Maybe the bookies know something Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink doesn’t about becoming next permanent QPR boss after their 0-0 draw with Preston yesterday (see gallery).

The former Chelsea legend, now in charge at Burton Albion, shot from 25/1 to 5/4 overnight on Friday but played down speculation he was headed back to west London.

The Dutchman said: “The speculation doesn't bother me.

"I can't control that, I can't handle that. I'm totally focused on Burton – that's the only thing I can do.

"I'm focused on my boys, we are together and that's the only thing I can say. People will talk or say things but we have to work in the right way with the same intensity, and try to be ready for the games to come.”

Nigel Pearson has moved top of the odds pile at 6/5. Interim head coach Neil Warnock, back for a second spell at Loftus Road, is second at 7/2 and Hasselbaink has drifted, if that’s the word, with BetVictor to 5/1.