Venables: Says "NO" to QPR and Offers his View re Briatore's Involvement and re, Dowie and Ainsworth

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Terry Venables writing about the end of Directors of Football in England offers his view re the QPR situation.

Terry Venables/The Sun
- "TOTTENHAM’S decision to axe Damien Comolli is the end of the director of football in England. Not before time. I’ve never known a more divisive and pointless job in all my years in the game.....
- "...One thing an owner hates more than anything else is seeing his money wasted. The logical conclusion to a situation like that is what happened at QPR. Co-owner Flavio Briatore sacked Iain Dowie and decided to pick the team himself.
- I could never work in a situation like that. My name’s been linked to QPR but it’s not going to happen.
- Briatore may think he can do the job himself and he may even succeed in the short-term. But in the end he will fail.
- The only way you can pick a team is if you’re on the training ground every day.
- I’m fascinated to know what the League Managers’ Association makes of it all.
- Under their rules, a footballer who has spent his entire career in the game cannot be a manager without passing his coaching badges.
- So how come a man with no football background whatsoever is allowed to manage QPR?
- I understand Gareth Ainsworth accepting the situation there as he chases a first step on to the coaching ladder.
- But no self-respecting manager would accept working for an owner who picks the team.
- When it comes to tactics, team selection and transfers, the manager MUST have total control. When things go wrong, managers get the sack.
- Just about every top team succeeds as they have a strong, independent manager who runs the club from top to bottom..." The Sun

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