Neil Warnock: "Let's be fair when you've been playing at a stadium like Newcastle's and you've played at the Emirates and all these other top stadiums, it is a little bit of an eye opener to look at little Loftus Road with the atmosphere and everything like that.
"But he took on board everything we were [telling] him about what the future is, what we thought of the timing of him coming and also what the chairman wants to do with the club.
"I think it is an exciting project and you have to walk before you can run and that is what the club is trying to do.
"I thought the signing of Joey really epitomised what the chairman was on about.
"It made the other signings relatively easy because people were thinking: 'wow, well if he is coming here then it can't be bad' and I think that helped.
"I thought London might just tempt Joey.
"I know he is very articulate with his tweets and I know he likes museums and oil paintings so I thought it might just tempt him and his partner.
"I think she wanted to come down as well so that was always the thought at the back [of my mind].
"Listen, everybody always talks about Joey's baggage and I think if you look at myself, we have all said and done things in the past that we probably regret later on.
"But if you look at what Joey has got to offer, if he didn't have a little bit of baggage then I am sure Queens Park Rangers couldn't be signing him.
"I think he would be at a top-four club without a shadow of a doubt.
"You can't tell me he wouldn't enhance at least three of the top four clubs because I think he would.
"I was disappointed not to get Craig Bellamy.
"I thought if I could get Craig Bellamy, Adel and Joey all in the same room I could look the door and chuck the key away.
"But I don't think you worry about it really. All top players - well, a lot of them - have fiery natures. They wouldn't have the passion otherwise.
"I suppose I am the same when you are on the bench.
"It is how you are, you don't change who you are, you just don't want to go over the boundaries and that is all I ask of my players.
"I don't want to stop the fire in their bellies and the passion, likewise different people have different ways of showing it.
"Without that, you're not the same player so I hope they all keep what they've got and we just add to it with what we've brought in."