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Queens Park Rangers have sacked Chris Ramsey as their head coach and placed former boss Neil Warnock in temporary charge of the team. Ramsey leaves the role with Rangers in 13th, a poor return considering they were among preseason favourites to return to the Premier League. Tuesday's 1-0 loss at Derby -- a second in a row and a fourth successive defeat on the road -- proved to be the undoing of Ramsey, who won nine of his 32 games in charge. A statement released on the club's website on Wednesday evening read: "Chris Ramsey has been relieved of his first-team duties at QPR with immediate effect. "Ramsey, 53, leaves his position as head coach following Tuesday night's 1-0 defeat to Derby County, a result which left QPR in 13th place in the Championship. "The club will undergo an immediate recruitment process as the search gets underway for a new head coach. In the interim period, Neil Warnock will take temporary charge of first-team affairs. "A further announcement will be made in due course." QPR's director of football Les Ferdinand said: "We've made this decision in the best interests of the football club. It's no secret that we expected to sell some key players in the summer transfer window, and as such, our target at the start of the season reflected that. "However, keeping these players at the club has seen the mandate change, owing to what we believe this squad is capable of. "We're all desperately disappointed it hasn't worked out with Chris. He has had to deal with this shift in expectation and has worked incredibly hard in doing so." Warnock -- who coached QPR between 2010 and 2012 -- guided the club to the Championship title and Premier League football in 2011, before losing his job under the new regime of Tony Fernandez. He has since been at Leeds and Crystal Palace, but returned to Loftus Road to work as an adviser to Ramsey last month. Warnock's first game will come at home to Preston on Saturday.
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