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Articles Photos Stats VideosAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-67631791258276359192014-02-17T12:09:00.001+00:002014-02-17T12:12:06.407+00:00Adel Taarabt Is No Long-Term Solution For AC Milan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Seven minutes into his AC Milan debut Saturday and <a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/adel-taarabt/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Adel Taarabt">Adel Taarabt</a>was already showing the Milanista exactly why he had been brought in on loan from Queens Park Rangers, bursting towards the Napoli defence and despatching a precise shot past <a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/pepe-reina/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Pepe Reina">Pepe Reina</a> to lead at the San Paolo.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">However, with the Rossoneri failing to improve upon that early lead, eventually suffering a 3-1 defeat, his impressive arrival onto Italian shores almost encapsulates his career to date.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">A career that will leave fans wondering if he can actually have a long-term future with the club.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Desperate to improve their current league position, the Moroccan international is certainly capable of giving <a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/clarence-seedorf/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Clarence Seedorf">Clarence Seedorf</a>’s side the creativity to win valuable points and provide a much need moral boost to fans and teammates.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">With a swagger and directness like that displayed by fellow <a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/premier-league/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Premier League">Premier League</a> flop<a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/gervinho/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Gervinho">Gervinho</a> on his arrival in <a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/serie-a/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Serie A">Serie A</a> last summer, the former Tottenham man’s skill with the ball will strike a similar fear into most opposing defenders he faces.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">The way in which the Napoli defence retreated at the threat of the 24-year-old box of tricks bearing down on them had a certain <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">deja vu</i> of what many have witnessed the Ivorian undertaking this term and it is something that Milan and many others in Serie A do not possess in great quantities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Robinho has been off-form since before Christmas and with Stephan El-Shaarawy a long-term absentee, the attacking threat at the Sa</span><img alt="Adel Taarabt Milan" class="alignleft wp-image-65482" src="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/article-2548065-1B1509D500000578-69_634x423-300x200.jpg" height="200" style="border: 0px; float: left; margin: 5px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">n Siro of Mario Balotelli, <a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/keisuke-honda/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Keisuke Honda">Keisuke Honda</a> and<a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/giampaolo-pazzini/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Giampaolo Pazzini">Giampaolo Pazzini</a> is, albeit talented, somewhat static.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">However, despite his immediate impact, the Rossoneri have (possibly out of necessity) made a shrewd decision in acquiring Taarabt on loan with his habit of fading once he has established himself as an integral member of the team and secured a transfer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">This was certainly the case at parent club QPR where, after 26 goals in 88 appearances to gain promotion to the Premier League, he wilted under the pressure of the top tier and gave sporadic glimpses of his undoubted qualities, arguably upset by the arrival of some big names and the club were relegated in their second season.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Even when ignoring his failure to break through at Tottenham, the inability to thrive at the highest level and alongside supposed ‘bigger names’, raises even more questions of his long-term suitability. This will be even more prominent at Milan, where Balotelli and <a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/kaka/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Kaka">Kaka</a> are worldwide names and a Scudetto challenge is a minimum requirement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">The former Lens youth prospect could not even secure a first-team place while on loan at bottom club<a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/fulham/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Fulham">Fulham</a> earlier this season, yet will be expected to give the Rossoneri hope that they can overcome high flying Atletico Madrid in their upcoming <a class="st_tag internal_tag" href="http://forzaitalianfootball.com/tag/champions-league/" rel="tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts tagged with Champions League">Champions League</a> clash.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">While the Moroccan may show several more examples of his undoubted natural ability this season during their attempts to overhaul a seven point gap between them and neighbours Inter and secure European qualification, fans should appreciate him for the short-term spark he may help create. But even with age on his side, Milan will need a much better options in the forthcoming years to become a force again.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-70063294750001477142011-10-28T18:14:00.000+00:002011-10-28T18:14:21.109+00:00QPR players to decide Taarabt's fate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Adel Taarabt Image 3" src="http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/fulhamchronicle/aug2011/1/3/adel-taarabt-image-3-920964881.jpg" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #e2e2e2; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">ADEL Taarabt could be fined for petulant behaviour in the future – but QPR boss <strong>Neil Warnock</strong> will let his squad decide how much.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In the week dominated by the John Terry-Anton Ferdinand saga, the other major talking point was Taarabt’s peevish reaction to being substituted during Sunday’s 1-0 win over Chelsea, and comments insisting a move to Paris St German is still on in January.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Warnock’s patience with the mercurial talent set to face old club Spurs on Sunday has already been stretched to the limit. But the manager revealed he has never fined the player, although there are plenty who now can.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“There used to be no code of conduct until this season,” the manager explained. “Everything of that sort was done on a willy-nilly basis.</span></div><div class="article" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“But the senior players went away, drew up their own list, and if they want to fine Adel, they can.”</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The manager actually increased penalties on a few points, and gave a glimpse to the code when he revealed anyone daft enough to wear an earring on the training pitch is going to be £50 lighter.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Warnock added: “Players would never fine each other as much as a manager, so I’ve added a bit more here and there.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“But as regards him wanting away, Adel can go. He knows that. And personally, I’ve no got no problem with him showing he’s unhappy.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"But if he ever gesticulates in a manner that would not sit favourably with fans, players or management – then he’s in for it.”</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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Read More <a href="http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-sport/london-qpr/2011/10/28/qpr-players-to-decide-taarabt-s-fate-82029-29675551/#ixzz1c6MEXqyO" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #003399; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-sport/london-qpr/2011/10/28/qpr-players-to-decide-taarabt-s-fate-82029-29675551/#ixzz1c6MEXqyO</a></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-6696512060745590732011-10-18T09:42:00.000+00:002011-10-18T09:42:17.189+00:00Neil Warnock takes issue with Joey Barton's comments on Adel Taarabt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Adel Taarabt of QPR" height="240" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2011/10/18/1318928050381/Adel-Taarabt-of-QPR-007.