GettyImagesQPR's French striker Loic Remy could face Swansea

At QPR these days it seems that you can't believe anything you read in the press.

Loic Remy - QPR's new striker - was out injured for anything between three months to a year, if the media were to be believed. Harry Redknapp himself stated on Thursday, at a fans forum, that there is a chance that Remy will play against Swansea. That's on Saturday. Tomorrow.

Likewise, the absurd nature of the speculation and fantasy reporting that has been going on about the club's acquisitions in the transfer window - particularly centreing around Remy and Newcastle. How is it that Newcastle - who themselves are at the wrong end of the table - can spend £17 million on transfers and they call it prudent, and the papers nod sagely. Meanwhile, QPR spend a similar amount and it is madness. The Toon having a large stadium, the Hoops with some very large backers.

Newcastle claim that Remy was offered a lot more money by Rangers to join, while QPR and the player himself say that there was no difference in the wage structures offered. Who do the papers believe? The club that was thwarted, and is trying to appease its fans for missing a transfer target. Unbelievable.

Then there is Chris Samba, who is on £100,000 per week. I mean, how did this one end up sticking? The player, his agent, various members of the club, including the manager, have said that he is on nowhere near that amount - and still the press choose to ignore the people in the know to quote a figure that has no basis in fact.

It is really, really difficult not to believe that there is an agenda against the club - this kind of stuff keeps happening. Southampton, Reading, Swansea have all spent very healthily - and yet not a peep of concern for their fiscal health.

Lakshmi Mittal - one of QPR's backers by proxy - sold some shares that he found down the back of the sofa in midweek in a mid-tier energy company. He made £171 million. With that money he could buy Newcastle - the city, let alone the football club. And yet still the Hoops are going to become the "next Pompey". Incredible.

Aside from the good news about Remy, fans would be buoyed by Samba coming out and saying that he thinks the club have more than enough to beat the drop - and that from a man who was training with Samuel Eto'o just over a week ago.

QPR owe Swansea, not so much for the 5-0 drubbing at Loftus Road - but for starting the countdown to the departure of Mark Hughes. For that the club must thank them.

Now Harry gets a go, and I would imagine that the fact that we have conceded one goal in a whopping 512 minutes sets the club up well for a crack at the Swans on the counter. They won't like that: they are wonderful sweeping forward, and the consensus used to be to harry them when in possession, but that is wrong now. To beat them: banks of four, let them punch themselves out, then hit them in the second half.

You heard it here first.

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