Flashback 9 Years - QPR Statement: Redknapp Stays -

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Feb 1, 2015 9:10:53 GMT Macmoish said:

I'm assuming Fernandes aint stupid. And it's not clear cut: Fire Redknapp and we stay up.

Given the managerial choices out there, who'd join the club - They probably wouldnt join just for 4 months. They'd want
a contract for couple years. So the ones we'd WANT we'd not get.

Gamble either way...

Question is: If it's Tim Sherwood: Would he keep us up?

Sometimes just a change of people does it.

well no one knows for sure what will happen whether you stick or twist. But being QPR I'd say there's a 95% chance we'll fail whatever we do!

[marshbowles10]

Fernandez isn't stupid, he is richer than anyone on the Messageboard I would suggest.

However being rich doesn't mean that he has 'football intelligence'. His tweets when we lose but how rosy it all is suggests he self deludes.

He surrounds himself with people at senior level that have never run a football club before. He did this from Day 1 of his tenure and continues to do so.

I heard on the re-run of Match of the Day that we might sign Adebeyour…….

If we do I shall assume that the lunatics are truly running our asylum.

[sharky]

We're doomed I tell you doomed

[Macmoish]

Of course the funny thing is we're not....!

It's certainly not preordained what happens

[Roller]

There is a chart floating around on twitter showing the win percentages of our Premier League managers. Redknapp is now trailing below both Warnock and Hughes. Wilkins looks like God in comparison.

[Macmoish]

Year Flashback
BBC
19 January 2015 Last updated at 12:21 GMT


Harry Redknapp to stay as QPR manager - Tony Fernandes

Harry Redknapp will remain as QPR manager, the Premier League club's chairman Tony Fernandes has said.

QPR are second from bottom in the top flight and Redknapp's position had been thought to be under threat.

"I thought it was time to end all the speculation, so everyone can focus on the challenge ahead," said Fernandes in a statement on QPR's website.

"I firmly believe Harry is the best man to get us out of the position we currently find ourselves in."

Stories surfaced last week that Redknapp would be sacked if his side lost to Manchester United last Saturday.

United won 2-0 and afterwards Redknapp blamed 'an insider' for attempting to destabilise the club.
Tony Fernandes

Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes completed a takeover of QPR in August 2011

Fernandes says he has spoken to his manager "at length" over the past week and that the former Tottenham and Portsmouth boss was "determined to turn this around" and keep the club in the Premier League.

He added that the performance against the Red Devils showed the relegation-threatened QPR players were behind their manager and that they had "the stomach for the fight".

However, the Loftus Road club - who are one point from safety - have lost all of their 10 away games so far this season.

"We know we need to improve our away form and Harry, his coaching staff and the squad will be doing all they can to turn around our fortunes on our travels," said Fernandes.

"It's very tight in the table and we will do our best to strengthen where we can to give us the best possible chance."
www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/30879902

[Macmoish]

2 Weeks Later: Redknapp Resigns
qprreport.proboards.com/thread/40893/harrys-hoddle?page=1


Later...
QPR chairman has revealed the real reason why Harry Redknapp resigned

10:40, 29 June 2015
By Paul Warburton

Tony on why Harry left Rangers

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The last time: Harry Rednapp's final game in charge was a 3-1 defeat at Stoke

QPR chairman has revealed the real reason why Harry Redknapp resigned.

Tony Fernandes was in a different part of the world when the ex-manager called to say he was quitting the club a day after the January transfer window closed.

The former Tottenham manager cited ongoing trouble with his knees for walking out on a side deep in relegation trouble.

But Fernandes sees a different side to the shock resignation.

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“I was brushing my teeth in a different time zone, and I really feel my legs are going and it’s going to be a dogfight if I stepped down and you got someone else,” Fernandes explained.

“I asked him if that’s really what you want to do, and he said: ’yeah.’ We left it as good friends. But I think the main cause was he had given all he’d got.”

Redknapp was clearly frustrated players failed to arrive in January, with Fernandes and Rs determined to finally get a grip on club finances.

And although the chair readily admitted he had spoken to Tim Sherwood, who finally ended up at Aston Villa, the way forward was to appoint Chris Ramsey, and a period of consolidation and rebuilding.

Way forward: Chris Ramsey

Fernandes said: “It would have been dumb not to have spoken to Tim, as well as some other guys. But didn’t think it was right. I’m desperate for some longevity, and someone who will be here for a long time.

It didn’t sit in the scheme of things (to appoint Sherwood). I kept pushing Chris before Harry left, but Harry was comfortable with the team he had.

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“Fans were saying give him a chance. Players were texting me after (an away win over) Sunderland (see gallery), but we had already made the decision on the Sunday before.

“I wanted someone who believed in coaching players; someone who could take an 18-year-old and make him something special. Chris fits that.

“For players who haven’t been playing, especially those low on confidence, it was good to have someone whose hands on and gives you confidence

www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/qpr-chairman-revealed-real-reason-9545499

Read more: qprreport.proboards.com/thread/41587/tony-fernandes-why-harry-left#ixzz3xlxeJObk

[Macmoish]

Bump. 2 Years ago today

2 Weeks Later, Redknapp Quits

[Macmoish]

Flashback 8 years

[Macmoish]

Nine years ago today