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Could be a cheaper option than Eze and plays with a similar directness. Possibly quite raw and will need ‘fine tuning’.

My one worry about these sort of signings is that unless they are proven over a sustained period of time in the Championship which we all know is a decent league, then they might be another Jordan Mutch. £5 million is still £5 million!

Someone I know rates the player.
Very fleet of foot, strong and direct and likes a step-over.
No stranger to yellow cards - he has collected 10 this season.
In Holloway signed him for QPR from Blackpool.

Edited by Willo (30 Jul 2020 7.58am)

We need a winger and we need a more creative midfielder, so can it not be possible that we'll move for both Eze and this lad? If he's not ready to carry the weight of being first choice at 5m that would still make an affordable squad option. We do need a squad and not just a first XI.

We can do what we did with that Scottish lad, buy him in, then loan him out to a crapper team in the same league the next day.

We do have form for doing that. Few years ago I remember us looking at Adamoah at Bristol City and we ended up signing his understudy at the blub, slme unheard of lad called Yannick Bolaise. Wonder what came of him?

Hope not. If we go for him we need to use him as our squad is small enough as it is.

I'm a bit confused by your logic here though?

You have given suggestions of Lucas Joao who is 3 years older, a striker that has spent the last 5 years in the Championship and never scored more than 10 league goals in a season as a £10m striker that could be worth £40m in a couple of years. However, you say a winger who is 4 years younger and has just had a season where he scored a couple of goals less but double the amount of assists as Joao is a poor use of money?

Also, the majority of the players in the entire league are very one footed and I don't see why him being a traditional right winger should be an issue. It's not like we play a system that has a fluid front 3 or 4 like Liverpool.

I'm not saying we should buy him, more I just don't understand your differing views between him and Joao given the above.

I'm not advocating for either player, I was more interested in how you were basing your thoughts on one player being a waste of money and the other being a great investment.

In terms of BOS, according to Transfrmarket, he's played 84 games on the right, 33 on the left, 9 through the middle and 6 times up front.

Lucas Joao has played 163 times as a striker, 30 times on the wing and once as the second striker.

As a striker he has scored 38 times, as a winger 8 times, which means he's actually more prolific as a winger.

Ultimately, I think an almost 27 year old that has not scored more than 10 a season in the Championship isn't going to set the world alight with a move to us, besides he only moved to Reading a year ago.

What I can't work out is if it looks like QPR are going to lose Eze to someone is why they are reported to have accepted 5 mill for Osayi Samuel. Surely they would want to keep him. Would love to hear the QPR fans take on it all.

We’ve had a left footer on the right and a right footer on the left for the last 3 seasons - and we don’t create or score enough goals. Our attacks are slow and predictable to defend against. It’s time to have a left footed winger on the left getting Behind the opposition, to the byline and whipping a cross in and a right footed player doing the same on the other side. This will give time to our forwards and the odd midfielder to get on the end of the cross . All our best teams over the years have done this.