Rangers consider move for Jackett
QPR are considering making an approach for Wolves manager Kenny Jackett.
Rangers hope to appoint a new head coach before Thursday’s game at Reading and plan to ask Burton Albion for permission to speak to Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in the next 48 hours.
They might also make contact with Wolves over Jackett, who spent three years at Loftus Road as assistant manager under Ian Holloway.
Jackett, 53, left QPR in 2004 – weeks before they clinched promotion to the Championship – to take over as Swansea manager.
He later spent six years in charge at Millwall, winning promotion from the third tier, a feat he repeated at Wolves, who appointed him in 2013.
Jackett’s assistant at Molineux is former QPR youth coach Joe Gallen, brother of former R’s forward Kevin and the current assistant first-team coach Steve.
Wolves, who finished seventh in the Championship last season, missing out on the play-offs on goal difference, were recently put up for sale by owner Steve Morgan.
Former Chelsea striker Hasselbaink, 43, is keen to return to London and is desperate to land the job at Rangers, where Neil Warnock is currently in interim charge.
Dutchman Hasselbaink, whose playing career also included spells at Leeds, Middlesbrough and Charlton, has spent a year as Burton boss.
He previously spent a year as manager of Belgian club Royal Antwerp, where he rejected a new contract in order to pursue jobs in England.
Burton won the League Two title under Hasselbaink last season and are currently third in the League One table.
He took over from Gary Rowett, who left to join Birmingham City and has been targeted by QPR and Fulham but looks likely to stay in the Midlands.
Rangers have spoken to several out-of-work managers, including Chris Powell, who was recently sacked by Huddersfield, and remain in contact with other potential candidates.
A number of other current Championship managers were also briefly considered, including MK Dons’ Karl Robinson, but QPR’s owners, who will make the final decision on an appointment, were unenthused.
Hasselbaink is set to meet Ruben Gnanalingam next week when the Rangers co-chairman will be in London, by which time Jackett could also be very much in contention for the job.
