QPR boss Michael Beale has explained rejecting the Wolves job last week.

Beale was offered the post after Wolves' dismissal of Bruno Lage.

He told the London Evening Standard, “I'd said a lot of things to them about commitment to the cause, commitment to what we're building, the journey they're on," the 42-year-old explains. “You have to be loyal to the words you've used.

“I always say to young players, 'Get to 100 games and football will put you where you're supposed to be'. If that's the rule for young players, it's got to be the rule for young managers as well. If I finish a season here at QPR, the minimum I can play is 48, which is only halfway there."

Avoidance of hypocrisy was just one of the factors that made up Beale's mind, though he swiftly knocks back the idea that, with only a brief stint at QPR to fall back on, fear of failure was another.

“I completely believed in myself, having worked with players at that level in previous clubs," he adds. “That was the exciting part, but I can't enter into a relationship with someone else when I'm in one here."

Rejecting Wolves's courtship felt a touch awkward: “You have to say the words, say 'I'm not going' and then it's like you've snubbed them. It's not. I took it as a huge compliment but I wanted to politely decline."