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[eusebio13]

ALmost 4 Years Ago.

QPR PART COMPANY WITH WARNOCK[/b]


Posted on: Sun 08 Jan 2012

Queens Park Rangers Football Club has today (Sunday 8th January 2012) parted company with Manager Neil Warnock.

Warnock joined the Club in March 2010, overseeing 84 matches in charge, winning 33, drawing 27 and losing 24.

Last season, he successfully guided the Club back to the Premier League for the first time in 15 years.

The Board's commitment to retaining our Premier League status ultimately led to this decision.

QPR Assistant Manager Mick Jones and First Team Coach Keith Curle have also left the Club.

QPR Chairman, Tony Fernandes, said: "This decision has been made in the best interests of the Club and I can assure everyone that this is not a decision that was made lightly.

"Sadly, our recent run of poor form has seen us slip alarmingly down the table and the Board felt it was the right time to make a change.

"Neil has acted with honesty, professionalism and integrity throughout his time at the Club, and I would personally like to thank him for his significant contribution to QPR over the last 22 months.

"I genuinely wish him all the very best for the future and he will always be welcome back at Loftus Road."

QPR Vice-Chairman, Amit Bhatia, added: "It is with a very heavy heart that we make this announcement.

"I played a key role in bringing Neil to Loftus Road and consider him to be a close personal friend and a great professional.

"I would like to place on the record my thanks to him for transforming us from a Championship Club to a Premier League Club.

"As a Club we have gained enormously from Neil's wisdom, experience and leadership. He has always performed his managerial duties to the very highest of standards.

"I wish Neil every success going forward and he will always be welcome at QPR.

"I now look forward to the future and the rest of the season as we work towards stabilising our position in the Premier League."

Neil Warnock said: "Obviously I'm very disappointed, but having achieved so much, I leave the Club with a great sense of pride.

"I have enjoyed my time here more than anywhere else and the QPR fans have been brilliant with me - they deserve success.

"My biggest regret is that the takeover didn't happen earlier, because that would have given me the opportunity to bring in the targets I'd pinpointed all last summer and probably given us a better chance to succeed in the Premier League."

He added: "The board at QPR are hugely ambitious and I wish them every success for the future.

"I've been involved in the game a long time and I will be spending the immediate future with my family and friends before deciding my next career move."

The Club will now begin its search for a new Manager and will make a further announcement in due course.

[saphilip]

My guess is that the decision was made some time ago, and that NW was probably told yesterday (most likely after the MK game).

Story is that Mark Hughes will be taking over - well let's see and at least give him a chance.


And thank you Neil warnock - whatever else you got us promoted to the Premeirship which is more than what countless other coaches were able to do in 15 years.

[eusebio13]

Last manager to do what he did for us Terry Venables

[FloridaR]

Neil ....Thank you for all you did for QPR.

[desorchid]

Disgrace.

I'll be back.

[jjqpr]

Thanks Neil, I hope you don't quit management, love watching/listening to you...at least become a regular pundit or something so we can still have a laugh and hear your spade is a spade way of talking

[Macmoish]

Best of luck...

In Neil Warnock's honour: All rankings on this board will reflect us as Neil Warnock (Just for a period)

Thanks Neil Warnock:

[Macmoish]

