coaching
critch 3 year deal = strategic or boilerplate contract length? locked in too long like niko kneejerk overreaction to BOS ooc?
remit encompasses end of cycle and renewal on summer sales. not under pressure to deliver results w/ short term success in mind unless relegation looms
NC "The way that the club is run and how the team want to play, there is a clear alignment in my thinking and their thinking"
NC "You always pay respect and have an awareness of what was before you, but it’s also important that you stay true to your principles and how you want to play. There will be slight changes – that’s inevitable when there is a change in the head coach. I have asked the players to be open-minded and to be ready for that. There will be differences, but while the group aren’t in a great moment, there is no doubting the quality of the squad. [...] We have to remind them what they’re good at and get back to that."
surely unnecessary and counter-productive to rush midseason implement anything other than style that two prev managers have constructed with best assets in best positions
bigger the sales = better the resources for actual 2.5yrs of job
what tactics - width? more terrier press
8/10 matches have had full weeks with squad / no midweeks
LF "The new manager has come in, he’s trying to put across his ideas and I wouldn’t say they’re too far away from where Mick is but unfortunately when you’ve lost confidence, which we certainly have and it shows in the way we’re playing at the moment, it’s very difficult to get back on the winning track."
how well does les know the difference between mb and nc?
how and to what extent does DoF oversee/quantify progress coaching beyond green/redlighting transfer suggestions?
does nc have free reign to use his 3 years how he pleases other than wrt what players he is given
if he is as presumably hired for development experience how are the board's strategic expectations and alignment enforced?
LF "it happened to me at Newcastle where we lost the league and people questioned the mentality – when you lose confidence in football you play individually rather than as a team. That’s where we are at the moment. You’re trying to get your part right and you’re thinking ‘if I get my part right everything will be ok’, but then he's saying the same thing, and so is he, and we look disjointed. That’s where we are at the moment."
Beale was instrumental in Rangers adopting a 4-3-3 system under Gerrard. But unlike the conventional formation, their wide players played narrow in attack and were given licence to create. Dorrans says that was down to Beale and it’s why a player like Ryan Kent really began to flourish at Ibrox. He said: “I like a coach to coach and that’s what Mick did. He was brilliant at it. Players bought into his ideas and knew exactly what he wanted. “The sessions he put on were different and boys like Kenty really benefited. One of Mick’s ideas was the two No.10s – wide players who didn’t stay wide but came inside. That was different but it helped Kenty and Rangers. Normally with a 4-3-3, the wide men played as wingers. We saw that a lot under Gio. But Mick was big on the two 10s and coached boys like Ryan to play that position. It’s a cheat position in football so you need clever ideas to make it work. Mick managed to implement that as soon as he came in. Some coaches in the game nowadays don’t actually coach enough. They don’t give out enough information to the players. But Mick is someone who does. Under him, you know your job and everything you should be doing. You take his ideas from the training pitch into games.
players
sulking, down tools, confidence
"down tools" it's a managers job to inspire...
if there was "a sense of ‘something is going on with Mick’ " then that doesnt also mean they will tank their own careers pining for him
bottlers bollockings, shaun derry pashun merchantry
it's a transactional industry, symbiotic relationship
you vs yourself, best version of yourself - individual emphasis
there is always a disconnect between fans projections from childhood into old age and a professionals industry
what you're really criticising is a teams ability or lack thereof to manage themselves out of adversity - but ask yourself what is the adversity
we go into freefall bc there is no framework to put faith into, everything is messianic or apocalyptic
hatefully insipid
Young manager, young squad, no backing but a clear process and buy-in from the players. These things take time and have ups and downs.
laird unserious? but at a crucial stage in his career
https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/59547/les-ferdinand-%E2%80%93-patreon
LF "these boys set a standard for themselves and they’re well below that standard. We fell away at the end of last season too, terribly. What we do know is these boys are capable of playing football at the highest level in this division but mentally there is something wrong. We’re addressing that, we’ve brought a new psychologist in to help with that part because that’s the part we’re struggling with at the moment – under previous managers we’ve had this dip as well."
