QPR Should give Sousa Time They Promised

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- Hopefully just the Daily Mail offering its perspective rather than responding to anything concrete.. See Also "Sousa Running Out of Time?"

Daily Mail/Hatchet Man - QPR owners should give Sousa the time they were promising
- - QPR’S owners have a chance over the next few months to prove they are not just trigger happy short-termists.
- After going through managers at a frightening rate, Paulo Sousa was brought in last November claiming that he had been hired for the long term.
Under pressure: Sousa has seen his side go on a poor run
For some reason, the young Portuguese insisted he would be given time to turn Rangers into a force for the Premier League in his first job in club management.
- Like Sousa’s title of first team coach rather than manager, it hardly seemed credible. He seemed naïve or deluded and already he is moving towards crunch time.
Rangers have not won in the last five matches and lots of talk already about hopes for next season must have eroded Sousa’s standing. The best he can aim at now is the play-offs, and that is beginning to look like an outside shot.
- QPR are six points off sixth place (and only nine above the relegation zone) and Sousa and his team must be making the owners’ trigger fingers itchy.
- But if they are not going to continue to be another set of clichéd, super-rich and impatient owners, they have to stand by the rookie they appointed. Daily Mail


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- Signed by Gerry Francis from Blackpool in August 1993 for 600,000 pounds (to replace Andy Sintdon). Sinclair made his QPR debut that same month. Part of QPR's relegation team under Ray Wilkins (which also contained youngsters Gallen, Dichio, Impey, Quashie and Murray). Capped by England Joined West Ham in "a steal" transfer in January 1998.

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