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Queens Park Rangers manager <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/neil-warnock" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Neil Warnock">Neil Warnock</a> believes <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/joey-barton" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Joey Barton">Joey Barton</a>'s comments about team-mate Adel Taarabt were a "little bit out of order" and will speak to his captain about them.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">After Saturday's 1-1 draw with Blackburn, Barton told Absolute Radio that the Morocco international needed to buck up his ideas. The former Newcastle midfielder also admitted he has yet to see Taarabt's so-called "genius", all of which Warnock feels was a bit harsh.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"What he is saying about Adel I think is a little bit out of order," he told ESPN's Between the Lines. "I think there is one or two lads in the team at the moment that could do better so sometimes you look elsewhere.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"If he wants Adel to chase about and tackle and run, he is never going to be able to do that."</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Asked if it was Barton's place to make such comments, Warnock retorted: "I've not spoken to him. You're just telling me what has been said. I'll probably have a chat with him [today] and see what he actually said."</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/qpr" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on QPR">QPR</a> face a tough run of fixtures starting with a west London derby against Chelsea at Loftus Road this Sunday. They then face a trip to Tottenham before welcoming Manchester City, against whom Warnock believes Taarabt could prove the difference.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"If you looked at what Adel is not good at, you wouldn't touch him with a barge pole," he said. "You've got to look at what he is good at and we would not be where we are now without him, without me looking at what he is good at.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes, he might not be able to crack it in the Premier League. Even Adel doesn't know that yet. He is only a young lad. You forget he is a young kid really.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I think he is trying very, very hard at the moment and the next few games will be interesting. I think when you're playing the top clubs you need that something special to win you games.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"We've missed his contribution goal-wise and hopefully, if Joey plays really well and some of the other lads play really well, the opportunities for Adel will come."</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">He added: "If Adel gets an opportunity and plays well he is an asset to anybody in that league. Yes, he has not scored in the Premier League yet, he has not set the world alight but he has had opportunities and I think [he will continue to do so]."</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/18/neil-warnock-joey-barton-qpr?newsfeed=true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">guardian</span></a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-64190450846081386922011-10-13T20:32:00.000+00:002011-10-13T20:32:47.474+00:00Taarabt can leave Loftus Road if he wants to go, claims QPR boss Warnock<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">QPR manager Neil Warnock has told Adel Taarabt and the rest of his squad that they are free to leave the club if they want to. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Rangers have had to deal with speculation linking clubs with moves for their star players since their promotion to the Barclays Premier League, with talisman Taarabt the main subject of such reports. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The midfielder allegedly fuelled the flames further while on international duty with Morocco, with reports emerging that he told the media he wanted to leave QPR in January for financial reasons. </span></div><div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"></div><div class="thinCenter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 470px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Paris match? Adel Taarabt (right) has been linked with a move to PSG" class="blkBorder" height="316" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/13/article-2048703-0D6A817500000578-190_468x370.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="400" /><div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Paris match? Adel Taarabt (right) has been linked with a move to PSG</div></span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Warnock has taken the comments 'with a pinch of salt' but admitted that Taarabt, like the rest of his squad, was free to leave the west Londoners if he so desired. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'He has not said anything to me [about wanting to leave],' Warnock said, speaking ahead of Saturday's clash with Blackburn. 'I do take it with a pinch of salt when they go abroad [and reports come out]. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'It is only six weeks since Adel said he would never play for his country again and then he scores a goal and kisses the coach. That's Adel. You take everything with a pinch of a salt. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'My message is the same with every player at the club, not just Adel. If a player wants to leave, he can leave. I've never had a problem with that.</span></div><div class="floatRHS" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 308px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Calling Adel's bluff? Neil Warnock (left)" class="blkBorder" height="400" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/13/article-2048703-0E302DAC00000578-649_306x453.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="270" /><div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Calling Adel's bluff? Neil Warnock (left)</div></span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'But for all the talk of the offers we had, I never saw an allegedly massive offer from Paris St Germain. I know what they offered and by the time we paid Tottenham [their share of the deal] we would have been left with peanuts. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'I think it is just in his court, really. If he wants to get the move that allegedly he has talked about, the best way of doing that is playing well.'</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As well as being the subject of reports during the international break, Taarabt took up a large chunk of column inches in the aftermath of QPR's 6-0 defeat at Fulham. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The 22-year-old reportedly stormed out of Craven Cottage after being replaced at half-time and came face to face with his manager for the first time since the match. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">While admitting words with Taarabt were needed, Warnock rejected the notion that he was contradicting himself by protecting the midfielder after recent criticism of Manchester City's Carlos Tevez. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'I think that is between me and him now,' he said. 'I am going to speak to him today and that's how it goes. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'I think if you have ever sat in Fulham's dressing room and you are 3-0 down at half-time, I don't think I'd want to stay there if I am honest. </span></div><div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; clear: both; float: none !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; width: auto;"></div><div class="thinCenter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 470px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Storm: The Moroccan walked out at half-time of the 6-0 defeat at Fulham" class="blkBorder" height="313" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/13/article-2048703-0E337A7A00000578-361_468x367.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="400" /><div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Storm: The Moroccan (centre) walked out at half-time of the 6-0 defeat at Fulham</div></span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'He has just got to realise that when you are in the spotlight like we all are you have to think a little bit further than the instant reaction. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'I wouldn't put Adel in the same [category] as Tevez, although I think he wishes he is on his money.'</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, QPR have confirmed that Patrick Agyemang has joined Millwall on a one-month loan deal.</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The 31-year-old striker moves to The Den after he was left out of Rangers' 25-man Premier League squad. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Agyemang started two of QPR's first three league matches this season but summer signings such as DJ Campbell, Jay Bothroyd, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Jason Puncheon have since pushed him well down the pecking order at Loftus Road. </span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2048703/Adel-Taarabt-quit-QPR-wants--Neil-Warnock.html#ixzz1ahD6kjoY" style="color: #003399; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2048703/Adel-Taarabt-quit-QPR-wants--Neil-Warnock.html#ixzz1ahD6kjoY</a></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-42083016378609060322011-10-13T20:25:00.000+00:002011-10-13T20:25:02.168+00:00Adel Taarabt doesn't worry Neil Warnock<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Adel Taarabt" height="400" src="http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/adelTaarabt_415.jpg" width="214" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 14px;"></span><br />
