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Independent
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink will rebuild QPR's 'urban' core and repay debt to England
Manager wants club to revive days of Ferdinand and Sinclair
Mark Ogden Chief Football Correspondent
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has taken the first steps towards reclaiming the “urban” mentality of Queen’s Park Rangers by turning the clock back at Loftus Road – by half an hour.
Six weeks into his reign in charge of the Championship club, Hasselbaink’s team face Wolverhampton Wanderers this lunchtime, closer to the bottom three than the top six, with prospects of an instant return to the Premier League following relegation last season having evaporated long before the Dutchman arrived from Burton Albion on 4 December.
But for Hasselbaink, the small details are those which will make the biggest difference and the first click of the wheel in attempting to turn the club around has been to haul the squad into training earlier in order to focus minds and shake the players out of their comfort zone.
“I am a firm believer that you must put in a good way of working,” Hasselbaink said. “I am not saying that it wasn’t there, but it was very comfortable, so I have brought training half an hour earlier and they [the players] have to be in earlier.
“I feel people prepare better when that happens. If you want to be successful, you have to train hard and training has to be harder than the games, but I am happier with the players’ commitment now.
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Les Ferdinand and Trevor Sinclair celebrate a goal in 1994
“Players want direction. They want to be shown the way and not one successful team is not working hard. You can’t forget that.
“When I first came to the UK [with Leeds United in 1997], the training was just to train and maintain, but now clubs train players to get players better. You have to work with players and improve them and that is the mentality that we need to get to at QPR.”
Hasselbaink’s approach is taking time to bear fruit at his new club, however. Having proved a whirlwind of success at Burton, guiding the Brewers to promotion last season before leaving them perched at the top of League One when moving to West London, the 43-year-old’s first victory in charge of QPR came only last week, at the ninth attempt, away to Rotherham United.
Results on the pitch are the primary objective, but the former Chelsea and Atletico Madrid forward insists his blueprint for Rangers centres on securing those results by restoring the club’s reputation as a breeding ground for the best young talent in the country.
“QPR is a nice club, it is a club that everyone really likes,” Hasselbaink said. “It has always had a lot of talent – Les Ferdinand, Trevor Sinclair and that raw, urban kind of talent. That is what we have to bring back.
“We have to change the mentality of the club. It has been hit a bit and we need to get that mentality back.
“We are working with a group that is happy, but we need to bring in younger people and make QPR proud. It’s not just getting to the Premier League, it is being able to stay there in the right way – in the financial right way.
“Obviously, we haven’t produced our own players for a long time and, for a club like QPR, that’s a disaster.”
As a member of the first wave of foreign talent to ply their trade in the Premier League in the 1990s, Hasselbaink has since put down his roots in England and he admits he is determined to repay his adopted country by nurturing its youth.
“I have been here in England for almost 20 years and I feel that I’m a little bit British,” he said. “Three of my four kids have been born here, they go through the English system, they are British. They don’t speak Dutch, they speak English. My wife is English, so in a way I feel the obligation to give something back to the English FA by trying to bring through young English players.
“There is a generation now that is coming, but you guys need to keep on going with that. And that’s what we have been doing in Holland.
“A lot of foreigners have come into the Premier League and I think that is where you lost a little bit of time. In Holland we don’t have the money to go and get foreigners, so you have to produce within.
“But also in Holland we are not afraid to put a young player in. That means also that the managers in Holland, they get a little bit longer. It all stacks up.”
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Jan 23, 2016 at 2:42am
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QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: I’m a stubborn Dutch boy but feel a little bit British after 20 years here
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has taken on QPR job determined to help FA by nurturing young English talent
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By Jason Burt, Chief Football Correspondent
10:30PM GMT 22 Jan 2016
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is the “stubborn Dutch boy” who, after almost 20 years in this country, feels “a little bit British”. He is the big-name former Premier League and World Cup striker who decided to start his managerial career in Belgium’s second division. He is the 20th manager of Queens Park Rangers in the past decade who talks about stability and being given time to nurture “the raw, urban kind of talent” he believes exists in west London.
And time in Hasselbaink’s company is a lively affair. There are colourful points of conflict and explanation and bold, loud statements but, above all, there is a fierce belief in what he does and an equally fierce work ethic that underpins it.
“I think you have to be clear,” Hasselbaink explains. “I think you have to have a vision and you have to be able to demonstrate that but you also have to be able to speak about it with your players and say why. You have to be able to explain that. I’m not scared, if people do not understand, to sit down and explain it.”
He is explaining it now. QPR are 15th in the Championship, three places below where they were when Hasselbaink was appointed last month, and only recorded their first victory under him – in their ninth match – last weekend. On Saturday they are at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers having just sold striker Charlie Austin to Southampton for £4 million – bringing in Conor Washington from Peterborough United for £2.8 million as his replacement.
“Charlie had six months left on his contract when I came in,” Hasselbaink says. “I spoke with him – he was one of the first I spoke with. He told me he would stay until the end of the season so we made our plans with Charlie until the end of the season. Last Friday he said to me he had an offer from Southampton and that he wanted to take out [sic] because he saw his future at Southampton. Our leverage of saying ‘no’ is minimum, so the club and the owners made the decision to let him go. That was his wish.”
Charlie Austin left Loftus Road with Hasselbaink's blessing
Austin left with Hasselbaink’s “blessing” as the manager begins to mould a team in his vision. “It [QPR] is a club that everyone really likes, it has always had a lot of talent: Les Ferdinand, the Sinclairs and that raw, urban kind of talent,” he says. “That is what we have to bring back. We have to change the mentality of the club, it has been hit a bit and we need to get that mentality back. We need people to be happy putting that shirt on playing for QPR. We are working with a group that is happy but we need to bring in younger people and make QPR proud.”
Those young players are vital for Hasselbaink. “It is the ambition to get QPR back to the Premier League, yes,” the 43-year-old says. “Look, this year we are just going to try to do our best and get as high as possible and build so that we are strong, so that the platform is strong and if we get to the Premier League we can stay there.
