If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

[freeindeed]

Rumoured that a fee with QPR for Ream has been agreed.

http://lionofviennasuite.sbnation.com/2 ... r-tim-ream

[officer_dibble]

Hope we get to find out what the fee is this time. Undisclosed strikes me as us being embarrassed at our negotiation skills.

[Prufrock]

I'm confident we won't miss the useless bastard. Joins N'Goggers on the 'thank good we got rid of that tart' list.

Though I'm waiting for a PSG to get too excited

[Burnden Paddock]

I'm confident we won't miss the useless bastard. Joins N'Goggers on the 'thank good we got rid of that tart' list.

Though I'm waiting for a PSG to get too excited

Yeah, because you must have seen him play at least 2-3 times!

[Hoboh]

For a central defender Ream got muscled off the ball far too easy and his heading ability was lacking. Paul Jones could play a bit in his prime, Ream is now't like him

[bobo the clown]

Decent, trouble & tantrum free, utility player who is a sort of nearly man not being great at any position nor crap either. Possibly suffered due to his flexibility.

Thanks are due .... but no tears. ... & his wife is fit too.

[Bruce Rioja]

Poor Nando's.

[ChrisC]

If NL gets the dosh, think of it this way..

If we had 2-3 million to spend at the beginning of this window, would anybody on here want us to spend it all on a defender? Only a half decent one at that? I doubt it.

The money is good news for the team if we can spend it. Another big earner off the books and we can all hope for a goalscorer to come in and challenge Madine at the cross bar challenge

[Vertigo]

Ream seems a nice bloke to have around the club, and a pretty good player, but no better. Huge stroke of fortune that we could get over a million for him IMO. Just a shame he didn't score a goal in his 112 appearances.

[irie Cee Bee]

Ream seems a nice bloke to have around the club, and a pretty good player, but no better. Huge stroke of fortune that we could get over a million for him IMO. Just a shame he didn't score a goal in his 112 appearances.

Not sure why we want to cheapen the value of our own players. Do we have some sort of inferior complex? Tim Ream has been our player of the season twice, yet there are some willing to give him away for little or nothing. Didn't we pay 2.3 million for him to an MLS club. Why should we take less for him now when we have developed him and helped to make him more versatile, able to play comfortably in 3 different positions. It would be a huge loss to us in my opinion and will miss his versatility. So pay us what he is worth which to me is no less than 2.5 million.

[thebish]

this impressive and productive thread is now on the verge of 100 hope-filled pages!!!

[Nicko58]

Sky are reporting that we have agreed a £1.4m fee with QPR.

[Bijou Bob]

1.4?? We turned down 1.75 by all accounts! Unless it's a down payment with add ons.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

why are we so damned poor at selling players?

I'd say it's 'cos we're beggars rather than choosers, but we always seemed a bit poo at it even when we had (some) cash.

Anyway, as this thread is about to hit 100 pages, anyone care to list the ins-and-outs for the window thus far? Personally I'm not too disappointed with any of the departures – I'd've loved to see Luke Woodland, Chris Lester and Georg Iliev flourish, but as their wages can't be an issue we have to accept the youth coaches' decisions on this sort of case.

[thebish]

[Bijou Bob]

Some sources stating Ream was on 20k a week. Presumably, we won't be paying up his contract so that's a huge amount in wages gained.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Oh go on then. Let me know if I've missed anyone and I'll add him in.
Loans in blue, kids in green

IN
Ben Amos (GK, Red Pox, free)
Lawrie Wilson (RB, Charlton, free)
Derik Osede (CB, Real Madrid, free)
Prince Gouano (CB, Atalanta, loan)
Stephen Dobbie (FW, Crystal Palace, free)
Gary Madine (FW, Sheff Weds, free)
Yvan Wassi (LB, Man City U21, free)
Jordan Lussey (CM, Liverpool U21, free)
Jon Ceberio (CM, Real Sociedad, free)

OUT
Adam Bogdan (GK, Liverpool, free)
Andy Lonergan (GK, Fulham, free)
Alex Baptiste (RB/CB, Middlesbrough, ‘nominal’)
Matt Mills (CB, Nottm Forest, free)
James Ball (CB, free)
Glenn Matthews (LB, free)
Ryan Sellers (LB, Wycombe, free)
Keith Andrews (CM, free)
Andy Hughes (CM, retired)
Simeon Slavchev (CM, loan ended)
Luke Woodland (CM, free)
Jermaine Beckford (FW, Preston, free)
Eidur Gudjohnsen (FW, SJZ Ever Bright, free)
Craig Davies (FW, Wigan, free)
Sanmi Odelusi (FW, Wigan, undisc)
Rochinha (FW, loan ended)
Rob Hall (FW, MK Dons, loan to June)
Conor Wilkinson (FW, Barnsley, loan to January)
Georg Iliev (FW, free)
Chris Lester (RW, free)

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Some sources stating Ream was on 20k a week. Presumably, we won't be paying up his contract so that's a huge amount in wages gained.

There's a link here to the Daily Mail (sorry) from when we were signing him. Says we offered Ream £20,000 a week, which was 30 times his annual $55,000 salary in the MLS.

It's possible that we didn't offer him that ion the end; it's possible (but improbable) that he took a wage drop when we gave him a new three-year contract last summer, a year before his deal ended; it's possible that the original Mail story was bollocks. But £20kpw is not an exceptional Premier League wage.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

@DSB: That Ceberio dude is a new signing, from Real Sociedad. Only reason I can remember is you said the same thing to me a few weeks ago! Wilkinson and Hall are out on loan too.

Ha! Noted and amended, cheers

[boltonboris]

Some sources stating Ream was on 20k a week. Presumably, we won't be paying up his contract so that's a huge amount in wages gained.

Forgive my ignorance, but why wouldn't we be paying up his contract?

My underastanding of this, is the club 'owe' him nigh on £2m quid and QPR are giving us the opportunity reduce that to £600.00