QPR football chief Les Ferdinand admits there's disappointment losing Eberichi Eze.

Crystal Palace raided QPR for Eze and were rewarded with the youngster's progress over the past 18 months.

Discussing the appointment of new manager Michael Beale, Ferdinand said: “Of course, the head coach also has an input into player recruitment, but everything else is down to me and the rest of the staff in order to alleviate some of the pressure – so that he can get on with coaching and picking the team.

“As I said, he has an input into first-team transfers. You don't want to bring a player in who won't be selected. That's a waste of time and we haven't got the resource to waste.

“But nothing has changed. Everyone knows how we've come to operate in recent years and the collective effort that now goes into recruitment with the structure that we've put in place here.

“I've heard that it's 'Les' agenda'. It's not my agenda. This is not the Les Ferdinand show.

“Of course, we'd all be happy if we had millions of pounds to spend. But this is the way we simply have to operate. Financial fair pay dictates what we're able to do. For us, and the resource we have, being self-sufficient means we have to develop players.

“It's about bringing the likes of Eze through the door. In an ideal world, we'd have loved to keep Ebere, but we couldn't because selling him made the most financial sense for the football club.

“That's where we are – that's just where the football club is.

“The facts speak for themselves. If I left this football club tomorrow, I'd like to think that it's in a better place than it was when I came through the door in terms of the culture we now have here, the structure in place and the way we develop players."