Joey Barton has broken his silence on Mark Hughes' appointment as QPR manager, urging his team-mates to "buy into" the new regime at Loftus Road.
Rangers captain Barton has been uncharacteristically quiet since Neil Warnock's sacking on Sunday night, having announced he was taking a break from his prolific and sometimes controversial use of Twitter.
Hughes revealed at his unveiling on Wednesday that he would hold talks with Barton within 24 hours, having already confirmed the 29-year-old would remain his skipper.
Barton told his club's official website, www.qpr.co.uk: "He is a really good man, quite straightforward and expects certain things of his players. If you deliver them then you tend to do well under him.
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It is still early days but football is such an incestuous game that you always know someone who has worked with a manager before and word gets around pretty quickly.
"From what I'm hearing, he and his staff are really organised, they have good intensity in training and, as a manager, I think he is really fair."