QPR's Tony Fernandes changes policy on Harry Redknapp future

HARRY REDKNAPP will stay in charge of QPR even if they suffer relegation from the Premier League under a "different approach" to management, insists Rangers chairman Tony Fernandes.

Redknapp took over at Loftus Road in late 2012 when Mark Hughes was sacked following a string of poor performances.

The former Spurs boss was unable to keep QPR up, taking them down to the Championship, but responded with promotion on the first time of asking.

And, according to Fernandes, the knee-jerk reaction of other chairman to sack out-of-form managers is not a solution he favours after witnessing the fall-out from Hughes' departure.

“I think we’ve made our mind up to stick – we’ll just stick with Harry come what may," Fernandes told The Guardian. "We want stability, we want players to know he’s the manager. A different approach, I think.

“My whole life’s been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time.

“I don’t believe football clubs can be any different.

QPR sit 12th in the Premier League after claiming their first win of the season at home to Sunderland last weekend.

And despite scoring just one goal from four games this campaign, Fernandes points to examples of managerial longevity as the reason behind his decision to stick with Redknapp, come what may.

“You only have to look at the most successful football clubs – Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson, they were all at their clubs for a long time. That’s a business principle that works," he said.

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QPR may scrap £30m training complex, says owner Tony Fernandes

Campaigners against Queens Park Rangers’ planned £30 million training centre are celebrating after the club’s chairman said the scheme could be scrapped.

The Premier League team’s owner Tony Fernandes said the scale of local opposition to the plan to build a facility at Warren Farm in Hanwell, west London, had made him rethink his plans despite defeating a legal challenge in the High Court in March.

Mr Fernandes said he was now considering upgrading the club’s existing ramshackle training ground at Harlington instead.

He said: “We are going to move on. Imperial (College) are the land owners here [at Harlington]. We are talking to Imperial about expanding and making it bigger and better here.

“We are going to have a board meeting in a few months when we are going to decide. If I was a betting man I would say it would be here.”

He added: “The judicial reviews keep coming. The local residents keep complaining – it’s only a few but it doesn’t take many to stop something.”

Mr Fernandes’s comments were greeted with enthusiasm by the Hanwell Community Forum, which has accused Ealing  council of selling off 61 acres of public space to QPR for “a  mere £1.8 million to £2.25 million”.

The council said:  “We are keen to see what will be a great facility for both QPR and our residents.”

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