I thought MH knew what he's doing? (re: Henrique)

oh you are such a cynic

 

Neil brought in good players in the last few days of the last window. A fantastic job (excluding Bartonand Puncheon). I hope and expect Mark will do the same. Most transfers aren't concluded until the last day or so, and probably it will be the same this month.

 

Don't think you're far off there Liverpool. If he was signing for one of them then surely he must be an "exceptional talent", but if it's just little old QPR then he can't be very good? Wouldn't be surprised if that's the panels view.

 

soon find out if he goes to one of them

 

The Henrique failure has nothing to do with MH. His job is to identify targets for purchase. In this case management would have taken legal advice on what the prospects were for succeeding on the immigration front. I can only assume the legal advice was that there were reasonable prospects. So management gave the go ahead with talks, to take the guy from the Brazilian club.

In view of the, as I understand it, unanimous opinion of the tribunal against us, I think management should be looking to their lawyers...

 

This.

 

Hi Guys,

Haven't been on here in a while, but try to read the post as much as I can...thought you guys might like this...apologies if it has appeared elsewhere, but Tim Vickery gives his low down on Henrique when asked a ? on a recent blog.

Q) I see QPR have just signed Brazil Under-20 international Henrique from Sao Paulo. I know little about him, other than that he was player of the tournament at the U20 World Cup last year, and was wondering whether you rate him and think he is good enough to make the grade in the Premier League?
Alex Snow

A) I don't think it's gone through yet, and I can't see how he can get a work permit. The argument will be based on his "World Youth Cup player of the tournament" award. Well though he played, he wouldn't have been my choice. Five of that side have since seen action with the senior Brazil team. He's not among them, which tells you something.

He's certainly promising, talented and versatile - more of a second, support striker than an out-and-out centre forward. But he has yet really to establish himself in domestic Brazilian football. Sao Paulo loaned him out to Vitoria in 2010, where he did OK in a relegated side, and then last year he was a bit-part substitute.

He's also prone to youthful petulance - and at the moment I think QPR need something more solid than a good long-term gamble.

 

We had the best lawyers on the job for the Ale case last spring! But pehaps we didn't have the necessary work permit experts in place now. It is surprising we don't seem to be appealing when apparently appeals have been necessary with such foreign talent before!

 

Maybe we've suddenly realised we've been after the wrong Henrique all along, and the work permit decision has let us off the hook ?

 

Don't understand this. If Henrique was denied work permit on the the grounds of being "not all that" how the f*ck did Perone get a permit?

 

Good question - it's a complete guess, but hadn't Perone been playing in Europe already? May be that made it easier for him under EU rules

 

Perone holds an Italian passport and played in Spain with Xerez. The Italian passport would make him free to work in the UK.

 

I should have guessed there'd be an Italian connection

 

Bring back Paladini!!

 

What makes you think he was wanted by Hughes? I heard ages ago they new he wasnt going to come anyway. Probably just a smokescreen to make us fans think they were moving quickly in the market.

 

This bloke that told you ages ago that Henrique wasn't going to come - does he do a training course that we can club together and send our Cerny on?

 

the signings will come in the last 3=4 days of the window, that way you dont pay over the odds for players

 

I know little about the work permit shenanigans, but a friend of mine is an agent who failed recently with another work permit. From what he told me, even the lawyers can't be sure what will happen. The panels are a mystery, a bit like Barton's red card appeal panel. MH must have known this was a likely outcome, however. Given the amount of money involved, he and Philip Beard must have got some serious legal advice on the probability of failure, so it seems strange the transfer was leaked so prematurely (and some posters on here were getting seriously excited about it last weekend). Which leaves the field open for the conspiracy theorists. MH knew it was going to fail etc....smoke and mirrors!

 

This! Tried to make a point along the same lines.

Smoke and mirrors should not be underestimated either, and if that is the case we might be in for a surprise or two in a week from now.

 

I still think this deal will happen