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Yep, I agree. Didn't the clubs vote again recently to change some of the PSR rules?
The EFL seem reactive to most things, as most noted recently with the Southampton spygate. Despite updating the rules after Leeds they hadn't really considered the playoffs and had to do some last minute maths before the final...
If the EFL want to continue with the Championship being "the most competitive league in the world™" then they really need to work on those parachute club payments, as the advantage those teams have every year is embarrassing
(apart from Luton and Leicester proving my point wrong recently! ;p )
I don't think this is as weird as you think. I was working for a large blue chip company once, who used a consultant for some restructuring. Then afterwards one of the consultants became a COO or something else high up.
Its probably quite common, and almost seen as a long job interview by the board probably. -- Bring someone external in with different ideas, try a few of them out, if it works keep them around, but offer them a proper job so you aren't paying through the nose for the consultation fee.
In fact, I've seen a few project managers hired in the same way, so maybe it is the way some businesses work?
I wasn't saying QPR were responsible for Derby. But I guess there is an indirect effect. In that race for promotion the teams are literally competing with their budgets as well as on the field.
I just checked Capology and the three promoted teams this year all had a large budget, with Millwall an outlier.
It looks like Hull were promoted this season after a push like our last year with Warburton, where we stretched the losses to breaking point in the hopes of a good run
You've really got to feel for those teams that finish runners up in the Play offs. That year we cheated, Derby almost went bankrupt because they didn't go up.
Every year that final game gets more on it. I guess now they are promoted Hull have some options, but if they had of stayed in the Champ it really would have been a fire sale then?
I'm 100% with you on this one. I'd safely bet that some job is created called "Head of rehab/injury prevention" with the purpose of taking the heat away from Ben Williams, as his remit is so massive that he can't cope with overseeing the actual fitness of the first team.
I'd suggest that the money might be better spent in some HR coaching, as if he continues to dole out managerial meetings in the canteen then he is going to cost QPR a lot of money in tribunal cases and other associated pay offs.
I've never met him, but from listening to him at the fans forum and on a podcast my personal opinion is he is both a pr1ck and a bullsh1tter.
I reckon he's one big mistake away from Nourry pushing him out, mate or not, may as well just bring in Jake Humphries after that, and to think we all laughed at Gareth and the Haka man...
Wow! Thats some mental deal that was done, was this a Boris leftover? I'd be surprised if many of those new build stadiums last 100 years, but I'm guessing the tenants don't have to pay for the upkeep either
Are they there forever though? I thought they don't actually own anything anymore (maybe the training ground?)
I'd be worried if I was a West Ham fan, most of their "assets" are the playing squad, who must have devalued after last season, or will be offloaded at a loss if they won't take a wage cut
What happened with Furlong then Hunter? It sounds like you know more than me.
Who did he have a falling out with? I don't see how Ben Williams and Furlong would have overlapped in the Venn diagram of QPR, unless BW has such a huge remit?
Having gone through redundancy more times than I would want I know its very important that the employer follows the set procedure, when they do things incorrectly it can become very messy.
I hope Paul Furlong got weighed in on his NDA, as he was a great asset to the club and I'm sure Watfords youth development will pickup with him and Micah, even if their first team remains a raging bin fire
Alex Carroll is the academy director, so in theory is the boss of the DS coaches.
This has been the case for a while now
I'm not sure that Williams is his boss is he?
Have to wait for Fur's NDA to expire to hear what really happened. Such a shame as Paul speaks so well in this video. I'd imagine that PF held a lot of respect with all the other staff and players, due to all the experience he had. Maybe this undermined the newer methodology teams who were trying to create change?
Maybe Furs spoke up about managing the younger players in the canteen and this did for him?
Very poor though, this was a bigger loss than Marti leaving after a couple of years (which is longer than the average Championship manager/coach lasts anyway).
I'm more intrigued about how and why Furlong left the club. I don't see what Paul did wrong, off the back of some of the most success we've seen from the development squad, with regards to winning something and getting DS into the first team.
I don't even see a link between Furs leaving to go to another job? -- Felt like he was just pushed out to allow other Performance members to get a larger remit?
RE: Brian May, like most "Greatest ever" lists I think people confuse popular with talent. I've never really liked Queen, but thats OK. I realise I'm in the minority here!
I just remembered this beauty from Jon Herrington;
Not really a guitar solo, more solo guitar, but wonderfully played...
I'm guessing Madsen playing every week when he was struggling was some mandate from the CEO/DOF When all the fans were crying out for Madsen to replaced.
Maybe Marti made this clear, which created some rift?
I mean, we are shopping in the middle aisle aren't we? So, if they are coming to QPR there is usually a "thing"
Player A: Young, promising, could play at a higher level, gets injured a lot (cheap)
Player B: Old, no room to develop anymore, high wage demands, maybe can't play three games in a week (expensive)
I think we are aiming for the A's on purpose.
Of course there is also a C: where the player needs to step up a level and is unproven at Championship level. This might be M'Bengue, Kone or Burrell who were all decent last year, but those C's aren't always a success, don't forget Mac Bonne and Connor Washington or even Lyndon Dykes...
He did a whole album where they read letters sent in to adult magazines in funny voices. -- made me giggle back then if you like Derek and Clive sort of humour...
I think another poster said it first. But I fully expect someone else in the performance team to be nominated as "head of injury prevention" or some other nonsense, so that Ben Williams is out of direct fire for this one, giving Nourry the chance to not have to get rid of his personal recommendation and lose face.
With BW having such a huge remit now it would be easy to do and spin as helping him focus on other things like the grass and players welfare in the canteen
I get it, but those two things aren't mutually exclusive.
That Leicester squad was assembled at great expense and many players had played at a higher level. Someone like Harry Winks should walk into most Championships starting line-up. James, Monga and Fatawu are all good footballers.
The fact they have a poor attitude probably speaks more to the way they were managed, either by the club directly or Marti and others after him.
The nearest parallel is when QPR were relegated with a squad on paper capable of mid table.
My two pence on this. I don't think Marti should have been sacked like that, but I also don't think Stephan has done a bad job replacing him.
The last manager I liked before this was def Warburton, although I also remember a lot of dire games under him, he did speak well and I think was proven correct about the youth setup (which did for him at the time)
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