Neil Critchley confirmed as new QPR supervisor on three-and-a-half-year contract | Soccer Information | NEWSRUX

QPR have introduced the appointment of Neil Critchley because the membership’s new head coach.

Sky Sports activities Information reported final month that Critchley was excessive on the checklist of candidates to interchange Michael Beale, who left for Rangers earlier in December.

He has signed a three-and-a-half 12 months with the west London membership, who sit ninth within the Championship.

Critchley labored with Beale as an academy coach at Liverpool and changed him as Steven Gerrard’s assistant supervisor at Aston Villa after Beale took cost at QPR through the summer season.

Critchley left Villa when Gerrard was sacked as supervisor in October whereas Beale was answerable for QPR for simply 21 league video games earlier than he headed to Ibrox.

In a profitable spell as Blackpool boss, Critchley led the Tangerines to promotion from League One and a Sixteenth-place end within the Championship throughout his two years in cost.

He can be joined at his new membership by Mike Garrity, who has left his job as Lincoln Metropolis assistant boss, and Ian Brunskill, who was Critchley’s assistant at Blackpool.

“There have been some good foundations laid right here and now it’s my job to work as arduous as I can to construct on that,” Critchley advised QPR’s web site.

“We need to transfer the membership ahead and guarantee we’re competing on the high finish of the Championship desk.”

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