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Post by Macmoish on Jan 14, 2012 23:36:39 GMT
Guardian/Jamie Jackson
Mark Hughes eyes the chance to become a 'great manager' at QPR � Welshman excited ahead of first match in charge � Chief executive sets sights on Premier League titleMark Hughes takes charge of his first game as Queens Park Rangers manager at Newcastle United on Sunday with the Welshman stating he wants to become a "great manager". His ambition is matched by Philip Beard, the chief executive, who stated that winning the Premier League is the west London club's "ultimate goal", and that in Hughes QPR have made the first important step towards that aim. Hughes saved Blackburn Rovers from relegation, then finished in seventh with them in 2008 before joining Manchester City and being sacked in December 2009 when they were sixth. Last season he left Fulham after finishing eighth. Hughes said: "People view me now as a competent Premier League manager and at the end of my tenure here when ever that might be I would like to think they will think of me as a great Premier League manager." The Welshman outlined how he will attempt to arrest a slide in which QPR have taken only one point from the last 24. "It's about the environment that I create that enable teams to prosper," he said. "In the past when I have [arrived at a club] players have maybe had to raise their game somewhat and perhaps that's the case here. I need to be organised and consistent. That's what players need � they need structure. My first year at Blackburn was probably the best we did and that will sustain us here." Of the challenge posed by Newcastle, who are 10 places above QPR, he said: "They're playing very well at the moment and it won't be easy. It is a tough one to start with. But we haven't won enough home games. The stadium here creates a great atmosphere and there's no reason why we can't drive the season on from here. A little bit of confidence needs to be lifted to change things quickly and we're looking to create." Asked if the owners �Tony Fernandes, the majority shareholder, and Lakshmi Mittal, the world's third richest man � have told Hughes winning the title is an ambition, he said: "Not in those terms. If we're all still here in the next five, six, 10 years, then we can have that conversation. You have to have ambition." Beard, however, set out the club's ambition clearly. "Winning the championship has to be the ultimate goal," he said. "I joined QPR because of what Tony Fernandes and the Mittal family are trying to do here and, if I can help by building a new training ground and building a new stadium, [that would be great]. But what you have to get right is what happens on the pitch and over the last few days we have brought in a man with a team behind him who can help develop the club and certainly get us to stay in the Premier League this season and then grow. "It's crazy to speculate how long it will take to get to the stage where we are competing for the title and Champions League places but, if you don't have those goals, there's not much point in doing this." Beard said that the plans to move to a new training ground within 12 months and to a new stadium within four years are vital to the club's development. "Staying at Loftus Road or the Harlington training ground is not going to get us where we want to go and I don't think it would have got us Mark Hughes either. We have owners who are ambitious but they are realistic as well. What we are trying to do is grow and develop the squad." The proposed move to a new training ground is taking shape, he said. "We have identified a site and have plans in place. We are looking at two or three options for a new stadium and are now looking at options to fund it and making the numbers work.
"It won't be simply a football stadium. Our intention is to build a multi-use stadium where the main tenants are QPR. It will be great for the area and that's what the current climate needs."www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jan/14/mark-hughes-qpr-newcastle?
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Post by harlowranger on Jan 14, 2012 23:43:59 GMT
Yes a bit scary that highlighted part Mac , lets hope we can manage to stay up with all this going on re Team , Training ground , Stadium , serious money involved!
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 14, 2012 23:44:22 GMT
Holy crap, that's....... ambitious
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Post by maudesfishnchips on Jan 14, 2012 23:56:02 GMT
thats sh!t,
a multiplex stadium with bowling alleys and cinemas, pizza huts, nando's, shopping centre.
can you imagine on matchday walking up to the ground and having to get in the ground alongside shoppers , one gate for football the other for the arcades.
i knew this was coming, you could feel it with TF.
thats not on, and i will not go to QPR if that happens.
but someone will, as a joint birthday present along with a meal and ten pins.
