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Post by Jon Doeman on Jan 10, 2012 14:13:51 GMT
As a football club we have now moved up another level, loved Neil to bits but sparky will be the way forward. It is a real ambitious appointment. Keep us up Sparky!  |
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Post by sirpiechucker on Jan 10, 2012 14:14:28 GMT
Have we ever had a Welsh Manager before? Venables was sort of Welsh...Hollins could have been Welsh Magilton - Irish, Docherty Scottish, Sousa (Portugese), De Canio (Italy), etc Yes, Ted Vizard. @qpr_Stats Mark Hughes becomes only the 2nd Welshman to manage #QPR after Ted Vizard 5 year spell during the Second World war. |
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Post by Jon Doeman on Jan 10, 2012 14:16:36 GMT
Have we ever had a Welsh Manager before? Venables was sort of Welsh...Hollins could have been Welsh Magilton - Irish, Docherty Scottish, Sousa (Portugese), De Canio (Italy), etc Yes, Ted Vizard. @qpr_Stats Mark Hughes becomes only the 2nd Welshman to manage #QPR after Ted Vizard 5 year spell during the Second World war. Teddie Vizzard? ;D |
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 10, 2012 14:18:12 GMT
Well this once and for all proves what we all already knew, we are a bigger and more ambitious club than Foolham ;D
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Post by scarletpimple on Jan 10, 2012 14:20:27 GMT
No offense, I hope. But I'm merging this... No probs. |
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Post by sharky on Jan 10, 2012 14:26:23 GMT
He will take charge of training today!
Talk about hitting the ground running!!
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 10, 2012 14:28:37 GMT
Am slightly looking forward to seeing what the players have to say about it, yes that does mean on Twitter. Also there will no doubt be interviews with him on QPR Player.
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Post by scarletpimple on Jan 10, 2012 14:41:25 GMT
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Post by superckat on Jan 10, 2012 14:57:58 GMT
Oh god what have we done?
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 10, 2012 14:58:42 GMT
Oh god what have we done? What do you mean? |
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 15:05:55 GMT
Am slightly looking forward to seeing what the players have to say about it, yes that does mean on Twitter. Also there will no doubt be interviews with him on QPR Player. All the players are going to be saying great things about Hughes and his coaching team! "Le Roi est Mort...Vie Le Roi" |
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 15:07:24 GMT
And away we go...!
IJTaylor81 IanJTaylor
Stirring speech from Mark Hughes to the players at Harlington. Simple message - 'work hard and you'll get the results.
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Post by thetfordranger on Jan 10, 2012 15:10:00 GMT
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Post by gramps on Jan 10, 2012 15:22:25 GMT
Will be interesting to see how he deals with AT when (IF) he comes back after Africa.
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Post by superckat on Jan 10, 2012 15:40:30 GMT
Oh god what have we done? What do you mean? Not convinced by the appointment. Obviously don't know the figures involved. But with all Hughes talk about ambition. I get there is going to be a lot of money spent on transfers and salaries, that a club the size of ours cannot maintain. That's just this season, which is no guarantee we will stay up. If we don't Hughes will walk. We will be left with probably the biggest wage bill ever by a team outside of the Premiership. If we stay up. The transfer fees and wages will probably be bigger to match Hughes's ambition. This isn't the QPR way. It's a bold move, but too fast. We should build steadily and progressively. This isn't it. I know times change and needs must. But there is something about all this that makes me feel uncomfortable. |
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 15:53:03 GMT
Has Beckham actually signed his Contract extension?
Maybe he'd be interested in playing for Hughes (If we actually want him)
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Post by superckat on Jan 10, 2012 15:53:19 GMT
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 15:54:13 GMT
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 15:59:13 GMT
What's the future of "The Survivor" David Rouse? He's been our goalkeeping coach through several managers. But one of Hughes' new staff is "Kevin Hitchcock - Goalkeeping Coach"
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 16:03:45 GMT
60 Seconds of Beard on Video re the appointment...
For the rest, you have to get QPR Player!
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Post by Jon Doeman on Jan 10, 2012 16:07:00 GMT
Impressive that fella.
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 10, 2012 16:10:24 GMT
Lot's of good pics on the Offish, some with Sparky holding up the shirt and some of him giving his speech to all the players.
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 16:14:32 GMT
Match Days: Is he a Tracksuit wearer or Suit and Tie man?!
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 10, 2012 16:15:14 GMT
Suit and tie man.
