"Just passing on a few comments made by a member of MH team. He was asked to resign after Southampton game, but declined. He has a team of 15+ back room staff who are all on contracts with QPR and in all it would cost QPR in excess of 9 million to pay them all off. Board worried more about losing some of his loyal back room staff than they are of losing MH!! Pretty much what had been speculated, but nice to hear they have asked him to go." So I think that sums up the fact that hes going and they want to keep the back room staff, so the pay off would be hugely reduced, he surely has to go after Man U but before Sunderland. Maybe the delay is finding out who wants to stay and then finding replacements, the club dont want to sack Hughes and then find out the 15 odd staff resign as well and we literally have no one apart from the new manager.
So a new manager could get lumbered with a backroom staff and no room to bring in his own people in. mmm. Sounds dubious.
I'd let the lot of them go. A new manager would probably want his own staff anyway. £9m is **** all in comparison to what relegation would cost us. Additionally, if this is true and Hughes is just hanging on for a pay off, someone should (ahem) 'teach him the error of his ways'! ****ing leech!
Yeah but it looks like the club like them and want them to stay with the new man rather than resign if Hughes is sacked, the exact opposite of what most people thought. Did arrys backroom team resign or are they still at spurs, he might not have any to come with him so will want to keep Hughes staff on.
But if the rest of them resign surely there is no payout. Just another example of idiots trying to be jornos but not capable of joined up thinking.
I would have thought hes under instructions from Hughes although Im not even sure we have a defensive coach. What we do know is that the coaches are left to themselves. We need a man whos going to be at the training ground taking the training which is why Im not totally happy with arry.
Of course there will be no pay outs but we have to find a load of staff to replace them. Thats the problem, not getting rid of them which is what a lot of us thought.
If that 15 includes Rigg, the scouts, medical and conditioning people, academy staff you can see why keeping them would be handy - they are the infrastructure we need to build on. But unless they are on bizarre contracts linked to Hughes being at the club, they would have to resign if they are affronted by him getting the boot. And why would they do that - no compensation, no job to go to and likely a long wait for one if they will only work for Hughes, when the club has made it clear that they are wanted. Presumably the other first team coaches would get the boot though. This is just weird.
Didnt Rigg join us direct from Man City? In that case he was happy to stay there after MH left there. Surely the tool doesn't have that much pull at the club ??
You're right Windsor, hope he would not be on the list, think he is second only to Beard in making QPR ultra professional. By all accounts a shambles under the previous regime. In this context first team coach should be the replaceable tip of the pyramid. Much more difficult to rebuild the base without starting from scratch.
Would only be Hughes, Bowen, Hitchcock and Niedzwiecki leaving. They are 'the team', the rest are employed by the club on the recommendation of Hughes and will of course stay on. The rest will only leave if MH new employee pay a compensation. Arry would bring his own entourage of Joe Jordan and one or two more.
Why don't they just sack the c*nt? If they're counting the pennies it'll cost them pounds in the long run...
Cerny could become the GK coach, Ive seen him doing some coaching in the warmups. The assistant usually follows the manager so that just leaves one more coach.
They will sacrifice him for the Man U match, we will get slaughtered and the new man will come in and hopefully get that new manager bounce for Sunderland and Villa. The last thing they want to do is bring a new man in and have us lose 6-0 at Man U and have the players and fans think nothing has changed.
Let's wait and see what happens. We still have the press conference tomorrow. Given the total absence of Hughes from the Official website over the last week, it will be interesting to see who holds it. It will also be very interesting to see who plays and how the team responds on Saturday. Glad I've got my tickets. Barring some ingenious misinformation fed to our numerous sources, we can only go forwards from here. The players will know that they are playing for their futures so I expect a slightly more spirited effort on saturday. The result is of no consequence. We were 99.99% certain to lose and those odds are not going to worsen unless we have a pre-match announcement that Hughes has had his contract extended.
I can't believe there are 15 people that follow the useless **** around the country hanging on his every mumble, the foldey arms ****
