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The thing that struck me throughout is he cannot seem to say we got something wrong.
It’s ok to say ‘ You know what? We tried something but it did not work / we got it wrong and have to adjust” . Instead it was all part of the plan to add technical players last summer and power and pace this summer.
My take overall is he has some good ideas but lacks experience… it’s like listening to the Gen Zers at work!
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Nourry interview on 17:02 - Jul 25 with 3707 views
Christian Nourry, QPR's Chief Executive, reflects on his first 18 months at the club and outlines the long-term vision. The interview touches on club structure, managerial changes, youth development, recruitment, financial sustainability, and sensitive topics such as Martí Cifuentes' departure and contract secrecy.
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🔑 Key Themes & Highlights
🧩 Club Model & Structure
QPR’s football model is built to withstand managerial turnover, reflecting the instability of Championship head coach tenures.
Nourry has overseen structural changes, introducing specialist roles like a Head of Methodology, Individual Development Coach (Kevin Betsy), and Defensive Coach (Steve Bould).
The approach encourages collaboration across departments and aims to make QPR resilient and development-focused.
🧒 Youth Development
The development squad is younger, more competitive, and now serves as a genuine pathway to the first team.
Increased loan opportunities for young players (e.g. non-league loans) help accelerate maturity and readiness.
QPR is now recruiting globally again post-Brexit (Brazil, Australia, etc.) and targeting non-league talent aggressively.
⚖️ Martí Cifuentes & Gardening Leave
Legal restrictions prevented open discussion on Cifuentes’ departure, but Nourry acknowledges the tension between having a coach-ready model and still being impacted by a head coach’s potential exit.
He defends the decision as part of protecting club interests and value.
📈 Recruitment & Transfers
Recruitment focuses on data, video scouting, live observation, and player personality.
The club seeks both long-monitored targets and market opportunities (e.g. financially viable late-window moves).
QPR prefers not to disclose player contract lengths to protect market value, arguing agents don’t always act against club interests.
💰 Finances & FFP
QPR is operating under tight financial margins, with P&S (FFP) compliance a constant concern.
Future strategy depends on EFL decisions on squad cost ratio rules replacing P&S.
Nourry stresses the need to either sell players regularly or boost commercial revenue (e.g. improved stadium use, partnerships with Imperial College London, etc.).
🏥 Injuries & Performance
The club faced criticism for injuries, with claims of a dip after Ben Williams’ departure.
Nourry clarifies Williams’ role was more about high-performance strategy than direct fitness coaching.
New medical staff and physios have been brought in to address previous issues.
🏟️ Loftus Road & Infrastructure
No major stadium news but ongoing efforts to maximize existing infrastructure and explore partnerships.
Nourry sits on Hammersmith & Fulham's Upstream London advisory board, suggesting a vision for embedding QPR within a tech and innovation hub.
👶 Women's Team & Community
Nourry takes pride in integrating the women’s team fully into the club structure.
Increased community involvement and youth engagement is seen as core to QPR’s long-term identity.
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💬 Final Thoughts from Nourry
Nourry emphasizes a long-term, sustainable project, not a quick fix.
Success will be judged on building a resilient, progressive football operation that fans can be proud of — on and off the pitch.
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Nourry interview on 18:31 - Jul 25 with 3329 views
Christian Nourry, QPR's Chief Executive, reflects on his first 18 months at the club and outlines the long-term vision. The interview touches on club structure, managerial changes, youth development, recruitment, financial sustainability, and sensitive topics such as Martí Cifuentes' departure and contract secrecy.
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🔑 Key Themes & Highlights
🧩 Club Model & Structure
QPR’s football model is built to withstand managerial turnover, reflecting the instability of Championship head coach tenures.
Nourry has overseen structural changes, introducing specialist roles like a Head of Methodology, Individual Development Coach (Kevin Betsy), and Defensive Coach (Steve Bould).
The approach encourages collaboration across departments and aims to make QPR resilient and development-focused.
🧒 Youth Development
The development squad is younger, more competitive, and now serves as a genuine pathway to the first team.
Increased loan opportunities for young players (e.g. non-league loans) help accelerate maturity and readiness.
QPR is now recruiting globally again post-Brexit (Brazil, Australia, etc.) and targeting non-league talent aggressively.