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 16:46:47 GMT
The National/Kevin Affleck
Restoring order at QPR will be a stern test for Mark HughesKevin Affleck Jan 10, 2012 Struggling QPR have a squad full of combustible personalities. Everybody at Queens Park Rangers seems to have a story about Adel Taarabt, the infuriating yet outrageously talented Moroccan playmaker. The well-worn tale is the one about Taarabt storming out of the club's awards night at the Metropole hotel in London last year after only being named runner-up in the voting for the Player of the Year. Another is how the former Tottenham Hotspur schemer is so sure he will land a move away from the club this month that he has offered to give a club employee his BMW X6 if a move does not materialise. More recently, he apparently went AWOL, along with his friend and teammate Armand Traore, on Friday night despite being named in the QPR squad for the FA Cup tie with MK Dons the following day, claiming he had to join up with Morocco ahead of the African Cup of Nations.Marouane Chamakh, his countryman at Arsenal and more central to the national team's plans, played against Leeds United on Monday night. Throw in Joey Barton, whose explosive personality has caused a divide in the dressing room, forthright characters such as Shaun Derry, Jay Bothroyd, who was thrown out of Arsenal for hurling his shirt at a coach, Fitz Hall and Kieron Dyer and a disaffected reserve team - most of whom would walk into clubs in the top tier of the Championship - with a combined wage bill of £6 million (Dh34m) a year and it goes some way to explaining the problems Neil Warnock faced and the size of the challenge Mark Hughes will have to deal with. You do wonder, though, with a such a volatile squad why Tony Fernandes, the chairman, has invited potentially more problems by opening his doors to Kia Joorabchian, Hughes's adviser. Ask any executive at Manchester City and they will tell you they are still sweeping up the havoc caused by Joorabchian at the Etihad Stadium. The speed in which Hughes has been appointed, the fact no caretaker was placed in charge and that the back-room staff of Keith Curle, Ronnie Jepson and Mick Jones were all dismissed suggests Hughes had been lined up well in advance and the decks were cleared for his arrival. Hughes was the choice of the influential Barton who has a close relationship with the chairman and the chief executive.The two players QPR have been linked with this month, Christopher Samba and Andrew Johnson, have both played under Hughes. Expect Nedum Onouha, who has links with Joorabchian and Hughes, to arrive at Loftus Road sooner rather than later, as long as QPR can find a compromise with City over the defender's wages. Despite the outpouring of sympathy for the manner of his exit at City, Hughes did not leave a favourable impression on those he left behind in Manchester or Fulham. His managerial career is very much at the crossroads and he has been forced to lower his expectations somewhat after apparently believing he would be in consideration for the then vacant jobs at Chelsea and Aston Villa when he left Fulham in acrimonious circumstances last summer. He needs to rebuild his reputation at QPR by keeping them in the Premier League, the primary goal of Fernandes who is an astute enough businessman to recognise how badly the club need the financial windfall of another season in the top flight to offset a spiralling wage bill which is hugely disproportionate to the club's turnover. To preserve their Premier League status, Hughes will need to swiftly unite the dressing room and, along with his trusty coaching assistants Mark Bowen and Kevin Hitchcock who are likely to follow him to Loftus Road, perform some serious work on patterns of play and tactics on the training field. Warnock did very little coaching. Hughes will also need to act decisively in the transfer market. The boardroom unrest at the start of the season meant Warnock missed out on primary targets Danny Graham and Steve Morison, and then panic bought on deadline day. Fernandes backed Warnock then by sanctioning the big-money arrivals of Barton and Shaun Wright-Phillips but gradually lost faith amid a nine-match winless run. Fernandes described the decision to dismiss Warnock as his "toughest in 47 years". He could be forced to make some even more difficult choices if Hughes fails to restore order and QPR are relegated. kaffleck@thenational.ae www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/sport-comment/restoring-order-at-qpr-will-be-a-stern-test-for-mark-hughes
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 10, 2012 16:49:31 GMT
I have a good feeling about this now, I'm very excited for the future. I hope Traore doesn't get himself in trouble following Adel around.
