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Macauley Bonne joins QPR for £2m (Ed. Joined Ipswich on loan)
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Fantastic news. Brilliant deal for Charlton. Good luck to the boy. Hope he proves me wrong as I think he’s a terrible footballer. Obviously has a fantastic agent. Seems like a good guy so hope it turns out well for him. Thanks for all the efforts during a bad time for Charlton. But he wasn’t the future and if we can get some replacements in I believe him moving is a good thing for us.5
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His head was turned because his agent told him how much QPR are going to pay him in comparison to what he was on here. It’s also a 3 year deal with the option of a further year.
Bonne, and his agent, believe he will be a Premier League player sometime in future. Great ambition and he could do well for QPR this season. He’s not the full package, his touch isn’t great, but if he scores 10+ again this season, they will make more than £2mil on him. And yes, it’s a great deal for us. But that’s why we also have the sell-on, to cover ourselves further should he surprise many and score a few.
Overall, good bit of business and, hopefully, we can now push hard for the two strikers we want.19 -
Wishing Macauley all the best for the future. Never the finished article for us but was always a trier and did score some good goals. Complete trust in LB and SG. Good business to get £2m for Bonne - and I'm sure they already have a couple of new strikers lined up.3
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I believe we paid a fee for Gilbey also, perhaps Washington too?bolloxbolder said:At least that interview reveals we played 75k for Purrington.
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To me “head turned” means you aren’t 100% focused, that’s not the same as being excited. He played his first few games of the season like a player that wasn’t focused too.Oggy Red said:
Or just another way of saying he was excited.se9addick said:king addick said:https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/club-news/macauley-bonne-signs-for-qpr/
He actually said his head was turned!!! haha“The second I heard there was interest, my head was turned,” he said. “I’ll easily say that – my head was turned straight away.”But of a tosser statement from him tbh
Can't really blame him ..... 18 months ago playing non-League for Leyton Orient on small wages.
Last year, at Charlton, stepped up to the plate, much improved wages but compared to others here, he wouldn't have been on a top salary especially with the tiny playing budget.
And QPR, flush with the Eze money has given him a 3 year contract, signing on fee and no doubt salary/benefits on a very decent Championship contract.
Of course he's excited.I think you are providing an overly sympathetic interpretation of a pretty poor statement.4 -
A decent price BUT it does leave us very short up front now. And with the wages cap, it's not as if we can wave pound notes at potential targets to get them to join us.1
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Great business!0
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Delighted. It means we will be starting upcoming games with 11 players on the pitch, rather than 10.
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I think, as it stands the deal is a good one because the price is right and we have the chance to replace him. I like him as a player, but he is much more potential than the finished article, so time will tell if he goes on to fulfill it: good luck to him!
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Good move all round.......he just wasn’t doing the business for us, whatever the reason.
Delighted and quite surprised with the £2,000,000 fee too.
As for Bonne, he may go on and do the business that was expected of him by us.......I’m 50/50 on that.0 - Sponsored links:
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Not sure if this one is a reflection on his potential or just the state of the transfer market more generally tbh. 3rd division strikers getting sold for £2m is madness unless they're they real deal or have a proven track record. He's neither.
Hopefully this will be reinvested straight back into the team and it'll turn out to be a great bit of business for us. An experienced lower division bulldozer of a striker would be nice, we've been powderpuff up front for too long.0 -
it explains his recent performances with all this going on in the background but at least he didn't refuse to play .....Sage said:His head was turned because his agent told him how much QPR are going to pay him in comparison to what he was on here. It’s also a 3 year deal with the option of a further year.
Bonne, and his agent, believe he will be a Premier League player sometime in future. Great ambition and he could do well for QPR this season. He’s not the full package, his touch isn’t great, but if he scores 10+ again this season, they will make more than £2mil on him. And yes, it’s a great deal for us. But that’s why we also have the sell-on, to cover ourselves further should he surprise many and score a few.
Overall, good bit of business and, hopefully, we can now push hard for the two strikers we want.6 -
Get Aneke off the treatment table, I'm not sure they come more bulldozer than that?Bournemouth Addick said:Not sure if this one is a reflection on his potential or just the state of the transfer market more generally tbh. 3rd division strikers getting sold for £2m is madness unless they're they real deal or have a proven track record. He's neither.