⚖️ Martí Cifuentes & Gardening Leave
Legal restrictions prevented open discussion on Cifuentes’ departure, but Nourry acknowledges the tension between having a coach-ready model and still being impacted by a head coach’s potential exit.
He defends the decision as part of protecting club interests and value.
📈 Recruitment & Transfers
Recruitment focuses on data, video scouting, live observation, and player personality.
The club seeks both long-monitored targets and market opportunities (e.g. financially viable late-window moves).
QPR prefers not to disclose player contract lengths to protect market value, arguing agents don’t always act against club interests.
💰 Finances & FFP
QPR is operating under tight financial margins, with P&S (FFP) compliance a constant concern.
Future strategy depends on EFL decisions on squad cost ratio rules replacing P&S.
Nourry stresses the need to either sell players regularly or boost commercial revenue (e.g. improved stadium use, partnerships with Imperial College London, etc.).
🏥 Injuries & Performance
The club faced criticism for injuries, with claims of a dip after Ben Williams’ departure.
Nourry clarifies Williams’ role was more about high-performance strategy than direct fitness coaching.
New medical staff and physios have been brought in to address previous issues.
🏟️ Loftus Road & Infrastructure
No major stadium news but ongoing efforts to maximize existing infrastructure and explore partnerships.
Nourry sits on Hammersmith & Fulham's Upstream London advisory board, suggesting a vision for embedding QPR within a tech and innovation hub.
👶 Women's Team & Community
Nourry takes pride in integrating the women’s team fully into the club structure.
Increased community involvement and youth engagement is seen as core to QPR’s long-term identity.
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💬 Final Thoughts from Nourry
Nourry emphasizes a long-term, sustainable project, not a quick fix.
Success will be judged on building a resilient, progressive football operation that fans can be proud of — on and off the pitch.
Into the sea with this AI sht.
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Nourry interview on 18:39 - Jul 25 with 3258 views
Christian Nourry, QPR's Chief Executive, reflects on his first 18 months at the club and outlines the long-term vision. The interview touches on club structure, managerial changes, youth development, recruitment, financial sustainability, and sensitive topics such as Martí Cifuentes' departure and contract secrecy.
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🔑 Key Themes & Highlights
🧩 Club Model & Structure
QPR’s football model is built to withstand managerial turnover, reflecting the instability of Championship head coach tenures.
Nourry has overseen structural changes, introducing specialist roles like a Head of Methodology, Individual Development Coach (Kevin Betsy), and Defensive Coach (Steve Bould).
The approach encourages collaboration across departments and aims to make QPR resilient and development-focused.
🧒 Youth Development
The development squad is younger, more competitive, and now serves as a genuine pathway to the first team.
Increased loan opportunities for young players (e.g. non-league loans) help accelerate maturity and readiness.
QPR is now recruiting globally again post-Brexit (Brazil, Australia, etc.) and targeting non-league talent aggressively.
⚖️ Martí Cifuentes & Gardening Leave
Legal restrictions prevented open discussion on Cifuentes’ departure, but Nourry acknowledges the tension between having a coach-ready model and still being impacted by a head coach’s potential exit.
He defends the decision as part of protecting club interests and value.
📈 Recruitment & Transfers
Recruitment focuses on data, video scouting, live observation, and player personality.
The club seeks both long-monitored targets and market opportunities (e.g. financially viable late-window moves).
QPR prefers not to disclose player contract lengths to protect market value, arguing agents don’t always act against club interests.
💰 Finances & FFP
QPR is operating under tight financial margins, with P&S (FFP) compliance a constant concern.
Future strategy depends on EFL decisions on squad cost ratio rules replacing P&S.
Nourry stresses the need to either sell players regularly or boost commercial revenue (e.g. improved stadium use, partnerships with Imperial College London, etc.).
🏥 Injuries & Performance
The club faced criticism for injuries, with claims of a dip after Ben Williams’ departure.
Nourry clarifies Williams’ role was more about high-performance strategy than direct fitness coaching.
New medical staff and physios have been brought in to address previous issues.
🏟️ Loftus Road & Infrastructure
No major stadium news but ongoing efforts to maximize existing infrastructure and explore partnerships.
Nourry sits on Hammersmith & Fulham's Upstream London advisory board, suggesting a vision for embedding QPR within a tech and innovation hub.