“It’s not just getting to the Premier League, it is being able to stay there in the right way, in the financial right way. That’s the most important thing and that’s what the fans need to know. That it’s going to be in the right way and also obviously we haven’t produced [our own players] for a long time and for a club like QPR that’s a disaster. It’s a disaster.”
A disaster? “I have been here in England for almost 20 years and I feel that I’m a little bit British,” Hasselbaink says. “Three of my four kids have been born here. They go through the English system; they are British. They don’t speak Dutch; they speak English. My wife is English so in a way I feel the obligation to give something back to the English FA by trying to bring through English players, young English players. I think there is a generation now that is coming but you guys need to keep on going with that. That’s what we have been doing in Holland.”
QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: I’m a stubborn Dutch boy but feel a little bit British after 20 years here
The money in English football can cause problems, he says. “I think a lot of foreigners have come into the Premier League and I think that is where you lost a little bit of time while in Holland we don’t have the money to go and get foreigners so you have to produce within and that has helped the Dutch national squad a bit,” he says.
“But also in Holland we are not afraid to put a young player in. That means also that the managers in Holland, they get a little bit longer. It all stacks up.”
Where did Hasselbaink get his clear idea of how he wanted to manage? “Stubborn Dutch boy, I am,” he said simply.
He started his managerial career with Royal Antwerp in Belgium, having worked as a first-team coach, initially under Steve McClaren – “one of the best I have worked with, I love him” – at Nottingham Forest. It prepared him for anything.
“I had to do everything by myself. I had to do everything. The money was s---. No fitness coach, only a goalkeeper coach and a first-team coach. No assistant, no analyst. I had to look and prepare matches on a little DVD thing,” Hasselbaink explains.
Hasselbaink managed Burton Albion before joining Rangers
“And I loved it. It was the best thing that I have ever done because I was struggling but I had to do it myself. I had to put so many hours in. My family was still here in London; I was in Belgium. I did that for a year and obviously we know Burton [Albion] came up. Some people will say it was a risk but it wasn’t. And the rest is history.”
What was the most difficult task? “The hardest job I had to do [at Antwerp] was managing up,” Hasselbaink says. “The little DVD and messing up my eyes – that was all right. But we had three owners. And all three owners were all so difficult and to keep them together. So hard. I couldn’t do it. One put me in and he was in charge of the football. The other one was in charge of the finances and the other one was the father of the one who was in charge of the finances and actually he would run the show.
“But after one bad result they were straight on top of me and the one who was in charge of the football had put me in so he was backing me and so he had the last say. But I wanted obviously also them to be on board because I could do a lot more and bring more players in and strengthen the squad in January. But it was very hard. It taught me a lesson that you need to work for good people.”
He did that at Burton – who he took from League Two to the top of League One – and, despite the problems QPR have faced, the money wasted, the instability and yo-yoing through the leagues, is doing so again in west London. “And there is a lot of improvement to come,” Hasselbaink promises. “Players want direction. They want to be shown the way and not one successful team is not working hard. You can’t forget that.”
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Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink believes education will be key to success at QPR
After seven weeks in charge at QPR the manager has a clear vision for the future and it includes ensuring promotion back to the Premier League can be sustained
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is aiming for restoration rather than reinvention at QPR
Dominic Fifield
Friday 22 January 2016 17.30 EST
Close of business after a day of seminars and lectures at St George’s Park and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink can finally relax. Tackling the various modules of the FA Uefa pro licence course would normally be draining enough but, between sessions, the Queens Park Rangers manager has been pounding the corridors of the national football centre overseeing club affairs from afar. He has made regular checks to his staff back at Harlington, not least seeking updates on the progress of Conor Washington’s £2.8m arrival from Peterborough, a move confirmed the following day.
The Dutchman, appointed on 4 December, has sanctioned the loan of Ben Gladwin to Bristol City, selected an under-21 side for a friendly against Chelsea and relayed to David Oldfield and Dirk Heesen, his assistant and first-team coach respectively, the drills that will await the squad in the morning. Fitting studies for his coaching badges around delivering first impressions, all in the middle of the transfer window a few days after his main striker forced through a move to Southampton, has left Hasselbaink dizzied. “It’s not ideal because, in a new job, the players need to see you every day and there are still lots of little things we are trying to do, so it is demanding,” he says. “But I love it. It’s something I need. I may have a lot of other things to do but I need to do this course. This is part of my education.”
Such is Hasselbaink’s reputation in the game as an elite Premier League player and the positive impression he made in charge of Burton Albion that it is easy to forget he is a novice manager still learning his trade. The pro licence course, an 18-month commitment that concludes in June, will prepare him to coach in the top flight. The task he has taken on at QPR will offer a proper schooling in the demands of management in the upper echelons. The club, relegated last season, loiter in 15th place in the Championship with realism steadily swamping optimism when it comes to talk of promotion. The new manager secured a first win in charge, at the ninth attempt, at Rotherham last Saturday, and confronts Wolves on Saturday, but he is setting targets for the long term.
Too much about QPR has been a circus over recent years, but Hasselbaink is not seeking to instigate a reinvention. Rather, his aim is restoration. “It is a nice club, a club everyone really likes, and it has always had a lot of talent: Les Ferdinand, Trevor Sinclair … that raw, urban kind of talent. That is what we have to bring back. We need people to be happy putting that shirt on to play for QPR. We are working with a group that is happy, but we need to bring in younger people and make this club proud.
“It is the ambition to get QPR back to the Premier League, of course. But this year we are just going to try to do our best, get as high as possible and build so that we are strong, so that the platform is strong and if we get to the Premier League we can stay there. It’s not just getting to the Premier League: it is about being able to stay there in the right financial way. That’s the most important thing and that’s what the fans need to know. It’s going to be done in the right way.
