2020/21 Summer transfer rumour thread

Mid be a great victory

sell eze and bos, and this could very well be the season where the straw breaks the camels back General.

Is 2m spent on an iffy gamble safer than getting a heavily wage subsidised proven striker on loan?

He has a kid called Tiime. No typo. Whom he had with the Former manager's wife.

Ooops. Do you think they still get together, and share a beer laughing at the good old times, when he was invited to live in said managers home: "Feel right at home son! What´s mine is yours!" 

Anyone wondering why we struggle to attract players to QPR should just read back the last few pages of this thread. The willingness to write a player off before he's even kicked a ball is pretty shocking. Worse than that our fans are at it on Twitter too, where I'm sure it feeds back to the player in question.

I'm not being funny, Rangers, Celtic and Middlesborough were all tracking Dykes too. Yet some of our fans reckon they know more about the player from a quick gander at his Wikipedia account than the scouts of 4 massive football clubs who have been watching him play regularly. Boils my piss if I'm honest. Give the lad a chance and give the club a break. If we go into next season having not landed any of our top targets then the fans will only have themselves to blame.

Sorry Gen but that's complete bollocks.
At least the last 3 or 4 seasons the board have made it very clear that we have to abide by FFP and spend within our means. That means relying on freebies, loans, youngsters and cheap deals. If that's not what people want to hear or just plain refuse to acknowledge that's not the fault of the board, its the fault of those fans. One thing the board certainly can't be accused of is misleading us or being full of shit.

12 goals and 10 assists in 33 games..........sounds like an absolute carthorse! 

said on the old board part of the problem with the club is the fans or minority of them. They got spoilt in prem with big signings and cant get head round that it’s not going to happen no more and they just moan about every signing now. There is no real grounds to moan other then they don’t know the player we’re linked with so he must be shit.

Pretty sad

The mad thing is Westy is a lot of the same fans were crying out when the big money signings were being made for us to go back to our roots and start signing players on their way up the divisions. Lyndon Dykes seems to be that. Started his career in Australia, few years in Scotland, now he's on the brink of making his international debut and looking for a move down South. Isn't that surely exactly the sort of player that we should be looking at?

Maybe the issue is the fee. Thing is if these people complaining crunched the numbers they'd realise we probably spent 2m quid loaning Hugill and Nahki Wells last season and we had to hand them back. Personally I'd rather we invested money in players we think are gonna improve and gain value. And it probably isn't 2m quid up front either by the way. It may reach 2m quid with add ons as I understand it.

Or maybe the issue is Dykes plays in Scotland and people assume that this automatically means he isn't up to English football. That's a pretty silly assumption too. Plenty of players have started their careers in Scotland and actually not achieved much up there before doing well stronger leagues. To name a few, how about Charlie Adam, Gennaro Gattuso, John Fleck, or even Mikel Arteta.

People also seem to forget that the Corona situation most likely hinders scouts and other vital personell at the club to do business worldwide.

maybe rangers and celtic just don't need a player like dykes? celtic scored something like 90 goals in 30 games so a player who's main asset is his link up play wouldn't really be needed in a team like that.

we on the other hand rely on wingers and midfielders making runs into the box, someone like chair would benefit greatly from a more physical presence up front. bos probably would too (assuming he isn't sold).

This is also very true Shania. Signing players from within the British Isles is going to be far more straightforward than bringing in a foreign player this window.