Saturday 17 January 2015 20:18, UK
QPR defender Richard Dunne insists the players fully support beleaguered boss Harry Redknapp.
Press reports had suggested Redknapp would be sacked if QPR lost to Manchester United on Saturday, and they went down 2-0.
Redknapp remains unconcerned, and he says he still has the support of chairman Tony Fernandes.
And centre-back Dunne says Redknapp certainly retains the full backing of the squad.
"When stuff comes up about the manager, it doesn’t affect the players," he told Sky Sports News HQ. "We know him. We see the manager every day and we know he’s not changed one bit. He’s still doing his job and we’re all still 100 per cent behind him.
"It's the media that create these things and there’s been no difference in training throughout the week. So it’s not affected the lads or caused any sort of nervousness or worry or anything like that.
"It's been a normal week for us and it’s just unfortunate today that we didn’t get the result."
When stuff comes up about the manager, it doesn’t affect the players.
QPR stood firm for an hour against United, but Marouane Fellaini broke the deadlock on the hour mark and his fellow substitute James Wilson sealed it late on.
"It was just a disappointing day," added Dunne. "Obviously we wanted to make this place a fortress and we’ve done reasonably well here for most of the season.
"We expect to win games when we play here and today it just didn’t happen for us. Maybe the first goal could have been prevented but after that you’re just chasing the game and the second goal was inevitable really."
Dunne admits the pressure is building, with Rangers second-bottom of the table, and seven of their remaining home games are against teams in the top half of the Premier League table. But he remains confident they will avoid the drop.
"The pressure is there but I’m sure it’s the same for every other team in the bottom three or bottom six - they're all going to have to play the top teams," he said.
"We’re happy that we have got them at home. We know how difficult it is and how we have not performed really on the road so we’re glad to get them here and we showed against Man City that we can compete with anyone here.
"Today is a setback but we’re still confident of staying up.
"We’ll suffer for a few days with this (result) and then we need to get ourselves back, get our heads straight and make sure we go to Stoke and start getting some points on the road."
