Italian duo Iuri Bartoli and Paolo Pavese have joined the QPR backroom team.

Bartoli, 37, and 50 year-old Pavese met the Rangers first team squad this morning, ahead of Luigi De Canio's first training session in the QPR hot-seat.

Speaking exclusively to www.qpr.co.uk, De Canio welcomed his two new coaches to Loftus Road, commenting: "I'm very happy to have them both with me.

"I've worked with them both before and I know they are both very capable coaches.

"They are very enthusiastic and looking forward to the challenge that lies ahead."

Former Rangers defender Warren Neill, who joined the R's coaching staff midway through the 2006/07 campaign, has followed in Mick Harford's footsteps by leaving the Club.