Michael Beale would have been forgiven for snatching at the first opportunity at a Premier League job with Wolves. But he should be commended for sticking with a club on the rise in QPR.
When reports emerged of Beale being linked with the coaching vacancy at Wolves, a wave of inevitability crept over the footballing world that QPR were about to be left without a manager.
This would have been a mighty blow to the Hoops, who invested a lot in giving Beale his first job in management this summer after taking the precarious step to part ways with Mark Warburton.
You hear nothing but good things about Beale, but this was a move that could have gone very wrong for QPR.
On early evidence, the club’s hierarchy have been made to look quite astute as Beale has masterminded a superb start to the season that sees QPR sit top of the Championship – albeit with what feels like all other 23 clubs breathing down their necks.
All this looked like it may have been undone this week when it was revealed that Wolves had identified him as their first choice to replace Bruno Lage.
Truthfully, he was actually their second option, as they had already failed to tempt Julen Lopetegui to the West Midlands.
That felt like an ambitious pursuit that unsurprisingly fell on deaf ears for personal reasons. They then went from one end of the scale to the other with their next pick.
A manager in Beale, who has done bloody well in a short time, but has just three months of experience as a manager.
As good as he could prove to be, the timing of this potential appointment felt off as it was coming at least a year too soon.
With that said, when a Premier League club comes calling for a Championship manager, it often ends only one way. The second-tier boss jumps ship, because of course they do. It is a shot at the big time in the league all managers want to compete in.
Beale himself has not been shy to admit that it is his ambition to eventually manage in the Premier League.
There is nothing wrong with that, and at a time when honesty is so rare, this is refreshing.
And if Beale took the first opportunity to realise his dream he could be forgiven, but it would leave a bitter taste in the mouth of QPR and football fans as a whole.
He has committed to a project at Loftus Road with the ultimate goal of getting the club back into the Premier League within the next couple of seasons at the latest.
So if he gave them the finger at the earliest opportunity, it would have made getting him a…
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