tom007
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Post by tom007 on Jan 9, 2012 22:32:40 GMT
lol hence the name 007
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 9, 2012 22:33:29 GMT
Guardian/Dominic Fifield QPR on verge of appointing Mark Hughes as manager • Hughes likely to bring usual backroom team • Bids expected for Darren Bent and Wayne Bridge reddit this Dominic Fifield guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 January 2012 17.30 EST Article history Mark Hughes Mark Hughes has spent the afternoon at QPR's Loftus Road with his adviser Kia Joorabchian and is expected to be offered the manager's job. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP Mark Hughes is set to take over as Queens Park Rangers manager and has been promised significant funds by the club's owner, Tony Fernandes, to strengthen his squad this month, with the England forward Darren Bent a principal target. The former Wales, Blackburn and Manchester City manager spent Monday in talks at Loftus Road alongside his agent, Kia Joorabchian, recently returned from Brazil, and is expected to be confirmed as Neil Warnock's replacement in the next 24 hours. Hughes, who has been out of work since departing Fulham in the summer, would be joined by his customary backroom team headed by Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki, whose period of gardening leave expired towards the end of last month. Hughes said talks had gone "really well" but that there was "still a lot to discuss". He is due to return for further discussions on Tuesday morning. "One factor that concerns me is that I am an ambitious manager and have to make sure the club meets those ambitions," he said. Fernandes is hopeful Hughes will be able to attract a high calibre of player, with QPR intent upon adding significantly over the next month. Bent, who moved to Aston Villa only a year ago from Sunderland for around £18m, has been identified as a key target, with QPR having managed only 19 goals in 20 games this season. Villa, who have stressed that the 27-year-old forward is not available, will resist any move, though it is a measure of the Londoners' ambition that they will target players of that quality despite being 17th in the table. There is interest, too, in players such as Nedum Onuoha, Wayne Bridge, who is available at Hughes's former club City, and the unsettled and transfer-listed Chelsea centre-back Alex. Any move for the Blackburn centre-back Chris Samba may be deflected by Tottenham Hotspur's long-standing interest in the player. Disagreements over QPR's prospective transfer policy this month contributed heavily to the fracture of the relationship between Fernandes and Warnock, who had steered Rangers back to the top flight after a 15-year absence but had endured a nine-match winless run in all competitions over recent months. It is understood he has had the remainder of his contract at the club, which he joined in March 2010 on a three-year deal, paid up. QPR want a swift appointment as they attempt to arrest an alarming recent slump in form. The chief executive, Philip Beard, said of Hughes: "It's fair to say we've got him interested and we are going to speak tomorrow and see if we can take it further. "If we get things right then hopefully we can start looking forward to Newcastle on Sunday, but we have got some work to do overnight and then in the morning. "I'm hoping Mark is going to come back and we can try to complete some of the discussions we've had this afternoon. "His pedigree and background speaks for itself and he's the sort of person and the sort of experience that we need at QPR." www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jan/09/mark-hughes-qpr-manager?newsfeed=true |
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Post by eusebio13 on Jan 9, 2012 22:35:19 GMT
wow you really are a spy... Licensed To Spill |
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Post by mikehunt on Jan 9, 2012 22:41:45 GMT
need a new and better player in every area area of the pitch now. keeper, defender, midfielder and striker.
what a job hes going to take on, i wouldnt fancy it.
if he keeps us up he will probably get the tottenham jhob at the end of the season and all his wishes of a big club will of come true.
so thats why i think he will take us on.
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 9, 2012 22:45:15 GMT
It's been a long time since we've had one of our managers "poached"...
Ian Holloway (half)...Gerry Francis by Spurs...Jim Smith by Newcastle (and they were both sort of cos not happy at QPR).
Venables of course by Barcelona...
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Post by mikehunt on Jan 9, 2012 22:47:53 GMT
mac i got a big feeling he will only sign till the end of the season, with a chance of an extension if he keeps us up, and that tosser of an agent will get some ridiculous bonus pay out for him if he keeps us up.
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tom007
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Post by tom007 on Jan 9, 2012 22:48:01 GMT
yes mac but we didnt have money then and were just a selling club we got slightly more clout now or hopefully touch wood will have after this season.
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 9, 2012 22:53:50 GMT
We should add another incentive. Huges has to pay a big "fine" to US if we do get relegated!
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Post by mikehunt on Jan 9, 2012 22:56:47 GMT
imagine what that agent is doing to our tone. he is laughing all the way to the bank and mullering him.
we are in such a desperate position and hughes and agent have got us over a complete barrell, and i wouldnt be suprised if hughes is in line for his biggest ever wages of his career.
we need him so bad, its (premiership_ life or death it really is.
