Barney 0 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 (edited) Queens Park Rangers are willing to pay England goalkeeper Rob Green £50,000-a-week to switch from east London to west. Edited January 16, 2013 by Barney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney 0 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 also : Cesar will sign a three-year-contract, and will be on reported wages of £80,000-a-week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26889 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Bosingwa is on £65k pw. I doubt Ben Haim is on £36k, he was lucky to get a trial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Hmm well that drives the point even more. Say the wage bill is £1.3m, that's £70m a year in wages, I'd be amazed if their income was anywhere near that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Bosingwa is on £65k pw. I doubt Ben Haim is on £36k, he was lucky to get a trial. He was on 36k a week at Portsmouth where he had 2 years left on his deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 10144 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Wonder if they are still paying some of Bartons wages while he's on loan, bet he was on a fair wedge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26889 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 He was on 36k a week at Portsmouth where he had 2 years left on his deal. He was without a club for six months, he'd have been reasonably desperate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13915 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Wright-Phillips & Hoilett are supposed to be on £80k + Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asprilla 96 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 They did that in the summer by not strengthening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted January 16, 2013 Author Share Posted January 16, 2013 http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/newcastle-united-have-done-well-to-dodge-loic-remy-s-potential-bu Less than a week ago, as reported by reliable Marseille newspaper La Provence, Loic Remy had told his club that he wanted them to agree a deal with Newcastle United. He'd looked at the options available to him and made his mind up. Those options already included QPR but after thinking about the situation he decided that Newcastle United was the right option. That's where he wanted to go, Harry Redknapp had even flown out to France and spoken to him but the player wanted to play in black and white among some friends and at a club he thought would be the right one to rebuild his career. It wasn't a hugely publicised deal, he'd have just joined and got on with things like Debuchy, someone he classes as a friend. But then what had become a small transfer in the scheme of things took a dramatic twist. It only needs a few quotes from Harry Redknapp to inflate something to larger than its actual size, and thus the Remy transfer became a big thing. La Provence moved on to talk about an 'XXL' offer from QPR which they said was around £80k a week and things changed. Footballers can be blamed and of course it comes down to personal choice but the pressure on a man from himself to accept such a wage would be huge. What he'd earned so far in Ligue 1 would look paltry in comparison and this was a four and a half year deal that would set him, his family and their families up for the rest of their lives and provide for children and grandchildren that hadn't even yet been considered. The extra money is always needed when classified in such way. Newcastle Untied had obviously been the place Remy wanted to rebuild himself, and to be perfectly blunt that's what needs to happen. He has not made a comeback from his injury last summer, he's had further setbacks and his form has made him a Marseille substitute This isn't something which can be dressed up as the club pushing him to one side before a sale, he simply hasn't been good enough to get into their team. He has not completed one full league game for the French side so far this season, he's only started two. There have been sixteen substitute appearances and he's managed to get one league goal, a consolation during a 4-1 loss to Lyon. In November an early substitution against Ajaccio brought things to a head and his manager talked about him not being ready whilst some outside the club thought he made need things building around him, something Marseille weren't prepared to do - mainly because they didn't need to as everything else was working out for them. RMC covered it well. It was after that game that Le10 Sport reported that Remy had spoken to those close to him and revealed he'd had thoughts about quitting the game. Since that match in early November he's started one league game and two in the Europa League, Marseille have won none of those matches. With Cisse being the main man at Newcastle United with Demba Ba now gone, it would have given Remy a little time to be eased in. The transfer would still have been a gamble but Newcastle Untied were happy to take that and had worked hard to make a deal happen. Then QPR's money was thrown at Remy until he said yes. Redknapp himself has been quoted by the BBC as saying "I went to see him at Marseille last week and he wasn't keen but the chairman Tony Fernandes worked ever so hard. He wouldn't give up and the boy decided to come. "He's quick, a French international, his movement is excellent and he has the potential to be a real star in the Premier League." In reality Remy hasn't played for France since November 2011, his last match was on the same day Bobby Zamora last played for England. Pardew didn't kick and scream and Mike Ashley didn't throw caution to the wind and cough up a matching deal. Remy's transfer to QPR has now been confirmed and for the watching public, he's expected to be their main striker and instantly start to fire them to safety. It could happen, the change could do Remy the world of good instantly. If it doesn't it won't take long before he's labelled a failure and how would the Frenchman, who had got fed up with the game in November, respond to that? How would QPR? That isn't Newcastle United's problem and once the money started to get silly, it was a bullet worth dodging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaMoUsE 0 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Good article that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4005 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 As Ant warned us all along Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zico martin 87 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Well like everyone I got carried away with the excitement of buying a new £8M striker but yeah I couldnt agree more with this article. I really do think that as long as we do sign manage someone else ( Graham?) we'll have even more reason to laugh at bagpuss come the end of the season ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6477 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Maybe we could play that article up front, if it's so good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 All means nowt if we don't sign a striker as a foil for Cisse. Or Danny Graham. [/lowered expectations ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gejon 2 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Maybe we could play that article up front, if it's so good? Agreed. Giving an out of form, struggling for fitness striker higher wages than the rest of our squad would have been good sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenL 0 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I'm not bitter, some people are foaming that a player chose money over us whereas I can see where he's coming from, but I honestly think we've dodged a bullet here. I wanted QPR to go down from day 1 and I hope this gamble backfires on them massively. To the point where in 5 years time they're on the brink of extinction, and their fans are chipping in a tenna to buy the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6477 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Agreed. Giving an out of form, struggling for fitness striker higher wages than the rest of our squad would have been good sense I don't disagree, I'm just expecting us to swerve signing anyone as we 'don't want to pay over the odds'. The odds being relegation fodder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayer 3 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gejon 2 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I don't disagree, I'm just expecting us to swerve signing anyone as we 'don't want to pay over the odds'. The odds being relegation fodder. I completely expect that too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 The club are not stupid. They will have definitely learned from the last window. They've had 5 months. They'll have spent that time poring over players and compiling and prioritising and valuing a list of 5 strikers and 5 centre backs to choose from. They won't be held to ransom on one, they'll move to the next one on the list if their valuation is exceeded. At least one of each will come off. Or not and on the 30th we'll sign some aged fucktards that can't get a game where they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 All means nowt if we don't sign a striker as a foil for Cisse. Or Danny Graham. [/lowered expectations ] He was absolutely shite last night Graham, gave it away every time he got it. His mind may well be elsewhere.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1117 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I'm not convinced he's much better than Best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14950 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 QPR CEO Phil Beard denied accusations from Newcastle legend Alan Shearer that Loic Remy moved to the R’s for money. <a href="http://www.london24.com/sport/qpr/qpr_supremo_hits_back_at_newcastle_legend_s_allegations_over_remy_deal_1_1796408#article-comments">Comments Email Print To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. The 26-year-old Frenchman moved for a club record fee to west London although it appeared that the Magpies had won the race for the striker. “This move isn’t motivated by money,” Beard told the club’s official website “Loic has a passion and desire to achieve in his career and similar to (Julio) Cesar, he wanted to be part of our project. “We know we haven’t achieved our goals so far this season, but he wanted to come in and help us build for the future. “Tony is remarkable, he never gives up - that is his style - and he is as delighted as anyone that we’ve got this deal done.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13915 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 It just so happens - he decided at the last minute - to move to a club he'd previously refused to even speak to - for twice the money offered by Newcastle. Nothing to do with money, all ambition & history... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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