“We haven’t produced [our own players] for a long time and, for a club like QPR, that’s a disaster. For me, bringing kids through is a normal thing because I am from Holland, but I’ve been in England for almost 20 years and I feel I’m a little bit British. Three of my four kids were born here and have gone through the English system. They don’t speak Dutch, they speak English. My wife is English. In a way, I feel the obligation to give something back to the FA by trying to bring through young English players.”
The best player QPR have produced in recent years wears the blue of Manchester City, Raheem Sterling’s career now surveyed from a distance. So, too, will be that of Charlie Austin. The striker whose goals had been integral to this team over the previous two full seasons had been due to see out his contract before a summer free transfer. Instead, he seized an unanticipated chance to join Southampton last week for £4m. One of the fictional scenarios put to Hasselbaink in his media training centred on a striker, imaginatively named Peter Smith, being unsettled by the rebuttal of two bids from Manchester United to the extent he was moved to tweet: “My trust in the management has been shattered. If they mess with me, I’ll mess with them. My playing days here are over.”
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It never reached anything approaching that level of social media outrage with Austin, but Hasselbaink, when tackling his role-play, was still able to call upon something akin to first-hand experience even after seven weeks in the role. “With Charlie it was a different situation,” he says. “He had six months left on his contract when I came in. He was one of the first players I spoke with to find out where he was, mentally. He told me he wanted to stay until the end of the season, so we made our plans with Charlie in the team. Then, last Friday, he told me he’d had an offer from Southampton and saw his future there. Our leverage of saying no was minimal, so the club and the owners made the decision to let him go. He went with our blessing and it opens up the space for someone else.”
Washington, a former postman during his time at St Ives Town, arrives with 13 goals in his last 15 games at Posh. At 23, he can help spearhead a new, rejuvenated Rangers.
The playing squad are adjusting to Hasselbaink’s methods, with training intensified and brought forward half an hour. “It was very comfortable before, but if you want to be successful, training has to be harder than the games. When I first came to England the sessions were just about maintaining [fitness levels] but now clubs train players to make them better. That is the mentality we need at QPR.
“The players understand what we are doing. I think they wanted it. You see it in their body language. Players want direction. I’m just a stubborn Dutch boy, really, and I know what I want. But, if you have a vision, you have to be able to demonstrate to the players why you are doing things a particular way and, if people don’t understand, I’m not scared to explain it.”
He has developed those ideas over a fledgling coaching career that began with Chelsea’s Under-17s and has since crammed a spell on the staff at Nottingham Forest under first Steve McClaren, then Steve Cotterill and Sean O’Driscoll, a year in charge of Royal Antwerp and a promotion campaign with Burton into the third tier.
The 43-year-old rates McClaren as “one of the best managers” under whom he has worked, yet Antwerp was the real eye opener. “A big club but in the second division in Belgium and I had to do everything,” he says. “We had no fitness coach, no assistant, no analysts. Just a goalkeeping coach and a first-team coach. I had to prepare matches on a little DVD machine which messed up my eyes … but I loved it.
“It was the best thing that I’ve ever done because I was struggling and had to prove myself. I had to put so many hours in. My family were still in London, leaving me just to get on with it in Belgium.
“The hardest job I had was managing up. We had three investors, of whom one [Saif Rubie] was effectively in charge of the football operation. He backed me, but after one bad result the other two [the chief executive Gunther Hofmans and Hofmans’ father-in-law, the investor Jos Verhaegen] were straight on top of me. It was very hard but it taught me a lesson: you need to work for good people.”
QPR will pose a different kind of challenge but one Hasselbaink will not shirk. The tag of Restoration Man is one he will embrace.
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Jan 23, 2016 at 2:47am
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“Stubborn Dutch boy, I am,” he says by way of offering a different insight into his character.
It is a quality that is already serving him, and his employers, well as he carves out a niche for himself in the world of management.
If becoming QPR’s fifth manager in the past 12 months did not pose enough problems in itself, then losing his best striker unexpectedly last week hardly helps his task of rejuvenating the London club’s fortunes and forging a team to be “proud” of again.
And yet as Hasselbaink prepares for today’s game with Wolves, he will still be thankful for the small mercies at his disposal, in contrast to his first step on the ladder at Royal Antwerp.
“It was a big club, but it was in the second division and I had to everything by myself. I had to do everything,” he says for emphasis.
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“The money was poor. No fitness coach, only a goalkeeper coach and a first-team coach. No assistant, no analyst. I had to look and prepare matches on a little DVD thing.
“I loved it. It was the best thing ever that I have done because I was struggling, but I had to do it myself. I had to put so many hours in. My family was still here in London, I was in Belgium.
“The hardest job I had to do was managing up. But we had three owners and all three owners were all so difficult to keep together.
“One put me in and he was in charge of the football. The other one was in charge of the finances and the other one was the father of the one who was in charge of the finances and, actually, he would run the show.
“But after one bad result they were straight on top (of me). The one who was in charge of the football had put me in, so he was backing me and he had the last say.
“But it was very hard. Very hard. It taught me a lesson that you need to work for good people.
“I did that for a year and obviously we know Burton came up. Some people will say it was a risk but it wasn’t. It wasn’t. And the rest is history.”
Among those who advised Hasselbaink to work his way up, rather than trying to break in at the top, was Steve McClaren, who has become something of a mentor.
“I was fortunate to have worked with Steve,” he said. “I know you guys (in the media) sometimes think a little bit, err, but I absolutely love him.
“I think he’s one of the best coaches, one of the best managers who I have worked with. I had him at Middlesbrough when I was a player and he was the first one I had as a coach. I worked with him at Nottingham Forest.
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“He took me to Forest and I learnt a lot from him. I still speak a lot to him and it’s somebody that I really respect and ask for certain information.
“So working with him was very important for me.”
Hasselbaink was at St George’s Park on Monday working towards gaining his Uefa Pro-Licence by undertaking a module on media training.
A mock press conference saw him answering questions about a want-away striker unhappy at seeing his dream move blocked by his club.
Roles had been reversed 72-hours earlier to an extent with Charlie Austin informing Hasselbaink he wanted to move to Southampton. Austin had six months left on his contract and QPR had little option but to bank the £4m fee.
