New CEO

[Hope & Faith]

Excellent news.

At last, we have a vision, culture and plan to move forward !

[Undecided]

I Googled him and saw the quote below. Make what you will of it but it looks to me that we are definitely entering a new era....

In particular, Textor has focused on investing in clubs with a strong reputation for producing young players and cites the example of Jeffinho – a 23-year-old Brazilian forward who joined Lyon from Botafogo in January for €10m – as an example of how the network can work.

Just a thought. We don't have the reputation cited, but we do have a state of the art training ground?

Also, another parts of the suggest a sort of hierarchy or group of clubs under "common" ownership.

[daveshads]

Indeed a new path forward. This may prove to be our saviour but QPR as we have known it possibly is no more. This is just the first step which will probably see us one of a group of clubs owned by the same people, a fairly common thing these days.

[QPROslo]

This sounds like an exciting signing! Longer term, this can turn out to be a much more important signing than a prolific new striker.

To me, it sounds like this is CEO and DOF in one and the same role. Nourry is talking about spending time defining QPRs identity and style of play, which you would expect from a DOF, not a CEO. The most important stuff he said in the interview is that QPR cannot change style of play and philosophy each time we change manager. We need to have a consistent philosophy from one manager to the next, decided by the club, not the manager, and it needs to be embedded in the clubs culture and applied through all teams/levels at the club.

Nourry confirms there won't be any funds for signings in January. It comes as no surprise.

What a refreshing piece of news after a depressing week, with the news posted by Kingaustin. Announcement of a new CEO does not rule out a conflict among owners, but I think Nourry would not accept to be presented today unless he was certain that any owner tensions have been solved and any outstanding FFP fine instalment being settled without any drama.

From today's announcement, there is one small thing I do not buy: I do not think Hoos really wants to retire at the age of 62 (chairman is a part time job), citing a wish to be with family and grandchildren. I think the owners are behind the idea to put a new CEO in place. I think Hoos will pop up somewhere else in the not to distant future. If so, he might be chairman just temporarily.

[SheepRanger]

They said stay in the pub and get wasted and watch from behind the sofa Sunday !

[LoftusRoadLad]

Like his last sentence.

[Bangonthedrum]

Part of a 'grand' plan. A merger with Barnet, Sutton Utd, Dagenham & Redbridge. Covering North, south, East and West London. A 'super' club for London...or maybe not.

[SheepRanger]

I luv a plan I does.....

3-0 to the Rs vs Port Vale!

[topperharley]

We'll be back.

What we need is the right people in the right jobs for a stint of time that builds a culture.

All businesses are the same and a football club is no different, implementation is key, talk is cheap, let's see those words come to fruition.

[Abseits]

This sounds like an exciting signing! Longer term, this can turn out to be a much more important signing than a prolific new striker.

To me, it sounds like this is CEO and DOF in one and the same role. Nourry is talking about spending time defining QPRs identity and style of play, which you would expect from a DOF, not a CEO. The most important stuff he said in the interview is that QPR cannot change style of play and philosophy each time we change manager. We need to have a consistent philosophy from one manager to the next, decided by the club, not the manager, and it needs to be embedded in the clubs culture and applied through all teams/levels at the club.

Nourry confirms there won't be any funds for signings in January. It comes as no surprise.

What a refreshing piece of news after a depressing week, with the news posted by Kingaustin. Announcement of a new CEO does not rule out a conflict among owners, but I think Nourry would not accept to be presented today unless he was certain that any owner tensions have been solved and any outstanding FFP fine instalment being settled without any drama.

From today's announcement, there is one small thing I do not buy: I do not think Hoos really wants to retire at the age of 62 (chairman is a part time job), citing a wish to be with family and grandchildren. I think the owners are behind the idea to put a new CEO in place. I think Hoos will pop up somewhere else in the not to distant future. If so, he might be chairman just temporarily.

I'm not buying that "style of play" and "philosophy" nonsense. It's just PR puff. Nobody would argue with the concept but when you see a team like Man Utd struggling year after year despite having a deeply ingrained "United way" you realise it's just a strapline or hollow mission statement..... it's just another suit or bean-counter playing to the crowd with some carefully crafted words.
Maybe this new guy will be a breath of fresh air or, maybe he's the genial smiling face of some shadowy group intent on asset stripping us down the line, who knows? At this juncture I'd keep an open neutral mind and not allow myself to be beguiled by a painting-by-numbers style interview.

