When has gardening leave ever turned into "welcome back, we've missed you!"?
He's off and we now start the process of looking for a successor and we are back in the territory of who would want to come? rather than who would we like.
I don't know if it is a tempting offer to join a very small mid-table club where you can't buy anyone, all you can do is get free transfers and loanees or hope that there are some hungry stars in waiting in our youth team.
Still, wouldn't be QPR without a bit of drama!
Fabio Capello was the classic exponent of the 'paid until you take another job' scam - he cost the FA a fortune