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Austin’s departure adds to the rebuilding job Hasselbaink, who helped to lead Burton to promotion to League One last season, must oversee. Yet he is enthused by the challenge.
“It is a nice club,” he said. “It is a club that everyone really likes. It has always had a lot of talent: Les Ferdinand, Sinclair and that raw, urban kind of talent. That is what we have to bring back.
“We have to change the mentality of the club. It has been hit a bit and we need to get that mentality back. We need people to be happy putting that shirt on playing for QPR. We are working with a group that is happy but we need to bring in younger people and make QPR proud.
“It’s not just about getting to the Premier League. It is being able to stay there in the right way, in the financial right way. That’s the most important thing and that’s what the fans need to know.
“That it’s going to be in the right way and also obviously we haven’t produced (our own players) for a long time and for a club like QPR that’s a disaster. It’s a disaster.”
If Hasselbaink gets youth development right, there could also be positive spins-off for English football as a whole.
“For me it’s a normal thing because I am from Holland,” he said. “I have been here in England for almost 20 years and I feel that I’m a little bit British. Three of my four kids have been born here.
“They go through the English system, they are British. They don’t speak Dutch, they speak English.
“My wife is English so in a way I feel also the obligation to give something back to the English FA by trying to bring through English players. English young players.
“I think there is a generation now that is coming but you guys need to keep on going with that. And that’s what we have been doing in Holland.”
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DAILY MAIL
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's new methods and drills on QPR's training ground all part of guiding them back to Premier League
'I'm a stubborn Dutch boy,' says QPR manager Jimmy Floyd-Hasselbaink
Floyd-Hasselbaink admits he favours younger talent over senior players
Ex-Chelsea striker admits QPR have lost their 'raw, urban kind of talent'
Charlie Austin asked Floyd-Hasselbaink if he could leave for Southampton
QPR are 15th as they prepare to host Wolves at Loftus Road on Saturday
By Neil Ashton for the Daily Mail
Published: 17:31 EST, 22 January 2016 | Updated: 19:13 EST, 22 January 2016
After a playing career at the very highest level of the game, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink knows about the sacrifices needed to make it to the top.
It has taken QPR’s players a few weeks to become accustomed to his methods, but the club’s latest manager stuck to his principles and was finally rewarded with his first win last weekend.
‘I’m a stubborn Dutch boy,’ he admitted this week, taking time out from his day-to-day duties as manager of QPR to spend time at St George’s Park on the next phase of the UEFA ProLicence.
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink knows there's plenty to be done at QPR but is confident that success is not far away
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink knows there's plenty to be done at QPR but is confident that success is not far away
Hasselbaink is an A-grade student, one of the game’s deeper thinkers after spells coaching the Belgian side Royal Antwerp and League One side Burton Albion.
The QPR manager, who is preparing for today’s clash with Wolves, said: ‘I am a firm believer that you put in a good way of working. I am not saying that it wasn’t there when I arrived, but it was very comfortable.
‘I have started training half an hour earlier, the players have to be in earlier. People prepare better when that happens. If you want to be successful you have to train hard and training has to be harder than then games. I am happier with the players’ commitment.’
Hasselbaink is working to a new model at Loftus Road, with the club attempting to offload their high-earning players in the transfer window and starting again with a younger group of players.
Charlie Austin left for Southampton last Saturday, there is interest in Crystal Palace for their former England keeper Rob Green and West Brom want winger Matt Phillips.
Hasselbaink added: ‘QPR has always had a lot of talent: Les Ferdinand, the Trevor Sinclairs, that raw, urban kind of talent. That is what we have to bring back.
Hasselbaink believes that it's important to focus on the younger talent as it helps keep things fresh
Hasselbaink believes that it's important to focus on the younger talent as it helps keep things fresh
The 43-year-old became manager of QPR early in December last year following the sacking of Chris Ramsay
The 43-year-old became manager of QPR early in December last year following the sacking of Chris Ramsay
Hasselbaink's coaching methods helped Burton Albion gain promotion from League Two last season
Hasselbaink's coaching methods helped Burton Albion gain promotion from League Two last season
‘We have to change the mentality of the club, it has been hit a bit and we need to get that mentality back.
‘We need people to be happy putting that shirt on playing for QPR. We are working with a group that is happy but we need to bring in younger people and make QPR proud.
‘With Charlie it was a different situation. Charlie had six months left on his contract and when I first came in he told me he wanted to and would stay until the end of the season.
‘Last Friday he said to me he had an offer from Southampton and that he wanted to take it. Our leverage of saying “no” is minimum, so the club and the owners made the decision to let him go.’
Hasselbaink has an holistic approach to management and he is determined to bring though another generation of young, English players to mount a promotion bid at Loftus Road.
Queens Park Rangers recently signed striker Conor Washington from Peterborough in a £2.8million deal
Queens Park Rangers recently signed striker Conor Washington from Peterborough in a £2.8million deal
Washington, who agreed personal terms with the London club on Monday, was also a target for Reading
Washington, who agreed personal terms with the London club on Monday, was also a target for Reading
Washington has been signed to replace Charlie Austin who left Loftus Road for Southampton last week
Washington has been signed to replace Charlie Austin who left Loftus Road for Southampton last week
He has put his roots down in this country, admitting that he wants to give something back after years of playing and coaching in England at various levels of the game.
‘I am from Holland, but I have been here in England for almost 20 years and I feel that I’m a little bit British.
‘Three of my four kids have been born here. They go through the English system, they are British.
‘They don’t speak Dutch, they speak English. My wife is English so in a way I feel also the obligation to give something back to the English FA by trying to bring through English players, English young players.
‘I think there is a generation now that is coming but you guys need to keep on going in that direction. And that’s what we have been doing in Holland.’ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3412706/Jimmy-Floyd-Hasselbaink-s-new-methods-drills-QPR-s-training-ground-guiding-Premier-League.html
Independent
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink will rebuild QPR's 'urban' core and repay debt to England
Manager wants club to revive days of Ferdinand and Sinclair
Mark Ogden Chief Football Correspondent
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has taken the first steps towards reclaiming the “urban” mentality of Queen’s Park Rangers by turning the clock back at Loftus Road – by half an hour.