Hopefully this will be reinvested straight back into the team and it'll turn out to be a great bit of business for us. An experienced lower division bulldozer of a striker would be nice, we've been powderpuff up front for too long.8 -
Surprised people are so happy, he'll definitely have scored goals for us this year. He ultimately came from playing for Leyton Orient and we'd have been absolutely moreso fucked without him last year in 1 which is a pretty big leap, so I don't know why people have this perception he's at his peak now and will never get better as a player.
Seems like we've had 2 striker targets though so if Steve/Lee are happy with those then I guess we'll see how that goes.
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The head turned comment really doesn’t worry me too much. If I was offered double my wages or more to do the same job, in better conditions (bigger, newer stadiums) I’d do exactly the same. Not the best we’ve had, certainly not the worst either. Couldn’t fault his commitment when called upon. Good luck to him.
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This is a big part of it for me, a reason I'm disappointed he's gone.sam3110 said:Decent return for us, he plays in the championship, we can use the money and wages to strengthen the rest of the squad, everyone's a winner.
Anyone on here follows him on Instagram will know he's a good lad with a real down to earth family and partner, and is essentially living the dream right now, so on a personal level I'm really happy for him. Plus he owns miniature dachshunds and I have one too and they follow eachother on social media so I'm biased
He knew he was living the dream & is clearly a good lad. No way on earth did it affect his effort.
I hope we can replace him with better, but I don't know who is available in the market that'll take low wages.
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So TS has come in and all’s good we then sell our ‘star striker’ -if this sale had gone through when ESI (Elliott£ were in charge we we be in meltdown. Whether he wanted to go or not.
jury is certainly out for me until we sign the replacements. We need at least 2 more Decent strikers now.Yes I may sound negative but I am still in the we have been screwed over too many times Lately Camp7 -
Mainly because they would've pocketed the fee for themselvesMStuartPerm said:So TS has come in and all’s good we then sell our ‘star striker’ -if this sale had gone through when ESI (Elliott£ were in charge we we be in meltdown. Whether he wanted to go or not.
jury is certainly out for me until we sign the replacements. We need at least 2 more Decent strikers now.Yes I may sound negative but I am still in the we have been screwed over too many times Lately Camp
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Currently a good you tube highlights reel kind of player. he always seemed to score really difficult finishes. But has missed far far too many sitters since the restart.
if that goes away, we may think of this as selling too cheap.
Personally though, didn't think that was going to stop immediately , therefore brilliant business and we can get on with trying to get out of this hole of a division with someone who may have less talent, but will take the chances on offer.
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When is the penny going to drop with Charlton fans ?
Professional football players will go where the best deal is even if their a Charlton fan like Robbie Elliott.
Honest to stay his head was turned by a championship approach; that statement is for QPR fans.
Still it's gives another player for Charlton fans to hate/slag off, alongside Taylor, Grant, Holmes, Solly etc.
Everybody could win from this deal.
I really hope he gets into double figures for QPR.
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Once in a lifetime opportunity for a 'Macauley Gonne' thread title blown.23
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se9addick said:king addick said:https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/club-news/macauley-bonne-signs-for-qpr/
He actually said his head was turned!!! haha“The second I heard there was interest, my head was turned,” he said. “I’ll easily say that – my head was turned straight away.”But of a tosser statement from him tbh
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There's potential and potential but, trying to take hindsight out of the equation and assuming you had the money to spend, would you have paid, as a Championship club £2m for Bonne or, as a Premier League outfit £3.5m for Gomez? The former deal is a punt but the latter is daylight robbery!0
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Good bit of business just surprised its come before Saturday as it leaves us very short up front
Assuming Aneke isn't ready(hasn't had much training)
Schwartz who knows whats happpening
So gonna leave us with just Davison
Also Bonnes comments may explain his performances this season, if his head was turned by QPR then he wouldn't have been giving us 100% in case of injury4 -
The wider football world considers him a Championship striker though, as he proved he CAN score at that levelBournemouth Addick said:Not sure if this one is a reflection on his potential or just the state of the transfer market more generally tbh. 3rd division strikers getting sold for £2m is madness unless they're they real deal or have a proven track record. He's neither.
Hopefully this will be reinvested straight back into the team and it'll turn out to be a great bit of business for us. An experienced lower division bulldozer of a striker would be nice, we've been powderpuff up front for too long.1 -
Why wouldn't you have your head turned by interest shown by a club as massive as QPR, with all their history and culture?6
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Good deal - forward line needed sorting out if we are to stand a chance of going up
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Good deal....surprised at the fee, my mate who is a QPR fan told me we got a bad deal with Washington, maybe their getting one back.0
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