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Post by sharky on Jan 9, 2012 23:08:51 GMT
I assume with Hughes not signing tonight that the Club will still be talking with other potential managers in case this one goes pear shaped!!
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Post by mikehunt on Jan 9, 2012 23:21:46 GMT
no, im certain tony wouldnt of sacked neil unless he had his first choice (and the only choice imho) garunteed.
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Post by cpr on Jan 9, 2012 23:34:03 GMT
Agree, they aren't looking anywhere else.
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Post by superckat on Jan 9, 2012 23:46:57 GMT
imagine what that agent is doing to our tone. he is laughing all the way to the bank and mullering him. we are in such a desperate position and hughes and agent have got us over a complete barrell, and i wouldnt be suprised if hughes is in line for his biggest ever wages of his career. we need him so bad, its (premiership_ life or death it really is. With the exception of the last line. I agree. |
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Post by superckat on Jan 9, 2012 23:49:28 GMT
With Hughes on board. I fear for the money we will spend on transfers and wages. Have a good look at Portsmouth. We could be heading down that road.
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Post by mikehunt on Jan 9, 2012 23:52:34 GMT
imagine what that agent is doing to our tone. he is laughing all the way to the bank and mullering him. we are in such a desperate position and hughes and agent have got us over a complete barrell, and i wouldnt be suprised if hughes is in line for his biggest ever wages of his career. we need him so bad, its (premiership_ life or death it really is. With the exception of the last line. I agree. why dont you agree that if we dont get hughes we will go down mate? i dont reckon anyone else in the frame is capable of getting the amount of wins we need to stay up i really dont. not even 100% sure hughes can either. its a major ask. |
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Post by londonranger on Jan 9, 2012 23:54:50 GMT
With apologies to the Bard
Yet Warnock says he was ambitious,
And sure he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Warnock spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
Julius Caesar (Act III, Scene 2, 78ff)
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Post by 0hwestlondon on Jan 10, 2012 0:30:20 GMT
When i see pictures of NW, it makes me a bit sad, no longer are we to see him on the touchline with the r's, the board should have backed him not sacked him, but if Hughes takes the job then its time for us to give him our backing.
Neil leaving is a bit like an old friend leaving without having the chance to say goodbye, but i will now accept with a heavy heart he has gone and back Hughes to keep us up, lets hope he can attract the right players to do exactly that.
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 10, 2012 0:32:26 GMT
When i see pictures of NW, it makes me a bit sad, no longer are we to see him on the touchline with the r's, the board should have backed him not sacked him, but if Hughes takes the job then its time for us to give him our backing. Neil leaving is a bit like an old friend leaving without having the chance to say goodbye, but i will now accept with a heavy heart he has gone and back Hughes to keep us up, lets hope he can attract the right players to do exactly that. That's how I feel as well. |
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Post by 0hwestlondon on Jan 10, 2012 0:41:48 GMT
I suppose we all have to move on rory, but i haven't felt this down about a manager/player leaving the r's in well god know's how many years, keep the faith all.
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Post by superckat on Jan 10, 2012 3:34:05 GMT
With the exception of the last line. I agree. why dont you agree that if we dont get hughes we will go down mate? i dont reckon anyone else in the frame is capable of getting the amount of wins we need to stay up i really dont. not even 100% sure hughes can either. its a major ask. For me the jury is still out with Hughes. I am not convinced he is what we need. He will want lots of money to bring in high earners and that's no guartantee. We will survive. If we go down. Hughes won't be coming with us. I don't know who else can get us out of this now. Think we're in trouble. |
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 8:55:13 GMT
Daily Express/Mick Dennis TONY SHOWS HE’S PHONEY The rumour mill says “senior players” did not think much of Neil Warnock’s coaching WATCHING steam coming out of Neil Warnock’s ears as my team, Norwich, beat QPR was the most fun I have had with my clothes on. But it is outrageous that it proved to be his last Premier League game. Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore let 10 guys manage in less than three years. Even for trigger-happy football, that was barmy. So Tony Fernandes said when he became owner in August: “He [Warnock] needs to have stability, support and a backbone so that he can do his best. He’s good and I don’t believe in, ‘Let’s throw someone out and bring someone in’. It doesn’t work.” Yet the first crisis has made Fernandes panic and sack the man who won the Football League eight months ago. The rumour mill says “senior players” did not think much of Warnock’s coaching and were upset when he criticised some of them in public. When Fernandes has been in the game a bit longer, he will learn that managers always “lose the dressing room” during a poor sequence but find it again after a couple of wins. The rumour mill says “senior players” did not think much of Neil Warnock’s coaching And Fernandes might learn that it is incredibly hard to get out of the Championship. www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/294702? |
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Post by harlowranger on Jan 10, 2012 9:00:02 GMT
The blokes a nkob.(Dennis)
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