Six weeks into his reign in charge of the Championship club, Hasselbaink’s team face Wolverhampton Wanderers this lunchtime, closer to the bottom three than the top six, with prospects of an instant return to the Premier League following relegation last season having evaporated long before the Dutchman arrived from Burton Albion on 4 December.
But for Hasselbaink, the small details are those which will make the biggest difference and the first click of the wheel in attempting to turn the club around has been to haul the squad into training earlier in order to focus minds and shake the players out of their comfort zone.
“I am a firm believer that you must put in a good way of working,” Hasselbaink said. “I am not saying that it wasn’t there, but it was very comfortable, so I have brought training half an hour earlier and they [the players] have to be in earlier.
“I feel people prepare better when that happens. If you want to be successful, you have to train hard and training has to be harder than the games, but I am happier with the players’ commitment now.
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Les Ferdinand and Trevor Sinclair celebrate a goal in 1994
“Players want direction. They want to be shown the way and not one successful team is not working hard. You can’t forget that.
“When I first came to the UK [with Leeds United in 1997], the training was just to train and maintain, but now clubs train players to get players better. You have to work with players and improve them and that is the mentality that we need to get to at QPR.”
Hasselbaink’s approach is taking time to bear fruit at his new club, however. Having proved a whirlwind of success at Burton, guiding the Brewers to promotion last season before leaving them perched at the top of League One when moving to West London, the 43-year-old’s first victory in charge of QPR came only last week, at the ninth attempt, away to Rotherham United.
Results on the pitch are the primary objective, but the former Chelsea and Atletico Madrid forward insists his blueprint for Rangers centres on securing those results by restoring the club’s reputation as a breeding ground for the best young talent in the country.
“QPR is a nice club, it is a club that everyone really likes,” Hasselbaink said. “It has always had a lot of talent – Les Ferdinand, Trevor Sinclair and that raw, urban kind of talent. That is what we have to bring back.
“We have to change the mentality of the club. It has been hit a bit and we need to get that mentality back.
“We are working with a group that is happy, but we need to bring in younger people and make QPR proud. It’s not just getting to the Premier League, it is being able to stay there in the right way – in the financial right way.
“Obviously, we haven’t produced our own players for a long time and, for a club like QPR, that’s a disaster.”
As a member of the first wave of foreign talent to ply their trade in the Premier League in the 1990s, Hasselbaink has since put down his roots in England and he admits he is determined to repay his adopted country by nurturing its youth.
“I have been here in England for almost 20 years and I feel that I’m a little bit British,” he said. “Three of my four kids have been born here, they go through the English system, they are British. They don’t speak Dutch, they speak English. My wife is English, so in a way I feel the obligation to give something back to the English FA by trying to bring through young English players.
“There is a generation now that is coming, but you guys need to keep on going with that. And that’s what we have been doing in Holland.
“A lot of foreigners have come into the Premier League and I think that is where you lost a little bit of time. In Holland we don’t have the money to go and get foreigners, so you have to produce within.
“But also in Holland we are not afraid to put a young player in. That means also that the managers in Holland, they get a little bit longer. It all stacks up.”
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Jan 23, 2016 at 2:42am
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QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: I’m a stubborn Dutch boy but feel a little bit British after 20 years here
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has taken on QPR job determined to help FA by nurturing young English talent
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By Jason Burt, Chief Football Correspondent
10:30PM GMT 22 Jan 2016
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is the “stubborn Dutch boy” who, after almost 20 years in this country, feels “a little bit British”. He is the big-name former Premier League and World Cup striker who decided to start his managerial career in Belgium’s second division. He is the 20th manager of Queens Park Rangers in the past decade who talks about stability and being given time to nurture “the raw, urban kind of talent” he believes exists in west London.
And time in Hasselbaink’s company is a lively affair. There are colourful points of conflict and explanation and bold, loud statements but, above all, there is a fierce belief in what he does and an equally fierce work ethic that underpins it.
“I think you have to be clear,” Hasselbaink explains. “I think you have to have a vision and you have to be able to demonstrate that but you also have to be able to speak about it with your players and say why. You have to be able to explain that. I’m not scared, if people do not understand, to sit down and explain it.”
He is explaining it now. QPR are 15th in the Championship, three places below where they were when Hasselbaink was appointed last month, and only recorded their first victory under him – in their ninth match – last weekend. On Saturday they are at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers having just sold striker Charlie Austin to Southampton for £4 million – bringing in Conor Washington from Peterborough United for £2.8 million as his replacement.
“Charlie had six months left on his contract when I came in,” Hasselbaink says. “I spoke with him – he was one of the first I spoke with. He told me he would stay until the end of the season so we made our plans with Charlie until the end of the season. Last Friday he said to me he had an offer from Southampton and that he wanted to take out [sic] because he saw his future at Southampton. Our leverage of saying ‘no’ is minimum, so the club and the owners made the decision to let him go. That was his wish.”
Charlie Austin left Loftus Road with Hasselbaink's blessing
Austin left with Hasselbaink’s “blessing” as the manager begins to mould a team in his vision. “It [QPR] is a club that everyone really likes, it has always had a lot of talent: Les Ferdinand, the Sinclairs and that raw, urban kind of talent,” he says. “That is what we have to bring back. We have to change the mentality of the club, it has been hit a bit and we need to get that mentality back. We need people to be happy putting that shirt on playing for QPR. We are working with a group that is happy but we need to bring in younger people and make QPR proud.”
Those young players are vital for Hasselbaink. “It is the ambition to get QPR back to the Premier League, yes,” the 43-year-old says. “Look, this year we are just going to try to do our best and get as high as possible and build so that we are strong, so that the platform is strong and if we get to the Premier League we can stay there.
