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Thursday, June 06, 2013

QPR Training Ground: Legal Delay?...Redknapp's QPR Warnings...Warnock's Book Out....Deloitte Football Finance Report...QPR Flashbacks

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- QPR: 8 and 9 Summers Flashback
Evening Standard - QPR’s planned £30m training ground delayed by legal action
QPR: training ground plan is in turmoil

 Tim Stewart

 06 June 2013

 The future of QPR’s planned new training ground has been thrown into turmoil by a legal challenge from west London residents.

 They call Ealing council’s decision to grant planning permission for the £30 million complex illegal and are preparing a High Court claim.

 Hanwell Community Forum this week served legal papers on the council, accusing it of “relegating residents’ green spaces”.

 It says QPR’s plans for the 60-acre Warren Farm Sports site will wreck the character of the protected Metropolitan Open Land, which is London’s green belt equivalent.

 The football club intended to start work on the scheme soon but now faces a delay pending the outcome of legal proceedings.

 HCF said: “The council is basically giving away to a commercial organisation a valuable piece of public land that should be open to everybody.”

 Ealing council leader Julian Bell said: “We will be able to show that we acted in residents’ interests.” QPR declined to comment. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/qprs-planned-30m-training-ground-delayed-by-legal-action-8646891.html

- By coincidence, the Club Posted a couple days ago on its Official Site:




QPR Official Site

RESIDENTS WELCOME R’S AT WARREN FARM

4th June 2013

‘We will all benefit from QPR’s arrival’ says Chairman of Norwood Green Residents’ Association

Everyone in our community will benefit from this"

Lord Young

RESIDENTS in the area surrounding QPR’s new training ground site are excited by the club’s pending arrival, Norwood Green Residents’ Association has said.

In April, the club was given the go ahead to progress its plans for a state-of-the-art training ground facility at the Warren Farm site.

Lord Young, Chairman of Norwood Green Residents’ Association, told www.qpr.co.uk: “I think it is a terrific investment in our local community which we will all benefit from.

“In fact, it will benefit Ealing as a whole because what we have at the moment is a very run-down sports facility with very little chance of the Council finding the money to refurbish and upgrade it.

“The usage of it is also declining because of the state it’s in. People tend to use it once and not return.

“When I look at what’s on offer from QPR, there is a wide range of new facilities which will be available to the community, the changing rooms will be refurbished, there will be new indoor facilities. What’s not to like?”

Rangers propose to build a full multi-purpose Elite Training Facility and Community Sports Complex and it is intended that works will begin in the coming months, with the facility set to be ready ahead of the 2015/16 season.

“Everyone in our community will benefit from this,” Young added. “Whether it’s young people, old people, boys, girls, people with disability. It’s fantastic and seems to me to be a very good offer.

“On top of this, taxpayers won’t be paying a penny for what will be a huge investment in our community.

“QPR are paying a large sum to build the facility and will be taking over the maintenance of the grounds as well. It represents another reason for us to be very pleased that QPR have chosen to come to Norwood Green.

“I am very excited by the club’s pending arrival in the area. It was a great moment in the Council Chambers recently when it was approved. I think it will prove to be a very good decision for Norwood Green, and Ealing as a whole.”

For further details on the new training facility, click here.
www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/040613-residents-welcome-rs-at-warren-farm-850636.aspx

www1.skysports.com/football/news/11711/8758477


Harry Redknapp demanding final say in reshaping QPR squad

By Tim Oscroft. Last Updated: June 5, 2013 3:44pm

Harry Redknapp: Wants final say on transfers as he looks to get QPR out of the Championship.

Harry Redknapp: Wants final say on transfers as he looks to get QPR out of the Championship.
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Harry Redknapp has warned that he must be allowed to change the QPR squad or he could walk away from the club.

The Rangers manager wants to build a team capable of making an instant return to the Premier League, and he is looking to make former England left-back Wayne Bridge his first post-relegation signing.

Redknapp is keen to speak to club owner Tony Fernandes over bringing in Bridge, whose Manchester City contract is about to expire, but is adamant that he must have the final say over rejigging QPR's playing roster.

"If we don't change it, and I don't get the players that I want to bring in, then we have not got a chance," Redknapp declared.

"You can't have other people have a say at all, I'm a football person and I've got a staff around me of football people.

Redknapp - QPR need to back me

"We've got to make the decisions, and if we make the right ones we will have a chance. Otherwise, if other people want to make decisions we've got no chance.

"If I don't get that then I wouldn't stick around. I'll speak to Tony Fernandes, they've got to back me with the people I want. I'm not asking him to spend money, I'm looking at a couple of free transfers.

"I'm trying to get Wayne Bridge, I thought he did fantastically well with Brighton, he'd be a good left-back for us. He's got great experience, looks in great shape and is a player I want to bring in on a free.

"I'm hoping that's the first deal I can do. Tony is away, but I'll speak to him today and see if we can get the deal done."



OUT:
The Gaffer: The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager
By Neil Warnock


For the very first time, and straight from the horse's mouth, a top manager's intriguing insights into the daily trials and tribulations, the joyous peaks and soul-destroying troughs of life as as a football "gaffer".

Ever wondered how a transfer deal is done? What a manager says during his pre-match team-talk? What he screams from the techincal area? What goes on in training sesions, and on those long away trips? How a manager carefully builds a team, and what he does when the planning is disrupted by injuries? How he lifts a team after a crushing defeat, and keeps their feet on the ground after a resounding victory? How the man in charge handles the ever-present danger of getting sacked in the ultimate results business? In short, how one of today's top professional footballer managers somehow copes with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, with having to live, breathe and sleep football 24 hours a day, 365 days a year? Then read The Gaffer.

Other details

ISBN: 9780755362776
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
Page count: 384

Biographical Notes

Born in 1948, Neil Warnock has enjoyed a long career in football. His 11-year career as a player saw him make 326 appearances for clubs including Sc**thorpe United, Barnsley, York City, and Crewe. He began his managerial career at Burton Albion in 1981 and has since managed Gainsborough Trinity, Scarborough, Notts County, Huddersfield Town, Plymouth Argyle, Oldham Athletic and Bury. He managed Sheffield United from 1999 to 2007.

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About the Author
Born in 1948, Neil Warnock has enjoyed a long career in football. His 11-year career as a player saw him make 326 appearances for clubs including Sc**thorpe United, Barnsley, York City, and Crewe. He began his managerial career at Burton Albion in 1981 and has since managed Gainsborough Trinity, Scarborough, Notts County, Huddersfield Town, Plymouth Argyle, Oldham Athletic and Bury. He managed Sheffield United from 1999 to 2007.

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