Johannes Spors

[OldNick]

14 minutes ago, wild-saint said:

Im totally unsurprised from what I had seen of him. The only doubt I had was his recovery from 2 quite serious injuries. But certainly would of kept him for the championship season based on what we had coming through from the academy. Not sure about contract situation but i doubt he would have turned down an extra year.

Shame really i think we will come to regret it if we dont already.

 

I assume where he had bee on loan and got some serious injuries the club must have thought he is one injury away from being done for. Did I also hear that Still was happy for him to leave?

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

On 28/04/2026 at 15:00, Saint Garrett said:

Noone ever gets all transfers right, lets not kid ourselves.

Incomings:
Azaz - Jury was out for me, but been hugely important to us since Jan. Now looking like a really good signing.
Scienza - Class
Fellows - Like him but expected more - not bad business and still very young
Jander - Class
Downs - Shocker - clearly wasnt signed for this season, but looks a bad one. Expect him to be sold or back out on loan next season
Quarshie - Time will tell. don't think he was signed as first choice and isn't
Roeslev - Poor signing even when he was fit
Peretz - Class
Jelert - Fine - though not a good fit for our system despite looking like he has something
Larin - Class
Long-  Backup
Romeu - Backup & probably had a positive impact in the dressing room despite his lack of playing time

Departures:
Matty Fernandes - Think we should have got a bit more for him but still good money
Dibling - Money looking very good right now
Sulemana / Onuachu / Arma / Bednarek / ABK / Edwards - can't argue with fees we received.
Ramsdale - big money for a loan...

Sam Amo / Juan - Probably should have got more for them both, but not the end of the world.

All in all I think you're giving him a 8 or 9/10 for the last few windows...

 

I like this summary. Made me realise just how effective his departures have been.

As I see it, the big change has come when the club realised it needed a proper goalkeeper and it needed a solid centre forward. If Spors is the person who realised this and understood he'd dropped a clanger with Downs and directed the change, then good on him.

I was at Tonda's first game in charge at Loftus Road when the players went around congratulating each other almost in disbelief that they'd held on for a win. Now you see a winning team oozing confidence. Maybe Spors had already given us many of the players; it just needed a manager to bring the best out them.   

[SambaMaverick]

On 28/04/2026 at 15:00, Saint Garrett said:

All in all I think you're giving him a 8 or 9/10 for the last few windows...

Generous, I'd give him a 6 for at least fixing the mess he made in January