The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel
Squad19 Aug 2030
Tudor Mendel-Idowu breaks a bone — 83 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market19 Aug 2030
Platinum Stars come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Queens Park Rangers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market19 Aug 2030
Finn Ashworth asks to leave Queens Park Rangers
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Too dear: Queens Park Rangers walk away from Seydou Konaté
$1.7M was the most the club would pay and Chesterfield were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Martin Sherif is a medical away from Queens Park Rangers
The deal with West Ham United is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Queens Park Rangers bid $41.0K for Joe Lumley
The offer went to Sheffield Wednesday this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad19 Aug 2030
A row about effort at Queens Park Rangers
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dennis Cirkin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom19 Aug 2030
6 academy graduates step up at Queens Park Rangers
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Queens Park Rangers rebuffed over Joshua Zirkzee
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chelsea have kept their man, and Queens Park Rangers go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Squad Words exchanged at Queens Park Rangers
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Tariq Lamptey
- Market Jonathan Walker steps up from the Queens Park Rangers academy