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I've just thought of the only downside to this deal. We've taken away QPR's best player just hours before they play Forrest

The QPR fans reckon their owner has lost interest and is just selling off their best players before pissing off himself.

If fit and confident, that team is probably good enough to (just about) stay up if we get promoted. Replace Ameobi with a good Premiership striker and with a half decent manager in charge that first team would be good enough IMO. We'd then just need more cover in the squad.

Which will more then cover the wages of Simpson, Williamson and Routledge.

This fuckers one of QPR's best players, their fans are furious. I wonder what we paid?

23 year old 6 foot 3 striker, played a few games for Nigeria. Goal record isn't great, especially considering he's playing in Sweden (22 goals in 78 games).

Not sure, just watch SSN for half an hour and you might catch it

Thought it was either today or last night, that's what made me think the interview was very recent.

Those quotes are from a few days ago, I think. Still, good news, hopefully they're right. When did the news about Harewoods injury come out?, thought that was only today.

its obviously whatever pompey owe watford on him Probably between £1m and £1.2m. £1.1m? £1.15m

its obviously whatever pompey owe watford on him Probably between £1m and £1.2m.

SSN have just done a bit on it. Said we'd finally agreed the fee and that he'll sign a 3.5 year deal with the final fee being undisclosed. Went to a short interview with Hughton where he talked about Williamson a bit, big lad, right age to still improve ect.

3.5 year contract for undisclosed fee apparently.

What would be the point if he can't play. Also SSN claim he's still in Newcastle.

Because they will have to pay a percentage of the transfer fee they recieve from us to Watford and that on top of the money they still owe Watford from the original transfer will come to more than they will recieve from us. That's the way I understood it. But its still going to put them in a much better financial situation to sell him and considering they can't play him I really don't see the point of their stance. I suppose they believe we'll up our offer, I doubt that.

No matter how much they owe Watford how is it going to be to their advantage to keep the player? They can't play him and they owe that money wether they sell him or not so surely getting £1m for him is better then keeping him and getting nothing. What am I missing?

We'll see, if they don't go up they might deeply regret it. With tv money + crowd money they will be closing in on the mighty £1.5 million offer of ours. They held there nerve & are better off for it. What TV/crowd money? The money from the replay against the Spuds?

I don't know £7.6m a year seems like an awful lot of money to pay a company in order to lower the cost of our catering operations so we get a higher profit margin. I mean how much money can we possibly make from selling food and drink? Seems more likely to me that we'd charge them a fee to allow them to handle the entire operation and take all the profit from it. As far as I know that's the kind of deal they have with Everton. Apparently when Everton outsourced catering their revenue dropped by £6.5m because they were no longer recieving money directly from catering.

It reads to me that they've won a contract from the club with which they expect to bring in £38m from selling food/drink at matches and running the clubs conferencing and banqueting facilities. There'd be no point in NUFC paying someone to have the opportunity to make a profit from its fans. They'll almost certainly pay NUFC for that opportunity. Obviously while this drops our potential revenue it will also drop our outgoings and depending on how well we were running our catering operation it could be better for us financially (well I assume it must be or we wouldn't be doing it).

Oh, where do you get the idea we're paying them anything from that article?

Complete and utter tripe. Setting a maximum wage per player is uneccesarry anyway, the club just needs to cap the overall wage bill and actually manage it correctly.

Which article?, obviously that's not the case anyway.

Yeah I'm sure their midfield (and the entire team in fact) would do just as well against these teams every week as they do in one off cup games

It was like, he went through Beckfords legs to win the ball, Watching it again... you're still wrong. Dawson's leg goes round the side and touches the ball, which goes off in the other direction. He touches the ball after wrapping both legs right around Beckford's right leg, he fouled him before he made any contact with the ball.

We'll see, if they don't go up they might deeply regret it.