board / les
~£2.34m in compensation Dec 22 [£1.5m for Beale + £440k WC comp for Dieng/Chair - 600k villa comp]
is there a more important person at the club than the head coach?? right man can bring everything together quickly. compensation for right man is worth more than any transfer kitty - 600k for Beale put the whole club in sync
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/morocco-world-cup-2022-qpr-ilias-chair-b1046570.html
QPR have made £260,000 from Morocco’s run to the World Cup semi-finals. Rangers midfielder Ilias Chair is part of the Atlas Lions’ squad in Qatar and FIFA pay clubs around £8,000 for every day their player is away at the tournament. QPR have already benefitted from goalkeeper Seny Dieng making the last-16 with Senegal, with that run banking the west London club around £180,000.
algorithms sounds so idiotic, betrays neurosis about being left behind
2 x 10s chimes with us but is that what we hired for? and if so then why critchley after?
would have been nothing wrong with either i) he's been in development circles for 20 years, so have we ii) rangers success highlighted his reputation as talented and ambitious, we wanted to speak with him and we felt it clicked
les absolutely correct that
- football at our level is transactional / symbiotic, we're a platform, we encourage talent to grow, together until outgrow, rinse repeat we get bigger outgrowing becomes harder etc
- recruitment (and development!!) has to be a collective decision, balance of compromises
- there is a place for experience in a young squad, this is also the club of mclintock, wilkins, derry & hill, nelsen.
need to get over mercenary fears of hughes/redknapp era. a lot of arguments are coming from ageing fanbase increasingly alienated, disenfranchised with game as a whole and forcing archaic naiveties. badge kissing v wearings. gloves nonsense etc
beale
jones 4m comp, corberan extension
beale stoke/wolves tarting (allegedly) didn't put roots down
https://web.archive.org/web/20221128010817/https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11788/12755997/mick-beale-rangers-in-talks-with-qpr-boss-to-discuss-managers-job-at-ibrox
Sky Sports News can reveal Beale and his staff were in contract extension talks with QPR before Rangers' interest developed. That is despite Beale's family struggling to settle in the West Midlands - where he is still based - following his move from Glasgow last November. It is also understood the Championship club were aware Beale wanted to return to Ibrox as boss one day when initial talks about his appointment at QPR took place.
LF "I did find out afterwards that Rangers had offered him the job when he left with Steven, he decided to go with Steven because he felt it was the right thing. I found that out afterwards.”
sociopathic manipulator but isn't the job manipulating people to get to what and where you want? Manipulation is a skill, reading people and understanding how to connive them
annoyed with wolves press
MB “I did come from the Premier League to work here and I do know that level,” he added. “I felt over-ready for this job and I feel supremely confident in this job.”
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/23173973.michael-beales-passionate-rangers-agm-speech-full/
MB "It’s an institution but I am supremely confident. The transition from first-team coach to manager has been very smooth [...] I feel like I have been a manager for a lot longer than I actually have."
post-huddersfield betrayed anger with players dragging him down to their level
https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/58793
JJF It should be noted however this is a man that has used leverage fantastically well in his career. Despite being part of a coaching team at Rangers that consisted of hugely well-known Steven Gerrard and Gary McAllister, Beale became the most prominent and visible member. He participated in YouTube Lives, interviews with blogs, wrote forewords in books. If there’s anyone that wanted to speak to him about the invincible season, he found a way. He gave coaching seminars, spoke on motivational podcasts about creating a winning environment. This is a man that knows the power of PR and has accepted he needs to build his profile in the right areas to achieve his goals. He’s also spoken openly about how he feels he can be a trailblazer for English coaches abroad, proving that it isn’t all long-ball and 442. He wants English coaches to be known for a technical, possession based game and feels he can lead this. He’s spoken about managing in the Champions League, in a foreign country where he can utilise his language skills. His ambition is unmatched.
recruitment
https://twitter.com/xtiangoldman/status/1605616155812511744
LH "In that respect our model has had to transform into, we can't just produce a player for sale, it's got to be a player that you can sell to a Premier League or a top notch European league in order to make the money that you need to do it."
the best ability is availability...
LF "Tim we didn't know"....
226 minutes 6 starts Euro U19s
https://twitter.com/xtiangoldman/status/1564175342486622210
At the time it was a false binary argument between shit mercenaries vs youth that wasn't really good enough either (but felt like a lesser evil).
This is Tom Hitchcock vs Javier Chevanton all over again. Neither are good, balance is required
five qpr podcasts with like 25 of the biggest twitter brains and like... if you just covered what you saw in the games it would be obvious
managers
nathan jones
kjetil knutsen
marti cifuentes
gareth ainsworth
matt bloomfield
shaun derry