EFL manager could leave club for same division rivals

Marti Cifuentes is looking to leave QPR and has entered talks with West Brom, talkSPORT understands.The Spaniard is understood to have fallen out with the board at the west London club.3Cifuentes is looking to leave QPR ahead of next seasonCredit: GettyCifuentes’ representative has held talks with West Brom, who play in the same division.The Baggies are on the lookout for a new manager having parted company with Tony Mowbray on April 21 after a poor run of results.Both QPR and West Brom will be playing in the Championship next term with a play-off finish or relegation not mathematically possible for either side. Spaniard Cifuentes joined QPR as head coach in October 2023 and later sealed their Championship survival at the end of the season.READ MORE ON THE CHAMPIONSHIPThe 42-year-old, formerly of Swedish side Hammarby, has the Hoops sitting 15th in the second tier of English football.However, he appears keen to leave west London despite admitting he enjoys his job at QPR.Speaking on his future after their 5-0 defeat at home to Burnley at the weekend, Cifuentes said: “I said before that as long as I’m wanted, I’m very happy.”The way the fans have been supporting me, it makes me feel that I want to give them something back even more than the last two seasons.”In any case I am very calm about the job I have done and the fact that we have achieved what were difficult targets.”I’m an ambitious person in the sense that I always push myself. I always want to improve. 3Cifuentes has insisted he’s ‘very happy’ at the clubCredit: Getty3But his final home game in charge could prove to be their 5-0 thrashing they received from BurnleyCredit: Getty”I have a contract and I want to keep improving. I enjoy my job here, enjoy English football, and am ready for more.”I’ve said that the support from the fans that I’ve got this season, in very difficult moments, is something that I have never seen before and will stay with me forever.”That’s why I’m very sad today. Today hurts. It doesn’t define what this team has done this season and it’s very sad to finish that way.”QPR are playing in the Championship for the tenth consecutive season since their relegation from the Premier League in 2015.A ninth-place finish in the 2020/21 campaign is the closest they’ve come to a return to the top flight.The Hoops travel to Sunderland, who are confirmed to be in the play-offs, on the final day of the season on Saturday.Watch QPR’s failed plans to change stadium following their Premier League promotion As for West Brom, they are tenth in the Championship, five points off the play-off spots. Their final match of the season sees them face relegation-threatened Luton Town at the Hawthorns on Saturday.