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Apologies if this has been shared already. Great Beale interview with LFW. I do love his honesty.
https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/58012
https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/58012
Great interview. I'm very excited to see what Beale can do. Damn hope.
I watched the video on the Official of Beale's after game thoughts on the Halle friendly. He said we hadn't needed Seny after the first 15 seconds, other than maybe for his footwork. Then later on said Seny hadn't had to make a save after the first 15 seconds. So next up on the Official, I watched the brief match highlights which clearly show Seny making 2 saves with his arms / hands, both 1st half! Loose talk there?, or perhaps he was taking a well earned nap right then... Only seen those highlights so maybe we were more in control than these suggested.
But these hoped for signings in the next week he keeps mentioning as well as our good pre-season, look more likely closer to deadline day when the PL Clubs will know better who will be surplus to their squads for this season. We may need some loans late on as well to cover any offers we can't refuse for the likes of Dieng, Dickie, Dunne, Dykes, Chair or, worst of all for me, Willock.
But these hoped for signings in the next week he keeps mentioning as well as our good pre-season, look more likely closer to deadline day when the PL Clubs will know better who will be surplus to their squads for this season. We may need some loans late on as well to cover any offers we can't refuse for the likes of Dieng, Dickie, Dunne, Dykes, Chair or, worst of all for me, Willock.
About young Armstrong making an impact this season.......
https://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/young-qpr-striker-armstrong-can-make-an-impact-this-year-beale
Certainly sounds like MB is looking closely at the youngsters. Could all change if the results don’t happen, but positive talking is good news.
'The importance of set plays cannot be understated'.
I think he means it should not be understated, or perhaps cannot be overstated.
I think he means it should not be understated, or perhaps cannot be overstated.
i hope this means defending as well as attacking!!!!
He definitely meant to say underestimated ! Maybe I should be doing his speeches aswell as Amos'
New boss Michael Beale wants to take QPR back to the 'Promised Land' after leaving his role as Steven Gerrard's No 2 at Aston Villa for a shot at the big time... he gained valuable experience coaching in Brazil and is related to Rangers royalty
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: Another turned his career full circle, out of Liverpool one year and back the next, in time to join Steven Gerrard as he embarked upon his own managerial career at Rangers and Aston Villa. Now Beale has returned to London, the city he calls home, where he failed to make the grade as a player at Charlton and coached in Chelsea's academy, and has taken control at Queen's Park Rangers, a club where he has family
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New boss Michael Beale wants to take QPR back to the 'Promised Land' after leaving his role as Steven Gerrard's No 2 at Aston Villa... he gained valuable experience coaching in Brazil and is related to former Rangers boss Ray Harford
PUBLISHED: 07:31 AEST, 26 July 2022 | UPDATED: 08:59 AEST, 26 July 2022
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Why wouldn’t Michael Beale believe in the wheels of fortune? One revolution took him from teaching futsal to children in a church hall in Bromley to coaching beside a Brazilian legend in the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo.
Another turned his career full circle, out of Liverpool one year and back the next, in time to join Steven Gerrard as he embarked upon his own managerial career at Rangers and Aston Villa.
Now Beale has returned to London, the city he calls home, where he failed to make the grade as a player at Charlton and coached in Chelsea’s academy, and has taken control at Queen’s Park Rangers, a club where he has family connections.
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‘Ray Harford was a cousin of my nan,’ he explains. ‘They lived in the same house growing up in central London. When I was a kid at family weddings and parties, Raymond was always there.
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‘He was a nice, softly spoken man although I’ve heard there was another side to him inside the changing rooms. It’s because of him and everything he achieved that I never felt like it was impossible to become a football player or a coach.’
Harford played in the lower leagues before a managerial career including spells at Fulham, Luton and QPR. He was assistant boss to Kenny Dalglish when Blackburn won the Premier League and succeeded him at Ewood Park. He died in 2003, aged 58, less than a year after being diagnosed with lung cancer while on the coaching staff at Millwall.
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‘My nan lives in Kent and we’re really close,’ says Beale. ‘When I told her I was coming to QPR, she said, “Raymond worked there, he’ll be looking down on you”. Things like that are nice. Some things are fate.’
Beale, 41, didn’t join QPR, however, to satisfy his nan. ‘Out of all the opportunities that came up, I felt this one fitted,’ he says. ‘It’s not the club with the most money in the world to spend right now but it’s got good strong ownership and they support you.
