TIM SHERWOOD is being lined-up to be QPR’s next boss if struggling Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink fails to get a result against Nottingham Forest on Saturday.

The Rs have lost their last two Championship matches and fans - who were pictured fighting among themselves in Friday's defeat to Brentford - are losing patience with the former Chelsea striker’s points haul and style of football.

5 Tim Sherwood and Les Ferdinmand have worked together before Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

Sherwood - the out-of-work friend of Loftus Road director of football Les Ferdinand - almost got the job back in 2015 before Harry Redknapp was replaced by Chris Ramsey and is desperate for a dug-out return after a terrible time at Aston Villa.

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5 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has been under pressure since the Telegraph sting Credit: PA:Press Association

The Rs were woeful against their west London rivals on Friday – in a one-sided 2-0 loss in front of a fuming home crowd - with Hasselbaink’s baffling second-half substitutions getting slated by fans and questioned on TV.

The Dutchman escaped the sack in September – unlike former England boss Sam Allardyce – when he was caught up in the Telegraph’s football-bung scandal, with co-chairman Tony Fernandes and the rest of the board backing the former Burton boss who admitted to being “naïve” for thinking he could land £55,000 for an after-dinner speech.

That, however, was before the defeats to the Bees and Sheffield Wednesday and the mood around the club has taken a dip since.

5 Tim Sherwood endured a miserable time at Villa but could be back soon Credit: Getty Images

Sherwood would offer a massive morale boost, if his brief no-nonsense spell in charge at Tottenham is anything to go by – but the ex-Villa coach might be put off by the peanuts Rangers are currently committed to shelling out on players.

Rangers are going through a massive transition from their money-haemorrhaging days of splurging Premier League wages on dud signings like Sandro, Ji Sung Park and Jose Bosingwa. With the new focus on landing tomorrow’s top-flight stars with League One money.

Sherwood and Ferdinand worked together at Tottenham’s academy, and then first team, where they sparked the career of England ace Harry Kane but there is no sign of that level of homegrown talent at the Hoops.

5 Hasselbainks tactics for the Brentford defeat were slammed Credit: Getty Images

Ferdinand – the beloved former Rangers striker – needs to get his next big decision spot-on as previous appointment, Chis Ramsey, lasted just eight months as permanent boss and sections of the support are starting to ask how many chances the former goal-machine needs to get it right.

In Hasselbaink’s favour is Nottingham Forest’s poor run going in to the County Ground clash.

The relegation contenders have won just one league game since August and have lost their last three on the spin.

5 Former Rs manager Chris Ramsey with current QPR director of football Les Ferdinand and Tim Sherwood Credit: Times Newspapers Ltd

Sherwood has been linked with the vacant post at Wolves but more experienced Championship bosses like Nigel Pearson and Paul Lambert are ahead of him.

The decision to axe Hasselbaink will not be as costly as most of QPR's previous mistakes as he is only on a rolling month-to-month contract.