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Strange that no time beyond the added 8 mins despite the hosts scoring in that period and spending a good minute celebrating

Poor decision making

Wonder if madders will be looking for a new club ? His work rate may not suit the new manager

From what we were told by Percy last time we dropped, salaries had approx 25/30% reduction clause. (Still way too much to be paying the 80k players 55/60k )

Plenty of ‘superstars’ don’t !

That is how I understand it. gardening leave means you’re paid to do nothing but you remain an employee until a specified date. I reckon qpr thought that someone would come for him so decided it was in their interest to keep him in employment so that any comp clause remained valid. (Maybe for six months ??)

Yep you basically take a bath on any transfer fee but try and get a loan fee to compensate Ayo cancelled his own contact (with our agreement) which saved us his wages. A loan fee wouldn’t have been that much so we agreed

Can we just get beyond this ‘pay cut’ and ‘paying back his ‘compo’ stuff. the fella will be v unlikely (imo he defo won’t) to earn less here than he was paid there. The 500k must be a settlement that he’s been paid in advance against his notice period whilst on gardening leave. ) we have to pay that back to qpr as compensation against that settlement. So we will pay him 500k less in year 1. Hence his salary in year 1 will be lower than he was earning at qpr. (He can’t demand to be paid twice although he could have insisted and it’s decent that he apparently hasn’t ). There could be variations on a theme on this but it’s going to be something of that ilk. If there is a comp clause still valid because he’s on gardening leave rather than having actually left their employment then there could be an additional sum involved that we have to pay.

I think we’ll get away with it in the championship but there is no way we can re establish in the PL. the size of the steps that need taking to do that are way beyond him. (Rudkin)

Big salary = superstar ? That’s not what I wa getting at. A superstar thinks he’s better than the rest of his team. That he doesn’t need to work as hard. Etc etc The club elevate him ahead of his team mates for commercial reasons.

their wages are considerably reduced this season if they can find a gig in the PL then they’ll leave for sure - the question is whether the club are prepared/psr able to accept lowball fees

Nah - he’ll be fine at this level

How big a squad are you expecting us to have ? we could easily lose seven players without needing to bring anyone in coady, Faes, ndidi, soumare, BDCR, ayew, mads and there’s probs more than that Nelson, souttar, hamza coming back youngsters coming through only need to buy a CF imo (although physicality holding midfield a concern - assume hamza will fill in there).

To add that Chelsea are likely to be steam rollered in the final

Absolutely- but it’s all a derivative of pep’s game

The opposite happened to me when I was up last week (ie. Made me chuckle’ ) i noticed a sign on the ring road which said ‘All Tourist Routes’ ………

It’s pepball on steroids no’ ‘superstars’ - everyone works their balls off but keeping them at that level will be tough assuming they win this to follow on from the CL

Seriously? how does that make any sense ? arsenal v Madrid and arsenal v psg told you everything you needed to know about this evenings likely result

Our spend is relative to who we have to sell eg. If we dont sell everyone then we dont really need to buy apart from a CF which could well end up a free (anyone available ?)

Did we find out why Newey left ? he was pretty vague - ‘being true to himself’ maybe it was to do with Horner and his personnel issues - the car not performing as it usually does has perhaps concentrated minds as to why that is this season.

If it’s true then must be some clauses in his severance agreement if he takes a job whilst he’s still on gardening leave.

Btw, lots of these media folk were telling us it was potter a year ago

Is cifuentes with wasserman ? if not then from what I’ve worked out from this forum, he won’t be our new head coach

Bit weird that he’s got to sort out a severance package when he’s already left by mutual consent. Perhaps he’s got an agreement where they keep paying him until he finds a new job and at that point he has to negotiate a settlement.