worst thing that can happen to our club and no one can tell me different
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 15, 2012 0:32:59 GMT
INDEPENDENT/Steve Tongue
High hopes for Hoops as Beard faces future
The man who saved the O2 now plans to make west London's unfashionable club into a money-spinner with Mark Hughes at helmFor a man who helped transform the Millennium Dome from a supposed white elephant into one of Europe's foremost concert venues, turning Queens Park Rangers into a force in English football should be a doddle. Philip Beard does not put it quite like that, of course, for even as a comparative newcomer to the unpredictable world of football – having joined QPR as chief executive after Tony Fernandes's takeover in August – he appreciates that those who sit in the directors' box are at the mercy of what goes on inside the rectangle of white lines in front of them. Unless board members are inclined, like a previous Rangers owner, to send messages to the touchline demanding substitutions or tactical changes, all they can do is hire and fire the right people, and provide the financial backing and best possible working conditions. To that end, Fernandes and his team deemed it necessary a week ago to dispense with the services of Neil Warnock, who had achieved the Premier League status that made the club such an attractive acquisition in the first place, and install Mark Hughes, a man considered to have a better chance of maintaining and building on it. The building will be literal as well as metaphorical, involving a new training ground plus academy and, as this newspaper revealed when Fernandes arrived, a new stadium. "I don't think it would have got us Mark Hughes as manager," Beard says, "if the plan we'd laid out to him was that for the next 10 years he'd be training at Harlington or playing his team at Loftus Road." The current training ground, under the Heathrow flight path, is the ramshackle place used by Chelsea when Hughes joined them as a player more than 15 years ago, when London University students would arrive after lunch to reclaim the dressing-rooms. Rangers have identified a site for a replacement, which will prove easier to construct and finance than a new Loftus Road. The key to both, Beard says, is what businessmen apparently call "sweating the asset", or as he puts it: "Our plan is to build a multi-use stadium where the main tenant is Queens Park Rangers but we'll look to monetise other aspects of the stadium because that's what the current climate needs for investors to become part of the project. It's about funding it, making the numbers work. But this area is fantastic, the catchment area is great, the transport links are great. "Coming from the O2, if we can build a venue that will be more than the home of QPR – while that will be the main part – I think we can do things that will be exciting for the area. And if and when we build a new stadium we will need to grow the fanbase significantly, so my job off the pitch is to start thinking about how we grow the brand that is QPR not just domestically but internationally." The new regime clearly cannot be faulted for lack of either ambition or cash. As well as Fernandes, the owner of AirAsia and the Team Lotus/Caterham Formula One team, they are backed by the Mittals, whose pater familias Lakshmi is the world's fifth or sixth richest man, depending on who is doing the sums. Yet the need to "grow the fanbase" acknowledges that Rangers have never been regarded as a big club in their 126-year history. The longest period they have ever enjoyed in the top flight was from 1983 to 1996; last season's average attendance in a Championship-winning season was under 16,000; and 25 years ago there were plans to merge with neighbouring Fulham. Fulham, where to Hughes's frustration last summer a rich owner decided to put a cap on spending, are one of the clubs Beard mentions as a benchmark to aim at in terms of having got into the Premier League and stayed there. Stoke are another, though a few seasons ago he might have named Charlton or Southampton. Clearly a man with a plan, he lays out the following path for the short, medium and long term: "We want to stay in the Premier League and stabilise in the short term. The short to medium term [aim] is to build a new training ground and encourage and attract players to come. The medium to long is to build a new stadium. It's crazy to speculate on how long it would take to get to the stage where you're competing for a Champions League place or the title, but if you don't have those dreams and goals, there's not much point in doing this." Hasten slowly may be a sensible policy, or as Hughes put it, "don't run before you can walk". Beard, having helped secure the Olympics for London and built a future for the doomed Dome, prefers the line with which he signs off his programme notes: "Dare to dream." Newcastle United v Queens Park Rangers is on Sky Sports 1 today, kick-off 1.30pm www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/high-hopes-for-hoops-as-beard-faces-future-6289888.html
