"When Gianni left QPR, the heartbeat of the club went as well"

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From Sheffield telegraph's interview with new Notts County boss Keith Curle.

QPR’s return to the top flight was the subject of a recent BBC documentary - “The Four Year Plan” - which painted a less than flattering picture of then chairman Gianni Paladini’s reign. Curle, though, has an altogether different take on the larger than life Italian.

“When Gianni left QPR, the heartbeat of the club went as well,” he said.

“People have a certain idea about what he was like but he was a focal point and a figurehead. He had agents and representatives of this player and that player constantly telephoning him but he was really good at filtering out what those of us on the football side needed to know and all of the superfluous stuff that would just get in the way.”
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/sport/sheffield-sport/the-quiet-life-suits-county-curle-1-4363284

 

What - like how much a player actually cost?

 

I thought Curle had a brain!!!!!

 

Yep. Great at filtering out truths that players don't care about, agents love and can end up costing you a long awaited promotion.

 

Couldn't believe the headline and, having read it, can't believe the story. Based on what we saw in the Four Year Plan, Gianni would have been calling Curle a useless c**t behind his back whilst plotting away at how to sack him without a payoff.

 

My thought exactly, a backstabber and a loose canon we easily can live without.

 

Is Paladini buying into Notts County perhaps?

 

Shaun Derry is the heartbeat of the club, filling the gap left by Gareth Ainsworth. Paladini? Come on....

 

"What have the romans done for us?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso

Tarrabt, Faulin, warnock.....