“It’s not just getting to the Premier League, it is being able to stay there in the right way, in the financial right way. That’s the most important thing and that’s what the fans need to know. That it’s going to be in the right way and also obviously we haven’t produced [our own players] for a long time and for a club like QPR that’s a disaster. It’s a disaster.”
A disaster? “I have been here in England for almost 20 years and I feel that I’m a little bit British,” Hasselbaink says. “Three of my four kids have been born here. They go through the English system; they are British. They don’t speak Dutch; they speak English. My wife is English so in a way I feel the obligation to give something back to the English FA by trying to bring through English players, young English players. I think there is a generation now that is coming but you guys need to keep on going with that. That’s what we have been doing in Holland.”
QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: I’m a stubborn Dutch boy but feel a little bit British after 20 years here
The money in English football can cause problems, he says. “I think a lot of foreigners have come into the Premier League and I think that is where you lost a little bit of time while in Holland we don’t have the money to go and get foreigners so you have to produce within and that has helped the Dutch national squad a bit,” he says.
“But also in Holland we are not afraid to put a young player in. That means also that the managers in Holland, they get a little bit longer. It all stacks up.”
Where did Hasselbaink get his clear idea of how he wanted to manage? “Stubborn Dutch boy, I am,” he said simply.
He started his managerial career with Royal Antwerp in Belgium, having worked as a first-team coach, initially under Steve McClaren – “one of the best I have worked with, I love him” – at Nottingham Forest. It prepared him for anything.
“I had to do everything by myself. I had to do everything. The money was s---. No fitness coach, only a goalkeeper coach and a first-team coach. No assistant, no analyst. I had to look and prepare matches on a little DVD thing,” Hasselbaink explains.
Hasselbaink managed Burton Albion before joining Rangers
“And I loved it. It was the best thing that I have ever done because I was struggling but I had to do it myself. I had to put so many hours in. My family was still here in London; I was in Belgium. I did that for a year and obviously we know Burton [Albion] came up. Some people will say it was a risk but it wasn’t. And the rest is history.”
What was the most difficult task? “The hardest job I had to do [at Antwerp] was managing up,” Hasselbaink says. “The little DVD and messing up my eyes – that was all right. But we had three owners. And all three owners were all so difficult and to keep them together. So hard. I couldn’t do it. One put me in and he was in charge of the football. The other one was in charge of the finances and the other one was the father of the one who was in charge of the finances and actually he would run the show.
“But after one bad result they were straight on top of me and the one who was in charge of the football had put me in so he was backing me and so he had the last say. But I wanted obviously also them to be on board because I could do a lot more and bring more players in and strengthen the squad in January. But it was very hard. It taught me a lesson that you need to work for good people.”
He did that at Burton – who he took from League Two to the top of League One – and, despite the problems QPR have faced, the money wasted, the instability and yo-yoing through the leagues, is doing so again in west London. “And there is a lot of improvement to come,” Hasselbaink promises. “Players want direction. They want to be shown the way and not one successful team is not working hard. You can’t forget that.”
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Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink believes education will be key to success at QPR
After seven weeks in charge at QPR the manager has a clear vision for the future and it includes ensuring promotion back to the Premier League can be sustained
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is aiming for restoration rather than reinvention at QPR
Dominic Fifield
Friday 22 January 2016 17.30 EST
Close of business after a day of seminars and lectures at St George’s Park and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink can finally relax. Tackling the various modules of the FA Uefa pro licence course would normally be draining enough but, between sessions, the Queens Park Rangers manager has been pounding the corridors of the national football centre overseeing club affairs from afar. He has made regular checks to his staff back at Harlington, not least seeking updates on the progress of Conor Washington’s £2.8m arrival from Peterborough, a move confirmed the following day.
The Dutchman, appointed on 4 December, has sanctioned the loan of Ben Gladwin to Bristol City, selected an under-21 side for a friendly against Chelsea and relayed to David Oldfield and Dirk Heesen, his assistant and first-team coach respectively, the drills that will await the squad in the morning. Fitting studies for his coaching badges around delivering first impressions, all in the middle of the transfer window a few days after his main striker forced through a move to Southampton, has left Hasselbaink dizzied. “It’s not ideal because, in a new job, the players need to see you every day and there are still lots of little things we are trying to do, so it is demanding,” he says. “But I love it. It’s something I need. I may have a lot of other things to do but I need to do this course. This is part of my education.”
Such is Hasselbaink’s reputation in the game as an elite Premier League player and the positive impression he made in charge of Burton Albion that it is easy to forget he is a novice manager still learning his trade. The pro licence course, an 18-month commitment that concludes in June, will prepare him to coach in the top flight. The task he has taken on at QPR will offer a proper schooling in the demands of management in the upper echelons. The club, relegated last season, loiter in 15th place in the Championship with realism steadily swamping optimism when it comes to talk of promotion. The new manager secured a first win in charge, at the ninth attempt, at Rotherham last Saturday, and confronts Wolves on Saturday, but he is setting targets for the long term.
Too much about QPR has been a circus over recent years, but Hasselbaink is not seeking to instigate a reinvention. Rather, his aim is restoration. “It is a nice club, a club everyone really likes, and it has always had a lot of talent: Les Ferdinand, Trevor Sinclair … that raw, urban kind of talent. That is what we have to bring back. We need people to be happy putting that shirt on to play for QPR. We are working with a group that is happy, but we need to bring in younger people and make this club proud.
“It is the ambition to get QPR back to the Premier League, of course. But this year we are just going to try to do our best, get as high as possible and build so that we are strong, so that the platform is strong and if we get to the Premier League we can stay there. It’s not just getting to the Premier League: it is about being able to stay there in the right financial way. That’s the most important thing and that’s what the fans need to know. It’s going to be done in the right way.
“We haven’t produced [our own players] for a long time and, for a club like QPR, that’s a disaster. For me, bringing kids through is a normal thing because I am from Holland, but I’ve been in England for almost 20 years and I feel I’m a little bit British. Three of my four kids were born here and have gone through the English system. They don’t speak Dutch, they speak English. My wife is English. In a way, I feel the obligation to give something back to the FA by trying to bring through young English players.”