Flashback: BBC March 1, 2010

Neil Warnock is named manager of Queens Park Rangers


Warnock took charge of Crystal Palace in October 2007
QPR have appointed Neil Warnock as their fifth manager of the season on a three-and-a-half-year after agreeing compensation with Crystal Palace.
Warnock, 61, replaces caretaker boss Mick Harford and brings assistant boss Mick Jones and first-team coach Keith Curle with him across London.
"This is the perfect time to come in, with the new chairman and structure in place," he told QPR's website.
"Together we can give the club the stability it needs."
He added: "As a manager, Loftus Road is always a place I love because of the fantastic atmosphere there."
Palace administrator Brendan Guilfoyle told the club website: "I did everything I could to persuade Neil to stay. Further to an approach from QPR, Neil expressed his desire to leave."
Hoops defender Mikele Leigertwood, who worked with Warnock when he narrowly failed to avert Sheffield United's relegation from the Premier League in 2007, was thrilled with the appointment.
"His man-management skills are brilliant, really," said Leigertwood, who has seen his QPR side slide to just three points above the relegation zone under four different managers.
"We've been on a bad run so I'm sure he'll come in and give us that much-needed enthusiasm and stability that we've craved."
QPR chairman Ishan Saksena said Warnock was "always our number one target" as manager, adding: "He has great experience in English football and a phenomenal track record."
Palace are currently in administration, and Warnock confirmed to BBC Sheffield last week that the clubs were in talks.

606: DEBATE
Will Warnock guide QPR to the Premier League?
But he said: "There is no way I am going to walk out. If they can agree compensation then that's different."
The Eagles went into administration last month and suffered a subsequent 10-point deduction.
It dropped them from play-off contention in the Championship to a battle against relegation.
The deduction capped a difficult period for Palace during which they were subject to a transfer embargo and players and staff had their wages delayed.
They also had to sell highly rated leading scorer Victor Moses to Wigan for a cut-price fee believed to around £2.5m.
QPR's turbulent season has also seen them part company with owner Flavio Briatore, who stepped down as chairman of Queens Park Rangers Holdings on 19 February.
Warnock, who has also had spells in charge of Bury, Oldham and Plymouth amongst others, is the west London outfit's 12th manager in four years.

[Macmoish]

Tony Fernandes Tweeting

Very very hard decision. I will continue to be open and as transparent as I can. The board and myself had to put the club first and the future. .

We had to think of the future of the club. I appeal to all fans to give us time and understand the future.

I love stability and I think neil did an amazing job to get the club up. We are in a good position to judge and this club is very close to our heart.

Trust me in my 47 years of life I have never had to make such a tough decision. But I got to do what I think what's right. Its tough being a leader. But decisions have to be made for the club which in the short time I have grown to love ever so much.

There is no doubt neil was a good man. A great man. I and the board had to do what we felt was good for the club. ...

[Macmoish]

On the ball...

The Updated Official Site Staff page

First Team Staff

Reserve Team Manager - Ronnie Jepson

Strength & Conditioning Coach - Carl Serrant

Goalkeeping Coach - David Rouse

Head Physio - Nigel Cox

Assistant Physio - Sangi Patel

Kit Man - Gary Doyle



Youth

Youth Development Manager - Steve Gallen

Youth Development Assistant Manager - Marc Bircham

Head of Youth Recruitment - Terry O'Sullivan: [e-mail]

Head of Education and Welfare - Steve Quashie: [e-mail]

www.qpr.co.uk/page/StaffDirectory/0,,10373,00.html

[NO1QPRNZ]

Thanks Neil and Staff for all that you have done at QPR, sorry that it ended this way but you leave with your Head held high. All the very best for the Future.

[Macmoish]

Wilkins!