<div class="artfirstpara" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; float: none; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-37133-neil-warnock.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Neil Warnock...">Neil Warnock</a> said today <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-38672-adel-taarabt.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Adel Taarabt...">Adel Taarabt</a> can carry on being a law unto himself. The <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35893-queens-park-rangers-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Queens Park Rangers FC...">Queens Park Rangers</a> manager gave his backing despite the forward's walk out after being substituted during the 6-0 thrashing by <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-6667-fulham-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Fulham FC...">Fulham</a> 11 days ago.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">After storming out of <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-13440-craven-cottage.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Craven Cottage...">Craven Cottage</a>, Taarabt, still dressed in a QPR tracksuit, caught the bus home to the astonishment of fans waiting at the bus stop.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Warnock plans to speak with Taarabt today on his return from international duty in <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-14840-marrakech.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Marrakech...">Marrakech</a>, where he scored in a 3-1 win over <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-23597-tanzania.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Tanzania...">Tanzania</a> to help <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-1692-morocco.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Morocco...">Morocco</a>reach the finals of the <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-64078-africa-cup-of-nations.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Africa Cup of Nations...">African Cup of Nations</a>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ahead of that meeting the manager said: "I just think the lads here know what Adel is. I don't think anybody else can be like that. Adel is Adel and we'll accept what he is. Sometimes you don't realise what you've got until you lose it and you should be careful what you wish for."</span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Taarabt has been quoted as saying that he would have to leave in January because of finance but Warnock is not reading too much into those comments.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The manager said: "It will be very interesting to see where he is in five years. I have my own ideas. But he doesn't affect our spirit - it would do if it was only a Joe Bloggs. But all the group that have built up in the last 18 months accept him for what he is.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I take that quote about him wanting to leave with a pinch of salt. It's only six weeks since Adel said he'd never play for his country again. Now he's scored a goal for Morocco and kisses the coach! That's Adel - you take everything with a pinch of salt."</span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Taarabt was key in QPR's Championship-winning campaign last season but there were reports over the summer of a link with Paris St-Germain, who are now bankrolled by the <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-38816-qatar-investment-authority.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Qatar Investment Authority...">Qatar Investment Authority</a>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"If he wants to leave, he can leave. I've never had a problem with that, concerning players," added Warnock, whose side host <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35559-blackburn-rovers-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Blackburn Rovers FC...">Blackburn</a> in the <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35673-barclays-premier-league.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Barclays Premier League...">Premier League</a> on Saturday.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"But all the talk of offers we've had, I never saw a serious one from PSG in <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-255-france.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on France...">France</a>and with what we would have had to pay <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-10887-tottenham-hotspur-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Tottenham Hotspur FC...">Tottenham</a>, we'd have been left with peanuts."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23997752-adel-taarabt-doesnt-worry-neil-warnock.do"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">thisislondon</span></a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-5607277628025093082011-10-10T11:51:00.000+00:002011-10-10T11:51:32.497+00:00Taarabt happy with return<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Image text here" height="212" src="http://img.skysports.com/11/10/660x350/Adel-Taarabt_2662840.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
<div class="v5-txt-strong" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Queens Park Rangers star Adel Taarabt revealed his delighted after helping Morocco to the African Cup of Nations on his international return.</span></div><span class="lingo_region"><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.skysports.com/Adel+Taarabt/?section=football" rel="nofollow" style="color: #214cb8; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-style: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search.">Taarabt</a><img class="lingo_icon lingo_icon_black" id="lingo_icon" src="http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/icon.gif); background-position: -22px 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0pt; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0pt; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0pt; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0pt; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; height: 12px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt !important; margin-left: 0pt !important; margin-right: 0pt !important; margin-top: 0pt !important; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 12px;" /> had been at loggerheads with coach Eric Gerets, but he was recalled for their clash with Tanzania.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And on his return he fired home a brilliant free-kick in their 3-1 win - which booked their spot in next year's finals.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I am very happy," Taarabt told <i>skysports.com</i>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"You saw how I celebrated the goal with coach Eric Gerets, who has been very understanding with me.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I dedicate that goal to him, he gave me another chance to show my worth to my country and I am very proud of that."