Holloway left his role as Queens Park Rangers manager in 2018.
Ian Holloway is tipping his former club Queens Park Rangers to reach the Championship play-offs.
QPR have impressed under Holloway’s successor-but-one, Mark Warburton, and find themselves fifth in the standings to the surprise of many.
And asked where he thinks the R’s will finish this season, the out-of-work Bristolian replied:
QPR’s start to the new campaign could hardly be more contrasting than last year’s, when they spent six successive matchweeks within the bottom three.
The west London side eventually finished 19th after sacking Holloway’s replacement Steve McClaren in early April.
Holloway was live on Talksport when news broke of McClaren’s departure, and gave the following reaction: “Well, he took my job, didn’t he? I had another year – I’m still being paid by them now.
“It is what it is. Whether he was told by the club what the club would have to do, whether he knew that we’d have to be cutting back like I was doing – I don’t know. All I know is he was talking to the chairman while I was still in the job, telling the chairman what he thinks he should do and obviously he hasn’t been able to do it, so…
“I felt that way because I had another year to go and I wanted to carry on the good work I was doing. But listen, football is football. You can’t ever make someone want you, can you? If he was someone who was wanted by the club they haven’t stuck by him and that’s the way football goes these days. Someone will be waiting to take his place and good luck to them because it’s a wonderful, wonderful football club.
“Am I a bit warped and twisted? Possibly. But I didn’t mean it in a nasty way. It’s life. Sometimes what goes around, comes around.
“All I can say is where are the young lads I was told to bring through and that’s what we were doing. I had Chris Ramsey helping me, I was going to move it forward. Really, if you’ve got to cut your cloth accordingly then you’ve got to produce some of your own. Eze Ebere he hasn’t been playing, Ryan Manning was lent out on loan.”
Warburton was appointed at the start of the summer and has so far done plenty to silence detractors at his previous clubs, Nottingham Forest and Glasgow Rangers.
The former City banker made his name with QPR’s local rivals Brentford.
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