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Dec 4, 2015
QPR APPOINT JIMMY FLOYD HASSELBAINK
QPR OFFICILA SITE 4th December 2015
New gaffer joined by Assistant Manager David Oldfield ...QPR announce appointment of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
David Oldfield also joins as Assistant Manager
Les Ferdinand welcomes pair to Loftus Road and thanks Neil Warnock
QUEENS Park Rangers Football Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as the club’s new Manager.
The 43 year-old Dutchman has today (Friday) put pen to paper on a rolling contract at Loftus Road and will be joined at the club by David Oldfield (Assistant Manager).
The former Royal Antwerp boss arrives in W12 having carved a fantastic reputation for himself during an outstanding 13-month stint at Burton Albion.
Arriving in November last year, Hasselbaink guided Burton to League One for the first time in their history, clinching promotion in some style, five points clear of their nearest rivals.
And that fine work has continued this season, with Hasselbaink leaving the Brewers in great shape at the summit of the third tier.
In total, Hasselbaink – who enjoyed playing spells in Britain with Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Charlton Athletic and Cardiff City – won 33 of his 54 games in charge of the Brewers.
The former Dutch international told
www.qpr.co.uk he is relishing the opportunity to manage QPR, commenting: “It was not an easy decision to leave Burton, but when you get the opportunity to come somewhere like QPR, with the club where it is and the squad we have at our disposal, it was something I couldn’t turn down.
“I feel that this is a club on the up – it has an exciting feeling about it. And I want to keep that feeling going by taking more positive strides forward.
“I am happy to get the opportunity here at QPR, to lead the QPR family, be at the front of it all, put my stamp on things and take the club forward.
“This is an incredibly proud moment for me and I will give my all to represent the badge of the club.”
Following a thorough and extensive interview process, where the club spoke to no fewer than a dozen candidates, Director of Football Les Ferdinand expressed his delight at Hasselbaink’s appointment.
“We went through a very meticulous recruitment process that generated a lot of excellent candidates. We gave ourselves a real selection headache with the high level of candidates we spoke to, but Jimmy was the best of the best, without any doubt,” Ferdinand told
www.qpr.co.uk.
“We have been hugely impressed by his work at Burton. Having won League Two, he leaves them at the top of League One, which is an incredible achievement.
“He has that fire in the belly that you look for in all Managers, but not only that, he is also a strong, authoritative leader who commands the respect of all those he works with.
“He leaves no stone unturned in his work on the training ground and prepares his teams meticulously. He is a young manager who has a great knowledge of the game.
“We’re delighted he has agreed to join us and we’re all looking forward to an exciting new chapter at Loftus Road.”
In welcoming Jimmy, the club would also like to place on the record its thanks to Neil Warnock and Kevin Blackwell, who leave the club following their short-term, interim roles.
Ferdinand added: “We are grateful to Neil and Kevin for stepping in on an interim basis at a crucial period in the campaign.
“Having two experienced football men working alongside each other has allowed us the time we needed to go through the necessary process to make the right appointment.
“Neil's passion for QPR shone through in his short time back here and we are eternally grateful to him for the way he came in and helped us out on.
“He led us to seven points from four games, which speaks volumes of the impact he had here in such a short space of time.
“We thank him and Kevin and wish them both well for the future.”
www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/qpr-jimmy-floyd-hasselbaink-les-ferdinand-david-oldfield-2834439.aspx#Iv9SIj1hi1U6eYeM.99GUARDIAN
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink joins QPR and starts search for stability
QPR’s fifth manager in five years arrives from a successful stint at Burton saying he wants ‘to bring through younger English players’
James Riach
Mon 7 Dec 2015 17.30 EST
The irony of Queens Park Rangers’ fifth manager in as many years preaching stability was not lost on Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink or Les Ferdinand. During an unveiling in which Hasselbaink heralded a new dawn for Rangers, Ferdinand gave a light-hearted yet pertinent insight into the club’s recent woes.
When discussing a complete overhaul in philosophy, approved by the majority owner, Tony Fernandes, he laughed: “That’s where I didn’t have to convince him. They looked at their bank accounts and went: ‘Oh yeah, we’ve thrown quite a lot of money at this.’”
Fernandes and co have presided over a turbulent few years, even if the expenditure has been significant. Hasselbaink follows Chris Ramsey, Harry Redknapp, Mark Hughes and Neil Warnock as QPR’s full-time managers since the Malaysian bought a controlling stake in the club in 2011. Now, though, QPR seem set for a radical overhaul, a focus on youth and discipline, with the Dutch coach emphasising the need for a team ethic.
