QPR Offseason Transfer News & Rumors ('08-'09!)

Game over for Pickens and/or Cole then? Both from the whisperings.

 

I say game over initially for Camp and Cole. Pickens to be asked to remain as backup, but refuses as he could be a #1 elsewhere. Thus allowing Camp to remain on as #2 to Cerny. However, Camp may refuse as well as he wants to remain #1. To this I say Cole could then slide up to #2. Who knows!

 

The club has announced that "Sean Thomas, Aaron Goode, Andrew Howell, Stefan Bailey and Matt Pickens will be free to leave the Club when their current contracts expire at the end of June."

Thanks and good luck to Bailey, in particular, who made 18 starts and 4 sub appearances in all competitions for the R's over four seasons. He was 17 when he made his QPR debut in 04/05 and is still just 20 years old now. He should catch on somewhere a level or two below the Championship.

Howell made just one League Cup appearance for QPR (in 06/07). Goode, Thomas, and Pickens never played in a first-team match for Rangers.

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As for keepers, Cole is signed through 08/09. He's cheap, young, and may be still happy to be a #3 at this level. However, he will turn 23 in September... even if they think he has potential, it may be time to loan him out and see how ready he is for action. After getting a taste of action in 05/06 and 06/07 (a combined 6 starts and 2 sub appearances in all competitions over two season) he didn't see the field with the first team in 07/08.

Camp is under contract for two more seasons, through summer 2010.

Camp has proven to be a pretty good #1 at this level. Is Cerny certain to beat him out? After seeing action in only cup games in 06/07, he had a 10-game run as #1 in January-February and has now started five in a row for them in April-May due to Robinson's injury.

I caught a bit of their game against Reading this weekend, but wasn't watching it with Cerny in mind. Anyone here see enough of Spurs to have an opinion on him?

 

A new article on the BBC website details how De Canio and Paladini work together in signing players.

The article also indicates:

 

http://www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~1311436,00.html

ramage & cerny confirmations

 

These have been talked about under Paladini/DeCanio. You'd like to think that the next manager has approved of the signings before we went ahead with them.

Rumors on qprdot.org say that Dowie will be announced on Thursday. Of course, other rumors say it'll be Walter Novellino. Who knows?

Cerny, 34, is older than I realized, while Ramage, just 24, is younger than I thought.

I'm guessing Cerny didn't drop a division to sit on the bench. Is that really it for Camp?

 

The Guardian in today's Fiver:

 

http://www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~1312220,00.html

The R's have signed 19-year-old midfielder Matteo Alberti from Chievo Verona. He has signed a four-year deal. That club appears headed to promotion to Serie A. Alberti has yet to make a first-team appearance for them, although our official site insists that he's highly rated and we had to compete with several Serie A teams for his signature. As part of the deal, we'll host Chievo Verona in a pre-season friendly.

 

Why do I get the feeling that our new owners feel like the answer to anything is to bring in an Italian Never made an appearance for his Serie B team...suposedly has interest from Seria A teams...yet he signs with a 2nd div. team in England???

Ok, maybe I am stretching. Really only DiCanio was brought in and he now has gone home. To be replaced by an uninspiring choice from England.

 

The latest from the Kilburn Times:

The article also says "It looks increasingly likely that Blackpool's Latvian international centre-back Kaspars Gorkss will sign for the R's, although an agreement has yet to be reached," and while it indicates our targeting of Marlon Harewood appears to be "unproductive," we "do have a realistic chance" of signing Bobby Zamora.

The article also reports that some believe that the departure of Fulham managing director David McNally could clear the way for the R's to acquire Lee Cook.

 

damn im still not used to this money thing with qpr. remember when Ian Evatt was a big signing?

 

The official site has confirmed that we've put in a bid for Gorkss.

 

On June 12th, our official confirmed that we made an offer to Blackpool for Gorkss.

Now their official website says that they, on June 11th, reported to the FA what they believe to be an "illegal approach" by QPR to Gorkss.

So, they complained on the 11th and we, on the 12th, confirmed that we'd made a bid (something the official site doesn't usually do). Interesting.

 

kind of a real madrid-for-ronaldo situation perhaps? but on a much much much much smaller scale. I wonder if this kind of transfer foolery stuff is more common on the continent than the UK, I honestly dont know, meaning perhaps spanish and italian clubs (which, sorry, but we more or less are now) dont see it as as much of a problem to publically woo a contracted player against the wishes of their club.

 

Stefan Bailey, who will be out of contract on June 30th, has agreed to a one year deal with Grays Athletic. Best of luck to Stefan.

http://www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~1331178,00.html

 

Just wait till you get up top and start getting linked with every player under the sun . Quite nice at first, but then it starts getting annoying.