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 16:51:59 GMT
I have a good feeling about this now.... That's what Ian Taylor said as Well  IJTaylor81 IanJTaylor I got to meet the new backroom boys too! Seem like a great bunch. Approachable yet professional. I've got a good feeling about this #QPR Just got back to Loftus Road. A whirlwind of a day. Players seem happy. Big buzz about Harlington. Presser tomorrow! #bigunveiling |
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 10, 2012 17:03:31 GMT
BBC Capturing Hughes is a coup for QPR Phil McNulty | 12:49 UK time, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 Mark Hughes walked away from Fulham and left behind a message from his trusted representative Kia Joorabchian. Their aspirations and ambitions simply did not match those of his client. Chelsea was mentioned as the sort of destination that might suit Hughes with Joorabchian saying on departure in June: "He wants to go to a club where he can fight for titles and win championships." Quite whether Queen's Park Rangers was the club Hughes had in mind when he cleared his desk at Craven Cottage is purely guesswork. They fought, and won, the battle for the Championship last season but the idea of a title challenge a tier up is, to put it politely, fanciful. Can Hughes guide QPR into the upper reaches of the Premier League? Photo: Getty And yet Hughes has made Loftus Road the next stop on his managerial journey, presumably with cast-iron guarantees from owner Tony Fernandes that he can at least try to fulfil his elevated ambitions. No title this season or for the forseeable future, indeed avoiding relegation will be the priority as he succeeds sacked Neil Warnock with QPR in a precarious 17th place in the league, without a win in eight games. The appointment is being lauded as a coup for Fernandes while Hughes, having enjoyed the riches at Manchester City before his sour departure, is now moving in circles more akin to his time at Blackburn. He will not be operating at the top end of the scale, but former Wales team-mate and friend Barry Horne insists this does not mean his targets will be downsized. He told BBC Sport: "QPR will have had to convince Mark they are for real. The owners will have had to convince Mark what their ambitions are, where they see the club going, whether they are looking to go big, spend money and be a serious player. If they are, then he ticks every box. "In my opinion it would have been Mark interviewing QPR rather than QPR interviewing Mark. They will know exactly what he brings and it would have been a case of him ensuring they tick all his boxes when it comes to ambition and what level they wish to operate at." Horne added: "Mark has had a rounded career as a manager. He arrived at a good moment with Wales as he took charge of a good squad that was hugely underperforming, but he still had to do what he did and did it successfully. "He then had a team that showed remarkable resilience at Blackburn. I watched them so many times when they were a team transformed after his half-time team talks, then at Fulham he did another great job even though their fans were unsure at first. "Mark was questioned in some quarters for walking away from Fulham but he had his reasons and never broke his contract. It was not some sort of fit of pique or a row - it was his right. "And at Manchester City he definitely played his part in ensuring they made that quantum leap from where they were to where they are now. "QPR will get a fine team behind the manager in Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki. I know them well and preparation, attention to detail and all the meticulous work that the modern level of football requires will be brought to bear." Hughes, Horne believes, will also bring the winning mentality Fernandes desperately needs to drag QPR away from the margins of the relegation zone. "He will come into the dressing room and be calm but very authoratitive," said Horne. "This authority comes from his personality. In every respect he will command respect. "Mark is known as a winner, a man decorated in the game, so this will give him a headstart with his group. He will get a longer honeymoon period with his players because they know of his stature." And QPR's players can expect a tough taskmaster on the training ground according to Michael Gray, who played under Hughes at Blackburn. When asked to outline his methods recently, he told me: "He is out on the training ground every single day and knows exactly what he wants from his players. "Mark would work players like they have never been worked before. He would hit the ground running because that is the way he works. "We finished sixth in the Premier League under him at Blackburn and a large part of this was because he had us so well prepared and so fit. In the last 15 minutes we used to overpower teams and we didn't fear anyone." Lee Dixon, an old Arsenal adversary of Hughes when he was a striker to be feared at Manchester United and Chelsea, believes Loftus Road may be a neat fit for the 48-year-old Welshman. He told BBC Sport: "QPR, with the owners' situation, looks like a club that has potential to spend in transfer windows. "It is a club I always liked playing at, with a really good atmosphere, so maybe he has looked at all of that. The main thing is whether he will get money to spend and presumably he will have sought those assurances. "He did very well at Blackburn. It is a very difficult proposition going into a club like Manchester City, with the resources they have got. "It is probably every manager's dream but expectations are high and you are not given long to sort things out because everybody wants instant success. "From that point of view he may even have wanted to shy away from another job that would be similar to City. "He's jumping back on the horse if you like, but he clearly feels the potential is there given the way the club is run under its new ownership." Now Hughes is back on the horse, the ambitous Fernandes will be hoping his new manager can make it gather enough strength to clear the hazardous obstacles ahead. www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/2012/01/mark_hughes.html |
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 10, 2012 17:05:04 GMT
I just watched his speech to the squad on QPR Player and he came across really well. Seems like a top bloke and a great man manager.
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Post by Jon Doeman on Jan 10, 2012 18:01:55 GMT
More recently, he apparently went AWOL, along with his friend and teammate Armand Traore, on Friday night despite being named in the QPR squad for the FA Cup tie with MK Dons the following day, claiming he had to join up with Morocco ahead of the African Cup of Nations.Marouane Chamakh, his countryman at Arsenal and more central to the national team's plans, played against Leeds United on Monday night.
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Scandalous, sooner he's gone the better.
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