| Hoos on Warbs Future 14:01 - Apr 8 with 5721 views | daveB |
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Exclusive: Mark Warburton could earn automatic QPR contract extension, confirms Hoops chief Hoos
Hoos, speaking exclusively to Standard Sport, has dismissed talk that Warburton is set to face the sack after four straight defeats dented Rangers' push for the top six - and issued a rallying cry to players ahead of the final six games.
Warburton's contract is up at the end of the season and Hoos conceded that club and manager could still part ways at the end of the campaign, but added that there is every chance the former Brentford boss could earn a new deal - and a big finish to the season may take the issue out of QPR's hands.
“Mark came out after someone asked directly does his contract end [this summer],” Hoos tell Standard Sport. “It's not quite that simple. There are three avenues that we could go down.
"One which would be the contract ends this summer and we shake hands and say, ‘Let's everybody just take a step back and take a deep breath and figure out where we're going to go’.
"Second the contract ends, and we renegotiate another contract, and we continue on, or he hits certain trigger points in the contract, in which case is automatically renewed."
Hoos is reluctant to give specifics on what would trigger that clause, but adds: “[If it is triggered] we will have had a very good end to the season.”
Ahead of last month's international break, QPR had beaten Luton to move fourth in the table. However, Warburton's side have lost four on the bounce since then and now sit five points outside of the play-offs with six games to go.
Tempers have been raised among a disappointed fan base - something Hoos understands - but there is a clear message that the season is far from over just yet.
“The fans have always been behind us,” says Hoos. “One thing I never forget [about football], is that it is about venting. The whole thing is about venting.
“When it goes well it is fantastic and it goes great, but when it does not you just want to get it out. I do it just as much as the next man, I just can't do it publicly - my wife has to bear the brunt of that.
“I am in the same boat, so is Mark Warburton and Les [Ferdinand]. There is a level of frustration. I mean everybody needs to remember this team is good. Players, you guys are good. Just reconnect with that, don't overthink it, just go out and do what comes naturally.”
Whether QPR make the play-offs or not, there can be heart taken from the fact they are no longer betting the house on pushes like these and will be well placed to go again this season.
However, few inside the club like to see it that way.
“You can say look how far we have come,” Hoos says. “I know how far we have come but it is about making sure we continue on that journey.”
In continuing that journey, Hoos and those around him at senior level must find a way to compete with those clubs - such as Fulham, Norwich and Watford - who happily bounce between the Premier League and Championship aided by the parachute payments each season.
Parachute payments are a double benefit now, a soft landing and a boost.
FA figures released last month revealed that their London rivals had spent more than £10million on agents fees between February 2021 and the end of the January transfer window - almost a quarter of all the cash spent on such fees in the entire Championship and more than 10 times what QPR spent.
“It is tough,” says Hoos.
“It is one of the reasons why the Football League are saying - from a competitive standpoint - we have to do something about parachute payments.
“Clubs have said all along that they are a problem and they hurt. They are supposed to be a soft landing. It's a double benefit now, they get a soft landing and a boost.
“I don't want it to sound like we've hit a headwind and now we're moaning, this isn't sour grapes.