Ray Wilkins/talksport

ormer Queens Park Rangers player and manager Ray Wilkins has told talkSPORT the club must act quickly to replace Neil Warnock who was sacked on Sunday night.
The west London club haven’t won in the Premier League since November and only scraped a draw with Mk Dons in the FA Cup third round thanks to a last gasp goal.
This appeared to be the final straw for the QPR’s owners who relieved him of his duties.
And Wilkins feels in a results based business his sacking was always on the cards despite getting the club back in to the top tier of English football.
He told talkSPORT: “You have to win in football at this current time and those results haven’t been as good as the chairman would have liked and I think we’ve seen the outcome today.
“[Neil Warnock] had done a fantastic job last year in getting the guys up and it’s difficult in the Premier League, it’s a totally different league, and there is no question about it there are new players required to keep them up.
“I’m extremely sadden by [Neil Warnock’s sacking] but they will have to get someone in that knows the Premier League and knows what it is all about because it is not an easy league in which to perform and when you’re down the bottom it’s very tough and every point counts, and they will have to make the right decision.
“It’s very important they get somebody in there as soon as possible and just steady the ship. We’ve seen what a wonderful job Martin O’Neill has done going in at Sunderland and it’s required that somebody goes in very, very quickly.”
And asked if he would take his old job back, Wilkins replied: “It would be an absolute pleasure.”
Meanwhile the former Chelsea assistant manager was angered by reports senior players at QPR were unhappy with Warnock’s training sessions.
And he told talkSPORT that players have to take more responsibility for the club’s results.
“At the end of the day,” he added. “In the Premier League if you don’t have the quality on the pitch it’s extremely difficult for you to get results.”
“The training sessions are OK when you win promotion from the Championship to the Premier League. It’s about time some players actually stood up and acted like men and got out there and performed.
“It’s very easy for senior players to say training sessions aren’t good enough, what about your own performances? Are they good enough?
“If you feel you need a bit more work do what Frank Lampard does at Stamford Bridge and just stay behind for ten minutes and work harder.
“A manager can only do so much, the players have to go and perform. Players have to stand up as soon as they cross that white line and they have to perform.”

[Macmoish]

London24


QPR sack Warnock: CEO says club will work quickly to appoint replacement

Sunday, January 8, 2012
7:54 PM


Philip Beard has said the club will work fast to replace Neil Warnock


QPR Chief Executive Officer Philip Beard has said the club will work fast to secure a replacement for Neil Warnock, who was sacked tonight (Sunday).

Mark Hughes has been installed as the favourite at the bookies and was backed by Ray Wilkins as the man to take the west London club forward.

“We’re moving as quickly as we can and we’re looking to make an appointment very soon,” Beard told Sky Sports News.

“We have very strong ambitons. We have a good squad and our intention will be to bring some

“We’ve got some people who can help us in the very very very short term. We’ve got some very big games coming up.

“Time is against everybody and we’re getting into the second week of January and we’ve got to make the right purchases. It’s a tricky month to make things happen. We want one or two players to bring in.”

Beard felt it was the right decision at the time but paid tribute to the work Warnock had done.

“We’re going to be criticised whatever we do. We believe this is the right decision at this time,” he added.

“Being in the Premier League is key to the ambitions of the club. We’ve got half a season to prove we want to stay in the Premier League.

“With January being the opportune time we’ve made this decision. Like all QPR fans and supporters we need to acknowledge the great job Neil Warnock has done.”


www.london24.com/sport/championship/qpr_2_5433/qpr_sack_warnock_ceo_says_club_will_work_quickly_to_appoint_replacement_1_1171721?

[hitman34]

i wouldnt trust wilkins judgment of management aspects going be his record.

but i guess its another point of view.

[Macmoish]

BBC

Reaction to Neil Warnock's QPR exit

Page last updated at 20:21 GMT, Sunday, 8 January 2012
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Warnock's final QPR game was the 1-1 FA Cup third round draw at MK Dons
Neil Warnock has left his role as manager of Queens Park Rangers after a little more than 18 months in charge of the west London club.

The 63-year-old guided the Hoops back into the Premier League last season for the first time in 15 years, but four wins in 20 games this season has left them just a point above the relegation zone. On Saturday, QPR narrowly avoided elimination from the FA Cup courtesy of a last-minute goal to secure a 1-1 draw at MK Dons.

Neil Warnock, via a statement on the club's website: "Obviously I'm very disappointed, but having achieved so much, I leave the club with a great sense of pride.

"I have enjoyed my time here more than anywhere else and the QPR fans have been brilliant with me - they deserve success.

"My biggest regret is that the takeover didn't happen earlier, because that would have given me the opportunity to bring in the targets I'd pinpointed all last summer and probably given us a better chance to succeed in the Premier League.

