STEVE GALLEN: YOU CAN SEE CLUB NOW HAS A LONGER-TERM PLAN please log in to view this image PUBLISHED 05:09 28th May 2015 by @QPRFC QPR youth team coach Steve Gallen speaks exclusively in Issue 07 of The Inside’R’ … Steve Gallen believes club’s academy players are benefitting by clear longer-term plan from club Gallen has been involved in QPR’s academy for 18 years He praises the approach of Chris Ramsey, and the impact he has had on younger players STEVE Gallen has been involved in the development of QPR’s youngsters for a staggering 18 YEARS –and he believes the club’s young players are already benefitting from Chris Ramsey’s determination to see home-grown talent flourish in the first team. Speaking exclusively in Issue 07 of QPR’s free digital magazine The Inside’R’, Gallen – the club’s Senior Professional Development Coach – said: “The pathway from the academy to the first team is the clearest it has been for years, and there are a number of reasons for that. please log in to view this image EYE ON THE FUTURE: Gallen says Ramsey has had big impact on younger players “For the last four or five years it has felt like the first team had to get promotion, or we had to stay in the division. “Now, for the first time in a while, it doesn’t feel like we have to bounce straight back. It’s more a case of the club looking at the longer-term plan. please log in to view this image POINTING THE WAY: Gallen has been coaching QPR's youngsters for 18 years “Everybody – from the fans to the players to the staff – feels we need to get younger players into the team, we have to get them through the academy and we have to get more players on the football pitch who care about our club. “Generally, the younger lads who have come through from maybe Under 12s to Under 18s to the Under 21s, they feel that way. “They understand the club better, they understand the fans and they understand the traditions.” You can read the full exclusive interview with Gallen, which features as part of an in-depth look at the club’s academy, in Issue 07 of The Inside’R’ which will be available to download next month. Read more at http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/s...chris-ramsey-2472653.aspx#FhYEq4tiRbqw4V7w.99
We've just had that! Four years of TF and QPR are now synonymous with everything you wouldn't want for your club. We have become a joke and the model of excess. The agent of every washed-up arsehole have been attracted to our club like flies to shyte and indulged. The entire club from top to bottom has been run like something out of the Keystone Cops culminating in our most expensive signing last season being unavailable due to 'visa problems', you really couldn't make it up. No new stadium, no new training ground and no f*cking good. Please God our next four year plan actually gets it right...
I'm sorry to strike a sour note, and I know Gallen has had a variety of nightmare scenarios not of his own making to struggle through during his 18 year involvement with the Academy, but you can count on the fingers of one hand (one hand that is missing a few fingers) the number of Academy players who have become first team regulars over that time. He must be crap at either finding young talent to develop, or developing young talent, or convincing other people that the young talent he has developed is actually talented. Perhaps all of them. His loyalty is exemplary, especially with the rubbish he has had to put up with from various owners and managers, but his record does not inspire confidence.
Gallen's record aside, it is really encouraging that the club finally seems to have woken up and smelt the coffee!