Pos Team P GD Pts
11 Reading 19 4 27
12 QPR 19 -1 26
13 Blackburn 19 3 24
Hasselbaink, who guided Burton Albion to promotion from League Two and leaves them top of the third tier, has been appointed on a rolling contract. Rangers are not in crisis and are three points off the Championship play-off places but a new approach is afoot.
“I don’t want to talk about the past,” said Hasselbaink, a former Leeds, Atlético Madrid and Chelsea forward. “It is the future that is important and we have to look at the bright future of QPR. We have to have stability, we have to have a way of working that everyone is proud of and part of and that’s not only the players – it’s also the staff, tea ladies and groundsmen. Engage, engage. engage. You have to feel welcomed and a part of it. Everybody has to be part of it.
“I feel that I have to bring through English players. I have to bring through younger English players. That’s how I was brought up in Holland. If I have a chance to bring a young player through at 18 or whatever age he is – and he is good enough – I will chuck him in. I will give him a chance.
“He has to bring something to the team. Otherwise you can’t do it and, if you do that, the senior player will have to understand. If they throw the dummy out, you pick it up and put it back in their mouth.”
Hasselbaink was a player who demanded quality and effort on the pitch, visibly vexed when he deemed a team-mate’s contribution substandard. He is a straight-talking man who played under George Graham, Steve McClaren, Alan Pardew, Louis van Gaal, Frank Rijkaard and Claudio Ranieri.
He will need all his man-management skills at Loftus Road, inheriting a squad with undoubted quality but that has too often resembled a jumble of players thrown together without much thought. The striker Charlie Austin will be sought after in January and Ferdinand admitted that “every player’s got his price”, adding: “I wouldn’t want to sit here and say Charlie Austin is definitely staying at this football club. If someone came in with the right price, we wouldn’t want to lose him.”
Hasselbaink, 43, will be joined at Rangers by his assistant at Burton, David Oldfield, but has not yet decided whether to retain existing members of QPR’s backroom team. He arrives full of determination and confidence, hoping to change the momentum after relegation from the Premier League.
“I think players want to be led, they want to have somebody who will lead them,” said Hasselbaink. “Respect is a big factor. That comes from the manager but it also comes from the players, towards everybody. But those kind of fundamentals are very important. It gives you a base of working.
“Honesty, it gives you an honesty. I think on a Saturday you need that honesty of your team-mate, knowing he will do whatever he needs to do to help you and to get the right result. That’s what we need to bring to the club.
“I’ve been fortunate to have played under a lot of good managers and great people but they are not Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. I am Jimmy, I know what I’m about and I don’t want to be them. I want to be me.”
www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/07/jimmy-floyd-hasselbaink-qpr-manager-stability
Guardian
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink takes first training session as QPR manager• Former Chelsea striker to be confirmed in new post later on Friday
• Hasselbaink leaves Burton top of League One
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Friday 4 December 2015 07.05 EST
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink took his first training session as Queens Park Rangers’ new manager on Friday after agreeing to succeed Chris Ramsey.
The former Holland international, who was given permission this week by Burton Albion, the League One leaders, to hold talks with QPR, was pictured at the club’s Harlington training ground and will be officially confirmed in his new post on Friday afternoon. Hasselbaink will take over at Loftus Road with the club 11th in the Championship after Thursday’s 1-0 win at Reading.
The former Chelsea striker has enjoyed a brilliant start to his managerial career, having first taken charge at the Belgian club Royal Antwerp in May 2013.
He joined Burton last November and took them to the League Two title in his first season. The 43-year-old has since guided them to the top of League One but will now face the challenge of trying to secure QPR’s return to the Premier League at the first attempt.
www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/04/qpr-jimmy-floyd-hasselbaink-new-manager BURTON NEWS
www.burtonmail.co.uk/Opinion-Single-minded-Hasselbaink-leaves-Burton/story-28299755-detail/story.html#ixzz3tQi9MLBXOpinion: Single-minded Hasselbaink leaves Burton Albion for QPR with his name in the history books
By Burton Mail | Posted: December 05, 2015
By Ashley Wilkinson
JIMMY Floyd Hasselbaink has shown a single-minded determination since his appointment as Burton Albion manager 13 months ago.
JIMMY Floyd Hasselbaink has shown a single-minded determination since his appointment as Burton Albion manager 13 months ago.
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IN his book 'United We Fall', former Leeds United chairman Peter Risdale remembered the single-minded nature of the now former Burton Albion manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.
It was a trait that the players, media and fans had become accustomed to at the Pirelli Stadium.
Thinking back to when Hasselbaink was angling for more money in his United contract with Chelsea keen on signing the Dutchman, who had scored 42 goals in two seasons at Elland Road, Risdale recalled the frustration he felt in dealing with Hasselbaink.
"Jimmy's single-mindedness on the pitch was also his single-mindedness off it," wrote Risdale.
