Ex-Ipswich boss Magilton was out of work for six weeks before joining QPR

Former Queens Park Rangers striker Bradley Allen has warned new manager Jim Magilton that he must hit the ground running at Loftus Road.

Magilton became the fifth permanent manager appointed since the arrival of Flavio Briatore as owner in 2007.

Allen told BBC London 94.9: "It's a big job at Queens Park Rangers. These new owners want success, instant success.

"How long he's going to be given to move Rangers towards those play-offs is going to be interesting."

Allen, who played for QPR between 1988 and 1996, added: "It's a very, very tough league - the Championship. If they can get off to a good start and make Loftus Road a real fortress, which is going to be important, you never know.

"But there's some big, strong teams in that league this season and it's going to be hard for Jim."

Magilton left his previous role at Ipswich in April and replaces Paulo Sousa as QPR manager after the former Portugal midfielder spent just five months in charge.

Allen, now the Under-14 coach at Tottenham Hotspur, added: "I just felt (with) the continual change at QPR that they might have gone for someone with a bit more experience.

"My old manager at Charlton, who's been out of a job since he left West Ham, Alan Curbishley, has got it on his CV to get a club out of the Championship.

"But just perhaps he would have wanted an element of more control, that's why somebody like Alan hasn't gone for that job.

"Whereas with regards to Jim, someone new to it, he would accept to a degree certain decisions being made and that just seems to be the case at Rangers at the moment."

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