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Summer transfer thread, AvB window wrap up pg 1527

Which player would you like to see take over from Luka Modric?

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Mumorn said:
When he had unlimited money at Emirates Marketing Project he did yeah!

But at QPR I think he's doing well within the budget, they are no Emirates Marketing Project.

Ji-Sung Park - £5m
Andy Johnson - Free
Ryan Nelsen - Free
Junior Hoilett - Free
Fabio - Loan
Bobby Zamora - £4m
Djibril Cisse - £4m
Nedum Onuoha - £2.5m

All good prices for experienced Prem players
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They're all on ridiculous wages though.
 
Apparently Zamora is on around £80k. Ridiculous. Why else would he go from mid-upper table Fulham to a relegation battle with QPR.
 
Jordinho said:
They're all on ridiculous wages though.
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Yes, and apart from Hoilett and possibly Onuoha they will have little to no sell-on value, get worse in the coming years and most likely need replacing within 2-3 years.

Decent deals all of them in isolation I think, but filling a team with older players on high wages is not really the way forward for them I would think.
 
I see they're linked to Santa Cruz as well. Certainly fills Hughes' main criteria: Previously played under me at another club.
 
Mumorn said:
When he had unlimited money at Emirates Marketing Project he did yeah!

But at QPR I think he's doing well within the budget, they are no Emirates Marketing Project.

Ji-Sung Park - £5m
Andy Johnson - Free
Ryan Nelsen - Free
Junior Hoilett - Free
Fabio - Loan
Bobby Zamora - £4m
Djibril Cisse - £4m
Nedum Onuoha - £2.5m

All good prices for experienced Prem players
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Hoilett won't be free. It'll go to tribunal and he could cost them up to £5m.

Bit meh about Hoilett myself.
 
uksb said:
Because the club weren't ambitious enough.
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They didn't want spend the amount of money Hughes required to build a team. My point is that other managers could achieve the results Hughes do without costing the club as much money.
 
I always thought he left because he thought he was getting the Villa job, only to then lose out to Alex McLeish :lol:
 
Jordinho said:
They didn't want spend the amount of money Hughes required to build a team. My point is that other managers could achieve the results Hughes do without costing the club as much money.
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Hughes has done a decent job at every club he's been at. Of course he's going to favour a club that has money spend over one that doesn't, and of course he's going to use the club's finances to build the best possible squad.

I don't know how you can state other managers would do a similar job with less funding, it's very difficult to judge.
 
uksb said:
Hughes has done a decent job at every club he's been at. Of course he's going to favour a club that has money spend over one that doesn't, and of course he's going to use the club's finances to build the best possible squad.

I don't know how you can state other managers would do a similar job with less funding, it's very difficult to judge.
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After he spent some time out prior to QPR I expected him to at least have looked around for some players, but he's just signing players he's worked with before.
 
Jordinho said:
After he spent some time out prior to QPR I expected him to at least have looked around for some players, but he's just signing players he's worked with before.
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Yeah, I'm not sure what that's got to do with him spending too much money though. QPR were trying to avoid relegation, so probably a good idea to sign players he knew could perform. Would have been a big risk to sign players from foreign leagues.
 
uksb said:
Yeah, I'm not sure what that's got to do with him spending too much money though. QPR were trying to avoid relegation, so probably a good idea to sign players he knew could perform. Would have been a big risk to sign players from foreign leagues.
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Get a two or three in to get them safety, sure. They're continuing down that path this summer, paying over the odds for players at the wrong end of their career. In a couple of seasons they need to replace them.
 
Jordinho said:
Get a two or three in to get them safety, sure. They're continuing down that path this summer, paying over the odds for players at the wrong end of their career. In a couple of seasons they need to replace them.
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The thing is though - he's never left a club with old, ageing players that need replacing. I'm not sure he's got a reputation for doing so
 
If Van Persie was to end up at Utd(unlikely imo), does anyone here think Hernandez would be gettable/worth it?
 
uksb said:
The thing is though - he's never left a club with old, ageing players that need replacing. I'm not sure he's got a reputation for doing so
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No, he hasn't, but I don't see any reasonable long term plan to what QPR are doing.
 
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