"The board at QPR are hugely ambitious and I wish them every success for the future.

"I've been involved in the game a long time and I will be spending the immediate future with my family and friends before deciding my next career move."

WARNOCK'S QPR RECORD
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Played: 84
Won: 33
Drawn:27
Lost: 24
QPR chairman Tony Fernandes via Twitter: "Very very hard decision. I will continue to be open and as transparent as I can. The board and myself had to put the club first.

"We had to think of the future of the club. I appeal to all fans to give us time and understand the future.

"I love stability and I think Neil did an amazing job to get the club up. We are in a good position to judge and this club is very close to our heart.

"It's a nightmare for me. But I take the good with the bad and continue to be open to all QPR fans.

"Trust me, in my 47 years of life I have never had to make such a tough decision. But I [have] got to do what I think is right. It's tough being a leader, but decisions have to be made for the club - which in the short time I have grown to love ever so much."

Former QPR manager Ray Wilkins: "The owners will have taken this decision with a heavy heart. QPR did wonderfully well last year - going up as Championship winners was a terrific effort.

"But it's a results-driven game and you do need to be picking up points. Unfortunately things aren't quite going their way in the Premier League.

"Obviously there has been a disagreement somewhere along the line and they have decided to part ways.

"They had a sticky cup tie yesterday - perhaps that was the last straw.

"[QPR chairman] Tony Fernandes made a very big decision along with his board and it will be very interesting to see how the new manager coming in does."

Ex-QPR manager Iain Dowie: "When you look at what Norwich, and particularly Swansea, have done in terms of no budget they look very comfortable, so because you're in the [transfer] window now whoever comes in has been guaranteed money to spend whatever happens.

"I just think it's a very harsh decision on Neil Warnock. It's obviously a clean brush because [assistant manager] Mick Jones and [first-team coach] Keith Curle have gone as well, so I don't know if someone is lined up or whatever but, nonetheless, it's a difficult day for Neil and his family and he deserves a huge amount of respect for the job he did there."


news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16463344.stm?

[Macmoish]

Amit Bhatia Tweets


Amit_Bhatia99 Amit Bhatia
We need to put #QPR first and make decisions that will give the club the best chance to succeed. The league table will judge us at the end.
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Amit_Bhatia99 Amit Bhatia
Terribly sad announcement today bc NW has been a legend for us. I loved every day that I worked w/ him. But I echo @tonyfernandes' sentiment

[hitman34]

good to see the board room are united

[Macmoish]

Ian Taylor Tweets. I won't comment! Ok I will comment! Where's the expression of good will and thanks to Warnock?


IJTaylor81 IanJTaylor
Just spoken to @tonyfernandes. Been a hard day for him but he's a fighter and is determined for us to succeed. #QPR
20 minutes ago

IJTaylor81 IanJTaylor
Really appreciate all the messages from fellow press managers. #thanks
25 minutes ago

IJTaylor81 IanJTaylor
Long old day and the phone has run out of battery twice. My bed is calling. Gonna be a long and busy week #QPR

[desorchid]

Jan 8, 2012 22:16:01 GMT Macmoish said:

Amit Bhatia Tweets


Amit_Bhatia99 Amit Bhatia
We need to put #QPR first and make decisions that will give the club the best chance to succeed. The league table will judge us at the end.
51 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Amit_Bhatia99 Amit Bhatia
Terribly sad announcement today bc NW has been a legend for us. I loved every day that I worked w/ him. But I echo @tonyfernandes' sentiment

yeah, it will mate, it will.

Cast iron certs for relegation now.

[RoryTheRanger]

Barton's had his say as well.

[Macmoish]

Dave McIntyre/West London Sport

Warnock shown the door by QPR
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Neil Warnock has been sacked as QPR manager.

