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QPR boss Marti Cifuentes considering quitting as manager after breakdown in relationship with CEO

Published on April 23, 2025 at 03:23 PM

QPR boss Marti Cifuentes could quit the club this summer after a breakdown in his relationship with chief executive Christian Nourry.

Spaniard Cifuentes, who joined from Swedish side Hammerby in November 2023 has grown frustrated with the direction the club is heading under Nourry, 27, who was brought in to oversee the club's recruitment in January last year.

Marti Cifuentes, QPR head coach.
QPR boss Marti Cifuentes could quit the club this summer
Marti Cifuentes, Head Coach of QPR.
Cifuentes wants re-assurances the club want to progress to the next level

Cifuentes, who signed a new contract in September, was linked with the job last summer.

The Loftus Road manager's potential availability could interest Norwich and , who sacked Johannes Hoff Thorup and respectively on Easter Monday.

The highly-rated 42-year-old is hugely popular with the QPR fans after keeping the club in the last season.

But he has grown frustrated with the huge number of injuries his squad encountered this season, which ended their flickering play-off hopes and will result in a lower-mid-table finish.

is unhappy at the club's decision to allow director of performance Ben Williams to oversee the club's sports science, medical, physio and nutrition departments remotely from Dubai.

QPR chiefs also vetoed a move from Nourry to appoint a set-piece coach earlier this season.

Headline summer arrivals Zan Celar and Nicolas Madsen have struggled since signing for a combined fee of over £5 million.

And Cifuentes said after Monday's 2-1 home defeat by he wanted assurances the club want to progress to the next level having dropped out of the Prem 10 years ago.

The Spaniard said: “The supporters since I first came here have been amazing.

“But I would like to give them something else and not just celebrate another season in the .”

QPR finish the season at home to already-promoted Burnley on Saturday before a trip to play-off bound Sunderland on 3 May.

Cifuentes had previously targeted surpassing last season's points total of 56 and the Rs areone win away from matching that.

Liam Morrison of QPR dejected after a football match.
QPR are 15th in the Championship after losing to Swansea on Easter Monday
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