Paul Hart leaves Queens Park Rangers
After only five games as manager, Paul Hart left the Queens Park Rangers, the Championship (second division) English club. The club is now looking for another manager, after a long line of managers the past two years.
In a statement on their website, QPR said that Hart, sacked by Premier League Portsmouth in November, had decided to leave with immediate effect.
Mick Harford, assistant manager, who was also a caretaker manager at QPR in 2007, will take charge of this weekend’s match at Blackpool.
Hart was appointed on December 17, after Jim Magilton was sacked following media reports of a bust-up with Hungarian midfielder Akos Buzsaky. Taarabt is said to have voiced his displeasure at having only started twice and made one further appearance as a substitute in Hart’s five games as manager. Media reports on Friday suggested Hart had been undermined by a disagreement with Moroccan midfielder Adel Taarabt, who is on loan from Tottenham Hotspur.
The west London club has had six full-time managers since Italian Flavio Briatore, the former Renault Formula One boss took over in late 2007.
John Gregory, Luigi De Canio, Iain Dowie, Gareth Ainsworth (twice), Paulo Sousa and Magilton are the other men to have been manager under Briatore.
QPR is 10th in the 24-team League Championship after picking up five points under Hart.
Hart is reported to have been appointed on a short-term basis until the end of the season and spent part of Âyesterday in discussions with his legal representatives to negotiate the terms of his departure.