A replacement is likely to be installed before next weekend’s match against Newcastle, with former Fulham and Manchester City boss Mark Hughes the frontrunner for the job.

Warnock, who took over in March 2010 and led Rangers to promotion last season, has been shown the door after a run of nine matches without a win.

His assistant Mick Jones and first-team coach Keith Curle have also left Rangers, who are currently fourth from bottom of the Premier League.

“This decision has been made in the best interests of the club and I can assure everyone that this is not a decision that was made lightly,” QPR chairman Tony Fernandes said in a statement.

“Sadly, our recent run of poor form has seen us slip alarmingly down the table and the board felt it was the right time to make a change.

After a happy start, Fernandes lost faith in Warnock.

“Neil has acted with honesty, professionalism and integrity throughout his time at the club, and I would personally like to thank him for his significant contribution to QPR over the last 22 months.

“I genuinely wish him all the very best for the future and he will always be welcome back at Loftus Road.”

Vice-chairman Amit Bhatia added: “It is with a very heavy heart that we make this announcement.

“I played a key role in bringing Neil to Loftus Road and consider him to be a close personal friend and a great professional.

“I would like to place on the record my thanks to him for transforming us from a Championship club to a Premier League club. We have gained enormously from Neil’s wisdom, experience and leadership.

“He has always performed his managerial duties to the very highest of standards. I wish Neil every success going forward and he will always be welcome at QPR.

“I now look forward to the future and the rest of the season as we work towards stabilising our position in the Premier League.”

Warnock, who suffered relegation from the top flight with Notts County and Sheffield United, was desperate for another crack at Premier League management before retiring.

But poor results weakened his position ahead of the all-important transfer window and gave the board misgivings about allowing him to spend more cash this month.

“Obviously I’m very disappointed, but having achieved so much, I leave the club with a great sense of pride,” said Warnock.

“I have enjoyed my time here more than anywhere else and the QPR fans have been brilliant with me – they deserve success.

“My biggest regret is that the takeover didn’t happen earlier, because that would have given me the opportunity to bring in the targets I’d pinpointed all last summer and probably given us a better chance to succeed in the Premier League.”

He added: “The board at QPR are hugely ambitious and I wish them every success for the future.

“I’ve been involved in the game a long time and I will be spending the immediate future with my family and friends before deciding my next career move.”

www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/warnock-shown-door-by-qpr/

[Macmoish]

Dave McIntyre/West London Sport

The final hours

There had been growing speculation about his future, but Neil Warnock’s sacking came as a shock to him.

On Saturday night, amid rumours that he was about to be axed, he thought he still had the full support of majority shareholder Tony Fernandes.

Warnock was believed to be on thin ice, especially after recent Twitter posts by Fernandes stating that “no-one’s job is safe” and that Saturday’s display at MK Dons left him with “lots to think about.”

“Tony wants us to be at the other end of the table, but when you watch us over the last few weeks, we haven’t done bad.”

But Warnock, who expected to sign at least two players in the coming days, felt too much had been read into Fernandes’ musings.

“I’m not really a Twitter person so I can’t comment on his comments because I’ve not seen them,” said Warnock.

“But I know what Tony’s like and it’ll be something made out of nothing, because everybody tweets him and he replies to everybody.

“I’m concerned about getting players in, and on that he has been very supportive.

“I spoke to Tony, [vice-chairman] Amit Bhatia and the rest of the owners about six weeks ago and told them exactly why we need players and where we need them.

“Nothing has changed since then. If we don’t get those players we will struggle, and he [Fernandes] understands that.

“I can only tell you he’s been 100% supportive since he’s been at the club so I can’t comment on anything other than the fact he wants us to bring players in and do well.”

Warnock was adamant that Rangers’ poor recent results were a consequence of the Fernandes-led takeover being completed shortly before the previous transfer window closed.

It was all smiles to begin with.
It gave the club limited time to do business before the deadline, although big money was spent in order to sign the likes of Joey Barton, Anton Ferdinand, Luke Young, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Armand Traore.

