Hopefully not to the reserves. My guess is some kind of a loan deal. Just a matter of how much salary Stoke will have to absorb.
Looking at their roster, could Stoke have been stupid (confident) enough not to include relegation clauses in the contracts they were handing out. They took a really old, high wage group down. Crouch has a contract through 2020, maybe he's making enough that not seeing the 18, every, is preferable to taking a paycut. True, he could be playing somewhere, but with the money he's making he could simply enjoy being well off and be spending all of his Saturdays at the Trentham Monkey Forest!
Can we finally get an answer to the question in the title before his career with the Potters officially comes to an end? Was he able to do it?
Yes for a number of years Geoff was a good employee for the club. Hard working blue collar player, and he was a good fit for Stoke. A classic tweener, not good enough to own a position, but too good to sit with the trainer. He was always consistent, with the odd WTF moment thrown in just about every game, sometimes it was costly, sometimes getting away with it. Loved me some Geoff Cameron, but he is now a mere shell of the footballer he once was.
BREAKING: Sources tell me #USMNT’s Geoff Cameron is heading to QPR on loan. Good situation for him to play regularly until January and see what happens thenMore details ➡️ https://t.co/g750Uct87S— Joe Prince-Wright (@JPW_NBCSports) August 30, 2018
ah damn, i was hoping to see him switch leagues ala Bocanegra (though he went to 2nd division Spain).
Seems sensible. Anything other than a loan or a move to the Middle East would probably result in a pay decrease.
QPR have nowhere to go but up in the Championship table with 3 pts. from 5 matches and giving up a league high 13 goals. If Geoff is match fit, I feel certain he can be an instant upgrade in their backline. I was hoping to see Geoff land elsewhere like France or Bundesliga ( I or II BL) but those chances were descreasing each day we hasn't signed. Nonetheless, it will be nice to see geoff playiing again week in and week out.
The best guarantee of that would be to rehire Klinsmann, now that Cameron is playing in the English Championship.
so is it that he'd preferred a move to London or didn't wanna slash his wages to join a foreign club?
Goodnight Paulie 2Trials... Goodnight Papadapatoodrunk... Goodnight Mikey Cabcrook... Honu says "the sanctimoniousest sleep the tightest..!"
FYP. Like @ChrisSSBB said, Bremen could not take him at his Stoke wages, but Bremen would have been much more in his interests in sporting terms. After 7 seasons in the EPL he's made enough bank to trade the lost income from going to BL1 until June 30th: better football, bigger crowds, European exposure, facing CL attackers gets him back in the MNT frame (or the opposite ). And if he is in decline, then a move to MLS would/should be under consideration. MLS would surely offer him a deal until he's 34 or even 35 and he'd be much more marketable as "an EPL veteran who's just finished a season on loan at former Budeliga Champions Werder Bremen." Edit: Not to mention having a better coach than Steve McClaren
📷 Check out the arrival of @GeoffCameron to #QPR in pictures.▶️ https://t.co/ldoVVe3fMM #UnbelievableGeoff pic.twitter.com/zSx35UCYiy— QPR FC (@QPR) August 31, 2018
Maybe he just wants to live in London and make a bunch of money while playing at a high level? Hard to fault the man for that. I doubt his "marketability", for whatever that is worth, is effected at all by whether he plays at Werder Bremen or QPR in his final season. He is known by people who pay attention in the U.S. for having played in the EPL for six years. Not sure what it does for him to play a final year for a mid-level German team as opposed to QPR.
A new league for 1. Different experience. But again quite telling that 2nd division English clubs pay more than mid-table German clubs in the Bundesliga