"It was an attribute as much as it was an annoyance.
"If he wasn't so strong-willed in his self-belief, he would not have been the player he was."
Nor, would it seem, the manager he proved to be in a single year at Burton Albion.
For Hasselbaink, from his arrival at the Pirelli Stadium on November 13, 2014 to his departure to Championship side Queen's Park Rangers yesterday, would only ever talk about one thing.
The next game.
The Brewers boss and assistant manager David Oldfield would often emphasise the importance of the group and Hasselbaink regularly talked about "his boys" and how much he cared for them.
There was an opening day victory at high-flying Wycombe Wanderers.
There was promotion to League One for the first time in the club's history. There was the League Two title, secured in the most extraordinary and fantastical manners possible away at Cambridge United in May.
There was the first ever victory in the third tier. There was knocking out Championship opposition in the Capital One Cup. The 1-0 victories. The clean sheets. Going to the top of the League One table.
The next game. The next game. The next game.
Hasselbaink's single-minded approach to football life has brought Burton Albion closer than ever before to the potential of Championship football.
It brought out the best of a confident, talented squad and took many of them to places and positions they have not been before.
Focus only on the next game. Not the speculation, nor your position in the table, nor what anyone else thinks.
Right up until his final week in charge of the Brewers, Hasselbaink was resolute in focusing on one thing.
Millwall at home.
But what about QPR, Jimmy? Reports in West London say an approach is imminent. Are you interested? Have you heard anything? Is it difficult to focus with all of this going on?
You could almost predict the answers before Hasselbaink drew breath.
"...focus on Millwall..."
"...we have to be right for Millwall..."
"...I must focus on my boys..."
He would not be dragged into the speculation surrounding his future at the club. He would not give the media an inch.
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That was simply because Hasselbaink wanted to win his next game of football. He would not deny any interest in QPR – they are, after all, a club with designs on getting back into the Premier League and Hasselbaink is self-admittedly an ambitious man – but he would not entertain the notion of leaving, either.
It was a different approach to the one that, say, Steve McClaren employed in his final months at Derby County when Newcastle United came knocking – and a more successful one.
Neither gave concrete answers when questions over their future were raised, but Hasselbaink would at least try to keep the focus on his players and their upcoming fixtures.
He did not allow himself, or his players, to be distracted by the sideshow.
Hasselbaink remained professional and that translated to the side.
The players wanted to play for him and they would not allow any questions over Hasselbaink's future to fester.
In the manager's final week of matches, Burton Albion picked up nine points from nine against Wigan Athletic, Colchester United and Millwall – scoring eight goals and conceding twice.
A fine run of form to end a stellar year.
That came from that single-minded approach – the Dutchman had instilled it in his side.
The wobbles that came when Gary Rowett was linked to Blackpool and Birmingham City just over a year prior were not present. Any doubts were shoved firmly to one side as Albion pushed for an automatic promotion spot in their first ever season in League One.
But now, Hasselbaink has gone.
That single-minded approach does not just apply to his current club and the Dutchman will, before long, be managing in the Premier League, with or without the Rangers.
He will need to be similarly minded at Loftus Road, too. Expectation reigns supreme in West London and not just from the stands.
Chairman Tony Fernandes has poured plenty of money into the club and wants QPR to be an established Premier League side.
He will find his ambition matched by Hasselbaink.
At Albion, the weight of expectation was not so huge. The fans wanted promotion last season, no question, and to be competitive this.
QPR will be looking for promotion sooner rather than later and their history in recent years demonstrates what happens to managers, or head coaches rather, who do not achieve instant results.
Will Hasselbaink prove successful? He certainly has a job on his hands in managing that expectation and overhauling a squad as necessary for a promotion push.
But more importantly than any of that, Hasselbaink leaves with his name etched firmly in the history books of Burton Albion Football Club.
He will be long-remembered by fans of the club as the man who secured their first ever silverware in the Football League.
Who took on the fine job done by Gary Rowett and took it one step further.
Who left the side in the perfect position, at the top of League One, a few months later.
Now the task for chairman Ben Robinson is to appoint another manager in the Hasselbaink mould, to continue the fine work undertaken by the Dutchman.
Few fans will be happy about Hasselbaink's departure. But all will understand his reasons for doing so and his ambition.
Risdale wrote that Hasselbaink's single-mindedness "was part of his brilliant package, and I was resigned to losing him."
Burton Albion can perhaps sympathise with Risdale on that.
Read more:
www.burtonmail.co.uk/Opinion-Single-minded-Hasselbaink-leaves-Burton/story-28299755-detail/story.html#ixzz3tQj08gohAxed 11 months later -
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3909048/QPR-sack-Jimmy-Floyd-Hasselbaink-manager-poor-start-new-Championship-season.html 
