Mark Hughes Announced As New QPR Manager

QPR chairman Tony Fernandes played new-manager-madlibs in a brief statement:

The club currently lie just above the relegation zone and Hughes, who’s signed through the end of the 2013/14 season, will have a major fight on his hands in keeping them in the league. With a new manager there’ll probably be some significant investment into the squad this January, so more reinforcements should be on the way. Whether or not that’ll be enough... well, time will tell.

Queens Park Rangers have parted company with manager Neil Warnock after almost two years after a series of poor results that sees the side facing a relegation battle in their first year back in the Premier League. It’s not quite what the Championship winners were expecting from their season, and Warnock was the obvious scapegoat. In a statement released by the club, Tony Fernades said the typical platitudes:

So that’s pretty boring. Former Manchester City and Fulham boss Mark Hughes is the bookies’ favourite to take the reins at Loftus Road, but there are some other names being thrown out there too - Sven Goran Eriksen would be an interesting outside bet. As for Warnock, he’ll presumably take some time off before throwing his name into the manager pool this summer.