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Taarabt now feels <a class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.skysports.com/morocco/?section=football" rel="nofollow" style="color: #214cb8; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-style: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search.">Morocco</a><img class="lingo_icon lingo_icon_black" id="lingo_icon" src="http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/icon.gif); background-position: -22px 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0pt; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0pt; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0pt; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0pt; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; height: 12px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt !important; margin-left: 0pt !important; margin-right: 0pt !important; margin-top: 0pt !important; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 12px;" /> have a great chance of winning in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, especially as the likes of Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria, <a class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.skysports.com/South+Africa/?section=football" rel="nofollow" style="color: #214cb8; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-style: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search.">South Africa</a><img class="lingo_icon lingo_icon_black" id="lingo_icon" src="http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/icon.gif); background-position: -22px 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0pt; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0pt; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0pt; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0pt; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; height: 12px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt !important; margin-left: 0pt !important; margin-right: 0pt !important; margin-top: 0pt !important; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 12px;" /> and Algeria all failing to qualify.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"We are going to the competition [ACN] with confidence with so many big teams absent I think we have a great chance," said Taaraby.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"The only outstanding team there is Ghana, the <a class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.skysports.com/Ivory+Coast/?section=football" rel="nofollow" style="color: #214cb8; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-style: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search.">Ivory Coast</a><img class="lingo_icon lingo_icon_black" id="lingo_icon" src="http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/icon.gif); background-position: -22px 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0pt; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0pt; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0pt; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0pt; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; height: 12px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt !important; margin-left: 0pt !important; margin-right: 0pt !important; margin-top: 0pt !important; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 12px;" /> have the outstanding individuals, on their day they will beat each one of us, but we have our chances."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11711_7233881,00.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">skysports</span></a></div></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-77173229494528954982011-10-04T21:26:00.000+00:002011-10-04T21:26:36.994+00:00Warnock - Taarabt no problem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
<div class="v5-txt-strong" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Image text here" height="212" src="http://img.skysports.com/11/08/660x350/QPR-v-Bolton-Nigel-ReoCoker-Adel-Taarabt_2635576.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div class="v5-txt-strong" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Neil Warnock has defended Adel Taarabt following the playmaker's reaction to his half-time substitution in Queens Park Rangers' heavy 6-0 defeat to Fulham on Sunday.</span></div><span class="lingo_region"><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.skysports.com/Adel+Taarabt/?section=football" rel="nofollow" style="color: #214cb8; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-style: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search.">Taarabt</a><img class="lingo_icon lingo_icon_black" id="lingo_icon" src="http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/icon.gif); background-position: -22px 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0pt; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0pt; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0pt; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0pt; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; height: 12px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt !important; margin-left: 0pt !important; margin-right: 0pt !important; margin-top: 0pt !important; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 12px;" /> was reportedly photographed leaving Craven Cottage at the interval after he was substituted, although the Moroccan has told <i>Sky Sports News</i> that was not the case.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">QPR boss Warnock has also denied allegations that the pair argued, insisting he was not bothered by Taarabt's behaviour.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Warnock told <i>The Independent</i>: "It doesn't bother me. The dressing rooms at Craven Cottage are in one corner of the ground, the bench is on the halfway line on the far side of the pitch. I'm not going to insist he walks 60 yards just to sit and watch us lose."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.skysports.com/rangers/?section=football" rel="nofollow" style="color: #214cb8; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-style: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search.">Rangers</a><img class="lingo_icon lingo_icon_black" id="lingo_icon" src="http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/icon.gif); background-position: -22px 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0pt; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0pt; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0pt; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0pt; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; height: 12px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt !important; margin-left: 0pt !important; margin-right: 0pt !important; margin-top: 0pt !important; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 12px;" /> were already 3-0 down before the manager sacrificed both Taarabt and Shaun Derry in a bid to plug his leaking defence.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"At half-time I was more concerned with my defence," continued Warnock. "I said: 'Dessie, you're off, and you are as well Adel.' That was it.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"People talk about him storming off. I didn't even know he'd gone. And he certainly didn't go to the pub for a pint as some have reported - he's a Muslim and doesn't drink.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"They want to be careful he doesn't sue them for saying that."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, fellow substitute Derry stayed to watch the remainder of the match with Warnock highlighting Taarabt's temperamental track record.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"They are different people" added Warnock. "Adel is young and emotional. He does these things.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Last year he said he'd never play for <a class=" lingo_link" href="http://topics.skysports.com/morocco/?section=football" rel="nofollow" style="color: #214cb8; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-style: normal; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Mouse over ^ icon to search.">Morocco</a><img class="lingo_icon lingo_icon_black" id="lingo_icon" src="http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/icon.gif); background-position: -22px 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0pt; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0pt; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0pt; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0pt; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; height: 12px; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt !important; margin-left: 0pt !important; margin-right: 0pt !important; margin-top: 0pt !important; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: static; text-decoration: none; top: auto; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 12px;" /> again after he was made substitute in a game. Guess where he is now? Heading for Morocco to play for them.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I'll see him at training when we get back and, with the rest of the team, we'll start preparing for the next match at Blackburn. My main concern at the moment is which defenders we'll have fit and available, not Adel.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"You're going to get days when Adel throws his toys out of the pram, that isn't a worry for me, I'd have more problem if someone was happy being subbed."