Glenn Hoddle has told zapsportz.com that he resigned from his first-team coaching role at Queens Park Rangers out of loyalty to Harry Redknapp, who departed as manager on Tuesday.
Redknapp, 67, left the Loftus Road club on Feb. 3 -- a day after the closure of the winter transfer window -- after revealing he needs to undergo an operation on his knee.
The coach has dismissed claims he left the Premier League side because of the lack of signings in January, and has backed Les Ferdinand to succeed after the former striker was appointed as director of football on Tuesday.
BREAKING NEWS: The club can confirm Glenn Hoddle and Joe Jordan have left @QPRFC http://t.co/GvE7becxpD pic.twitter.com/65jse1WUcL
- QPR FC (@QPRFC) February 4, 2015
Former England manager Hoddle, who was brought in on a part-time basis by Redknapp at the start of the 2014-15 campaign, said: "As Harry had taken me to Queens Park Rangers, I thought the right thing to do was to leave. It was an act of loyalty to Harry."
The 57-year-old -- who was joined by Redknapp's assistant Joe Jordan in leaving the club -- added: "The club have been excellent with their attitude towards me."
Meanwhile, caretaker manager Chris Ramsey will offer all of the players a "clean slate" for as long as he and Kevin Bond are in charge of the team.
The west London club are in the process of recruiting a new boss, with Tim Sherwood the early frontrunner.
However, with no specific timescale in place for the appointment, it was business as usual at QPR's Harlington base on Thursday morning as Ramsey, Bond and goalkeeping coach Kevin Hitchcock took charge of training for the first time since the new backroom restructuring.
Former England under-20 coach Ramsey -- who only came to QPR in late October last year following a decade at Tottenham and was working with the academy -- insists this is now a fresh start for as the club looks to pull clear of the Premier League relegation zone starting at home to Southampton on Saturday.
"From the point of view that we had a manager of great stature before, I think we are going to have to maintain some of the things he did, but I will also be myself and implement my own ideas," Ramsey told the club's official website.
"I haven't got the personal relationships with the players that the last manager had, but it is an opportunity now for everyone to show what they can do.
"It is all hands to the pump, it is a clean slate and everyone who is fit and available will be in contention for a place. I believe we have got more than enough talent here to see ourselves safe between now and the end of the season."
Ramsey added: "It is important to utilise the whole club to get us above that relegation zone between now and the end of the season.
"If there are positions we need to fill, or there are injuries, or there are people showing good form in the U21s -- then they will get a chance if we believe they are ready."
Information from the Press Association was used in this report.