Christopher Samba – QPR
The 29-year-old may have only joined QPR in January but he represents a lot of what has caused the club’s plight.
Arriving from Russian side Anzhi for £12.5 million, it soon became public knowledge that the Congolese international would be earning in excess of £100,000 a week in West London. Such wage packets are usually only reserved for those at the top of the table, not rock bottom.
Since making his debut for The Hoops they’ve won just twice, and kept only one clean sheet. One of the defeats came in an FA Cup tie against MK Dons. The League One side came off 4-2 victors that day.
Relegation is all but confirmed now, and this weekend could see it a reality if the club fail to pick up any points against Reading.
It comes as a slap in the face of the fans of the club to pay a man so much money to perform so badly. This isn’t the first time he has been aboard a sinking ship either.
He was a part of the Blackburn Rovers squad that disappeared from the top flight last season, though he was spared the blushes by Anzhi who pounced to take him to Russia in February.
It will be interesting to see who comes in for him over the summer with the wage packet that he’ll surely be demanding.