[daveshads]

Abseits, hopefully not an asset stripper but that's not impossible, let's hope not. But the part in your last paragraph about shadowy group, I believe is not far from the truth. The idea that this is like employing one chap to help turn us around seems naive. He may well prove to be part of what eventually leads us to better days but the old QPR we knew and loved will be a thing of the past.
Perhaps that is the way it has to be and the price we must pay for not moving forward when we were at the top table in decades gone by. KingAustin probably had it right!

[ConorQPR2000]

I done some research this morning and I saw a certain Karren Brady became CEO of Birmingham City when she was just 23 when they were just coming out of financial issues, and that didn't work out badly, so there's loads of examples of young CEOs in and around the game, I think Bradford City's CEO is only 29 and they seem to be well ran from what I can gather.


I definitely think this is a sign that the club are moving in a very new direction where data/performance is at the core of the club, I've seen a lot of scepticism from older fans it seems about this appointment, but the old school ways of thinking are out the window now, we have to sometimes think outside the box a bit and maybe this might turn out to be a good decision, but only time will tell.

[QPROslo]

I'm not buying that "style of play" and "philosophy" nonsense. It's just PR puff. Nobody would argue with the concept but when you see a team like Man Utd struggling year after year despite having a deeply ingrained "United way" you realise it's just a strapline or hollow mission statement..... it's just another suit or bean-counter playing to the crowd with some carefully crafted words.
Maybe this new guy will be a breath of fresh air or, maybe he's the genial smiling face of some shadowy group intent on asset stripping us down the line, who knows? At this juncture I'd keep an open neutral mind and not allow myself to be beguiled by a painting-by-numbers style interview.

I am sorry, but "identity, philosophy and style of play" are not meaningless words in the world of football. The reason why most large successful football club have defined a very clear strategy in this field, it that a well defined identity is vital to develop a club successfully over time, and to make the most of out the resources available.

The opposite way is a club that changes style and philosophy every time they change manager. As managers tend to be employed for 18 months in average, this means stop-start over and over again. The main problem with such a strategy is that players bought by the previous manager do not fit the style of the next manager. It is a recipe for wasting an awful lot of money, when every new manager has to replace half the squad before he will get a tune out of the team.

Nourry is not alone in having studied best practises across successful football clubs. Quite a lot of analysts have. And a common observation is that consistency in identity over time is a common factor for successful clubs. I am 100% sure you find clubs that change style over and over again and suddenly have a successful season out of nowhere, and I am quite sure you find clubs with consistent style and identity that fail, but in the grand scheme of things, common identity over time seems to increase the chance of long term success. You do not need to go any further than Brentford and Brighton.

I think one of the key criticism of Man U is that they lack a "United way". They have gone after managers that have very different philosophy - just picking big names. What does Mourinho have in common with lets say Solskjær? Man U is one of very few clubs without a director of football. Responsibility for identity, philosophy and style of play remain with the manager. I would say that Man U follows a check book strategy where they try to compensate a clear footballing strategy by spending more than others. Chelsea is exactly the same. We have followed the Man U strategy for the recent years (i.e., Ainsworth, that had little in common with Beale and Critchley) and I am very happy we have decided to go down another route now.

[Shania]

We'll be back.

What we need is the right people in the right jobs for a stint of time that builds a culture.

All businesses are the same and a football club is no different, implementation is key, talk is cheap, let's see those words come to fruition.

Well said! We have lacked culture within the club for decades.

[djp]

I'm not buying that "style of play" and "philosophy" nonsense. It's just PR puff. Nobody would argue with the concept but when you see a team like Man Utd struggling year after year despite having a deeply ingrained "United way" you realise it's just a strapline or hollow mission statement..... it's just another suit or bean-counter playing to the crowd with some carefully crafted words.
Maybe this new guy will be a breath of fresh air or, maybe he's the genial smiling face of some shadowy group intent on asset stripping us down the line, who knows? At this juncture I'd keep an open neutral mind and not allow myself to be beguiled by a painting-by-numbers style interview.

I am definitely being cautious like yourself. Actions speak louder than words and all that! I remember someone saying something similar about 5-6 years ago, how from first team all the way down to the youngest junior teams would play with the same style and philosophy. Don’t remember who it was, was probably LF or Hoos but looking at where we find ourselves now, it was all talk back then.