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Post by scarletpimple on Jan 15, 2012 1:05:44 GMT
thats sh!t, a multiplex stadium with bowling alleys and cinemas, pizza huts, nando's, shopping centre. can you imagine on matchday walking up to the ground and having to get in the ground alongside shoppers , one gate for football the other for the arcades. i knew this was coming, you could feel it with TF. thats not on, and i will not go to QPR if that happens. but someone will, as a joint birthday present along with a meal and ten pins. worst thing that can happen to our club and no one can tell me different What if they put a new fish n chip shop in there maud....... ;D
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Post by maudesfishnchips on Jan 15, 2012 2:00:28 GMT
thats sh!t, a multiplex stadium with bowling alleys and cinemas, pizza huts, nando's, shopping centre. can you imagine on matchday walking up to the ground and having to get in the ground alongside shoppers , one gate for football the other for the arcades. i knew this was coming, you could feel it with TF. thats not on, and i will not go to QPR if that happens. but someone will, as a joint birthday present along with a meal and ten pins. worst thing that can happen to our club and no one can tell me different What if they put a new fish n chip shop in there maud....... ;D as long as its only fishnchips and none of this new fangled posh stuff like saveloys ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2012 3:23:43 GMT
Maybe his plans are for us to become a boutique club
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Post by ozhoop on Jan 15, 2012 3:39:49 GMT
thats sh!t, a multiplex stadium with bowling alleys and cinemas, pizza huts, nando's, shopping centre. can you imagine on matchday walking up to the ground and having to get in the ground alongside shoppers , one gate for football the other for the arcades. i knew this was coming, you could feel it with TF. thats not on, and i will not go to QPR if that happens. but someone will, as a joint birthday present along with a meal and ten pins. worst thing that can happen to our club and no one can tell me different Vouchers in the programme for the next Kylie concert.
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Post by fraserinbc on Jan 15, 2012 3:41:14 GMT
as long as its only fishnchips and none of this new fangled posh stuff like saveloys ;D God, I miss saveloys so much.
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Post by cpr on Jan 15, 2012 4:16:24 GMT
as long as its only fishnchips and none of this new fangled posh stuff like saveloys ;D God, I miss saveloys so much. You didn't mention peas pudding. Anyway, have I mentioned, stand aside everyone, for the new west London powerhouse, out the way chels*** we're coming through? Frightening isn't it.
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Post by ozhoop on Jan 15, 2012 4:32:20 GMT
God, I miss saveloys so much. You didn't mention peas pudding. Anyway, have I mentioned, stand aside everyone, for the new west London powerhouse, out the way chels*** we're coming through? Frightening isn't it. It is a bit .Gone will be the days when the Aussies look at me blankly when I tell em who I support.And my boy wont be the only Rangers fan in his class( make that school) (make that town ) (make that state)..Apart from Jay's kids of course
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Post by ozhoop on Jan 15, 2012 4:45:25 GMT
They might let us have souviners when they knock down Loftus Road.Anyone still got their pieces of the plastic pitch? Makes a nice cover for a greengrocers stall
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2012 5:14:01 GMT
They might let us have souviners when they knock down Loftus Road.Anyone still got their pieces of the plastic pitch? Makes a nice cover for a greengrocers stall I was just ripping my piece up when the police horses come and made us leave. I was gutted
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Post by canadaranger on Jan 15, 2012 5:26:00 GMT
Tenants rather than owners...
Shaky ground if we get relegated one year with big debts...
