Maybe they're reacting to what happened to Sunderland when they sacked Bruce. Changed managers and now playing well.
Neil Warnock sacked as QPR boss
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Maybe they're reacting to what happened to Sunderland when they sacked Bruce. Changed managers and now playing well.
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Looks like it's about 99% certain.
Yeah. Good appointment. But still feel should've stuck with Warnock a bit longer. But there you go. That's football.
Good decision all around I feel...
Mark Hughes is a young, reasonably talented manager and I am sure Fernandes believes he is capable of carrying out the long-term plan he has in place at QPR...
Fernandes is a pretty smart and shrewd owner so I am inclined to believe that he has signed Hughes to stay at QPR for the long-term
Think he can bring in the right players too. Bearing in mind at City he got players in like De Jong and Kompany and look what's happened to them. Kompany has been fantastic for them. Think he can do similar things at QPR
He also bought a few massive flops, though. He's not my cup of tea when it comes to management, in all honesty, and I think what he did to Fulham was very, very disrespectful.
don't get me wrong-you're right about Fulham, and like all managers he got some players who were a bit pants (though it seems Barry seems to be improving-if it was him who bought him-can't remember), but......I think he has something. Though I could be proved wrong. Remains to be seen.
Though I do admit, I had Brucie down to take over.
Thats what I am worried about, he is clearly being brought in for the long-term by Fernandes but if another top club offers him a job while he is in the midst of overseeing the evolution at QPR, their is no reason for me to believe that he will not jump ship and that will put QPR back to square one
QPR's sacking of Neil Warnock had been increasingly on the cards
Manager was at loggerheads with Tony Fernandes over transfer policy and the owner was concerned by the threat of relegation
- Jamie Jackson
- The Guardian, Monday 9 January 2012
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After Neil Warnock watched Queens Park Rangers steal a draw at MK Dons in the FA Cup on Saturday his relaxed demeanour was initially surprising. His dismissal, announced yesterday, may explain it. Sources at the club have suggested the 63-year-old was thinking of retiring at the end of the season anyway.
If this was the case, it was bound to compound the QPR board's two main concerns: the side's relegation form of two points from the last eight Premier League outings and, related to it, investment from a sizeable war chest by a man shortly to leave. With QPR "willing to go for it", according to one club insider, there were serious reservations regarding Warnock's ability to attract the calibre of player required to lift the club from 17th and stay away from danger.
This is why Tony Fernandes, the owner, showed his ruthless streak on Sunday. With Mark Hughes, his favoured replacement, available and interested, Fernandes decided he had witnessed enough drift.
The Malaysian was at stadium:mk on Saturday to see another disjointed display that required a late Heidar Helguson equaliser to avert a spirit‑sapping defeat to a League One club. This came after, on Friday, Fernandes tweeting pointedly "it is important to note no one's job is safe".
Yet when asked on Saturday evening if his chairman's outburst concerned him, Warnock's blasé response was: "I know what Tony is like. It would be something out of nothing. Everybody tweets him. Joe Bloggs off the corner-shop and everybody else tweets him and he replies to everybody. I'm concentrating on trying to get players in and he's very supportive. I can only tell you he's been 100% supportive."
Warnock had been much the same following the 2-1 defeat by Norwich City at Loftus Road last Monday. Lost in the uproar over Joey Barton's red card for moving his head towards Norwich's Bradley Johnson was the fact that QPR had been defeated again. The last time QPR won was on 19 November when Stoke City were beaten 3-2, a dire record observed by Fernandes and Amit Bhatia, the vice‑chairman, as they plotted their winter transfer window strategy.
While Warnock's outrage at Barton's sending off was understandable, when quizzed about the defeat by Norwich he fell back on the old managerial standby of bad luck and other dodgy refereeing decisions he believed have peppered their season. Then he spent the rest of the week railing at the match officials and the Football Association when his captain's red card was not rescinded.
Here was a deepening sense of a manager losing his focus and forgetting the only real measure of his stock: results. On Thursday, before the trip to Milton Keynes, Warnock failed to send the correct message to his players, again pointing his energies at the failed appeal against Barton's red card describing the FA's decision as "scandalous". He may well have had a point, but Warnock was missing the main one: the need to inform his players in strident terms of the requirement to return to winning ways at MK Dons ahead of league outings against Newcastle United and Wigan Athletic.
Regarding the board's concerns over Warnock's recruitment policy a glance at his business in the last window suggests their genesis.
Joey Barton is the headline case: he may be the captain and the club's highest earner but the scouser has yet to win a game for QPR and his preoccupation with Twitter should have become an embarrassment to him when the team's results started going south.
Of the rest of Warnock's summer shopping spree, Kieron Dyer is injured (yet again), Shaun Wright-Phillips is inconsistent, Jay Bothoyd overtaken by the 33-year-old Helguson, Danny Gabbidon sluggish, DJ Campbell unconvincing and Armand Traoré has faded, while Anton Ferdinand is steady enough and Bruno Perone and Brian Murphy have madetwo appearances between them.
Warnock also said on Saturday: "This next seven days are vital because we need two or three players in by the Newcastle game. I spoke to Tony and the rest of the owners six or seven weeks ago and told them exactly why we needed players and where we needed them. Our main aim is to stay up, and "
Except that now Warnock will not pilot this drive for survival. With Kia Joorabchian, Hughes's representative, returning from Brazil on Monday and Fernandes in Singapore, the midweek board meeting may be when the Welshman is handed the challenge of maintaining QPR's status.
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Hughes struggled initially when he first joined Blackburn and Fulham. Can't see him keeping QPR up unless they have a massive defensive overhaul. If you're looking for instant results, I'm not sure he's the man for the job. Hughes generally plays attacking football but you can't do it with a **** defence.
From what's been coming out he wanted £30 million to spend on the team. Remains to be see what happens with that
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and a release clause when he relegates them?
lol. That's probably what a journo meant when he said there's still them I's and T's to dot
Can just about afford to take Gibson off our hands with that.
So it was basically down to Fernandes not thinking Warnock was of sufficient calibre to keep the side up and also wanting someone for the long-term
Those are sound reasons for the sacking although I do think Warnock would have kept QPR up, whether he was ready to stay for another 4-5 years was a faint hope at best
Those are sound reasons for the sacking although I do think Warnock would have kept QPR up, whether he was ready to stay for another 4-5 years was a faint hope at best
I suspect that won't happen-sorry lol. But they are linked with Juventus striker Amauri-be available on a free this month. Don't see it happening myself, but........stranger things have happened.
I still think its dumb to sack a manager mid-way through a season especially if your a club fighting to stay up... if Hughes gets them relegated then Fernandes long-term plans are delayed by quite a bit.
Might as well have stuck with Warnock till the end of the season and prayed that he can keep QPR up before getting Hughes in and backing him with money through the summer to shape the squad the way he wants
Might as well have stuck with Warnock till the end of the season and prayed that he can keep QPR up before getting Hughes in and backing him with money through the summer to shape the squad the way he wants