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Well this should make for a fun afternoon on here...
CHRIS RAMSEY APPOINTED TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Ramsey to head up new role within QPR Academy
CHRIS Ramsey has been appointed Technical Director at QPR.
Ramsey will be responsible for a variety of roles relating to coaching and player development.
The 53 year-old will oversee all aspects of coaching and coach education within the Academy, and be responsible for developing and implementing player development strategies.
He will also oversee the integration between the Academy, Development Squad and First Team, as well as focusing on the monitoring and reporting of players on loan to other clubs.
Ramsey will also develop and implement the scouting strategy to include the necessary processes and procedures to acquire players, and develop and implement club partnership programmes at both domestic and international level to facilitate greater market accessibility, exchange of best practice, and development / exit opportunities for players.
Director of Football, Les Ferdinand, explained why Ramsey — who was relinquished of his First Team duties in early November — is the ideal candidate for the role, commenting: “Whilst we were disappointed things didn’t work out with Chris at First Team level earlier in the season, we were determined to retain his services at QPR.
“As such, we actually put a clause in his contract which allowed us to retain Chris’s services in a player-development role should things not work out for him as Head Coach.
“Chris knows Academy football inside-out and having put the building blocks in place for a lot of the good restructuring work that’s been done here over the past 11 months, he can come in and make an instant impact in an environment he has helped build.”
It smells like a Civil Service type appointment or what the old newspaper unions used to do.Don't know what else to do with a redundant geezer except park him at the bottom of a chute where no papers actually arrive anymore.
But seriously, good to have a proper youth coach in place. Clubs like Wycombe, Luton and Gillingham must be pleased to hear they'll be getting a higher class of youngster from us in a few years time!
A man who has been in football for probably nearly forty year. Has experience of a wide variety of roles at different levels of the pyramid and has all the qualifications for this role.
I hope he will have learn't even more about football after having time to reflect on his experiences here, so far.
Welcome back Chris. Unfortunately, the hostility hasn't got much better!
From the state of some of the weeping quims in here, you'd think Rambo was going to be picking the team, before undertaking a Caligula-esque orgy with everyone's wives around the back of the Loft whilst the game goes on, rather than being reappointed to the job he was unwisely overpromoted from.
And let's be honest, at QPR, "academy director" holds less responsibility and gravitas than PA to the tealady.
From the state of some of the weeping quims in here, you'd think Rambo was going to be picking the team, before undertaking a Caligula-esque orgy with everyone's wives around the back of the Loft whilst the game goes on, rather than being reappointed to the job he was unwisely overpromoted from.
And let's be honest, at QPR, "academy director" holds less responsibility and gravitas than PA to the tealady.
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'weeping quims '... your right this forum is full to c unt bursting with them.
Wearing a boring accountant's hat, with FFP in mind, giving him this job in mainly youth development presumably excludes the cost from the FFP calculation, whereas paying him off as first team manager would stuff us up big time if FFP is applying to us this season. So it's possibly a little bit clever anyway.
I'm surprised at Ramsey wanting to come back and can hear the faint sound of circus music in my head - but really this isn't especially good or bad IMO, just odd!
As other's have said, it's the job Ramsey is well qualified to do but the structure now seems a mess with a big overlap between Les, Ramsey and Suckling.
Now he's experienced life at the sharp end, both with 1st team football and with disgruntled fans, hopefully it'll give him a comprehensive understanding of the issues and requirements.
I'm surprised at Ramsey wanting to come back and can hear the faint sound of circus music in my head - but really this isn't especially good or bad IMO, just odd!
As other's have said, it's the job Ramsey is well qualified to do but the structure now seems a mess with a big overlap between Les, Ramsey and Suckling.
He has to come back as no clubs want him ,
funny how the messiah of youth development hasn't been snapped up, he discovered Harry Kane you know
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
Just out of interest, how do you know that no clubs wanted him?
Maybe he just decided to not look for another role and have some time off while we're still presumably paying his contract since sacking him, so we decided to invoke the clause and put him to work in the youth setup since we're paying him anyway...
Blimey, how many more times CR wasn't the 'dream manager'
Just in the same way that Warnock never wanted the managers job, Les isn't appointing his mates and so many other things people incorrectly latch onto.
As for Ramsey, it was often said (no, not by 'everyone') that this sort of role is what he was best suited at so lets see how it pans out.
Just out of interest, how do you know that no clubs wanted him?
I don't but Its pretty obvious as he isn't working anywhere else is he If he was that great at Spurs why have they not gone for him again
would you be a manger where you work then after 9 months of getting the sack go back to the same firm but in a demoted role even if you had other others elsewhere
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
I don't but Its pretty obvious as he isn't working anywhere else is he If he was that great at Spurs why have they not gone for him again
would you be a manger where you work then after 9 months of getting the sack go back to the same firm but in a demoted role even if you had other others elsewhere
He might have wanted to stay in London, he might have been offered a job at Spurs but not at the expense of the current academy head so it would have been a demotion there, perhaps Pochettino is doing things his own way there anyway, he might simply have wanted to stay at the club and finish the job. I'm probably mad but I can't imagine he couldn't have got a similar role at a similar sized club. I guess in the same way Les Reed was a pretty pathetic manager at Charlton but was doing amazing things with Southamptons caoching and development
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