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5 Year Flashback (Jan 22, 2015)
TONY FERNANDES PROVIDES WARREN FARM UPDATE
PUBLISHED
11:47 22nd January 2015
by @qprfc
Chairman Tony Fernandes hopes to see QPR’s new training facility ready in two years …
TONY Fernandes hopes to see QPR’s new training facility ready for action in the next two years.
The club are looking to build a bespoke training ground which will house the first team and academy at Warren Farm as well as providing improved community facilities, and Fernandes admits the approach to the facility has changed.
“What’s happened with the training ground isn’t too dissimilar to the situation with the first-team where we brought a lot of players in and it didn’t work – we got relegated,” he told www.qpr.co.uk.
“We initially had big plans for a state-of-the-art training ground, but we as shareholders then thought, ‘Is this really what is needed?’
“We have looked at a number of other clubs’ facilities and seen what works well, and the end result was we scaled back on it – apart from the pitches, we want to have great pitches.
“I have met with Julian Bell, the Ealing Council leader, and we will be submitting amended plans to Ealing Council shortly. They have been very supportive.
“We have got our budgets in place, and work should start on the site this year with a timescale for the project of two years.
“It will please me greatly when I see it. So much work has been done already but let’s remember, this is just a facility. What pleases me more is the work I can see that’s going on at Harlington and the Concorde Club, where our academy are currently based.
“I have spent a lot of time there. Sitting in on some of Chris’s (Ramsey) presentations, and hearing what the coaches are thinking, has been great.
“The day I see a Reece Grego-Cox or a Michael Petrasso in our first team will be great.”
Read more at www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/tony-fernandes-qpr-training-ground-warren-farm-2219002.aspx#7Q6TbdDhSIvteWEw.99
TONY FERNANDES PROVIDES WARREN FARM UPDATE
PUBLISHED
11:47 22nd January 2015
by @qprfc
Chairman Tony Fernandes hopes to see QPR’s new training facility ready in two years …
TONY Fernandes hopes to see QPR’s new training facility ready for action in the next two years.
The club are looking to build a bespoke training ground which will house the first team and academy at Warren Farm as well as providing improved community facilities, and Fernandes admits the approach to the facility has changed.
“What’s happened with the training ground isn’t too dissimilar to the situation with the first-team where we brought a lot of players in and it didn’t work – we got relegated,” he told www.qpr.co.uk.
“We initially had big plans for a state-of-the-art training ground, but we as shareholders then thought, ‘Is this really what is needed?’
“We have looked at a number of other clubs’ facilities and seen what works well, and the end result was we scaled back on it – apart from the pitches, we want to have great pitches.
“I have met with Julian Bell, the Ealing Council leader, and we will be submitting amended plans to Ealing Council shortly. They have been very supportive.
“We have got our budgets in place, and work should start on the site this year with a timescale for the project of two years.
“It will please me greatly when I see it. So much work has been done already but let’s remember, this is just a facility. What pleases me more is the work I can see that’s going on at Harlington and the Concorde Club, where our academy are currently based.
“I have spent a lot of time there. Sitting in on some of Chris’s (Ramsey) presentations, and hearing what the coaches are thinking, has been great.
“The day I see a Reece Grego-Cox or a Michael Petrasso in our first team will be great.”
Read more at www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/tony-fernandes-qpr-training-ground-warren-farm-2219002.aspx#7Q6TbdDhSIvteWEw.99