Fernandes: QPR will stop being a buying club

QPR chairman Tony Fernandes has insisted that the club is moving towards a culture of developing rather than buying players.

Speaking to QPR Player, Fernandes claimed that steps had already been taken to improve the club’s academy and place less emphasis on spending in the transfer market.

“We have a better recruitment strategy – it’s by no means perfect but it’s better,” he said.

“The academy is going to be the culture. If that’s the last thing I do it is going to be that players come through our academy.

“We’re not going to be a buying club. We’re going to be a developing club. We’re going to develop players through the system.

“It’s been tough because we’ve always been on the back foot. From the moment I came in, Neil Warnock wanted to buy players, then left us and Mark Hughes did a wholesale change.

“Then to be fair to Harry Redknapp a lot of those players had to be replaced and the only way was to buy new players.”

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