Five Years Ago Today: Mancienne Joined QPR on Loan

[QPR Report]

As I posted a year ago (verbatim)

QPR Snippets: QPR Player Interest?...QPR/International Action-
London Informer/Paul Warburton - On the Heidar
QPR are planning a raid for Heidar Helguson in their latest bid to beef up the team's firepower.
Rangers want the Icelandic international on loan from Bolton Wanderers after being turned down in a failed bid to land Michael Chopra from Sunderland.
The Black Cats want to hold on to the much-travelled forward as cover for Djibril Cisse and Kenwyne Jones.
QPR are also waiting in the wings for Leroy Lita. " London Informer

BBC Gossip Citing Daily Mirror -"Bolton striker Heidar Helguson is the latest QPR target after the Hoops failed with a move for Michael Chopra. (Daily Mirror) BBC Gossip No more in the Mirror itself: "QPR switch sights to Heidar Helguson
By Football Spy Bolton striker Heidar Helguson is the latest QPR target after the Hoops failed in a move for Michael Chopra." Mirror

(Obviously purely coincidentally, these two player names are ones I happen to have seen mentioned on QPR messageboards!)[/b]

[QPR Report]

re Gianni Paladini's Role at QPR


October 16, 2008 - Daily Mail/HATCHET MAN: Dowie's not a lone Ranger as long as Paladini sticks his oar

QPR have been hammering another nail into the coffin of the role of director of football.
After Tottenham's struggles in the Premier League had other clubs crowing about their slicker structures, Rangers' Gianni Paladini has demonstrated how hard it is to stay on the same wavelength as a manager in that position.
Sporting director Paladini said this week that Lee Camp could leave the club if they got a decent offer because he has not been playing.
Manager Iain Dowie then insisted he was not putting the goalkeeper up for sale and expected him to work hard in an attempt to regain his place.
Directors of football, of which Paladini is one by a slightly different title, and the men who direct their teams, such as Dowie, just can't seem to work well together in this country.
There is too much power playing and politics as a position between manager and board can only encroach on the traditional team boss's role, which was all encompassing.
Maybe that is why Terry Venables, Darren Ferguson and other managers who might fancy taking charge of the richest club in the Championship, keep being linked with Dowie's job. Daily Mail

[QPR Report]

And a three year flashback:

October 16, 2006
QPR OFFICIAL SITE LOAN RANGER

QPR have completed the one month loan signing of Chelsea defender Michael Mancienne.

The 18 year-old put pen to paper at Harlington on Monday morning, ahead of the Championship fixture against Derby County on Tuesday (8.00pm).
"He is a fantastic prospect,'' gaffer John Gregory told qpr.co.uk.
"Michael will go straight into the squad on Tuesday and it's a great chance for the QPR fans to see one of Chelsea's - and England's - brightest young talents in action.''
The teenager, who is a product of the Chelsea academy scheme and has captained England at Under-18 level, joined Frank Lampard, John Terry et al on the Blues' first team pre-season tour of the United States.
Mancienne was an unused substitute for Chelsea in the 2006 Community Shield match versus Liverpool and the first two Premiership games of the season versus Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers

[Macmoish]

And there were calls/hopes to sign him permanently....

(Please ignore the rest of this thread re Helguson, Paladini, Camp, Dowie, etc!