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180 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

7 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Jan 2030

The knee: Rico Kennedy out for 20 days

20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Queens Park Rangers lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad7 Jan 2030

Maxwel Cornet breaks a bone — 71 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market7 Jan 2030

Sunderland 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.

Market7 Jan 2030

Kieran Morgan has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Queens Park Rangers they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad7 Jan 2030

The season belongs to Fer López

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Queens Park Rangers have had the benefit of it.

Market7 Jan 2030

Fabian Tait hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Queens Park Rangers can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout7 Jan 2030

Stephen Ward: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Queens Park Rangers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match5 Jan 2030

The run is over for Queens Park Rangers

9 matches without defeat, and then Doncaster Rovers. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Transfer targets7 Jan 2030

Isaac Holland is a medical away from Queens Park Rangers

The deal with AFC Wimbledon 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.

In brief

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165 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

24 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match19 Sep 2029

Queens Park Rangers march on in the cup

Chesterfield are out and Queens Park Rangers go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market24 Sep 2029

Richard Koné puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Queens Park Rangers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match19 Sep 2029

Lewis Warrington wins it after the whistle should have gone

106 minutes played. Lewis Warrington found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Chesterfield went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings24 Sep 2029

Stephen Ward, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.87

A mark of 7.87 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout24 Sep 2029

Tomás Migliore: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Queens Park Rangers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings24 Sep 2029

Up for the corner, and Lewis Warrington delivers — 7.82

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lewis Warrington scored, was marked 7.82, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Player ratings24 Sep 2029

Tudor Mendel-Idowu was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad24 Sep 2029

Tempers go at Queens Park Rangers

Fer López was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad24 Sep 2029

Words at Queens Park Rangers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dennis Cirkin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

140 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom2 Apr 2029

The scrutiny sharpens at Queens Park Rangers

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Queens Park Rangers is running low.

Boardroom2 Apr 2029

Joseph Bell has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Queens Park Rangers can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market2 Apr 2029

Jonathan Varane 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.

The dugout2 Apr 2029

Denis Nikić says Queens Park Rangers went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Home is on Richard Koné's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Queens Park Rangers are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Jonathan Varane falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Stephen Ward signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stephen Ward commits to Queens Park Rangers for another 4 years.

The dugout2 Apr 2029

No hiding place for Kealey Adamson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kealey Adamson, and the manager let it.

Market2 Apr 2029

Still no ink between Queens Park Rangers and Tudor Mendel-Idowu

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Queens Park Rangers, another week without a signature from Tudor Mendel-Idowu.

In brief