“The Premier League has to play ball on this if we're going to get traction, and they're clearly not. It is in their interest to keep kicking the can down the road. Football is incapable of changing unless the government comes in, the reality is that it is incapable of governing itself.” [Post edited 8 Apr 2022 14:02]
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| Hoos on Warbs Future on 22:27 - Apr 8 with 1357 views | distortR |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 22:17 - Apr 8 by The_Beast1976 |
The solution is for the FL to breakaway from the PL and cast it adrift on its own. Withdraw from the FA Cup so just PL clubs left in it, rename the EFL Cup and invite all non-league teams to enter (i.e. a replica of the FA Cup but no PL teams). Give it 10-15yrs of being cast adrift on its own and the PL would eventually collapse . Conversely, the FL could and would go from strength to strength. |
Hmmmmmmmmm, are you advocating a great reset, Mr Beast? |  | | |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 01:05 - Apr 9 with 1215 views | davman |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 22:17 - Apr 8 by The_Beast1976 |
The solution is for the FL to breakaway from the PL and cast it adrift on its own. Withdraw from the FA Cup so just PL clubs left in it, rename the EFL Cup and invite all non-league teams to enter (i.e. a replica of the FA Cup but no PL teams). Give it 10-15yrs of being cast adrift on its own and the PL would eventually collapse . Conversely, the FL could and would go from strength to strength. |
I like the idea Beasty, but the FA would never allow or sanction it and therefore neither will UEFA or FIFA, which means anyone who participates in it will not be eligible to play International Football. The European Super League would be a different story of course and we all know why that is... |  |
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| Hoos on Warbs Future on 08:03 - Apr 9 with 1084 views | stevec |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 22:17 - Apr 8 by The_Beast1976 |
The solution is for the FL to breakaway from the PL and cast it adrift on its own. Withdraw from the FA Cup so just PL clubs left in it, rename the EFL Cup and invite all non-league teams to enter (i.e. a replica of the FA Cup but no PL teams). Give it 10-15yrs of being cast adrift on its own and the PL would eventually collapse . Conversely, the FL could and would go from strength to strength. |
That’ll only work if players in the EFL were willing to play for the minimum wage.
Owners would bail out without the lure of the promised land, tv rights would drop through the floor (was it ITV digital?). The Championship would be begging Sky to take them back.
It’s not the owners or fans that wield the power, it’s TV and the players so unless they agree to change, we’ll have to put up with Friday night football for the foreseeable. |  | | |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 08:08 - Apr 9 with 1080 views | PunteR |
The championship need to negotiate more money from TV if SKY can dictate our fixtures. |  |
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| Hoos on Warbs Future on 08:14 - Apr 9 with 1074 views | distortR |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 08:08 - Apr 9 by PunteR |
The championship need to negotiate more money from TV if SKY can dictate our fixtures. |
I wonder if any research has ever been done on the effect on results by changing fixtures, e.g does a sunday morning fixture aid the away team by quietening the home crowd, or possibly the home team by altering the away teams travel arrangements. And how does that effect the next fixture, etc? Of course, it may not make any tangible difference to anyone but the supporters, who knows? | | | |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 12:40 - Apr 9 with 921 views | The_Beast1976 |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 22:27 - Apr 8 by distortR |
Hmmmmmmmmm, are you advocating a great reset, Mr Beast? |
🤣🤣🤣 very good | | | |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 12:45 - Apr 9 with 907 views | The_Beast1976 |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 01:05 - Apr 9 by davman |
I like the idea Beasty, but the FA would never allow or sanction it and therefore neither will UEFA or FIFA, which means anyone who participates in it will not be eligible to play International Football. The European Super League would be a different story of course and we all know why that is... |
All very good points. There goes my plan then!!! 😓
As usual, the people at the top controlling things in their own best interests rather than the interests of the thing or people in whose interests they are supposed to be controlling it (much like the 'pandemic' and the current Ukraine 'war', but I'll leave that alone here). The FA, UEFA and FIFA need overthrowing. As we all know, they only stopped the Euro Super League because they (FA, UEFA, FIFA) weren't being 'cut in' on it. Had they been getting their 'cut' it would undoubtedly be starting this August. It's all about power and money, not sport or sporting interest.
All existing authority needs bringing down and starting again. Viva la revolution 👊💪 [Post edited 9 Apr 2022 18:47]
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| Hoos on Warbs Future on 14:55 - Apr 9 with 772 views | Damo1962 |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 17:02 - Apr 8 by Northernr |
Parachute payments exist because there is an enormous financial gulf between the two divisions' TV money, and if you take a business that's one moment doing revenues of £150m+ and then over one summer take away £120m of that revenue the business more often than not will collapse, and we don't want football clubs going out of business left right and centre just because some twerp though Solomon Rondon was a Premier League striker (or Mark Hateley).
