WARREN FARM HALTED

30 acres in London for £4.5m? Wow, we must be good negotiators. Is that a BA club?

 

This sounds like a great deal. I know there are many who will write this off as another TF PR exercise but the link seems to make that very unlikely or am I getting confused?

https://www.openplay.co.uk/view/65/qpr-academy-dome

 

Reading through their posts on there, they seem as argumentative a bunch as us some of us on here!

 

Presumably land with zero chance of planning permission for one reason or other? Very cheap otherwise!

 

I liked the picture of Concorde on there too

Or someone needs money soon ish or even NOW

 

999's, this is the place that I meant earlier. As both myself and Staines were X BA staff. It used to be the main BA club, and I have fallen out from their many a time. Think the youngster's spend a lot of time there already.

 

https://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/football-qpr-training-ground-cranford-080520201


So WLS have confirmed it is the Concorde Club/Heston Imperial College site. It is where our academy is based.
It is about 2 miles from our training ground which we also hire from Imperial. We are buying it for 4.5 million but it is set up and ready to go with no planning permission problems and we will own it. It has lecture theatres, venues, offices, football pitches etc as well as other facilities like cricket pitches and indoor sports. It sounds far too good to be true.

Imperial college bought it from BA in 2014 and at that time had three sports centres at Heston, Harlington and Teddington as well as indoor facilities in South Kensington. They seemed to acquire these riches through the merging of the London colleges. They vacated the site in April and want to sell

 

Let's just hope that it is true. We could do with some positive news.

 

Sounds great. I always wonder how they hear what the coaches say with all those planes flying so close. At both locations

 

Sorry to introduce a negative note.

Imperial are selling this to us but we know from the consultation document commissioned about the future of the Linford Christie Stadium that Imperial have a strong interest in that site.

I'm afraid their relinquishing of this site may mean they've acquired the LC site instead of us.

Hope I'm wrong.

 

A very interesting articles by David McIntryre who is now clearly advocating to also scrap “the Academy”.

Well worth a read.

https://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/football-qpr-warren-farm-academy-052022

 

Just like Brentford is the model then.

 

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Haven’t we already started that pathway Sb?

 

A good article making a lot of sense......

 

The fact he's thought about it and changed his mind about the academy adds credibility I think. A considered and not reflex opinion. Just a bit galling that we're emulating Brentford!!

 

A “reality check”?

 

Absolutely, sadly.
We are already following the Brentford model, of giving 2nd chances to people thrown away by bigger clubs.
I hope that continues following Penrices departure

 

Yes, it is a model that worked.

Let’s see how it develops without Gary Penrice.

One thing is the model, but another more important aspect is the process with people with the correct competencies, experience and behaviour.

Only together they make the whole process.