The best player QPR have produced in recent years wears the blue of Manchester City, Raheem Sterling’s career now surveyed from a distance. So, too, will be that of Charlie Austin. The striker whose goals had been integral to this team over the previous two full seasons had been due to see out his contract before a summer free transfer. Instead, he seized an unanticipated chance to join Southampton last week for £4m. One of the fictional scenarios put to Hasselbaink in his media training centred on a striker, imaginatively named Peter Smith, being unsettled by the rebuttal of two bids from Manchester United to the extent he was moved to tweet: “My trust in the management has been shattered. If they mess with me, I’ll mess with them. My playing days here are over.”
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It never reached anything approaching that level of social media outrage with Austin, but Hasselbaink, when tackling his role-play, was still able to call upon something akin to first-hand experience even after seven weeks in the role. “With Charlie it was a different situation,” he says. “He had six months left on his contract when I came in. He was one of the first players I spoke with to find out where he was, mentally. He told me he wanted to stay until the end of the season, so we made our plans with Charlie in the team. Then, last Friday, he told me he’d had an offer from Southampton and saw his future there. Our leverage of saying no was minimal, so the club and the owners made the decision to let him go. He went with our blessing and it opens up the space for someone else.”
Washington, a former postman during his time at St Ives Town, arrives with 13 goals in his last 15 games at Posh. At 23, he can help spearhead a new, rejuvenated Rangers.
The playing squad are adjusting to Hasselbaink’s methods, with training intensified and brought forward half an hour. “It was very comfortable before, but if you want to be successful, training has to be harder than the games. When I first came to England the sessions were just about maintaining [fitness levels] but now clubs train players to make them better. That is the mentality we need at QPR.
“The players understand what we are doing. I think they wanted it. You see it in their body language. Players want direction. I’m just a stubborn Dutch boy, really, and I know what I want. But, if you have a vision, you have to be able to demonstrate to the players why you are doing things a particular way and, if people don’t understand, I’m not scared to explain it.”
He has developed those ideas over a fledgling coaching career that began with Chelsea’s Under-17s and has since crammed a spell on the staff at Nottingham Forest under first Steve McClaren, then Steve Cotterill and Sean O’Driscoll, a year in charge of Royal Antwerp and a promotion campaign with Burton into the third tier.
The 43-year-old rates McClaren as “one of the best managers” under whom he has worked, yet Antwerp was the real eye opener. “A big club but in the second division in Belgium and I had to do everything,” he says. “We had no fitness coach, no assistant, no analysts. Just a goalkeeping coach and a first-team coach. I had to prepare matches on a little DVD machine which messed up my eyes … but I loved it.
“It was the best thing that I’ve ever done because I was struggling and had to prove myself. I had to put so many hours in. My family were still in London, leaving me just to get on with it in Belgium.
“The hardest job I had was managing up. We had three investors, of whom one [Saif Rubie] was effectively in charge of the football operation. He backed me, but after one bad result the other two [the chief executive Gunther Hofmans and Hofmans’ father-in-law, the investor Jos Verhaegen] were straight on top of me. It was very hard but it taught me a lesson: you need to work for good people.”
QPR will pose a different kind of challenge but one Hasselbaink will not shirk. The tag of Restoration Man is one he will embrace.
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Jan 23, 2016 at 2:47am
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By Paul Joyce
PUBLISHED: 22:30, Fri, Jan 22, 2016
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's impressive spell at Burton landed him the job at QPR in the Championship
“Stubborn Dutch boy, I am,” he says by way of offering a different insight into his character.
It is a quality that is already serving him, and his employers, well as he carves out a niche for himself in the world of management.
If becoming QPR’s fifth manager in the past 12 months did not pose enough problems in itself, then losing his best striker unexpectedly last week hardly helps his task of rejuvenating the London club’s fortunes and forging a team to be “proud” of again.
And yet as Hasselbaink prepares for today’s game with Wolves, he will still be thankful for the small mercies at his disposal, in contrast to his first step on the ladder at Royal Antwerp.
“It was a big club, but it was in the second division and I had to everything by myself. I had to do everything,” he says for emphasis.
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“The money was poor. No fitness coach, only a goalkeeper coach and a first-team coach. No assistant, no analyst. I had to look and prepare matches on a little DVD thing.
“I loved it. It was the best thing ever that I have done because I was struggling, but I had to do it myself. I had to put so many hours in. My family was still here in London, I was in Belgium.
“The hardest job I had to do was managing up. But we had three owners and all three owners were all so difficult to keep together.
“One put me in and he was in charge of the football. The other one was in charge of the finances and the other one was the father of the one who was in charge of the finances and, actually, he would run the show.
“But after one bad result they were straight on top (of me). The one who was in charge of the football had put me in, so he was backing me and he had the last say.
“But it was very hard. Very hard. It taught me a lesson that you need to work for good people.
“I did that for a year and obviously we know Burton came up. Some people will say it was a risk but it wasn’t. It wasn’t. And the rest is history.”
Among those who advised Hasselbaink to work his way up, rather than trying to break in at the top, was Steve McClaren, who has become something of a mentor.
“I was fortunate to have worked with Steve,” he said. “I know you guys (in the media) sometimes think a little bit, err, but I absolutely love him.
“I think he’s one of the best coaches, one of the best managers who I have worked with. I had him at Middlesbrough when I was a player and he was the first one I had as a coach. I worked with him at Nottingham Forest.
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“He took me to Forest and I learnt a lot from him. I still speak a lot to him and it’s somebody that I really respect and ask for certain information.
“So working with him was very important for me.”
Hasselbaink was at St George’s Park on Monday working towards gaining his Uefa Pro-Licence by undertaking a module on media training.
A mock press conference saw him answering questions about a want-away striker unhappy at seeing his dream move blocked by his club.
