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** Takeover rumours - ed. Deal 'allegedly' DONE p.66**

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  • The truth is that, sometimes, a business had to jettison something that has great sentimental value to progress. I am happy at The Valley and think the stadium is big enough for us, but QPR will soon become another club that has gone from having a smaller stadium than us to having a much bigger one. In the end we might have no choice...
    QPR's capacity is 18k, no room for expansion and they have limited commercial opportunity at their gaff. They've long been looking for somewhere new.

    Relatively recently in its history, the Valley had approved planning permission to take it up to 40k. Why would we not have a choice?
  • rikofold said:

    QPR's capacity is 18k, no room for expansion and they have limited commercial opportunity at their gaff. They've long been looking for somewhere new.

    Relatively recently in its history, the Valley had approved planning permission to take it up to 40k. Why would we not have a choice?
    Ignoring the cost of expansion, relative to the cost of moving, I thought we'd lost the ability to expand now that houses have been build behind the East Stand.

    For the record I would love a full 40k Valley.
  • It says QPR are a first division club

    It also refers to replicating the atmosphere at Loftus Road

    We are a Championship club (for now)

    Atmosphere at The Valley ? Bit of bouncing in the North Upper on occasion but little else.
  • TJ & MS need to realise that very few football clubs are in this day and age, a profitable investment. Hence the price quoted previously is too much. £18m for a club that according to reports is losing £7m a year means they should open their eyes to the fact that we should be looking at a nominal sale of £1 plus the debt.

    Sorry boys, but you're both old enough, ugly enough, and been in business long enough to know that football clubs are loss makers. Cannot believe they're holding out for that price when our only real asset is the land attached to Sparrows Lane and The Valley. I for one haven't a clue what sort of prices each would fetch, but I don't think it would be £18m, plus the fact we run at a loss.

    Obviously none of us really know what's going on behind the scenes, but I reckon that price is the sticking point.
  • PL54 said:

    It says QPR are a first division club

    It also refers to replicating the atmosphere at Loftus Road

    We are a Championship club (for now)

    Atmosphere at The Valley ? Bit of bouncing in the North Upper on occasion but little else.

    But there is NO atmosphere at Loftus Rd, PL54 !



  • Ignoring the cost of expansion, relative to the cost of moving, I thought we'd lost the ability to expand now that houses have been build behind the East Stand.

    For the record I would love a full 40k Valley.
    apparently still doable
  • edited December 2013
    razil said:

    apparently still doable
    Lots of things are "doable" if you have enough money, but I wouldn't rely on anyone currently involved at the club to know what they are talking about. Peter Varney is the person who knows all about developing The Valley, not Richard Murray.

    For the record, though, 2 Lansdowne Mews hasn't been developed. The extra house being tacked on to Charlton Lane at the junction with Lansdowne Mews isn't such an issue. It was just a bloody nuisance the directors sold the disabled car park and didn't tell the staff.
  • Loftus Rd is a grim and claustrophobic ground. I am sure QPR supporters are very happy about moving out of that hole.
  • Loftus Road is a fantastic ground. Loud. Intense. Really close to the action. But how the hell can a Premier League club compete with a home gate of 18,000
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  • In my opinion, and I've only been there once, Loftus Road is an awful, tinpot ground.
  • LoOkOuT said:

    In my opinion, and I've only been there once, Loftus Road is an awful, tinpot ground.

    Having been many times, I would have to say, your first experience description was spot on!

  • LoOkOuT said:

    In my opinion, and I've only been there once, Loftus Road is an awful, tinpot Subutteo ground.

    Sorry Guvnor just had to correct it for you :0)
  • From what I understand, the new QPR ground isn't definite. It's only gonna be viable if the High Speed train line goes ahead and that's going to be years away.
  • "from what I understand"[meaning I have inside information?Nice to know we can talk bollocks about another clubs proposals as well as 59 pages of uninformed speculation and dross about our own.
  • To me in a world of unending bollocks, the CL Takeover thread is a one stop destination for some of the best bollocks around. Whilst the native CAFC bollocks is of course here why not introduce some QPR bollocks to aimlessly lalk bollocks about.
  • i agree mate just all bollox
  • A couple of people on ITTV hearing rumours of administration by Thursday. Anyone on here heard anything similar? Or is it just scare mongering/pretending to be ITK?
  • Admin doesn't make much sense especially as there's people interested in buying the club. I would think the owners would rather accept a lower offer rather than lose everything
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  • admin would be utterly bizarre. Don't believe it or we would be Josh Harris' playthings by now.
  • Admin doesn't make much sense especially as there's people interested in buying the club. I would think the owners would rather accept a lower offer rather than lose everything

    Interested until they see the books!
    Something very wrong and I could definitely see it happening

  • So if we go into admin would we be more or less interesting to potential buyers?
  • Valley11 said:

    So if we go into admin would we be more or less interesting to potential buyers?

    Much more interesting. Can't see it happening, I hope I am right.

  • The season would be over in a heartbeat if that happens and we'd lost all our best players by the end of January. Not sure how that makes any more appealing to a buyer.
  • Interested until they see the books!And
    Something very wrong and I could definitely see it happening

    That's what worries me most, CB - what other skeletons are lurking in the books and company set-up? And how much would have to be revealed - whether to FA and/or HMRC as part of takeover? Sometimes think we fans might all be too distracted by the Valley v Peninsula issue to miss sth even bigger?

  • I am not ITK on this, but I believe the admin rumours are both B'shit, and also tremendously unhelpful to the club. I repeat, all that is known in public is that the Americans, according to the Mail, are 'poised to' pull out. Even if they have done, why does everyone assume it is the only bid game in town, just because it is the only one known to the Mail and Toby -bloody -Porter?
  • Valley11 said:

    So if we go into admin would we be more or less interesting to potential buyers?

    Worked out well for the Nigels and Southampton, so not all bad.
  • Jayajosh said:

    Worked out well for the Nigels and Southampton, so not all bad.
    But no so well for Bournemouth, Pompey, Coventry, Chester or Luton.
  • Jayajosh said:

    Worked out well for the Nigels and Southampton, so not all bad.
    But no so well for Bournemouth, Pompey, Coventry, Chester or Luton.

    or the people who were owed money.
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