http://www.tribalfootball.com/artic...r-consolidate-their-premiership-berth-3187771 QPR chairman Tony Fernandes has his sights firmly set on a prolonged stay back among England's elite clubs. He said on www.London24.com: "I feel confident that Mark (Hughes) is potentially the man who could take QPR into another era, a stable era, where we become an established Premier League club. "Mark is immensely impressive. He has got a great personality, is very ambitious, down to earth, has his ego in check and he knows his stuff. "He was a player in the Premier League for a long time so he has competed at the highest levels. Every club he has been to he has excelled at. "I want to be a club like Arsenal or Manchester United, who have had the same manager for a long time, and West Ham as well, when John Lyall and Ron Greenwood were there." Air Asia and Caterham F1 Team boss Fernandes added: "Stability is important. You can't build anything without that. You can't do things if you don't have time. "I am not saying we want to be champions tomorrow, Europe or whatever, but I think the next stage is for us to be a club which will remain in the Premier League for a long time." Rangers have plans for a state-of-the-art training facility and are keen to explore stadium options, with Loftus Road a restrictive capacity of just over 18,000. Fernandes said: "People might ask how we would fill a 40,000-seater stadium, but I built an airline from a few hundred thousand passengers and now we have 32 million. "Build it right, market it right, and people will come. We are in the best city in the world, and in the best part of London." - See more at: http://www.tribalfootball.com/artic...remiership-berth-3187771#sthash.hug3rpmj.dpuf 3 years ago, the next stage was to remain in the premier league "for a long time" Discuss.
"QPR fans. Don’t despair. Lots to look forward to. You have shareholders who care. Not perfect. Made mistakes. But we care." Care about what exactly?
Our Tony has made a bit of a plum of himself. I hear the stadium will now be around 30K? I guess the artist who did that picture still got paid though?
What was it supposed to be? 30k sounds right to me but hopefully with the ability to add extra if required.
40K but playing in the Championship we should aim for 14K. Sadly TF and that muppet Redknapp have blow all of our plans out of the water. We should be building a stadium that we don't need to add to soon but if need be, than easily done. We need to be realistic about present and future and where we want to be. I have always stuck up for TF and believed all the crap he used to spout but until he actually succeeds in something QPR related, then i shall think all he says is hot air.
Okay so we're as far away from this dream as ever but I'm still prepared to cut TF some slack. There's no manual on how to build the perfect football club. There's no handy pamphlet on how to build a successful team. There are about 80 clubs in the football league as far away from this dream as us, in fact most of them significantly further. We're not in a terrible position. I'm prepared to be glass half full about this and accept that the right noises are being made despite the fact we don't seem to be making noticeable progress. I suspect a lot of hard work is going on behind the scenes and i think we need to understand the vast obstacles the club has to hurdle to build stadia / training grounds and so on. IMO we've hit bad luck with Warren Farm and Car Giant and even the Hughes debacle in retrospect seems to have been a bit of an anomaly - he's been solid at every other club he's been at. This dream TF is selling is still alive for me but anybody who thought it was a quick fix was being delusional. People have taken umbrage to TF due to his Twittering but on all honesty is that really a massive problem?? Annoying perhaps but hardly something to hang the man for. He has a vision for the club, I believe he genuinely cares, he's spunked a lot of his own cash up the wall, from what i can make out, and that buys him some more time with me. I've seen some posts about the club being better run under Tango & Cash but i think the people who say that are forgetting just what a cocking shambles it was. There was no vision, a managerial merry go-round (Magilton. Hartford Hart anyone?) and appalling football until, by complete fluke, they appointed Warnock who then stumbled on the perfect team in 1/3 of a season. From relegation fodder to champions in a year? Miraculous. And unlikely to be achieved again anytime soon... anywhere. As for the debt, we weren't in debt because the owners had no intention of spending any actual cash from what i can work out! I think this season is key. If Ramsey turns out to be useless and and we're fighting relegation then I'll start to re-evaluate but at the moment I'm not depressing the panic button and am prepared to accept that building a successful club does not happen overnight despite that fact the people in charge claim to have a 3 or 4 year plan or whatever it is. There's simply too many variables in football to so I'm prepared to wait a little longer for success - whatever that means!!
Following the 'Four Year Plan', Tony Fernandes took over four years ago this month. This is his 'Four Year Plan' revisited... 1. Promise fans the Earth 2. Promise fans the Earth with knobs on 3. Promise fans the Earth with knobs on and a new training ground 4. Promise fans the Earth with knobs on and a new training ground and a shiny new stadium 5. Sign a bunch of overpaid has-beens 6. Sack the manager and sign a big-name manager 7. Sign some more overpaid has-beens 8. Miraculously avoid relegation 9. Sign some more overpaid has-beens 10. Sack the manager and sign a big-name manager 11. Sign some more overpaid has-beens 12. Get relegated 13. Sign some more overpaid has-beens 14. Avoid automatic promotion 15. Win play-off at Wembley by mistake 16. Sign some more overpaid has-beens 17. Sign overpaid loan player 18. Force manager to quit the day after window shuts 19. Sign unknown manager 20. Get relegated. 21. Give up...
....... Only because our squad are injured but the thought is there so even if we don't / can't / won't train, we need to be seen to have everything in place.
The perfect timeline As most on here know he should of shown strength as kept Hughes His got weak because the fans started kicking off Hughes today
I wish this was a tongue-in-cheek post but the reality is that it's pretty much spot on with what's happened - what a shambles
That unfair as I'm compelled to bite, Hughes does well on a low budget, not so good when Kia & the Cash spin his strange little head. It was a bad match, and interviewing the club as he did meant he was gone before he started. Genius Manager.
