{"id":221615,"date":"2025-06-28T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221615\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:14:10","slug":"kwame-poku-reveals-why-he-snubbed-birmingham-city-for-qpr-thats-what-really-attracted-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221615\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwame Poku reveals why he snubbed Birmingham City for QPR, \u2018that\u2019s what really attracted me\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Queens Park Rangers will begin to feel a sense of excitement ahead of the new Championship season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only days after appointing Julien Stephan<\/a> as manager, QPR have signed centre-back Amadou Mbengue<\/a> from Reading and unveiled the capture of Kwame Poku<\/a> from Peterborough United. <\/p>\n

QPR winning the race to sign the 23-year-old is a real signal of their intent, as Birmingham City were interested in Poku<\/a> earlier in the window alongside Scottish giants Rangers. <\/p>\n

But after Peterborough\u2019s director of football Barry Fry slapped a \u00a310 million asking price on Poku<\/a>, the Blues walked away from negotiations and have instead sought to sign Demarai Gray<\/a> from Al-Ettifaq. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as Poku could have joined Rangers on a free transfer<\/a>, Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony was desperate for an English club to pay compensation, with QPR announcing the 23-year-old on Saturday. <\/p>\n

\"CambridgePhoto by MI News\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesKwame Poku was sold QPR project by new manager Julien Stephan<\/p>\n

When considering his options ahead of leaving London Road, Poku wanted the guarantee of starting regularly<\/a>, something Birmingham couldn\u2019t promise him. <\/p>\n

That is why, after Swansea City, QPR, and an unnamed Championship club agreed terms with Poku<\/a>, the fleet-footed Ghanaian was sold by Stephan\u2019s plans for him. <\/p>\n

Speaking to the R\u2019s official website<\/a>, the exciting winger said: \u201cWhen I was speaking to him he was talking about where he sees me fitting in and where he thinks I can influence the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what really attracted me. Being 23 turning 24, I\u2019m not quite young anymore, so I want to come in and make my mark from the jump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poku is the latest incredible, young talent to make the switch to QPR, joining the likes of Karamoko Dembele and Mbengue in the squad. <\/p>\n

Poku explains what is different from his last time in the Championship<\/p>\n

The last time Poku played in the Championship was in the 2021\/22 campaign, which resulted in relegation for Peterborough. <\/p>\n

Poku was a raw talent back then, who needed to refine his end product, something he\u2019s done during a three-year stint in League One. <\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s determined to carry such form into the second tier, saying: \u201cI think I had some good performances, good on the ball, I just think what separated then from now was the statistical side of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing into this team where there\u2019s a lot of good attacking players and good all-rounded players as well, I think I\u2019ll create more chances, be at the end of a lot of chances and get more numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Championship is a different kettle of fish to the third tier but QPR will be hopeful they\u2019ve made one of the signings of the summer.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens Park Rangers will begin to feel a sense of excitement ahead of the new Championship season. Only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,748,393,4884,62478,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-221615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-kwame-poku","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}