Tony Fernandes says Mark Hughes will not be sacked despite crisis at QPR QPR will not sack Mark Hughes even if the club are involved in a relegation battle for the rest of the season. Powerless: QPR manager Mark Hughes can't hide his frustration after his side lose again Photo: ACTION IMAGES By Jason Burt 9:30PM BST 06 Oct 2012 Comment QPR slumped to another defeat on Saturday, losing 3-2 away to West Bromwich Albion, which left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table with just two points from seven matches and still in search of their first victory. In an interview with *The Sunday Telegraph*, QPR chairman Tony Fernandes said emphatically: âMy faith in Mark has not wavered. Not at all. Iâm 1,000 per cent behind him. I love him. Heâs honest, hard-working, ambitious and heâs a friend.â Fernandes, who sacked Neil Warnock last January before appointing Hughes, said that success this season - given all the changes at the club with 17 players leaving and 12 signed and a host of injuries - would constitute finishing âone position above last season, then thatâs progress. Thereâs a rough diamond in the making hereâ. Last season QPR finished just above the relegation places, on a dramatic final day, during a difficult campaign and Fernandes said: âWe changed the manager before and I did that because I didnât feel Neil was the guy to take us forward for the next 10 years. I believe that Mark can. âWe get on very well, heâs had success in every club heâs been at. Weâve been incredibly unlucky - look at last season with the number of sendings off we had, goals disallowed, over the line at Bolton. All kinds of things. âI can tell you all the players are impressed by Mark. Heâs a proven product and I do think the criticism is crazy. When I came in I thought Neil would be here for a long time but unfortunately I then felt we had to make a change. Iâve learnt and weâve up-graded.â Fernandes said he knew that QPR would have a difficult start to this season. âI knew it would be tough. If you look at all my comments at the beginning of the season I knew our season wouldnât really start until December. Why do I say that? We virtually bought a new team here and like anything it takes time.â The Malaysian entrepreneur added: âMy model is Arsenal - where you have a stable manager and coaching squad. Thatâs what I believe in. If you look at all my companies that is how I operate. Stability is the key. âWeâve also had a lot of injuries. I donât care whether you are the greatest manager in the world - but if you suddenly have to play four centre-backs in the defence it is going to affect you. But the squad is good. The manager and coaching staff are excellent. Spirit is good. âThere are going to be ups and downs, we will learn from it and get stronger but Iâm not panicking. Iâm here for the long term and am here to put something good together. We are under the public eye. You have to be a big boy and deal with the criticism. It doesnât change my feelings at all. People want to win, they want results and they want to criticize.â
i am not saying he should be sacked but you cant leave him with the impression that no matter what happens his job is safe
TF sounds as clueless as Sparkless - dead man walking and no amount of Foie and Sauternes could convince me otherwise DT2. Just now waiting for the 'ups' to come along!
Is he that deluded? Apart from a crazy error from Ferdinand, that would have been a draw and if the last ball had landed to Granero or Adel (and Anton had not screwed up) we might even have won it! I know it is 'if, but and maybe' at present but this team is too good to not do well eventually,especially if we get a monster centre back in January too. Chris Samba, you are needed mate! (and I am not saying wait til Jan to sort it out either).
At the moment one place above last seasons finish looks like a tall order Have we been out of the bottom 3 yet this season ?
Beginning to have doubts. There's Hughes, there's his F1 team and then there's the rumours around Air Asia.
Teams with good players have been relegated before. Just because we have good players on paper does not mean we will get out of this mess.
Geezer must be an idiot.i just hope he fcuks off, takes his friend Hughes with him and mital finally takes over.
So,they are good friends?!.Great!.Would cost close to 20 million to get rid of him,his team and agent(who is same as Tevez,Cesar!)..then they have to spend millions to get another manager in....Looks like we will either go down or survive with Hughes and with Mittals apprently joggin on,there is no way Hughes is going anywhere!.
QPR - bottom. Caterham - bottom. AirAsia - not the cash cow he makes it out to be. His overconfidence in his own abilities may be his weakness.
Still one massive win from 14th! Difference to last season is I can see us improving by a lot whereas I can't say the same for the teams around us.
Its the 'Emperors have no clothes' then. So be it. **** the whole lot, I'll be a supporter when they have ****ed off.
You cant expect him to say.." We are in trouble,I cant pay off millions to change managers,we have a few players that look like league 1 players and we are in the **** at the moment!"...damage limitation chaps. Also,everyone knows we have a few quality players in,but we dont have a quality 'squad'..if2 or 3 of our best players get injured,the next players to come in are Hill,Derry and Mackie!!
Man, everything you say is correct. But.... we're paying this guy and his entourage serious ****ing money and they're next to ****ing useless. None of us forced him to get the side he has assembled.
