Warburton Official

Now 100% official. Warburton it is. Hope he can do a superb job.

I'm Happy with Warburton need to give him 2 years regardless of what happens next year....

Ironically in his interview he starts off saying Dave Sexton has always been an inspiration and watching QPR in 1977 made him want to be a coach!


2 years is probably correct given our track record of sacking a manager per season but I'd have liked Warburton (or whoever had got the job) to be given a 3 or 4 year deal. Let the manager have time to instil their ideas from top to bottom from the first team to youth level. They can't do that quickly.

As QPRsmith has said a few times we need an identity and to train the club across all levels to play the same way. Then when we do change manager they are hired to fit the system we have in place; not the manager dictating what they want like McClaren clearly did bringing in expensive loans.

Apparently the candidates were asked in their interviews who they would keep from the out of contract players so we should have an idea soon who Warburton wanted to keep. And hopefully with it being over a month since McClaren was sacked he was able to watch our last few games and get a head start planning for if he did get the job.

Update: The official site has quotes from him saying he doesn't like a big squad as he doesn't like having to leave players out of the matchday squad and instead uses youth if numbers get tight. That explains how he gives youth a chance.

AND new Mark Warburton smiley's/emojis are now available

People need to stop believing articles that don't contain any quotes. What is that Cotterill piece based on??

Neil Banfield in as first team coach. 20 years at Arsenal under Wenger, in both the academy then with the first team. He must bring some real qualities to the table.

He's also been working at Rangers since last summer as a scout so he should come in with some players in mind who we should be targeting!

John Eustace to stay as Assistant Manager.

www.qpr.co.uk/news/club-news/mark-warburton-adds-neil-banfield-to-backroom-team/

Happy with that.

Apparently there is quite a bit of newspaper talk about the future of Warburton today. Links to Ainsworth and Warnock of course.

It would be utter madness to sack him. He's only had 19 League games to get his ideas across.

Like northwesthoop & @singlespeed (and probably everyone else on this forum) I hope the rumours are wrong. Warburton spent wisely in gathering a starting eleven that suited his required style of play - using free transfers, loans and spending £50k. Compare our transfer spending with almost all in the Championship and we look positively miserly in comparison, but are playing the way he wants and producing a positive style of passing. To completely change the squads style and then sack the inspiration would be almost suicidal. Not only would nobody else do it better with what QPR can offer in the way of a squad, but replacing him would cause the squad to disintegrate - good players will see no reason to stay if we adopt a 'park the bus' or 'route 1' style of play!