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QPR owner Tony Fernandes is ready to appoint Neil Warnock as manager for the rest of the season.

The 66-year-old has been in caretaker charge at Loftus Road since Chris Ramsey’s sacking three weeks ago, having previously joined in a ‘first-team advisory role’.

Fernandes has weighed up other options but is now seriously considering handing Warnock the job until May – and the experienced former Sheffield United, Leeds and Crystal Palace chief is now said to be confident of landing the role on a more long-term basis.

Warnock has been busy trying to sort out long-term loan deals for Rangers, and has also brought his trusted lieutenant Kevin Blackwell into the coaching set-up.

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He led QPR to promotion to the Premier League in 2011 and remained on good terms with Fernandes despite his sacking the following year.

The major sticking point has been Warnock’s apparently strained relationship with QPR’s director of football Les Ferdinand.

But Loftus Road sources believe the veteran has won his behind-the-scenes struggle and will be allowed six months to turn around the fortunes of the mid-table Championship club.