👶 Women's Team & Community
Nourry takes pride in integrating the women’s team fully into the club structure.
Increased community involvement and youth engagement is seen as core to QPR’s long-term identity.
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💬 Final Thoughts from Nourry
Nourry emphasizes a long-term, sustainable project, not a quick fix.
Success will be judged on building a resilient, progressive football operation that fans can be proud of — on and off the pitch.
In addition to what you have put Landshark
Performance Director
Job that can be done remotely He defines the strategy not the physical work required to be done in person by fitness coaches. Admits it was a bad look, but we were mid table for injuries last season when EFL had the worst season for injuries since year two thousand. Lessons learned.
Value in Negotiations for Sales
Not knowing contract lengths, offers are made without knowledge, means we could get more for players than otherwise could
Players sales at the peak of their value
Allows for existing players to develop within the club ie wage budget has more leeway to increase, if we sell at appropriate times, whilst always having an eye for potential replacements to come straight in, should this happen.
Development squad
No Nico Hamaleinen or Ossie Kakay now but more brutal Need get experiences early otherwise move to other academies All must have chance to get in first team and if they don't likely to be moved on. Scouting worldwide for talent. Obviously lot easier to track with technology of today.
Tbf, I think it was a very interesting discussion with what was said and not said. Dave Mcintyre asked all the questions most fans would want answers to and only the question of Cifuentes gardening leave, was deflected. Possibly contractual law. I know both Dave and Christian know that neither of them would make motivational speakers, so some might not be able to sit and listen, but it was a very wide reaching interview and for me, in general, was very positive. There are obviously with advances in data, potentially newer ways of operating successfully, and it should be interesting to see how this all comes out.
I think I learnt that Christian Nourry is definitely a hard working individual and you can see he definitely wants to succeed. Appreciate his age, but in today's world there are massively more opportunities for people at younger ages to be very successful in a whole variety of different levels, and from what I heard, I am confident there is absolutely possibilities that he could succeed here and many ideas do make sense.
He is likely to rub some up the wrong way. Most definitely an intellectual, but hard nosed with it, so regards improving our finances so that our team improves likewise from the position we have found our level in recent years again is positive.
If you want your Ian Holloway enthusiasm or an ex footballer who knows the club in Les Ferdinand, yes we are going down a different path but I feel it's more in line with modern ways and can succeed. It's also good that he appears very single minded in how to achieve success and he is aware he will have a lot of detractors and is thick skinned enough to make difficult decisions that a lot of us won't like but guess see where this takes us.
To me, a lot of parallels with a Daniel Levy way of running a football club. Increasing revenue but with an eye on development. A lot of what he says makes sense.
I am not alone though in that delaying announcements on transfers, sales, and a whole variety of news not told is frustrating as a fan but if the club does improve on many fronts all well and good.
It's not as if in the last fifteen years there has been massive success, so a change of emphasis and for me, let's see where this takes us.
Think that was a very decent interview by Dave and Nourry was very controlled and competent in his replies. But will be interesting.
I think the role of head coach as opposed to manager is what irked Cifuentes ie he did not get all he wanted. And the working model seems like it is set consistently, so a meltdown after Beale leaving in terms of keeping the strategy is sensible.
But who the heck knows !!!
Ultimately if we dont improve season on season, he will be moved on, but I think it's fair to see where this goes.
I listened to the lot, an hour I'll never get back. Says a lot of words, doesn't say a lot of substance. In amongst it, a few positives. I like the way we are building the coaching setup, I like the joined up thinking between dev and senior recruitment, I like the shift to a younger squad. I don't like his inability to hold his hands up and admit a mistake, I don't like his defensiveness of the contracts and sorry but I don't agree with his arguement on that. Couldn't answer any of the stuff we want to know due to legal reasons, which is fair enough.
Highlight funny moment - his panicked silence when asked what we were actually doing well!
Not sure he liked Dave telling him that the changes to the youth set up were nothing new.
For me its his inability to budge and hold his hands up to mistakes. He dodges good questions with rubbish.
There is some joined up thinking in there, but there are so many red flags when he does these interviews.
Just asking as to what the red flags are, from what you heard ??
And where he dodges questions.
Only thought the Cifuentes gardening leave he gave no answer worth hearing ie there was literally nothing said.