‘The club has gone through a difficult period and had three years of stability and this is the challenge to push back to the Promised Land.’
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Charlie Austin scored 18 goals when QPR were last in the Premier League despite finishing last
Every Championship manager will go into the season saying the same, but there’s fresh optimism at a club relegated from the Premier League seven years ago and plunged into crisis when heavily punished for breaking the EFL’s financial fair play rules.
QPR are stepping into a new era with a new training ground in Heston, West London.
Beale outlines the grand plans as he steps proudly on to the immaculate playing surfaces and enthuses about how this upgrade in training facilities can accelerate development inside a club where there resides such a vast wealth of footballing knowledge.
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Rogerio Ceni has over 1200 games and 131 goals as a goalkeeper for Brazilian side Sao Paulo
Director of football Les Ferdinand and technical director Chris Ramsey were coaching at Tottenham when their move to a new training ground coincided with an upturn in performances.
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Legendary coach Ray Harford is cousin to Beale's grandmother
First-team coach Neil Banfield spent over two decades coaching at Arsenal under Arsene Wenger. Damien Matthew, Beale’s assistant manager, worked in Charlton’s academy from where the likes of Jonjo Shelvey, Joe Gomez, Ezri Konsa, Ademola Lookman and Joe Aribo emerged.
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‘Any club has to speak to its community,’ says Beale, as he plots ways to tap into a huge inner-city talent pool and the intense and intimidating rattle of Loftus Road. ‘You have to have an identity. I want us to be close to our environment and so do the owners,’ he said.
‘We have to share what we’re doing with the fan base and they have to receive it and understand it because once it’s aligned you can march in the same direction.
‘The alignment is massive. Whenever you align the board with the people who manage the team and the players and ultimately the fans, that’s powerful. You can defy the odds in the Championship by building a strong team and a strong identity and that will be our job here.
‘Nathan Jones did that at Luton in his way and Valerien Ismael did it at Barnsley. Jurgen Klopp is the best example, the manager and recruitment were in line with the model and the fans see it.’
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Beale went from teaching futsal in a church hall in Bromley to the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo
Beale has seen the other extreme. Sao Paulo, where he worked as assistant to club icon Rogerio Ceni, was less aligned.
‘After 35 games, we turned up to find we’d sold two players without being told,’ he recalls. ‘I resigned that day, a Friday. We were due to play Flamengo at the Maracana on the Sunday and Rogerio lost his job on the Tuesday.’
Ceni, who made more than 1,200 appearances for Sao Paulo and scored 131 goals as goalkeeper, is back in charge of the club, reappointed little more than four years after his sacking.
Beale got the call to ask if he would join him again but this time he politely declined. ‘I’m waiting for him to become Brazil manager,’ he quipped. ‘I’ll go abroad again when the time is right. I’d hate to retire and not spend a period coaching outside the UK, either at first-team level or as head of youth.’
First, though, the Championship with QPR.
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: Another turned his career full circle, out of Liverpool one year and back the next, in time to join Steven Gerrard as he embarked upon his own managerial career at Rangers and Aston Villa. Now Beale has returned to London, the city he calls home, where he failed to make the grade as a player at Charlton and coached in Chelsea's academy, and has taken control at Queen's Park Rangers, a club where he has family
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New boss Michael Beale wants to take QPR back to the 'Promised Land' after leaving his role as Steven Gerrard's No 2 at Aston Villa... he gained valuable experience coaching in Brazil and is related to former Rangers boss Ray Harford
- Michael Beale wants to bring QPR to the Premier League after leaving Aston Villa
- Coaching took Beale from futsal in Bromley to Sao Paulo alongside Rogerio Ceni
- His grandmother's cousin was legendary former Hoops manager Ray Harford
- Queens Park Rangers have built a new training ground in Heston, west London
- QPR open the 2022-23 season against Blackburn Rovers away at Ewood Park
PUBLISHED: 07:31 AEST, 26 July 2022 | UPDATED: 08:59 AEST, 26 July 2022
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Why wouldn’t Michael Beale believe in the wheels of fortune? One revolution took him from teaching futsal to children in a church hall in Bromley to coaching beside a Brazilian legend in the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo.
Another turned his career full circle, out of Liverpool one year and back the next, in time to join Steven Gerrard as he embarked upon his own managerial career at Rangers and Aston Villa.
