Bobby Zamora praises QPR boss Harry Redknapp's impact on team spirit

Bobby Zamora praises QPR boss Harry Redknapp's impact on team spirit





Oct 18, 2014 22:30
By Dave Kidd


The former West Ham forward says the mood around the club has improved vastly during Redknapp's time at the club




Bobby Zamora admits the Loftus Road dressing room was such a miserable place two years ago that he wished he never had to go training.

But the Rangers striker insists there are no such problems this season and is adamant that it is far too early for owner Tony Fernandes to panic and sack boss Harry Redknapp.

Redknapp is odds-on favourite to be the next Premier League manager to leave his post with Rangers bottom heading into today’s home clash with Liverpool.

But Zamora, 33, insists the squad assembled by Redknapp is far more united than that which Mark Hughes recruited, before Redknapp took them down in May 2013.

And the ex-England man admits he even took a pay cut to stay when his contract expired last summer.

Zamora, whose play-off final winner earned Rangers a return to the Premier League, said: “It was a case of just wishing you didn’t have to go to training for a week, just turn up on Saturday, so you’re not about it all week, you just wanted to get into game time.

“When game time comes, everyone is fighting for the same cause but during the week tempers flare. But I’m talking about two seasons ago – this season the lads have been spot on. Every aspect of this club is different. There are only four or five of us left and these lads get on now.

“Rio Ferdinand was at Manchester United a long time and he can’t believe the togetherness of the lads and the spirit.”

Zamora, who achieved great relegation escapes at West Ham and Fulham, believes it is crazy that Redknapp’s future is being questioned after seven games.


He said: “It is crazy. Harry has a wealth of experience, relegations, promotions, finals – he’s seen it all. You can win two games and you’re back up there.

“We are all behind the manager, he brought most of the players in. Harry has supported us and wanted us here. He has been calm, he has not been ranting and raving.

“It hasn’t come to the point where it’s panic stations. A couple of months before the end of the season you might panic but we’ll have plenty of points on the board then.

“The players all feel with 31 games to go there is plenty of time to get out of this.”

Zamora revealed he agreed a wage cut to stay at Rangers as he was desperate to test himself in the top flight again. He said: “I am just pleased to be back in the Premier League. You want to be playing alongside the best players in the world.”

 

What he says means very little if we continue to get our backsides, smacked.
How about putting all that 'warm & fuzzy' feelings into the game and getting a result ............. then it may mean something to us fans.