Next Season's Transfer Plans....Accounts Excerpt....Various QPR News Snippets

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David McIntyre/BBC 606 - Planning for next season
- Rangers are lining up Arsenal midfielder Amaury Bischoff and Chelsea left-back Jordan Tabor as the club plans for next season.
- French-born playmaker Bischoff is 22 and played for Strasbourg and German club Werder Bremen before signing for Arsenal last summer. He made his first-team debut against Wigan in this season’s Carling Cup.
- Bischoff, whose long-term future at Arsenal is unclear, has been pencilled in to play for Rangers in a scheduled friendly in Bahrain next month.
- He’s talented and would be an interesting signing. But playing in that kind of friendly won’t reveal much about a player with outstanding technical ability who might find the going tough in the Championship.
- There has also been some debate about Bischoff’s best position. Like Akos Buzsaky, he can play in central midfield, out wide or behind a striker.
- Where he might fit in once Buzsaky returns to fitness remains to be seen.
- Tabor, 18, has a sweet left foot and can play on the wing as well as at full-back. He has been invited to train with Rangers and could feature for the reserves against Reading today.
- Bischoff and Tabor have been earmarked for some time and Rangers have moved quickly to get them on board for next season.
- Dele Adebola probably wouldn’t be the first name QPR fans had in mind as a summer signing, but his Bristol City contract expires soon and it’s looking increasingly likely that Rangers will pick him up on a Bosman free transfer.
- Enquiries have also been made about Swansea midfielder Darren Pratley, who would be a decent addition but not as good a signing as his team-mate Ferrie Bodde in my view. " BBC 606


- The Accounts - QPR Report ommitted a couple of pages yesterday. Now corrected. QPR's new accounts have been released - Two sets: One for QPR FC...One for QPR Holdings.

- Couple of brief excerpts:
"..."On behalf of the Board of Directors I am delighted to present the financial statements and report for the year ended 31 May 2008with a review of what has been a historic year for Queens Park Rangers. In November 2007, we saved the club from certain Administration and completed the takeover of QPR Holdings Limited with the clear aim of seeking promotion from the Championship to the Premier League..."

"...The highest paid director received £196,670 during the year....
"During the year the company paid consultancy fees amounting to £75,000 (2007 £73, 750) to Moorbound Ltd, a company in which O. Palidini, the wife of G. Paladini , a director is the only shareholder. In addition the company provided an interest free loan of £140,000 to G.Paladini (2007 £nil 0) to G. Paladini"


- Snippet re Dexter Blackstock from The Mirror (via BBC Gossip)
- "Dexter Blackstock, who is on-loan at Nottingham Forest, will return to QPR to see out the final year of his contract." (Daily Mirror) BBC Gossip


- No Sousa at Last Night's Club Sponsors Event: QPR held its Club Event for Kit Sponsors. As reported on several sites, for whatever reason, Paulo Sousa was not in attendence at an event at which he had been expected.


- QPR Reserves Play Reading Reserves (including Lita) today (Wednesday)


- QPR Youth Off to Sardinia for tournament: They're in a group with Torino and TSV Munchen 1860.


- Antonio Caliendo's Updated Weblog reprints The Mail's "Pay Your Debts"


- "Megson Challenges Shittu"


- 10 of the best scissor kicks from Pele to Peter Crouch" (Including Trevor Sinclair's Goal for QPR vs Barnsley


- A Look at Where some Ex-QPR Players are Today


- A Reminder: List of Former QPR Managers (and how long they lasted at QPR)


- Updated: Old QPR Photos


- Interesting to Recall: The December 2007 Fan/Club Consultative Meeting


- QPR's Alejandro Agag as Real Madrid President? (Apparently not!)


- Reported News of very-briefly-at-QPR Junior Agogo


- And an absolutely NON QPR-related story: Five Players Charges in Betting Probe...Accrington Stanley Statement