Post by QPR Report on Jul 9, 2009 8:29:37 GMT
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Championship: Is QPR's loss going to be Swansea's gain?
The managerial merry-go-round in the Championship this summer has seen two interesting appointments made, one at Queens Park Rangers and one at Swansea City.
Just weeks after being relieved from his duties at Ipswich Town, Jim Magilton became the latest man to take on the challenge of making QPR a Premier League club and satisfying the division's most demanding owners.
A hugely popular player at Portman Road, Magilton's relationship with Ipswich fans soured last season amid criticism of his tactics, and the way he spent what had been a hefty transfer budgety provided by the club's owner Marcus Evans.
Looking at the appointment of Magilton it's hard not to make comparisons with that of Iain Dowie last summer and fear that the same fate will befall the Ulsterman as did his former Northern Ireland international colleague.
Magilton will be lumbered, as Dowie and others have been, with an erratic transfer policy capable of unearthing gems such as Jordi Lopez but also of paying Coventry City a reported £500,000 for their third-choice left-back after he had not played a game for the R's while on loan.
This summer has seen solid Championship performers Lee Camp and Damien Delaney move elsewhere in the division while on Tuesday, QPR confirmed the £3.5m signing of 2-year-old Argentine midfielder Alejandro Faurlin.
Between Dowie and Magilton of course was former European Cup winning player Sousa and although the bare facts of the Portuguese's record during his brief spell at Loftus Road do not hint straight away at his qualities, comments from those he worked with at the club make interesting reading.
"He's a fantastic man, well-respected, honest and an intelligent guy that comes across super-intelligent tactically," said Loftus Road player/coach Gareth Ainsworth after Sousa was named as the successor to Roberto Martinez at the Liberty Stadium.
"In training he changed players, changed some players' positions and he brought some things out of players that I didn't see and I've been at QPR for seven years!"
Chairman Huw Jenkins looks to have made the sensible decision of finding a manager capable of working well with the squad of players already at the Liberty Stadium, containing as it does a mixture of domestic and overseas talents, rather than bring in a boss who wants to make big changes straight away.
The Swans were widely praised for the quality of their football last season and although Sousa has had to face some big decisions early on in his reign, with the likes of Ferrie Bodde and Jason Scotland eyeing up moves to the Premier League, a fine tuning rather than a complete overhaul looks to be the order of the day.
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Championship: Is QPR's loss going to be Swansea's gain?
The managerial merry-go-round in the Championship this summer has seen two interesting appointments made, one at Queens Park Rangers and one at Swansea City.
Just weeks after being relieved from his duties at Ipswich Town, Jim Magilton became the latest man to take on the challenge of making QPR a Premier League club and satisfying the division's most demanding owners.
A hugely popular player at Portman Road, Magilton's relationship with Ipswich fans soured last season amid criticism of his tactics, and the way he spent what had been a hefty transfer budgety provided by the club's owner Marcus Evans.
Looking at the appointment of Magilton it's hard not to make comparisons with that of Iain Dowie last summer and fear that the same fate will befall the Ulsterman as did his former Northern Ireland international colleague.
Magilton will be lumbered, as Dowie and others have been, with an erratic transfer policy capable of unearthing gems such as Jordi Lopez but also of paying Coventry City a reported £500,000 for their third-choice left-back after he had not played a game for the R's while on loan.
This summer has seen solid Championship performers Lee Camp and Damien Delaney move elsewhere in the division while on Tuesday, QPR confirmed the £3.5m signing of 2-year-old Argentine midfielder Alejandro Faurlin.
Between Dowie and Magilton of course was former European Cup winning player Sousa and although the bare facts of the Portuguese's record during his brief spell at Loftus Road do not hint straight away at his qualities, comments from those he worked with at the club make interesting reading.
"He's a fantastic man, well-respected, honest and an intelligent guy that comes across super-intelligent tactically," said Loftus Road player/coach Gareth Ainsworth after Sousa was named as the successor to Roberto Martinez at the Liberty Stadium.
"In training he changed players, changed some players' positions and he brought some things out of players that I didn't see and I've been at QPR for seven years!"
Chairman Huw Jenkins looks to have made the sensible decision of finding a manager capable of working well with the squad of players already at the Liberty Stadium, containing as it does a mixture of domestic and overseas talents, rather than bring in a boss who wants to make big changes straight away.
The Swans were widely praised for the quality of their football last season and although Sousa has had to face some big decisions early on in his reign, with the likes of Ferrie Bodde and Jason Scotland eyeing up moves to the Premier League, a fine tuning rather than a complete overhaul looks to be the order of the day.
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