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11711_7222994,00.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">skysports</span></a></div></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-90111899144928517842011-10-01T23:27:00.000+00:002011-10-01T23:27:47.150+00:00Warnock: Taarabt needs help from QPR team-mates to seal move to big club<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Adel Taarabt Image 3" height="255" src="http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/fulhamchronicle/aug2011/1/3/adel-taarabt-image-3-920964881.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #e2e2e2; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">ADEL Taarabt will need the current crop of QPR players if he wants a move to a big club – says the man who doesn’t want to sell him.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Boss <strong>Neil Warnock </strong>insists the £12million rated midfielder will stay for the time being – he’s enjoying it too much at Loftus Road – but he can see the day when the player does leave.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“Adel’s knows that if he wants a move to one of the top clubs, he’s going to need these players to give him a stage,” said Warnock.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“There was a time when he was very much the shining light here but he knows that’s not the case now, and I think he has got a lift by having these other players and has reacted to it.”</span></div><div class="article" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Moroccan international was on the cusp of a switch to Paris St Germain in the summer. He has now been linked with Lazio this week, but Warnock also insists other unsung heroes are just as ready to plunder the club’s third away win at Fulham on Sunday.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“No-one mentions <strong>Anton Ferdinand </strong>here as one of our top players,” he added.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I don’t think see anybody better than him in the country, when he plays like he can play. Luke Young is just as good and I’m glad he’s retired from international football.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“Such is the enthusiasm, it’s like chucking two coats down in the park – they want to play that much.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"You can’t say <strong>Joey Barton</strong> does it for money – he’s got enough already. And what was right-back Luke Young doing on the goal line in the last minute against Villa? I find it incredible no-one mentioned that. It’s because he wants to win.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“It takes you years to find that kind of spirit. We had that spirit here already, and the arrival of our new players has taken it on another level.”</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Martin Jol fell under the spell of QPR midfielder Adel Taarabt so totally that he tried to sign him three times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Dutchman was in charge of Tottenham when they brought the man known as ‘The Wizard’ to England as a temperamental teenager.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Jol was so impressed with the Moroccan’s talents that following his north London exit, he tried to take him to two other clubs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">They come face-to-face today with Jol fearing the man who once saved his skin. He explained: “Damien Camolli recommended him but I knew about him and wanted to sign him for Spurs. He was a gamble and unfortunately didn’t break through.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“After I went abroad I tried to sign him at Ajax and with Hamburg but they wanted too much for him – or maybe I just wanted him on the cheap. He never played 90 minutes in the first team at Tottenham but he saved our necks against West Ham when we beat them 4-3 in the League Cup.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“He came on and nutmegged somebody, as he likes to, and won a free-kick that Berbatov scored to make it 3-3. Paul Stalteri scored the winner.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Such talent is what made Neil Warnock take Taarabt to Loftus Road but it has not all been plain sailing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“He has varied his game now. He’s playing one-touch, two-touch and he’s getting better and better. He’s one of the best No.10s around.”</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="introcopy" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="introcopy" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="introcopy" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">DANNY MURPHY fears Fulham could be sunk tomorrow by a player he wanted at Craven Cottage.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<div id="bodycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">QPR’s star midfielder Adel Taarabt was a team-mate of Murphy during his spell at Tottenham five years ago.</span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Moroccan had just arrived at White Hart Lane and Murphy was so impressed he later tried to get ex-boss Roy Hodgson to sign him for Fulham.</span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Instead Taarabt ended up at QPR, where he scored 19 goals in his first season.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“He had a superb temperament,” Murphy said. “If he got kicked he never moaned. </span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“He had a strong mentality and he’s reaping his rewards now, so he’s probably destined for bigger and better things.</span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“We’ve got to deal with him on Sunday, so we’ll have to be careful.”</span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Fulham could bring back Bobby Zamora for the visit of QPR with two-goal Europa League hero Andy Johnson potentially dropping out.</span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">But Murphy is hoping Johnson will shake off any disappointment and sign a new long-term deal.</span></div><div class="storycopy" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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He is our shining light and has been instrumental to where we are now.</span></div><div style="color: #101010; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"He's played well this season. Having the other players in has given him a lift because he is just concentrating on playing. I think you can see how hard he is trying."</span></div><div style="color: #101010; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ex-Spurs ace Taarabt missed out on a big-money move to Paris St-Germain when it broke down in the summer. Warnock added: "The ability that Adel has got is not in question.</span></div><div style="color: #101010; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"He's got to put the other part into his game and is trying hard to do that. I've said to him if you look at the top clubs like Barcelona, all the players work their socks off.</span></div><div style="color: #101010; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I don't think he is thinking about his next move — not now. I think he just wants to play well and keep his position in the team. He is a lovely lad, trains hard — that's how he is."</span></div><div style="color: #101010; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Warnock last night slammed Manchester City bad-boy Carlos Tevez and said: "He's done himself a load of harm.</span></div><div style="color: #101010; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"There are many English and foreign players who kiss the badge when really all they are bothered about is how much they take home at the end of the day.</span></div><div style="color: #101010; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I think the sooner he leaves the country the better."</span></div><div style="color: #101010; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3847206/Neil-Warnock-lift-for-Adel-Taarabt.html">thesun</a></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-40209579343920691662011-10-01T14:07:00.000+00:002011-10-01T14:07:10.499+00:00Arsenal Plan £12m January Bid for QPR Playmaker Adel Taarabt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="285" src="http://cdn.caughtoffside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/PA-11252710.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #1b1811; color: #5b5754; font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 1.