Definitely an interview both ways with b*tch appeal going on though, but the strategy was well explained.
What i would say about Nourry in his favour, he clearly wants ro succeed at QPR and will work extremely hard to achieve this. Appreciate many are nervous, or unsure, but its not as if anyone here has torn up many trees. Its a new way of working and let's just see. We have no option on that anyhow
Red flags though - need to say what they are really.
I thought it was great interviewing by Dave Mc - he asked all the right questions that he was allowed to, frustrating no doubt to be NDA'd about Cifuentes. Sensed DM thought there was more flexibility there than was allowed.
A lot of stuff Nourry said about processes I thought made sense, and I found him once again more personable than his official site royal pronouncements. But he does seem to believe he's invented something new 18 months into his tenure when in fact we're more less where we were 18 months before he arrived, but with arguably a less convincing squad.
Dave had him on the ropes about the nonsensical contract stuff. It just doesn't stand up to any intelligent interrogation. DM eased off in the end on that because he needs to preserve that relationship (and you can tell CN likes him). But CN must realise how silly it sounds: everyone in football apart from the fans are allowed to know how long a QPR player's contract is. When he was sort of role-playing getting an offer...dearie me.
The bit about Ben Williams - come on mate, some of us aren't the divs you must imagine us to be. Real "you wouldn't understand" vibes. We understand. Just say, "yeah, misjudged that."
Overall, I dunno - there was that line from Ian Holloway either when we were on of his mad winning or losing runs: "it isn't heaven and isn't hell."
That's how I feel about Nourry. He's OK. He's a smart guy, he's got a very, very difficult job and he seems to be making a decent fist of it right now. I thought Les was making a decent fist of it too in much, much more trying circumstances until the Warbs/Beale sliding doors misjudgement. David was saying that too: none of this really new, only the results will say if it's successfully different. Otherwise, it's the same: trying to sign players for decent fees we can develop and sell but don't very often.
We'll know more about Nourry after the window closes - but big season ahead for him. It's all on him now, just as it was all on LF when he/the board sacrificed Warbs for a prettier girl they thought fit the model better and everyone got shafted.
The one question I'd have liked asked is 'what are the targets for 25/26?'. Think the answer would be a clarifying moment for all fans - not that he'd answer, of course. It's a long and unpredictable trek from July to November at QPR, never mind to May. Right now, he can be zen. Dave should schedule that promised follow-up for Christmas.
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Nourry interview on 21:52 - Jul 25 with 2514 views
Edit: I was thinking last night that in any organisation those at the top hardly ever admit to mistakes or lack of achievement- there always has to be a reason. Any expression of fault ownership is perceived as a weakness and hastened the revolving door. So don’t be surprised when he has an answer to everything that points at someone else or circumstances
I thank Dave Mc for asking what my own 1st question would be ….’what the fooook is a 27 year old doing in charge of a struggling Championship club and I personally know of only one other 27 year old who could take on that question and answer it.
Considering Dave caveated the start of the interview with saying that he could not ask much about Marti, CN certainly dropped some bread crumbs about why he had to ultimately part the club.
No point saying any more as those who do not want to hear will not hear.
I thought it was great interviewing by Dave Mc - he asked all the right questions that he was allowed to, frustrating no doubt to be NDA'd about Cifuentes. Sensed DM thought there was more flexibility there than was allowed.
A lot of stuff Nourry said about processes I thought made sense, and I found him once again more personable than his official site royal pronouncements. But he does seem to believe he's invented something new 18 months into his tenure when in fact we're more less where we were 18 months before he arrived, but with arguably a less convincing squad.
Dave had him on the ropes about the nonsensical contract stuff. It just doesn't stand up to any intelligent interrogation. DM eased off in the end on that because he needs to preserve that relationship (and you can tell CN likes him). But CN must realise how silly it sounds: everyone in football apart from the fans are allowed to know how long a QPR player's contract is. When he was sort of role-playing getting an offer...dearie me.
The bit about Ben Williams - come on mate, some of us aren't the divs you must imagine us to be. Real "you wouldn't understand" vibes. We understand. Just say, "yeah, misjudged that."
Overall, I dunno - there was that line from Ian Holloway either when we were on of his mad winning or losing runs: "it isn't heaven and isn't hell."
