2024/25 Summer Transfer Rumour Thread

I think with Nourry, every step is thought out and prepared for.
He (and whoever) started by preparing for 25/26 by filling Furlong's development team with trialists. He then had a massive clear out and signed a group of newbies. We could have won the development league, but instead he sacrificed promotion to concentrate on 'pathway' and who was going to make the first team.
As soon as July 1st came and the new FFP year, the settlement cheques were delivered to those coaches that presumably Marti wanted replaced. This was money that could have been spent on players, but he chose to sort out the infrastructure first.
It has only been 3 signings so far, none of whom I have ever heard of. But it is interesting the sort that we are being linked to. We are not spending cash, I doubt we have very much, but they fit the bill of potential and young (what Marti has traditionally done). He may well have agreed with Marti, one year of building, then a year to go for it.
We have not sold anyone for a very long time, but these signings strike me as cover ahead of departures. I think he has brought in replacements first (unlike what we usually do).
I suspect that Paal and Clake-Salter may well be sold and that could yield between £8m and £10m. We await our Euro exit and to see if there is a cheque in the post for Eze as well. Suddenly there could be £30m in the cash register.
Marti and Nourry are not stupid, they know we need pace and goals in the team. Better to wait and see how much you can afford for the most important signings.
So I expect more back filling, followed by a couple of departures and then a couple of forward upgrades with the proceeds.
If the Sales / proceeds do not materialise, then there will be a plan B of a striker somewhere - Nourry and Marti do not leave anything to chance.
It is great to have confidence in what we are doing for a change. Even if we initially struggle, or have to wait until the end of August or even January, I feel there is a good plan.
In my latter career, I was a CEO going into companies, to turn them around from the brink of closure to financial stability etc. Nourry is approaching the job in the way I always had to. Looking at what needs to be done to pay the wages next month and survive (avoid relegation), knowing you cannot do it all on your own, so brining in the right senior management team (Manager and coaching team), deciding what the key steps need to be to build the future by deciding what you are good at (training ground pathway), and going to concentrate on, and what you should stop doing (jobs for the boys / over staffing).

in hindsight it felt like hoos/ferdinand/manager bumbled through a lot and constantly went back on their own ideas. take the developing players into saleable assets thing as a prime example. we did it for what ... 2 seasons? sold eze, lost a few others for pittances and then just brought in random players afterwards while giving other players unreasonably long contracts. then to top it all off we held onto others for far too long rather than selling them at their peak.

Arguably we are STARTING (very early days) to be even better run than in those days. Take the implicit point that it’s a results business and Warnock etc set the standard by getting us promoted. But it was done, I suspect, on much bigger budgets and was quite short-termist.

This window it seems starting an assembly line of young, sellable players who might be in the dev squad, or go out on loan, or be on the fringes of the first team seems at least as much of a priority as signing anyone to walk straight into the first team. It’s about building a structure that might grow into something impressive but it might take a couple of years to happen. I’m good with that. When the likes of the Bayern and the Portuguese lads hopefully develop into top
class Championship players we will have some replacements already in the building by then who will be gradually developed to replace them. Rinse and repeat.

No guarantee it will work of course as recruitment, despite all the data, is not an exact science. But am more optimistic about how the club is being run than I have been in years and I hope the fan base will remain supportive even if this doesn’t necessarily translate into instant, world-beating first team success.

Who on earth is that?

A box to box number 8. We have not had one of those for a while...
Right footed central midfielder (Icelandic). Can playing holding midfield as well.
Out of contract in December 24.

Yeap and he is a 25 year old Icelandic international with 21 caps. According to Wiki and others he has been playing in Denmark in their top division and won their equivalent to the FA Cup this season. Probably known to Marti I would expect - and cheaper than Hayden. Versatile   as well so could be a good cheap addition if true.

got to be ‘that’s the way I like it’ surely

Hopefully coming to us. Derby and Preston also interested, but we seem to have outbid them. Source: Tipsbladet (DK)

insidefutbol.com/2024/07/07/midfielder-picks-preston-over-derby-and-qpr-medical-scheduled/651112/
Reports now saying he is bound for PNE having rejected QPR.

WLS also saying that he is not coming to QPR - not one of the manager's targets!
Oh well it filled a bit of time!

Icelandic midfielder medical international

Folks Chaps Geezers Geezer Girls

Just covering all bases 🤣🤣

West London Sport saying its not true, www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/iceland-midfielder-to-have-qpr-medical

Story doesn't stack up to me. Can't see us paying anything like that for a player and if he can't get in their first team how could they realistically ask that much:

sportwitness.co.uk/qpr-make-second-offer-signing-club-reject-initial-bid-cifuentes-really-likes-player/

This guy sounds good if he has played a lot in the Ajax first team but only makes sense if Paal goes and given Watford are the club reportedly interested in both players, not sure where this leaves us:

therealefl.co.uk/2024/07/08/queens-park-rangers-battle-rival-for-netherlands-youth-international/