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Arsene Wenger will reportedly attempt to lure <a href="http://www.caughtoffside.com/tag/qpr" style="color: #121212; position: relative; text-decoration: underline;">Qpr</a> youngster <a href="http://www.caughtoffside.com/tag/adel-taarabt" style="color: #121212; position: relative; text-decoration: underline;">Adel Taarabt</a> into a move from West to North London this January. The Arsenal boss is looking for further creative midfield options having lost Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas in the summer and has earmarked a move for the Moroccan</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> international.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 1.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The 22 year old former Tottenham man has been a huge success at Loftus Road but may well be tempted by a move away from <a href="http://www.caughtoffside.com/tag/qpr" style="color: #121212; position: relative; text-decoration: underline;">Qpr</a> and has been linked with interest from a myriad of clubs both in the Premier League and on the continent. Super Hoops boss Neil Warnock had stated in the summer that he believed he could struggle to keep Taarabt at the club and the arrival of the likes of Shaun Wright-Phillips and Joey Barton may lead the newly promoted side to consider offers for the attacking midfielder.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 1.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Last term Taarabt racked up 19 goals and almost as many assists as he played a pivotal role in QPR’s title winning triumphs but the one time Lens youth team player’s demands for a new contact appeared to have resulted in a fair amount of acrimony between the player and his club and this could well lead to interest in a move to the Emirates Stadium.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 1.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Arsenal are believed to be willing to offer up to £12m for a player who is said to have cost QPR around £4m in August 2010 but the Gunners may face competition from cash rich Ligue 1 side PSG who are also said to be monitoring Taarabt.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 1.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Whilst Wenger did bring in Mikel Arteta and Yossi Benayoun on a loan deal to help cope with the loss of Nasri and Fabregas, it seems that the Arsenal boss is still keen to add more quality to his midfield and whilst Taarabt has relatively little Premier League experience the French manager believes that the QPR man has the potential to make it at the highest level.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 1.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.caughtoffside.com/2011/09/30/arsenal-plan-12m-january-bid-for-qpr-playmaker-adel-taarabt/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">caughtoffside</span></a></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-69751942723549728952011-09-29T21:18:00.001+00:002011-09-29T21:18:41.643+00:00Sevilla see QPR ace Taarabt as ideal Negredo partner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><abbr style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; white-space: nowrap;" title="">Sevilla</abbr> are ling up a January move for QPR attacking midfielder Adel Taarabt.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;"><div class="content clear-block" style="display: block;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Diario de Seville</i> says <abbr style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; white-space: nowrap;" title="">Sevilla</abbr> coach Marcelino wants to pair Taarabt in attack with in-form centre-forward Alvaro Negredo.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Taarabt is demanding new contract talks at QPR, which have been shot down by manager Neil Warnock. The midfielder has also lost the captaincy this season to former <abbr style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; white-space: nowrap;" title="">Newcastle United</abbr> midfielder Joey Barton.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><abbr style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; white-space: nowrap;" title="">Sevilla</abbr>'s pursuit of Taarabt may end their plans to prise Giovani dos <abbr style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; white-space: nowrap;" title="">Santos</abbr> away from <abbr style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; white-space: nowrap;" title="">Tottenham</abbr>.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/sevilla-see-qpr-ace-taarabt-ideal-negredo-partner-1911612">tribalfootball</a></div></div></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-9715984971091406942011-09-28T14:45:00.001+00:002011-09-28T14:45:37.792+00:00QPR facing month without star man Taarabt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Adel Taarabt in action for QPR against Bolton" height="266" src="http://www.talksport.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/ts_news_article_header_image/Adel_Taarabt_0.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>QPR manager Neil Warnock could lose star midfielder Adel Taarabt for a crucial month in January as Morocco want him back in their squad.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The temperamental 22-year-old walked out on his country after an African Cup of Nations qualifier in June after being asked to be a substitute and he vowed never to return to the side under manager Eric Gerets.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">But, with Morocco top of their group and nearing qualification for the finals, Gerets has named the talented forward in his preliminary squad to face Tanzania in October.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I could not kill Taarabt's international career and that is why I have called him back into the squad but we have still not addressed the issue," Gerets said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"He is young and I hope he has the right reaction. When I was young I also made crazy decisions so I will definitely not close the door on him.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"I really love him because he creates a good environment but I want to talk to him and he has to grow."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Neil Warnock recently revealed his joy that Fabio Capello was continuing to overlook Joey Barton for England duty and losing Taraabt for what could be up to six weeks will come as a blow to the R's.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/1148/60/qpr-facing-month-without-star-man-taarabt">talksport</a></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-38430440910012760672011-09-27T21:07:00.000+00:002011-09-27T21:07:36.019+00:00Gerets wants Taarabt talks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
<h3 class="v5-art-byl" style="color: #777777; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Moroccan coach wants meeting with QPR star</span></h3><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="v5-txt-strong" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em !important; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Moroccan coach Eric Gerets insists he is yet to patch up his differences with Queens Park Rangers ace Adel Taarabt.</span></div><span class="lingo_region"><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Taarabt fell out with Gerets earlier this year and walked out of the squad, insisting he would not play for them again under the Belgian.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Now Gerets has included him in his squad for their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Tanzania next month.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">But despite this Gerets says he still needs to talk things over with the QPR star.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"It has not been sorted out so far. I want him to know he did a huge stupid thing," Gerets told<i>FranceFootball.</i></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"He is very young, and I can't kill his international career. When I was young, I did blunders too. I don't definitely close the door, he will come back.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Moreover, I like him. He is a clown, putting good atmosphere in the group. You need boys like that, and considering his talent, I am keen to talk with him and his agent."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11711_7206264,00.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">skysports</span></a></div></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-1632103326220959932011-09-24T00:03:00.000+00:002011-09-24T00:03:39.685+00:00Morocco call up Taarabt for preliminary squad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="QPR and Morocco's Adel Taarabt" height="257" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55549000/jpg/_55549218_121017848.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #464646; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div class="introduction" style="clear: left; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Morocco coach Eric Gerets has named controversial midfielder Adel Taarabt in his preliminary squad for their 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Tanzania.