately need a striker, we could have easily gotten a loan from a prem club and odds are it wouldn't have cost us a penny. guys like bamford and abraham for example came out of no where and lit the championship on fire

Bang on. Les spoke perfect sense to, excpet we should have got a loan striker in. We lack quality and if Ollie doesn't want to play Sylla, Smyth is inexperienced and Washington lacks confidence, we lack personnel too. Even an average loan signing would've shown some understanding of our shortcomings.

However we could've bought Sanchez this window, need the wings to be set free and the midfield to produce chances first. All doable with our current squad.

[fletchmonkey]

If we earned a quid for every time he said 'you know' we wouldn't be in this mess

[Northolt_Rs]

If we earned a quid for every time he said 'you know' we wouldn't be in this mess

You know....

[Rangers77]

Is that the formation for Saturday in the background?

No goalie. It probably is.

[Tarbie]

I don't know what people's problem with what he said is. Seem perfectly sensible to me.

But what if we get relegated due to a lack of a striker, I hear some of you howl. What if, what if....

Well if they have to reduce the squad and their hands are tied by FFP, and there are no bargains available, what do you expect them to do?

Paul Smyth could return tomorrow, and we might just scrape through this season, so don't slash your wrists just yet folks.

Agree mate, thought he was correct in everything he said. Clearly there are areas in the squad that we are short however. But it is also clear that we haven't got money to chuck around and the moment. If nobody worth having was available for our budget, we did the right thing in not buying anyone.

[qprjeff1882]

When you see the likes of Gary Madine going for 6 mil then it just shows what were up against. Yes we need a striker but what's the point in getting in further trouble if that's the sort of market we're going to be paying fir utter crap. We just gotta hope that what we have will somehow be good enough. However with the way the market has gone don't expect us to even spend in the summer. It'll be more free transfers and lower/non league players.

[Hubble]

i get what les has said and i agree with it, we did need to trim our squad and look to our youth and fringe players more BUT we do desperately need a striker, we could have easily gotten a loan from a prem club and odds are it wouldn't have cost us a penny. guys like bamford and abraham for example came out of no where and lit the championship on fire

Well clearly it's not that easy Corbs, or they probably would have done it.

[Brian Wilson]

When you see the likes of Gary Madine going for 6 mil then it just shows what were up against. Yes we need a striker but what's the point in getting in further trouble if that's the sort of market we're going to be paying fir utter crap. We just gotta hope that what we have will somehow be good enough. However with the way the market has gone don't expect us to even spend in the summer. It'll be more free transfers and lower/non league players.

Exactly...bit different for Cardiff as they might see he will add something (not sure what) to their promotion push and then £££££££££ but absolutely ridiculous otherwise....actually its Gary Madine for 6 mil....dumb whatever way you look at it