Anyone here think QPR can stay up this season? I'm thinking with their recent signings they might stay up and possibly finish around the 12th to 14th position.

Blackburn look pretty dire at this point, and I don't see where they made themselves better at the end of the transfer window. Swansea is a likely relegation candidate, as well. So, if we consider those two as the most likely to go down, QPR needs to be better than one other team to stay afloat. I'm not a big fan of Warnock. But I think they did just enough in the transfer flurry to do the trick.

QPR can probably buy their way to safety if they need to during January, so I think they'll stay up.

It's sad that money is the main factor in a club's ability to compete, perhaps it's always been the case, but it seems so stark now.

Agreed about Blackburn btw, they were awful at Villa Park. Then again, we tend to beat them in recent times!

Yeah it's a shame but they probably will be a bottom 3 candidate. To be fair to them, their goalkeeper is brilliant, even though they lost 4 - 0 to Man City he had so many saves, aswell as getting man of the match when they drew their recent game with wigan.

I think it's still all smoke and mirrors with QPR. Shaun Wright Phillips, Anton Ferdinand and Joey Barton are not going to put the fear of god in any Premiership team. Quite frankly the idea of Neil Warnock, Joey Barton and Adel Taarabt in the same team has me counting the days till there is a full blown assault at the club. Shame they didn't get Bellamy as well.

Fair point. I do think though that those three players are going to command a serious wage, so QPR probably can afford it. Who knows though. And yeah, seriously unlike-able set of people there!

No question QPR have money at least for wages, SWP must be on a serious amount of wedge because he was on £65k a week at Man Shitty. The are just at the moment an undesirable club to play for. It's taken Stoke 4 years before they could attract serious talent and to be honest I was praying they signed Cameron Jerome because he was linked with Fulham for a while and DO NOT WANT. QPR may have money but until Tony Hernandes flashes the cash on Loftus Road and the training facilities like the Shiek did at Man Shitty then QPR will remain a grotty little London club that can only look down on Brentford.

haha good post, but honestly, it wasn't that long ago that we could have said all of that for Chelsea!! So who knows if they can stay up, become established what they could do. If they have decent money behind them, then there's nothing stopping them from pushing on.

Personally i can't stand Wright-Phillips. He's all energy and no quality. That's another reason why they must have some serious $$$, they're willing to blow it on Wright-Phillips!! :P

The difference between QPR and Man City and Chelsea is the latter two were already big clubs. Man City moved into the City of Manchester stadium giving them a bigger capacity than Plastic Bridge or Shite Hart Lane all they needed was a sugar daddy to start pumping money in and that's what they got. Sure Chelsea was sold for £1 but Plastic Bridge is the biggest ground in West London and Chelsea were already a top ten Premiership team, again all they needed was that sugar daddy and along came Roman. Loftus Road is to put it mildly a complete shithole that makes Craven Cottage look like Old Trafford. Just looking at it on Sky Sports the other night makes you think of council estates and the 1980's. Unless Hernandes wants to inject serious money and develop a new stadium then there really isn't much he can do to improve the status of QPR.

Well I suppose he could employ cleaners to get the smell of piss out of the away end for a start.

Interesting points above. Which leads me to this question:

If you had the money to buy any club in the world, but were not allowed to buy the club you support, would you....

A) Buy a large club like Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea, etc. or....

B) Buy a small club and work towards building it into something big

Tough choice for me. I think I'd lean towards B, though. There's something about the notion of taking a club from a lower division and helping build them to prominence that's very appealing to me.

I'd buy Everton and restore them to being in the footballing elite, which is where I as a neutral think they belong.

i'd go for Cambridge United as its who my dad supports

Easy - buy the club with the highest (potential) revenue, which for me, since I'm not allowed to buy Manchester United, would probably be Liverpool or Arsenal. With the Financial Fair Play rules coming, it's a license to print money, which when reinvested into the club should give good chances for success on the pitch.

Of course, that is only if the FFP rules work as intended. Man City have already tried to circumvent them.

On Man City though, I remember when they were playing in the old 3rd division as a kid. Didn't they get the council to pay for the COMS too? I think they and QPR were similar in terms of size once upon a time, (maybe not support) but Man City got some serious funding and backing, whereas QPR didn't and stagnated for a decade.

Also, not too many arguments about their ground, but truthfully, I don't mind it! It just looks like a proper, old English ground to me! I actually prefer that over the soulless stadia that have been built in recent times,

That would be my choice as well. All Everton really need is a bigger stadium.
They sure did. Some teams just have all the luck. Make sure you point out just how lucky their supporters are when they start mouthing off. In truth I can't really blame them for acting as arrogant as they are given how they have been under United's shadow for so long but at the same time it's had to not agree they are ruining the Premiership at the moment. In one game they had 250 Million of talent just sitting on the bench. Then again they wouldn't be able to do what they do if all footballers weren't money grabbing selfish pricks.

Earn 40 grand a week playing for a mid-table team or earn 120 grand a week doing absolutely nothing? It's hard to argue with them really.