</span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Taarabt walked out on the Atlas Lions squad in June ahead of their qualifier against Algeria.</span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">At the time he said <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13648196.stm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #006db5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">he would never play for Morocco while Gerets was coach.</a></span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It is not clear whether the QPR star will honour the call up for the game in Marrakech on 9 October.</span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Taarabt was a key factor in QPR's promotion to the Premier League, being named the Championship player of the year.</span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">He has had problems with the Moroccan team before, reacting badly when forced to start last October's 2012 Nations Cup qualifier against Tanzania on the bench.</span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Having played for France at youth level, Taarabt made his debut for the land of his birth in 2009.</span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Morocco were already without freescoring Ajax Amsterdam striker Mounir al-Hamdoui for the spicy Algeria clash, with the Atlas Lions keen to avenge their 1-0 defeat in Annaba in March.</span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Morocco are top of Group D with eight points and an emphatic victory over Tanzania will seal their place at next year's tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.</span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-weight: 800;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Morocco Preliminary squad:</span></strong></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ismail Aissati (Ajax, Netherlands), Ahmed Ajedou (Wydad Casablanca), Jamal Alioui (Al Kharityath, Qatar), Nordin Amrabat (Kayserispor. Turkey), Ossama Assaidi (Heerenveen, Netherlands), Aissam Badda (FUS Rabat), Micahael Basser (Buraspor, Turkey), Younes Belhanda (Montpellier, France), Mohamed Berrabeh (Wydad Casablanca), Mbark Boussoufa (Anzhi Makhachkala, Russia), Rachid Bourabia (Mons, Belgium), Kamal Chafni (Auxerre, France), Marouane Chamakh (Arsenal, England) Mohammed Chihani (Al Arabi, Qatar), Adil Chihi (Cologne, Germany), Nabil Dirar (Club Brugge, Belgium), Larim El Ahmadi Aroussi (Feyenoord, Netherlands), Youssef El Arabi (Al Hilal, Saudi Arabia), Mounir El Hamdaoui (Ajax, Netherlands), Mostapha El Kabir (Cagliari, Italy), Badr El Kaddouri (Celtic, Scotland), Abdelhamid El Kaoutari (Montpellier, France) Ayoub El Khaliqi (Wydad Casablanca), Mehdi El Moutaqui (Udinese, Italy) Youssouf Hadji (Rennes, France), Houssine Kharja (Fiorentina, Italy), Oussama Laghrib (FUS Rabat), Nadir Lamyaghri (Wydad Casablanca), Ahmed Mohamadina (Olympic Khouribga), Mustapha Mrani (MAS), Youssef Rabeh (Wydad Casablanca), Fatah Said (Wydad Casablanca), Rachid Soulaimani (Raja Casablanca), Adel Taarabt (QPR, England)</span></div><div style="clear: left; line-height: 1.384em; margin-bottom: 0.708em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15035207.stm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">news.bbc</span></a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-80903100418232459752011-09-23T19:43:00.001+00:002011-09-23T19:45:13.707+00:00Warnock: QPR star is proving his critics wrong<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Queens Park Rangers' and Hull City's" height="282" src="http://www.bdpost.co.uk/polopoly_fs/spt_wk27_11_taarabt_1_1069444!image/1401915298.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_225/1401915298.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-top: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Neil Warnock believes Adel Taarabt is beginning to prove his critics wrong this season.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-top: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">QPR’s Morocco international made an indifferent start to the campaign after missing out on a move to French side Paris St Germain during the summer, and his sluggish displays against Bolton and Everton in the opening weeks of the season led to questions over the midfielder’s desire and fitness.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-top: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Warnock relieved Taarabt of the captaincy, handing the armband to new signing Joey Barton, but Taarabt’s impressive reponse off the field, coupled with lively performances against Newcastle and Wolves have delighted the Rs boss.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-top: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">“I think he’s answered everybody, not just in matches, but in training as well, from day one he’s been excited,” said Warnock.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-top: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">“He has responded really well to Joey, I thought they might clash, I’m sure they will at some stage, but Adel’s responded, I think he’s been delighted to get someone like that playing with him.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-top: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">“Last season, he was a star name in his own eyes, and in the media’s eyes. But from a manager’s eyes, Paddy Kenny, [Shaun] Derry, [Alejandro] Faurlin and [Heidar] Helguson were just as important.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-top: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">“We got promotion from being a team, Adel was like the icing on the cake. This year I don’t think we’ve got any individuals, I think Adel’s fitting into the system the way we want to play.”</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-top: 0.8em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.bdpost.co.uk/sport/warnock_qpr_star_is_proving_his_critics_wrong_1_1069445">bdpost</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-78031333674816962722011-09-21T14:54:00.000+00:002011-09-21T14:54:37.673+00:00If I ask you to do something, do it! What Barton told ex-QPR skipper Taarabt in training...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Joey Barton has warned Adel Taarabt to carry out his orders after taking over the captain's armband at QPR.</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The midfielder was handed the role by manager Neil Warnock when he joined the club last month replacing the Moroccan playmaker as the Barclays Premier League club's skipper.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Do what I say: Joey Barton delivers a word of warning to team-mate Adel Taraabt" height="250" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/21/article-2039957-0DDA77B500000578-942_468x293.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And QPR assistant manager Mick Jones has lifted the lid on what Barton had to say to the 22-year-old in training making it clear he knew who's boss.</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Jones insists Taarabt has taken Warnock's decision well, saying his reaction to Barton has been fantastic.</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">He said: 'The manager Neil Warnock met with Adel privately to explain it to him first</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'Neil told me Adel accepted Joey had to be the captain. And what’s happened to Adel is that he has looked around the training ground and seen how people like Joey train.</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">'And I have heard Joey at training sessions say to Adel, "If you want to sulk do it while you’re running back. Don’t do it walking. And if I ask you to do something, do it".</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">‘Adel’s reaction has been fantastic. Not many people could get that sort of reaction.'</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">NEIL Warnock has told <strong>Adel Taarabt</strong> he must keep up his good form if he wants to earn a new deal at QPR.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The mecurical Moroccan wants an improved contract at Loftus Road to bring him in line with top-earners <strong>Joey Barton</strong> and <a href="http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-sport/london-qpr/2011/09/13/warnock-makes-wright-phillips-promise-64767-29410893/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #005689; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shaun Wright-Phillips</a>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">But boss Warnock has warned Taarabt he must sustain his current level until Christmas before the club considers offering him fresh terms.