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16 years - and a day - ago today: Newspaper headline "Pleat Heads the QPR Field"
"David Pleat has jumped to the forefront in the QPR Managerial stakes..."
A couple days later
www.thefreelibrary.com/LISBON+HUNT+PLEAT.-a061063608
LISBON HUNT PLEAT.
David Pleat has been offered the job as coach at Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon.
Pleat will decide this week whether to accept the pounds 300,000-a-year to move to Lisbon, where Bobby Robson was once in charge.
But Pleat has been short-listed for a number of jobs in English football.
He has been linked with the vacant QPR position after the sackings of Stewart Houston and Bruce Rioch.
A number of Premiership managers are under threat, and Pleat would stay in England if the right offer materialised.
The former Spurs and Luton manager was desperately upset at his dismissal by Sheffield Wednesday a fortnight ago, but he is still itching to get back to coaching, and would consider a drop to the Nationwide league with a club like QPR.
But QPR chairman Chris Wright yesterday insisted he will not be rushing into appointing a successor, which could rule out Pleat and suggests he is waiting for Gerry Francis.
Wright said: "The break of two or three weeks will allow us to set our net out and see what kind of individuals we can attract.
"That's not something we could do with an incumbent manager in place.
"In John Hollins we have a very suitable caretaker who will do his very best to lift the team. He certainly did that on Saturday - and all credit to him."
Hollins has already said that he would like to keep the post on a permanent basis, but Wright would not be drawn on the subject of an appointment.
He told QPR ClubCall: "I like to think we can find a manager who can take us into the Premier League and beyond that, into a 35,000-seat stadium, which would mean we would be able to stay in the Premiership on an equal footing.
"There are not too many people around who can do that.
"Most of them are working for European teams, so we may have to take a chance and bring in somebody who can graduate to that sort of performance level."
16 years - and a day - ago today: Newspaper headline "Pleat Heads the QPR Field"
"David Pleat has jumped to the forefront in the QPR Managerial stakes..."
A couple days later
www.thefreelibrary.com/LISBON+HUNT+PLEAT.-a061063608
LISBON HUNT PLEAT.
David Pleat has been offered the job as coach at Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon.
Pleat will decide this week whether to accept the pounds 300,000-a-year to move to Lisbon, where Bobby Robson was once in charge.
But Pleat has been short-listed for a number of jobs in English football.
He has been linked with the vacant QPR position after the sackings of Stewart Houston and Bruce Rioch.
A number of Premiership managers are under threat, and Pleat would stay in England if the right offer materialised.
The former Spurs and Luton manager was desperately upset at his dismissal by Sheffield Wednesday a fortnight ago, but he is still itching to get back to coaching, and would consider a drop to the Nationwide league with a club like QPR.
But QPR chairman Chris Wright yesterday insisted he will not be rushing into appointing a successor, which could rule out Pleat and suggests he is waiting for Gerry Francis.
Wright said: "The break of two or three weeks will allow us to set our net out and see what kind of individuals we can attract.
"That's not something we could do with an incumbent manager in place.
"In John Hollins we have a very suitable caretaker who will do his very best to lift the team. He certainly did that on Saturday - and all credit to him."
Hollins has already said that he would like to keep the post on a permanent basis, but Wright would not be drawn on the subject of an appointment.
He told QPR ClubCall: "I like to think we can find a manager who can take us into the Premier League and beyond that, into a 35,000-seat stadium, which would mean we would be able to stay in the Premiership on an equal footing.
"There are not too many people around who can do that.
"Most of them are working for European teams, so we may have to take a chance and bring in somebody who can graduate to that sort of performance level."