There is no doubt that Queens Park Rangers are in trouble heading into the new Championship season but have given themselves a precious lifeline with the appointment of Mark Warburton.

The experienced Championship manager is a good appointment for the London club who are in serious danger of relegation next season.

The former Brentford, Rangers and Nottingham Forest manager has a huge task at hand to try and keep his new club adrift of a relegation scrap.

But they may very well be heading for one as the club attempt to cut a wage bill of £31 million to just £11 million. A cut of that size will bring a huge loss in the quality of players in the squad. To get your talented players to agree to less money in a struggling Championship club isn’t easy.

It may be a quite naïve assumption but if a club loses their more talented players, the likelihood of them doing worse in the following season is significantly high. If QPR finish with even 12 points less than they did last season, they will most likely be relegated.

Next season, they won’t have a club forfeiting matches and falling to administration like Bolton to rely on, they will be competing against the likes of Luton and Barnsley who are both better equipped for the Championship next season.

As well as this, Rangers have already had to let go five players who cost them around £5 million combined, in Alex Baptiste, Jake Bidwell, Jordan Cousins, Joel Lynch and Pawel Wszolek in a desperate attempt to balance the books.

As if all of that wasn’t enough, QPR will head into the new season without the precious Premier League parachute money that so many teams rely on to get them promoted back to the top division.

The complete lack of quality and funds at the club is enough to worry any QPR supporter.

But as stated earlier, Warburton is an experienced manager who doesn’t need to rely on heavy signings and is instead happy to promote youth team players. The manager will be looking to prove himself too after having been sacked - albeit rather prematurely - from both Rangers and Forest in his last two managerial roles.

Promoting youth is all well and good, but there must be a balance between prospects and experience. The club can’t afford to let the likes of Matt Smith and Luke Freeman leave.

The losses of both top scorer Nahki Wells and Tomer Hemed are just the icing on the cake as the two return to their respective Premier League clubs after their loan spell at Loftus Road. Without their goals this season, they would have been relegated.

The club will have to replace their goals and experience with next to no budget.