That's how I feel about Nourry. He's OK. He's a smart guy, he's got a very, very difficult job and he seems to be making a decent fist of it right now. I thought Les was making a decent fist of it too in much, much more trying circumstances until the Warbs/Beale sliding doors misjudgement. David was saying that too: none of this really new, only the results will say if it's successfully different. Otherwise, it's the same: trying to sign players for decent fees we can develop and sell but don't very often.
We'll know more about Nourry after the window closes - but big season ahead for him. It's all on him now, just as it was all on LF when he/the board sacrificed Warbs for a prettier girl they thought fit the model better and everyone got shafted.
The one question I'd have liked asked is 'what are the targets for 25/26?'. Think the answer would be a clarifying moment for all fans - not that he'd answer, of course. It's a long and unpredictable trek from July to November at QPR, never mind to May. Right now, he can be zen. Dave should schedule that promised follow-up for Christmas.
Ok, phew not just me.
The target he is aiming to achieve is to be a successful Championship club- first and foremost.
Successful in terms of being sustainable and in the top half.
Why would you even think about the Prem????
I am warming to the guy - may be playing his cards closer to his chest than some might like but it is a marathon not a sprint from where we have been in the last 10 years to being a sustainable championship club.
The thing I can never accept with a Head Coach model is when it all goes to sh*t results wise it's the Coach that gets fired and blamed for everything, whilst the people responsible for signings and the "structure" keep their gravy train jobs time and again. Then the next Coach gets fired because it's all his fault and rinse/repeat...
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Nourry interview on 22:13 - Jul 25 with 2384 views
Around the 12:30 mark he's talking about his background in football and mentions that early in his career he was writing for The Guardian on European football.
I don't remember this coming up before and I can't find any articles written by him (although I haven't looked very hard!).
Is he still trying to pad his CV!? Odd thing to do when you've been in the top job for over a year.
Overall I don't think he comes across as a natural communicator. But maybe that will come with time (or intensive media training!)
David McIntyre has always said that "big personalities" do well at QPR.
Neither Nourry nor Julien Stephan seems the gregarious type. Things could get bumpy if (when) we hit one of our trademark six-game barren spells.
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Nourry interview on 22:21 - Jul 25 with 2324 views
Around the 12:30 mark he's talking about his background in football and mentions that early in his career he was writing for The Guardian on European football.
I don't remember this coming up before and I can't find any articles written by him (although I haven't looked very hard!).
Is he still trying to pad his CV!? Odd thing to do when you've been in the top job for over a year.
Overall I don't think he comes across as a natural communicator. But maybe that will come with time (or intensive media training!)
David McIntyre has always said that "big personalities" do well at QPR.
Neither Nourry nor Julien Stephan seems the gregarious type. Things could get bumpy if (when) we hit one of our trademark six-game barren spells.
Only one I could find, which technically means he is being truthful I guess
The thing that struck me throughout is he cannot seem to say we got something wrong.
It’s ok to say ‘ You know what? We tried something but it did not work / we got it wrong and have to adjust” . Instead it was all part of the plan to add technical players last summer and power and pace this summer.
My take overall is he has some good ideas but lacks experience… it’s like listening to the Gen Zers at work!
I switched off with the pace and power line. Imo he's clearly scanned message boards and seen what the consensus are saying and included it in his answers. Who seriously believes that it was always the plan to add pace and power this year. More gas lighting than Trump.
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Nourry interview on 03:47 - Jul 26 with 1527 views
Think he answered reasonably well in a very bristly interview but he perhaps needs a more polished presenter who is more versed in communication, who is aware of all the ideas and needs to get across, as a lot of fans will miss the message from this, and lot will bash him merely for his age and not able to understand what he is saying, because of his tone and over elaborate answers.
The only thing I would say is Dave, you did ask all the right questions but I think your mind was already made up, before you listened to any of his answers.
But good to do the interview- not something I could personally do myself....
Towards the end there's a question about Jimmy Dunne. In his reply (about 1h 3m) Nourry says that with the events over the summer and the decisions we are making it's one step forward one step forward one step forward in his (Jimmy's) eyes.
Which sounds like a subtle suggestion that Jimmy didn't see eye to eye with Martí, is that how others interpreted this? Or perhaps I've over interpreted it.
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Nourry interview on 07:52 - Jul 26 with 1230 views
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