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Post by eusebio13 on Jan 15, 2012 6:36:21 GMT
15th January 2012 By Tony Stenson MARK HUGHES is the man with the Midas touch. Not many hit the jackpot twice but Queens Park Rangers’ new manager will soon be wallowing in wonga again. After spending a whopping £216million during 18 months as City boss, it is music to Hughes’ ears to have been told by the Hoops’ equally wealthy new owners ‘to spend as much as it needs’ to take the club to a new level. Vice-chairman Amit Bhatia, son-in-law of co-owner Lakshmi Mittal, third-richest man in the football, said: “We believe in the long-term future of this club. The potential here is unlimited and we’re pushing for exciting days. “The club has enough money – as much as it needs. We want players for the future but if we want household names we will do it. We have a well thought-out plan. We are prepared.” His views were echoed by chief executive Philip Beard who told the Daily Star Sunday: “I joined QPR because of what Tony Fernandes and the Mittal family are trying to do here. “And if I can help by building a new training ground and building a new stadium then all to the good. “But what you have to get right is what happens on the pitch and over the last few days we have brought in a man with a team behind him who can help develop the club and certainly get us to stay in the Premier League this season and then grow. “It’s crazy to speculate how long it will take to get to the stage where we are competing for the title and Champions League places. “But if you don’t have those goals there’s not much point in doing this. We want to stay in the Premier League and we want to provide facilities that will also attract top-quality players. Loftus Road only has a capacity of 16,000, so any money must come from the board or owners. And Beard added: “We have owners who are ambitious but they are realistic as well. What we are trying to do is grow and develop the squad. “It is going to be very difficult to make major changes in January but if we can bring one or two players in then we will do that. “And going forward we will look at who Mark wants to bring in. We will look at it again in August.” And with a nod to the disciplined structure behind the club’s boardroom doors, Beard said: “It isn’t just one person who will make this work. “It is Tony Fernandes and his partners and Amit Bhatia and the Mittal family. “My job is to make sure we all work together so we get relationships right. I wouldn’t have come here if I didn’t think the aspirations of the owners weren’t strong for the long term. They see projects through. “Very rich people are successful in making money, investing it and holding on to it. But we want to make sure that they can invest here for all the right reasons.” Hughes, fully aware he is the club’s 13th manager in the last six years, admits it does help being backed by the world’s third-richest man. He said: “Yeah. It gives us the opportunity. You would hope that if we keep building steadily rather than running before we can walk it gives us a real opportunity to do it in a considered and proper way. “I have not been told by the backers, ‘We want the title’, not in those terms, no. If we’re all still here in the next five, six, ten years then we can have that conversation – but not at this stage. “You have to have ambition. It will be a long road and there will be a few bumps along the way but we are prepared for that. It is really exciting and we have just got to see it through.” www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/230282/Mark-Hughes-spenders/?
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Post by ozhoop on Jan 15, 2012 6:52:29 GMT
“The club has enough money – as much as it needs. We want players for the future but if we want household names we will do it. We have a well thought-out plan. We are prepared.” Like CPR says .Stand aside Chelsea we are coming through!!
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Post by cpr on Jan 15, 2012 7:12:30 GMT
Our dinky stadium has shrunk by 2,300 !!!
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Post by eusebio13 on Jan 15, 2012 7:20:48 GMT
Our dinky stadium has shrunk by 2,300 !!! the stadiums shrinking and the budgets growing...where's ingham to rationalise all this
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Post by Jon Doeman on Jan 15, 2012 9:57:45 GMT
Desperate to stay up and see these plans come off. Let's make this happen!
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Post by eusebio13 on Jan 15, 2012 13:02:23 GMT
QPR can challenge United, City and Chelsea for the title, says Hughes By SPORTSMAIL REPORTER Last updated at 11:39 AM on 15th January 2012 Comments (0) Share Mark Hughes has declared QPR could challenge for the Barclays Premier League title within the next 10 years. New Rangers boss Hughes and chief executive Philip Beard have revealed becoming champions is the 'ultimate' ambition for the club and owners Tony Fernandes and Amit Bhatia. Hughes noted similarities between the QPR he took charge of this week and the Chelsea he joined as a player in 1995, although he played down direct comparisons. Reach for the stars: Hughes says QPR can challenge for thr title in time 'Yes, I can see that but I don't think we are trying to emulate that,' said Hughes, whose first goal is to steer Rangers away from the Barclays Premier League relegation zone. 