The ousted manager believed more spending would move Rangers up the table, and argued it was crucial that new faces arrived sooner rather than later.

He said: “This next seven days is vital because we need two or three in before the Newcastle game on Sunday – not in two or three weeks. So it’s an important time for us.

“We need a bit of luck as well – you do with transfers. We’ve got our irons in the fire, we just need to get them over the line.

“Our aim is to stay up, and to stay up we need four or five players. We knew that in the summer but couldn’t quite get them so have had to hang in there with the squad we’ve got.

“If Tony had been in charge from the end of last season, I don’t think we’d have had a problem given the targets we had.

“There were some good players that went elsewhere and that scuppered all the hard work we did in the summer, so we’ve been catching up all the time.”

And Warnock defended his side’s recent performances, which he insisted have been much better than results suggest.

“Tony wants us to be at the other end of the table, but when you watch us over the last few weeks we haven’t done bad – we’ve done pretty well really,” he said.

“We can’t have had any more knockbacks than we’ve had over the last few weeks, with the Norwich escapade, then Arsenal where we played so well.

“We also dominated at Swansea, which not many teams do. We’ve had a lot of kickbacks, so I’m so pleased with how much effort the players have put in.

“We should have beaten Man City and West Brom – and Norwich too if things hadn’t gone against us. You’ve got to keep persevering and doing our best.

“If you eliminate the elementary mistakes I think we’ve played some good football and more than held our own. With a bit of luck we could be 10th or 11th.”

www.westlondonsport.com/features-comment/the-final-hours/

[harlowranger]

Jan 8, 2012 22:20:25 GMT desorchid said:

Jan 8, 2012 22:16:01 GMT Macmoish said:

Amit Bhatia Tweets


Amit_Bhatia99 Amit Bhatia
We need to put #QPR first and make decisions that will give the club the best chance to succeed. The league table will judge us at the end.
51 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Amit_Bhatia99 Amit Bhatia
Terribly sad announcement today bc NW has been a legend for us. I loved every day that I worked w/ him. But I echo @tonyfernandes' sentiment

yeah, it will mate, it will.

Cast iron certs for relegation now.

Maybe not desorchid you never know , sometimes a new Manager can give the Players a real lift sounds like things were very stagnant a bit of player unrest and maybe just maybe something had to be done !

[Macmoish]

Personally I think (have to think) a Hughes appointment + Players signed = Premiership survival.

(But I would still have kept Warnock)

[maudesfishnchips]

not with barton mixing it up

[desorchid]

Jan 8, 2012 23:08:06 GMT @harlowranger said:

Jan 8, 2012 22:20:25 GMT desorchid said:

yeah, it will mate, it will.

Cast iron certs for relegation now.

Maybe not desorchid you never know , sometimes a new Manager can give the Players a real lift sounds like things were very stagnant a bit of player unrest and maybe just maybe something had to be done !

Well, it's a point of view Harlow and Mac, but with so few games in this league and the bunch of merceneries we have as players, I think its time to look forward to trips to London Road and the Amex.

[RoryTheRanger]

If it's true that he got sacked because he wanted to sign Yakubu then I'm a bit pissed off at Tony tbh.

[RoryTheRanger]

Something that has got me really pissed off about today is when The Beard was interviewed on SSN. When asked about signings he said 1 or 2 would be made.

[maudesfishnchips]

Jan 8, 2012 23:50:50 GMT RoryTheRanger said:

Something that has got me really pissed off about today is when The Beard was interviewed on SSN. When asked about signings he said 1 or 2 would be made.

he's talking vaguely,

no manager worth he's salt would come to us without a big lot of dosh to go and party in the transfer window.

thats assuming it is a good manager,if not then he will think he can work with the team we've got.

[RoryTheRanger]

Fair enough Maude. It never rains, it pours eh?