Queens Park Rangers have announced Ian Holloway has returned to the club after a 10-year absence from the club.
The struggling Championship outfit have been on the search for a new manager since sacking Jimmy Floyd Hasslbaink last week and were expected to appoint former Tottenham and Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood.
However, Sherwood was made Swindon’s director of football earlier this week and QPR have now appointed former boss Holloway on a two-and-a-half year deal.
Holloway, 53, has been out of work since being sacked as Millwall manager in March 2015 but enjoyed great success at QPR as a player and a manager.
“I feel honoured, privileged and proud,” Holloway told QPR’s official website. “It’s a huge moment for me and I am delighted to be back here. I feel this is the right time for me. I feel like I’m back home now and I can’t wait to get started.
“I care deeply for this football club and I want to help Les, Lee and our wonderful owners create something we can all be proud of. Does anyone know this club better than me? Probably not. Has it changed much? Maybe. But I know what it means to everyone out there. People would die for this club - and I want our players to show that in their performance, and our fans to show them they care about the players as much as I will do as their manager.
“My job is to try and help this squad improve and create an environment that the players can succeed in, especially at Loftus Road, where the fans love to see players express themselves. I want to try and galvanise this squad and make my owners smile. Hopefully this is the start of something here.”
Holloway takes over a QPR side only six points above the bottom three having only managed five wins in their opening 16 Championship matches. In his first stint as QPR manager, which ended in 2006, Holloway won 40% of his matches during his five-year spell, which is the best success rate of any manager at the club.
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