QPR chairman Tony Fernandes hopes the new training ground at Warren Farm will be ready within the next two years.
The Hoops are poised to submit revised plans to Ealing Council for the complex, which will provide a facility for the first team and academy, as well as the local community.
Fernandes told the club's website: “What’s happened with the training ground isn’t too dissimilar to the situation with the first-team where we brought a lot of players in and it didn’t work – we got relegated.
“We initially had big plans for a state-of-the-art training ground, but we as shareholders then thought, ‘Is this really what is needed?’
“We have looked at a number of other clubs’ facilities and seen what works well, and the end result was we scaled back on it – apart from the pitches, we want to have great pitches.
“I have met with Julian Bell, the Ealing Council leader, and we will be submitting amended plans to Ealing Council shortly. They have been very supportive.
“We have got our budgets in place, and work should start on the site this year with a timescale for the project of two years.
“It will please me greatly when I see it. So much work has been done already but let’s remember, this is just a facility. What pleases
me more is the work I can see that’s going on at Harlington and the Concorde Club, where our academy are currently based.
“I have spent a lot of time there. Sitting in on some of Chris’s (Ramsey) presentations, and hearing what the coaches are thinking, has been great.
“The day I see a Reece Grego-Cox or a Michael Petrasso in our first team will be great.”
