This article published in the Mail on Sunday will ring true to most QPR fans. Hoddle's no idiot and he's had a chance to see objectively how "behind the scenes" at TF's QPR is working. The simplicity of the reporting structure at Southampton, for example, must be the kind of model we should be following, rather than TF stuffing our management structure with well-known footballing names and big egos who will all be falling out with each other:
"Glenn Hoddle is critical of the lack of clarity behind the scenes at QPR having worked there last season under Harry Redknapp before the manager parted company with the club and it went down.
Having sacked two more managers since, the club are drifting and might be heading further down the Football League as they search for their next boss following the latest departure of Chris Ramsey.
Hoddle believes that the club’s back room structure is in urgent need of a complete over haul so all the departments support the manager rather than confuse him. Neil Warnock has been installed to steady the ship.
Writing in his Mail on Sunday column, former Chelsea and Spurs boss Hoddle says: “QPR are a club I feel affectionate towards having worked there as a first-team coach under Harry Redknapp for several months last season.
“I wasn’t privy to the inner workings at Loftus Road but it always felt to me there should have been greater clarity within the club over who does what.
“Nothing that has happened since including the appointment of Les Ferdinand as director of football, arrival of Neil Warnock as first-team advisor and the dismissal of Chris Ramsey as manager a few months after he was given a three-year contract suggests to me things are any clearer at the moment.
“Individually, there are a lot of good people at QPR including owner Tony Fernandes and all the people I’ve mentioned but that’s not good if they aren’t working as a unit and the job lines are blurred.
“Whoever is the first-team manager has to know who he should report to if he is interested in signing a player. From what I saw there, you were never quite sure what the jobs were of the people around the club, where each person’s responsibility started and ended.
“It is not surprising in those circumstances that things can become muddled and that can affect results on the pitch.
“When I was manager at Southampton, I spoke to the chairman Rupert Lowe every day, he’d give me an update on where the club was on different things, I’d give him an overview of what we were doing in the first-team. It was organised.
“Although Harry was much more involved than I was with dealing with different departments, I felt people didn’t know their job specifications.
“Following relegation from the Premier League last season, you feel they need a revamp from top to bottom. There are parts of the jigsaw missing which goes beyond the first-team manager’s office.”
"Glenn Hoddle is critical of the lack of clarity behind the scenes at QPR having worked there last season under Harry Redknapp before the manager parted company with the club and it went down.
Having sacked two more managers since, the club are drifting and might be heading further down the Football League as they search for their next boss following the latest departure of Chris Ramsey.
Hoddle believes that the club’s back room structure is in urgent need of a complete over haul so all the departments support the manager rather than confuse him. Neil Warnock has been installed to steady the ship.
Writing in his Mail on Sunday column, former Chelsea and Spurs boss Hoddle says: “QPR are a club I feel affectionate towards having worked there as a first-team coach under Harry Redknapp for several months last season.
“I wasn’t privy to the inner workings at Loftus Road but it always felt to me there should have been greater clarity within the club over who does what.
“Nothing that has happened since including the appointment of Les Ferdinand as director of football, arrival of Neil Warnock as first-team advisor and the dismissal of Chris Ramsey as manager a few months after he was given a three-year contract suggests to me things are any clearer at the moment.
“Individually, there are a lot of good people at QPR including owner Tony Fernandes and all the people I’ve mentioned but that’s not good if they aren’t working as a unit and the job lines are blurred.
“Whoever is the first-team manager has to know who he should report to if he is interested in signing a player. From what I saw there, you were never quite sure what the jobs were of the people around the club, where each person’s responsibility started and ended.
“It is not surprising in those circumstances that things can become muddled and that can affect results on the pitch.
“When I was manager at Southampton, I spoke to the chairman Rupert Lowe every day, he’d give me an update on where the club was on different things, I’d give him an overview of what we were doing in the first-team. It was organised.
“Although Harry was much more involved than I was with dealing with different departments, I felt people didn’t know their job specifications.
“Following relegation from the Premier League last season, you feel they need a revamp from top to bottom. There are parts of the jigsaw missing which goes beyond the first-team manager’s office.”
