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he's more than likely been done up like a kipper by his new mate Charnley. I can't imagine a situation where Mike Ashley has wanted to do a favour (albeit paid for) for Simon bird when he turned up at the SD AGM to fire questions about us at him I thought he made it clear on his twitter account he was not interested in coming to the toon. No he didn't.

Except it hasn't actually happened. Also except that we all know bringing in Pardew at all never mind for £3m was a terrible decision no matter how well its worked so far. Long term he'll destroy them

Yeah there's always a chance like as clubs get desperate. Would be a transfer deadline day thing IMO if he did go for £15m, QPR will probably shit their pants way before then and sell for £10m or so.

Also don't believe anyone will pay £15m for Austin. QPR are desperate for cash, need to reduce their wage bill and know that in January they'll be lucky to get £3-4m for him given that his deal ends in July next year. Clubs will have that in mind.

Whilst I agree with the majority of that, there's no way they can even feel our transfer policy is an overall success. Carroll and Cabaye can't be held up when there's so many Gouffrans/Williamsons/Rivieres/Yang Mbiwas Wouldn't lump Yanga-Mbiwa in with those clowns personally. Obviously he didn't work out here, but unlike the other three I don't think that was down to lack of quality, but rather our piece of shit "manager" at the time.

I wish people would stop saying the bollocks in bold. Why does Steve McClaren deserve a chance at managing a club he has no association with in a town he has no association with? Nobody said he deserves the job, just that now he's got it he deserves a chance. Simply because he isn't useless, he might just be a good coach.

Yeah, weren't they supposed to pay a huge fine to the football league if they got relegated? Huge fine if they stayed up and transfer ban if they went down as far as I remember. Until they could show they were balancing the books.

One of those articles claims £40m on six new players. That's a massive £6.7m per player. The quality of players that money tends to buy will definitely move you from 15th to 8th Don't forget to take away money for the wages. And agents fees. If we're planning on spending £40m on half a dozen players it'll be more bargain basement rubbish. £6m only buys you a Rivière these days Graham Carr. Or Ayoze Perez X 4

He's a complete prick, but a token appointment to the board is hardly the same as being made director of Football.

I disagree, ultimately each club employs a manager and supposedly trusts their opinion and knowledge of football, so back that trust by letting him have the final say on the players he will be working with day in day out. If you don't trust the managers opinions on football to that extent why the fuck are you employing him then. You're employing him because you trust his opinion on coaching, team selection and tactics. He's there to coach the team, select the players and work out the best way to beat whatever team we're playing. That doesn't mean he has to be ultimately responsible for absolutely everything. The most important thing is that the manager/head coach should be the one to tell people which positions need to be filled, if he wants a central defender and a striker we shouldn't be signing a left back and a right winger. But it should be up to the recruitment people to go out and look for the central defender and striker, report back to the head coach, discuss things and then come to a agreement.

Really hope that's true.

McClaren started coaching with the England team in 2000.

I'd say removing the two incompetent mongs who were responsible for training your team to play like shit every week is a pretty big deal.

Still hope he can get to grips next season. Anyway depends on the market you buy in and how good your scouts are. Riviere is an exception rather than a rule.

He could have been watching every game since we first asked him to take over. If he needs to see more I'm sure he has a PC and internet connection.

What can I say, didn't read your post

Hard to tell who should have won really considering apparently Morocco were bribing people as well, they just got out bribed by South Africa

"Demba, fancy playing out wide for Crystal Palace?" ".............." *dial tone*

As long as he does the best with what he has to work with I for one won't aim any venom at him. It'll all go where it belongs, the fat bastard at the top. But if he's another Pardew he'll get his fair share.

Maybe, but I'm not going to wish for another season of wanting to smash my TV every weekend in the vain hope that it'll put pressure on Ashley to leave.

Definitely, though that's more to do with being taken in by Pardew's bull shit and smarm rather than his record, which is garbage. Still I'd be interested in hearing what QPR fans think of him.

Haven't seen much of Austin, but his record suggests he's a natural goal scorer. At every level he's played at he's scored a bucket load. No idea if we'll sign him though.

http://kentuckybasketballforum.com/uploads/images/so-youre-telling-me-theres-a-chance.jpg Aye a chance Carver will get it by default, fingers crossed eh

It has been claimed here that McClaren is a worse appointment than Pardew was.

He's won surprisingly little considering the time he's managed and number of sides he's coached.