Now Beale has returned to London, the city he calls home, where he failed to make the grade as a player at Charlton and coached in Chelsea’s academy, and has taken control at Queen’s Park Rangers, a club where he has family connections.
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‘Ray Harford was a cousin of my nan,’ he explains. ‘They lived in the same house growing up in central London. When I was a kid at family weddings and parties, Raymond was always there.
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‘He was a nice, softly spoken man although I’ve heard there was another side to him inside the changing rooms. It’s because of him and everything he achieved that I never felt like it was impossible to become a football player or a coach.’
Harford played in the lower leagues before a managerial career including spells at Fulham, Luton and QPR. He was assistant boss to Kenny Dalglish when Blackburn won the Premier League and succeeded him at Ewood Park. He died in 2003, aged 58, less than a year after being diagnosed with lung cancer while on the coaching staff at Millwall.
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‘My nan lives in Kent and we’re really close,’ says Beale. ‘When I told her I was coming to QPR, she said, “Raymond worked there, he’ll be looking down on you”. Things like that are nice. Some things are fate.’
Beale, 41, didn’t join QPR, however, to satisfy his nan. ‘Out of all the opportunities that came up, I felt this one fitted,’ he says. ‘It’s not the club with the most money in the world to spend right now but it’s got good strong ownership and they support you.
‘The club has gone through a difficult period and had three years of stability and this is the challenge to push back to the Promised Land.’
You must log in or register to see images
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Charlie Austin scored 18 goals when QPR were last in the Premier League despite finishing last
Every Championship manager will go into the season saying the same, but there’s fresh optimism at a club relegated from the Premier League seven years ago and plunged into crisis when heavily punished for breaking the EFL’s financial fair play rules.
QPR are stepping into a new era with a new training ground in Heston, West London.
Beale outlines the grand plans as he steps proudly on to the immaculate playing surfaces and enthuses about how this upgrade in training facilities can accelerate development inside a club where there resides such a vast wealth of footballing knowledge.
You must log in or register to see images
+6
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Rogerio Ceni has over 1200 games and 131 goals as a goalkeeper for Brazilian side Sao Paulo
Director of football Les Ferdinand and technical director Chris Ramsey were coaching at Tottenham when their move to a new training ground coincided with an upturn in performances.
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Legendary coach Ray Harford is cousin to Beale's grandmother
First-team coach Neil Banfield spent over two decades coaching at Arsenal under Arsene Wenger. Damien Matthew, Beale’s assistant manager, worked in Charlton’s academy from where the likes of Jonjo Shelvey, Joe Gomez, Ezri Konsa, Ademola Lookman and Joe Aribo emerged.
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‘Any club has to speak to its community,’ says Beale, as he plots ways to tap into a huge inner-city talent pool and the intense and intimidating rattle of Loftus Road. ‘You have to have an identity. I want us to be close to our environment and so do the owners,’ he said.
‘We have to share what we’re doing with the fan base and they have to receive it and understand it because once it’s aligned you can march in the same direction.
‘The alignment is massive. Whenever you align the board with the people who manage the team and the players and ultimately the fans, that’s powerful. You can defy the odds in the Championship by building a strong team and a strong identity and that will be our job here.
‘Nathan Jones did that at Luton in his way and Valerien Ismael did it at Barnsley. Jurgen Klopp is the best example, the manager and recruitment were in line with the model and the fans see it.’
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Beale went from teaching futsal in a church hall in Bromley to the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo
Beale has seen the other extreme. Sao Paulo, where he worked as assistant to club icon Rogerio Ceni, was less aligned.
‘After 35 games, we turned up to find we’d sold two players without being told,’ he recalls. ‘I resigned that day, a Friday. We were due to play Flamengo at the Maracana on the Sunday and Rogerio lost his job on the Tuesday.’
Ceni, who made more than 1,200 appearances for Sao Paulo and scored 131 goals as goalkeeper, is back in charge of the club, reappointed little more than four years after his sacking.
Beale got the call to ask if he would join him again but this time he politely declined. ‘I’m waiting for him to become Brazil manager,’ he quipped. ‘I’ll go abroad again when the time is right. I’d hate to retire and not spend a period coaching outside the UK, either at first-team level or as head of youth.’
First, though, the Championship with QPR.