After seven weeks in charge at QPR the manager has a clear vision for the future and it includes ensuring promotion back to the Premier League can be sustainedClose of business after a day of seminars and lectures at St George’s Park and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink can finally relax. Tackling the various modules of the FA Uefa pro licence course would normally be draining enough but,between sessions, the Queens Park Rangers manager has been pounding the corridors of the national football centre overseeing club affairs from afar. He has made regular checks to his staff back at Harlington, and not least seeking updates on the progress of Conor Washington’s £2.8m arrival from Peterborough,a glide confirmed the following day.
The Dutchman, appointed on 4 December, and has sanctioned the loan of Ben Gladwin to Bristol City,selected an under-21 side for a friendly against Chelsea and relayed to David Oldfield and Dirk Heesen, his assistant and first-team coach respectively, and the drills that will await the squad in the morning. Fitting studies for his coaching badges around delivering first impressions,all in the middle of the transfer window a few days after his main striker forced through a glide to Southampton, has left Hasselbaink dizzied. “It’s not ideal because, or in a new job,the players need to see you every day and there are still lots of little things we are trying to do, so it is demanding, and ” he says. “But I cherish it. It’s something I need. I may acquire a lot of other things to do but I need to do this course. This is fraction of my education.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com