QPR owner lured Remy by playing FIFA 12 with him
Many have questioned Loic Remy's motives for snubbing Newcastle at the eleventh hour to join the Premier League's rock-bottom side Queens Park Rangers - with studious Geordie pundit Alan Shearer even going as far as to suggest that QPR's willingness to flat-out double Newcastle's wage offer may have been a factor.
Not so, it would seem; as all that would have swung the deal in Toon's favour would've been for Alan Pardew to offer Remy a quick game of FIFA 12 - which is exactly what QPR owner Tony Fernandes did, sweetening the deal by letting the French striker win heavily!
This from QPR’s website:
Fernandes spent over four hours persuading the 26 year-old that [QPR] was the right place for him to pursue his footballing career – and after the talks finished, the duo found time for a showdown on the world’s favourite football console game.
“It was a special moment that followed our chat about QPR,” Remy told www.qpr.co.uk. “We just played a game of FIFA – it was good and showed to me what a good person Tony is.
“He showed his human side to me as an owner of the club I wanted to join. It was a special moment for us both.”
Playing as Bayern Munich, Remy triumphed 6-0 against Fernandes’s Argentina in game one, before the R’s Chairman fought back to claim a share of the spoils in an eight-goal thriller, only to lose on penalties.
Double your money and a couple of games of FIFA on the Xbox thrown in to boot? We can't lie, we'd be goopy putty in Fernandes' hands too.
Now that's how you do business with a footballer!
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