The Trust has been in touch with QPR chief executive David Davies to find out the background on some new appointments at the club.
With the board on record as saying how tight finances are at present, we raised a collective quizzical eyebrow upon learning that the club has agreed to hire a new operations manager (a former chief executive of Lincoln City) as well as new maintenance and marketing staff.
As we were at pains to point out to Mr Davies, the purpose of the appointments seems perfectly reasonable – we’re just naturally frugal and keen to know how the club is actually going to pay for them!
Mr Davies told us that the operations manager is needed to take some of the weight off of his shoulders, since too much of his time is currently being taken up with issues such as ground maintenance. The club expects the other two appointments to be at least partially self-funding, one through the new
QPRWorld service and the other by replacing some contract-work.
Mr Davies also pointed out that QPR has lower staff costs than many similar clubs, offering Oldham and Watford as examples.
We thought it would be interesting to compare QPR’s staffing levels and costs with other second division clubs, as well as those in division one (which is, after all, where we hope to be heading next!). So we’ve put the intrepid Tracy Stent on the case and she is busy gathering information from other supporters
organisations to see how we measure up. Watch this space…