[REPORTED] Ilyas Chair

Discussion in 'The Transfer List' started by Hogg-DEENEY!!!, May 10, 2021.

  1. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Watford are interested in QPR's Ilias Chair, but are not preparing an offer yet. The midfielder has interest from clubs in Belgium, Italy, Germany and England. [@adjones_journo, @TheAthleticUK]
    #watfordfc
    https://t.co/bNZ6syq1X8

    I'd be up for this, a very tidy player who ran us ragged at theirs
     
  2. cyaninternetdog

    cyaninternetdog Forum Hippie

    Lets hope we dont sit on our hands with this one.
     
  3. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    I hope we don't "SIT" on this decision for too long ;)
     
  4. RS2

    RS2 Squad Player

    Table.
     
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  5. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    I think this one has legs.
     
  6. Going to Chesterfield.
     
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  7. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    He should play wingback for Chesterfield.
     
  8. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    Grrrr beat me to it.
     
  9. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Worried he might fold if he realises he's got to support Deeney.
     
  10. MIlton Dammers

    MIlton Dammers Reservist

    Comfortably the best rumour so far. I'm surprised we've not tabled an offer yet.
     
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  11. MIlton Dammers

    MIlton Dammers Reservist

    Agreed. One of the few players I've seen this season, outside of the top 7 clubs, who to me looks genuinely too good for the Championship.
     
  12. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Very good, but Wycombe surely?
     
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  13. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Why, why, WHY, Ilias?

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  14. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    I think it wouldn't just fold UEA, I think it would Collapse :D
     
  15. barely1egal

    barely1egal Reservist

    Very good player and still pretty young. If I had the choice between him and Olise, I would absolutely prefer the latter, but Chair deserves a crack at top flight football.

    He still has 4 years left on his deal and is QPR's most important player so I can't imagine he would be cheap and is in an area I feel we had a reasonable amount of depth already (Cleverley, Zink, Gosling, Quina etc). Doesn't really seem like a high priority to me.
     
  16. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    He played well against us but I'm not convinced he's quite at the level he should be aiming for - he only got 8 goals and 4 assists overall in 43 starts this season.

    For comparison, the season before Eze got 14 goals and 8 assists in 46 starts.

    Really we should be trying to get Eze-level talents at minimum for the LW or AM position if we want to survive in the PL and he's a bit off that. He strikes me as more of a "already preparing for life back in the Championship after getting relegated next season" type of signing.
     
  17. Harrow Orn

    Harrow Orn Squad Player

    Yes please. Lad is a class act.
     
  18. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    Good on the deck...
     
  19. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    If this is the level of signing we're making, then next season will just be spent like rearranging the Titanic's furniture.
     
  20. barely1egal

    barely1egal Reservist

    TBF he is creating a significant number of good quality chances, and they just aren't being taken.

    I know when we were linked in January he had some of the best creative stats in the division (obviously these are stats and are not the be all and end all).

    Eze was an unreal player - I still don't know how Palace were the only club in for him. Olise will do the same next season - just looks far too good for this level.
     
  21. nornironhorn

    nornironhorn Administrator Staff Member

    Eze cost £17m though, can't see us spending close to that on a single player.
     
  22. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    The thing is, despite how good Eze was in the Championship last season and however promising he is, he's still only got 4 goals and 5 assists in the PL this season. It's a respectable figure, though not loads.

    We'll be wanting a LW or AM to be chipping in with at least a similar figure to that next season, and given that Chair isn't at the level Eze was it seems highly unlikely he'd even hit Eze's current total if in the PL.

    I agree Olise is a better player than Chair. I'm not convinced he'd even improve our first XI. The only current Champ players in his kind of role who probably would are Olise, Armstrong, Powell and Danjuma. Harry Wilson could also maybe get there if he rediscovers his form somehow, but he'd be a risk.
     
  23. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    But he's not in the same bracket as Eze so wouldn't come close to that valuation.
     
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  24. reids

    reids First Team

    8.21 xA though so not sure he can be faulted for QPRs awful finishing! Only Buendia, Wallace, Olise, Sema + Bannan had higher.
     
  25. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    Wilson would be a pointless signing imo.
    The others have either not played Premier football or haven't achieved anything in the Premier league.
     
  26. Berkshire Horn

    Berkshire Horn Academy Graduate

    For a deal of this magnitude it apparently bypasses the agents and straight to the chairman to decide.

    If it’s over a bank holiday we could save up to 50% and stretch the payments over 4 years.
     
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  27. barely1egal

    barely1egal Reservist

    I really don't think much of Wilson. He has not just failed to kick on from his decent form for Derby, but actually looks to be going backwards.

    I have gushed about Olise enough that my views on him are clear. I 100% think he goes into our starting 11 (even if it takes him a bit of time to adapt). We don't have anyone else capable of carrying the ball in midfield and taking players on like he does.

    Armstrong would be worth a shout. I would be interested to know what Blackburn want for him.

    Danjuma was absolutely awful last time they he was in the premier league - 0 goals and 0 assists. There is clearly talent there, but that has to be a real concern.
     
  28. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Interesting. Raises a question though - do people really think Chair is any better than Sema, Joao Pedro and Zinckernagel? He just seems as if he'd be a bit of a pointless signing whether for £5mil or £10mil when he's unlikely to really improve us. We need to find upgrades from somewhere somehow, whether that be from the Champ or elsewhere.
     
  29. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Rotation option ? I've heard he has a great swivel.
    Who would we castor side to make space for him in the 11 ?
     
  30. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Would be a brilliant signing, sign him up!
     
  31. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Hence why I said he was a "maybe [...] if he rediscovers his form somehow".

    He was still young though and hardly given much of a chance (just 629 minutes), and I genuinely thought he looked threatening at the time (not awful) even if he didn't register. His good dribbling was in evidence already last season (similar successful dribble rate to this one) he was just lacking a bit of composure. I'm sure he'd do much better now if given a regular spot and with a good season behind him.
     
  32. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    Me thinks Danjuma has matured since his last spell in the PL and I would sign him tomorrow if we could afford him.
     
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  33. AngelHornet

    AngelHornet Reservist

    Moving to Sittingbourne
     
  34. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

    I think we could ask for interest free credit on this particular purchase.
     

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