Dear readers,

At first I would like to offer you watching another episode of video story of my friend NTM.

NTM's video story: The 2nd season is over

Q.P.R. Story: Season #1 is over

Now it's going to be a quite long post about my story.

I am disappointed with the season finish because Q.P.R. managed to complicate it maximally. Destiny of my club was decided in the last fixture. Marco Verratti scored a beautiful goal helping us to stay in the Premier League. It's a big surprize for me because I expected to take the 14th position approximately. Instead Newcastle, Swansea and my Q.P.R. got 37 points… So goal difference turned out a key factor in this case.

Final Premier League table. Season 1

Reasons of the failure

I expected to take 7-9 points in the four last matches. But unfortunately I got only two vital points that turned out vital.

Once again I had problems with morale level of my players. At first Manchester United destroyed us with 0:5 score, though I am sure we didn't deserve it by goal chances:

Then I decided to arrange team meeting to boost a mood before 3 important games. Unfortunately, 18 players reacted badly on my speech, and I had to play the matches using many players with Very Poor morale level…

We could won 2 last matches and have a draw in the game against Fulham… But all chances were lost due to weak efficiency of our attack, the weakest area of Q.P.R. squad now.

In short, it was a nervous season finish… One line above relegation zone…

Bad news about facilities enhancement

I am disappointed also with actions of my chairman… Why did the hell it happen?! All enhancement plans are cancelled!

Squad revolution ahead!

Surely I am not happy with the performance shown by the most of Q.P.R. players. This is why I am going to make a squad revolution getting rid of many guys. I need footballers that will blend into:

- my Rigid philosophy

- Supersonic tactics and its properties

Pretty high Teamwork, Work Rate, Determination, Passing, Technique, Decisions, Pace, Acceleration, Stamina are must!

Players I am going to leave in the squad

- DC: Younes Kaboul, Andres Bjeland, Matthew Connelly, Fitz Hall (for backup)

- DL: Lucas Digne

- DR: Andreas Hinkel, Arne Friedrich

- DMC: Joey Barton, Alejandro Faurlin, Daniel Paulista (backup), Shaun Derry (backup)

- MC (Playmaker): Marco Verratti, Petter Vaagan Moen (backup)

- AML: DJ Campbell (backup)

- AMR: Shaun Wright-Phillips

- SC: Yaya Sanogo (backup)

By the way, compare attributes of Marco Verratti before and after the season. He has the best growth level in my team.

Before

After

QPR fans voted and gave an award to him this year:

5 main positions for strengthening as ranking

1. SC

2. AML

3. GK

4. DC

5. AMR

Other positions need strengthening as well but not so much. Do you agree these 5 positions are the most important to strengthen? Any tips?

In any case you should await a serious squad revolution during the upcoming transfer window! So just stay tuned.

True Football Manager

Dear readers,

I decided to write kind of unusual post reporting Q.P.R. matches because of many problems and complications my club got during March and April, 2012. Going to tell you about them step-by-step.

1. Two wins

I had 2 very good games after unlucky match series reported in the last post.

8 goals scored in two games. It's pleasant to see Sanogo and Campbell as goal scorers here. Video highlights of "goal galore" game against Swansea can be watched here: http://true.fmcrowd.com/q-p-r-swansea-thrilling-encounter/

2. Decent performance

Q.P.R. managed to make 2 draws against Sunderland and Liverpool, both results are considered good. But I didn't know that I should better loose the game against Sunderland in FA Cup quarterfinal.

Chelsea overcame Q.P.R. quite easily, by class.

3. Stamina matters!

We lost the home replay quarterfinal match on penalties. It was so disappointing to loose it because Q.P.R. players did their best in the match having a real advantage over Sunderland. Take a look at the stats:

My players were absolutely jaded after the match!

4. Consequences of fatigue

Then we had to play in the Premier League in 3 days after physically very hard quarterfinal. I had to put some new fresh players to the squad because part of the first team had Condition of 85% and lower.

QPR footballers showed a bad level of concentration, especially those who were jaded in the FA Cup quarterfinal. As a result we lost with 1:5 score in the nearly equal match.

The morale level of Q.P.R. players was decreased much after that. And it influenced the next 2 matches.

I dreamt to revenge Sunderland in the home PL game but suddenly they showed better performance and deserved their victory. My players didn't manage to get out of psychological in the away game against Aston Villa as well…

I got scared and perplexed seeing my QPR at the 17 line in the table in 4 points from the relegation zone!

5. Vital recovery of morale level

Then I organized a team meeting. It was a lucky one because 21 players reacted very well on my speech and only 3 (Materrazzi, Taarabt and injured Barton) became disappointed.

Terrifying Arsenal was our next opponent. My boys managed to hold onto draw in the fairly equal game.

We started very well scoring twice. But then Paddy Kenny conceded 3 goals in 8 minutes!

DJ Campbell and Marco Verratti saved the game! The first one became an author of 2 goals, the second one provided 2 assists for the first one.

Bottom part of the Premier League table

Finally, I can state Q.P.R. stays in 5 points from the relegation zone. Though Wigan still has one more match to play and may reduce the distance to 3 points. But the most important that we got out of the psychological pit after Arsenal match. Now it should be much easier to finish the season safely. Take a look at my four last fixtures in the 1st season:

Potentially I can get even 9 points winning both home matches and away match with Norwich. I'm pretty sure now there's no more danger for Queens Park Rangers, we will stay in the league!

Q.P.R. players

True Football Manager