However... What do the clubs spend that financial gulf on? Majority, vast majority, goes on wages. Now, a team like Everton, who've been in the Premier League forever, I can perhaps understand. But when promoted teams go up and just immediately start putting their existing players on Premier League money, and all their new signings on stupid cash (hi Joey, Shaun, Bobby) that's just asking for trouble. Either way you could, if not completely do away with the need for parachute payments, then certainly reduce them drastically so they don't wreck the Champ quite so much, by making relegation clauses mandatory in every Premier League contract on the playing side of the business.
Every well run club should do this anyway, but if you had a rule that says every player/manager contract at the club either reverts straight back to what it was in the Championship, or for new signings and teams that haven't been in the Championship for five years reduces by 75% in line with the income, you wouldn't have a problem. You're in the Premier League? Congratulations, you're going to be paid a fortune. Oh, you were a bit sht and got relegated? Well, sorry mate, Championship wage for you (which will still be very handsome btw, average salary in this league now kicks around £20k a week).
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Far too sensible Clive.Modern football and it's Capitalist template, don't care about clubs outside the "elite" half dozen or so. Nothing will change, and the real "supporters" and not "fans" of English football clubs, will continue to be ignored and sneered at. Don't think boycotting matches would do anything except send a lot of clubs under. They want a Super League - the rest of us are just a hindrance. | | | |
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| Hoos on Warbs Future on 14:57 - Apr 9 with 768 views | Damo1962 |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 22:17 - Apr 8 by The_Beast1976 |
The solution is for the FL to breakaway from the PL and cast it adrift on its own. Withdraw from the FA Cup so just PL clubs left in it, rename the EFL Cup and invite all non-league teams to enter (i.e. a replica of the FA Cup but no PL teams). Give it 10-15yrs of being cast adrift on its own and the PL would eventually collapse . Conversely, the FL could and would go from strength to strength. |
Great suggestion. Sign me up 😎 | | | |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 15:00 - Apr 9 with 767 views | Damo1962 |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 08:14 - Apr 9 by distortR |
I wonder if any research has ever been done on the effect on results by changing fixtures, e.g does a sunday morning fixture aid the away team by quietening the home crowd, or possibly the home team by altering the away teams travel arrangements. And how does that effect the next fixture, etc? Of course, it may not make any tangible difference to anyone but the supporters, who knows? |
We haven't been great at LR this season, bar a few notable exceptions - and we have been on Skyshite more than anyone. So the answer to your question is...possibly 🤔🙂 | | | |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 16:39 - Apr 9 with 720 views | stevec |
Should sack him tonight, we don’t need a manager until the summer, it’s soul destroying carrying on like this. | | | |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 16:56 - Apr 9 with 690 views | golborne |
| Hoos on Warbs Future on 16:57 - Apr 8 by WestbourneR |
I took it as a pretty negative take on MW's future - personally I'd expect Hoos et al to be desperate to keep him on. He's been fantastic for the balance book. He seemed to make it sound pretty 50/50 if he'd stay or go.
Even if we continue to tank this season I'd 100% keep him, no question. I'm pretty shocked so many are now thinking otherwise. Seems very short sighted and short memories.
He's developed players, sold them for good money, overall bought extremely well. And for the most we look organised, professional, together and the football is usually good.
We also have to remember that we've managed to be firmly in the play-offs for 3/4 season despite the fact...
- Our two marquee signings SJ and Austin have just utterly failed to fire. No one could have predicted that.
- We have a bottom six budget
- Our best player, Willock (who identified by Warbs and his team and bought for a song) has got injured.
- Key injuries to wing backs for large periods
- African Cup of Nations
- Losing three first choice goalkeepers to serious injury
- No permanent or signings or ambitious money made available in the Christmas window when it was needed to keep the push going.
Those are some difficult things to ride out and it's just caught up with the team and MW. We look slow and totally out of energy.
One thing I do totally agree with Northern about is we desperately need to get some athleticism and pace into this squad.
And MW needs to alternate the formation occasionally. Why ONLY play 4231 and then ONLY play wingbacks? Use them both when required. Horses for courses. Particularly when the injuries stack up. [Post edited 9 Apr 2022 17:31]
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Amen - but as an aside on the main topic, based on today we look quite open with 2 at the back, so I'd likely start most games with 3 and mix it up if we're chasing a game | | | |
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