'You've got to have ambitions - that's the key to it, and it's going to be a long road with a few bumps along the way. But we're prepared for that.' Asked if winning the title was the club's ultimate target, he added: 'If I am still here in the next five or 10 years then we will be speaking of that stage but we're not at that stage.' Beard said: 'It has to be the ultimate goal for a football club. 'I joined QPR because I listened to what Tony Fernandes and Amit Bhatia are trying to do here and I think I can help in developing the club off the pitch by building a new training ground and looking at plans for building a new stadium. 'It's crazy to speculate how long it will take to get to the stage where you're competing necessarily for a Champions League place or a title. 'If you don't have those dreams and goals, there's not much point in doing that (building a stadium).' Tough talking: Hughes with chief exec Beard (above) and later talking with his new players (below) Rangers' medium-term ambitions are more realistic. Beard said: "I tried to match us up against quite a few clubs. 'In terms of clubs that I have looked at that have got to the Premier League and have stayed there, Stoke is a good model. 'I don't think we can directly compare ourselves with Chelsea or Arsenal yet in London, so Fulham is a benchmark in that it's very close.' QPR missed the deadline for signing new players before tomorrow's trip to Newcastle, having had bids rejected for Steven Pienaar, Christopher Samba and Andy Johnson. Today saw Chelsea deny agreeing a fee with them for the sale of defender Alex. Centre of attention: Hughes' first job is to lift club away from relegation mire Rangers sources suggested this morning their west London rivals had accepted a bid for the wantaway Brazilian but the Blues later insisted that was not the case. Manager Andre Villas-Boas said: 'I'm sure that the clubs can reach an agreement if they continue to push. 'We know Alex's market value and we're just not going to let him go quite easily, not that QPR's offer is far, far off.' Hughes will also be without key men Joey Barton (suspended), Alejandro Faurlin (out for the season), Adel Taraabt and Armand Traore (both on African Nations Cup duty) but left the rest of his squad in no doubt what was expected. 'My values and my standards are quite high,' Hughes said. 'I've found sometimes when I go in at places, people need to raise their game a bit more.' The last two years have seen Hughes spend more time out of the game than it after his sacking at Manchester City and controversial decision to quit Fulham. 'When you're out of football, you frustrate your wife and your kids because you always want the football on (the television),' he said. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2086930/QPR-challenge-Premier-League-title-says-Mark-Hughes.html#ixzz1jX18yKM7
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Post by sharky on Jan 15, 2012 16:23:11 GMT
What have Beard and Hughes been smoking?!
Time for a reality check. We are a very average Prem team currently. It will be hard for us to stay up. If we go down, Beard, Hughes and quite probably Fernandes will be off.
Our total and only focus should be to get out of and stay out of the relegation zone. None of this we will be as good as Man U rubbish!!
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Post by fraserinbc on Jan 15, 2012 16:49:37 GMT
To be honest, they are probably talking up the club for a couple of reasons. Firstly, to assuage doubts as to why MH left Fulham for not being amitious and then joined QPR, a team on the cusp of relegation. Secondly, they are probably bigging up the Rs for the benefit of any future signings. No point just going on the record as 'just' wanting to stay up, when everyone knows that is the whole point of this season.
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Post by superckat on Jan 15, 2012 17:09:42 GMT
Talk is cheap
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2012 13:08:24 GMT
If we win the title in the next 10 years Tony Fernandes will probably end up bankrupt
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Post by gramps on Jan 16, 2012 13:33:29 GMT
Sure is! Get as excited as you like guys but also - get realistic! This....is....not....going....to....happen!!! If I live to be 100 (another 24 years) we will not be champions of the Premier League. All pie in the sky stuff.
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Post by gramps on Jan 16, 2012 13:34:30 GMT
What a miserable old git I am! (Thought I would say it before anybody else does).
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 16, 2012 13:49:23 GMT
You just never know...One of these days. "Probably" not us...A good manager at a good club will assemble a team. And win that Championship
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Post by sharky on Jan 16, 2012 15:59:01 GMT
You just never know...One of these days. "Probably" not us...A good manager at a good club will assemble a team. And win that Championship As the old joke goes, "God's answer, not in my lifetime"!!
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Post by haqpr1963 on Jan 16, 2012 16:01:52 GMT
You just never know...One of these days. "Probably" not us...A good manager at a good club will assemble a team. And win that Championship Well we did that, but the big thing now seems to be that you need supportive owners as well........
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