Roles had been reversed 72-hours earlier to an extent with Charlie Austin informing Hasselbaink he wanted to move to Southampton. Austin had six months left on his contract and QPR had little option but to bank the £4m fee.
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Austin’s departure adds to the rebuilding job Hasselbaink, who helped to lead Burton to promotion to League One last season, must oversee. Yet he is enthused by the challenge.
“It is a nice club,” he said. “It is a club that everyone really likes. It has always had a lot of talent: Les Ferdinand, Sinclair and that raw, urban kind of talent. That is what we have to bring back.
“We have to change the mentality of the club. It has been hit a bit and we need to get that mentality back. We need people to be happy putting that shirt on playing for QPR. We are working with a group that is happy but we need to bring in younger people and make QPR proud.
“It’s not just about getting to the Premier League. It is being able to stay there in the right way, in the financial right way. That’s the most important thing and that’s what the fans need to know.
“That it’s going to be in the right way and also obviously we haven’t produced (our own players) for a long time and for a club like QPR that’s a disaster. It’s a disaster.”
If Hasselbaink gets youth development right, there could also be positive spins-off for English football as a whole.
“For me it’s a normal thing because I am from Holland,” he said. “I have been here in England for almost 20 years and I feel that I’m a little bit British. Three of my four kids have been born here.
“They go through the English system, they are British. They don’t speak Dutch, they speak English.
“My wife is English so in a way I feel also the obligation to give something back to the English FA by trying to bring through English players. English young players.
“I think there is a generation now that is coming but you guys need to keep on going with that. And that’s what we have been doing in Holland.”
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Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's new methods and drills on QPR's training ground all part of guiding them back to Premier League
'I'm a stubborn Dutch boy,' says QPR manager Jimmy Floyd-Hasselbaink
Floyd-Hasselbaink admits he favours younger talent over senior players
Ex-Chelsea striker admits QPR have lost their 'raw, urban kind of talent'
Charlie Austin asked Floyd-Hasselbaink if he could leave for Southampton
QPR are 15th as they prepare to host Wolves at Loftus Road on Saturday
By Neil Ashton for the Daily Mail
Published: 17:31 EST, 22 January 2016 | Updated: 19:13 EST, 22 January 2016
After a playing career at the very highest level of the game, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink knows about the sacrifices needed to make it to the top.
It has taken QPR’s players a few weeks to become accustomed to his methods, but the club’s latest manager stuck to his principles and was finally rewarded with his first win last weekend.
‘I’m a stubborn Dutch boy,’ he admitted this week, taking time out from his day-to-day duties as manager of QPR to spend time at St George’s Park on the next phase of the UEFA ProLicence.
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink knows there's plenty to be done at QPR but is confident that success is not far away
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink knows there's plenty to be done at QPR but is confident that success is not far away
Hasselbaink is an A-grade student, one of the game’s deeper thinkers after spells coaching the Belgian side Royal Antwerp and League One side Burton Albion.
The QPR manager, who is preparing for today’s clash with Wolves, said: ‘I am a firm believer that you put in a good way of working. I am not saying that it wasn’t there when I arrived, but it was very comfortable.
‘I have started training half an hour earlier, the players have to be in earlier. People prepare better when that happens. If you want to be successful you have to train hard and training has to be harder than then games. I am happier with the players’ commitment.’
Hasselbaink is working to a new model at Loftus Road, with the club attempting to offload their high-earning players in the transfer window and starting again with a younger group of players.
Charlie Austin left for Southampton last Saturday, there is interest in Crystal Palace for their former England keeper Rob Green and West Brom want winger Matt Phillips.
Hasselbaink added: ‘QPR has always had a lot of talent: Les Ferdinand, the Trevor Sinclairs, that raw, urban kind of talent. That is what we have to bring back.
Hasselbaink believes that it's important to focus on the younger talent as it helps keep things fresh
Hasselbaink believes that it's important to focus on the younger talent as it helps keep things fresh
The 43-year-old became manager of QPR early in December last year following the sacking of Chris Ramsay
The 43-year-old became manager of QPR early in December last year following the sacking of Chris Ramsay
Hasselbaink's coaching methods helped Burton Albion gain promotion from League Two last season
Hasselbaink's coaching methods helped Burton Albion gain promotion from League Two last season
‘We have to change the mentality of the club, it has been hit a bit and we need to get that mentality back.
‘We need people to be happy putting that shirt on playing for QPR. We are working with a group that is happy but we need to bring in younger people and make QPR proud.
‘With Charlie it was a different situation. Charlie had six months left on his contract and when I first came in he told me he wanted to and would stay until the end of the season.
‘Last Friday he said to me he had an offer from Southampton and that he wanted to take it. Our leverage of saying “no” is minimum, so the club and the owners made the decision to let him go.’
Hasselbaink has an holistic approach to management and he is determined to bring though another generation of young, English players to mount a promotion bid at Loftus Road.
Queens Park Rangers recently signed striker Conor Washington from Peterborough in a £2.8million deal
Queens Park Rangers recently signed striker Conor Washington from Peterborough in a £2.8million deal
Washington, who agreed personal terms with the London club on Monday, was also a target for Reading
Washington, who agreed personal terms with the London club on Monday, was also a target for Reading
Washington has been signed to replace Charlie Austin who left Loftus Road for Southampton last week
Washington has been signed to replace Charlie Austin who left Loftus Road for Southampton last week
He has put his roots down in this country, admitting that he wants to give something back after years of playing and coaching in England at various levels of the game.
‘I am from Holland, but I have been here in England for almost 20 years and I feel that I’m a little bit British.
‘Three of my four kids have been born here. They go through the English system, they are British.
‘They don’t speak Dutch, they speak English. My wife is English so in a way I feel also the obligation to give something back to the English FA by trying to bring through English players, English young players.
‘I think there is a generation now that is coming but you guys need to keep on going in that direction. And that’s what we have been doing in Holland.’ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3412706/Jimmy-Floyd-Hasselbaink-s-new-methods-drills-QPR-s-training-ground-guiding-Premier-League.html