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"A new contract? There are plenty before him - me included!" said Warnock. "Adel has to do his talking on the field. There are a lot of people behind the scenes who have said things, but the only way to answer things is to play well.</span></div><div class="article" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"He has no excuse now. He has a team capable of giving him the ball in dangerous areas and he's got to perform well. There are a lot of good cases for contracts as and when we see fit, but I don't see any new contracts for anyone before Christmas.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"We've all got things to prove and we've got to do it consistently. When you've had a good game for an hour, you don't start spouting. You start spouting when you've got nine or 10 goals coming up to Christmas."</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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<a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-38672-adel-taarabt.do" title="More on Adel Taarabt..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Adel Taarabt</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> may not have been involved in the kind of high-profile incidents </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-40704-joey-barton.do" title="More on Joey Barton..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Barton</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> has in his career but he has the potential to be just as difficult to deal with.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Warnock's man-management skills helped polish the rough diamond he signed from </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-10887-tottenham-hotspur-fc.do" title="More on Tottenham Hotspur FC..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tottenham</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> last year into the player who inspired the club to the </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35899-coca-cola-championship.do" title="More on Coca-Cola Championship..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Championship</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> title in May.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet it seemed his love affair with QPR was heading for a premature end as a desire to move back to his homeland in </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-255-france.do" title="More on France..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">France</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> grew stronger and the subsequent interest from </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-40261-paris-saint-germain-fc.do" title="More on Paris Saint-Germain FC..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paris St Germain</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in the close-season unsettled him.</span><br />
<!-- ARTICLE INLINE AD --><span style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily for Warnock talks broke down between the two clubs and QPR issued a statement to say they were committed to keeping the </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-1692-morocco.do" title="More on Morocco..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Moroccan</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> international at all costs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Still, they appeared to be the ones who might pay a heavy price for the 21-year-old began the campaign looking listless and disinterested.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The takeover by </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-45640-tony-fernandes.do" title="More on Tony Fernandes..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tony Fernandes</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> late last month brought excitement as well as necessary funds for Warnock to add some more crucial additions to the astute signings of </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-125871-dj-campbell.do" title="More on DJ Campbell..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">DJ Campbell</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-70241-jay-bothroyd.do" title="More on Jay Bothroyd..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jay Bothroyd</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-48047-danny-gabbidon.do" title="More on Danny Gabbidon..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Danny Gabbidon</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-37249-kieron-dyer.do" title="More on Kieron Dyer..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kieron Dyer</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he had already made.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But there was still a huge question mark against Taarabt, who was used to being the centre of attention. How would he respond to being put in the shade by the arrival of Barton, not to mention other experienced Premier League characters in </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-37054-shaun-wright-phillips.do" title="More on Shaun Wright-Phillips..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shaun Wright-Phillips</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-7060-anton-ferdinand.do" title="More on Anton Ferdinand..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anton Ferdinand</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-47570-luke-young.do" title="More on Luke Young..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Luke Young</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-39378-armand-traore.do" title="More on Armand Traore..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Armand Traore</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, all of whom made debuts last night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The fact Warnock confirmed before the game he had taken the captaincy off Taarabt and given it to Barton increased the danger of provoking a sulky reaction. Instead, it appeared a burden had been lifted off his shoulders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If Wright-Phillips caught the eye with his pace and threatening dribbles on the flanks, Taarabt provided the flair in the middle of the stage. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Freed from the pressure of leading the team as well as the responsibility of being the side's only real creative spark, the sparkle of old was there for everyone to see.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The employment of veteran enforcers Barton and </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-38148-shaun-derry.do" title="More on Shaun Derry..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shaun Derry</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in front of the back four gave him the chance to express himself with greater confidence further up the pitch and slide threatening balls through on a regular basis as well as display some customary fancy tricks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It may not have quite led to the goal that the home side more than merited, yet it was a display that earned significant admirers.</span><br />
<a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-13558-newcastle-united-fc.do" title="More on Newcastle United FC..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Newcastle</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> boss </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-37677-alan-pardew.do" title="More on Alan Pardew..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alan Pardew</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> said: "They have a player out there in Taarabt who in tight areas is probably as good as anyone in the division. He caused us a lot of problems as he will a lot of other teams in this </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35673-barclays-premier-league.do" title="More on Barclays Premier League..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">League</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">While Warnock was understandably aggrieved at the injustice of the result, Taarabt's maturity lifted his spirits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He said: "I thought Taarabt had his best game on and off the ball with Barton behind him. I had a chat with Adel about the captaincy last week and straight away he was bright about it. I think he appreciates how far we've come and the need to drive on. To do that we need someone who is our leader. I thought he [Barton] epitomised what we are about."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">For a player who has also tested the patience of some members of the dressing room, Taarabt's new-found enthusiasm did not go unnoticed either. DJ Campbell has only been at the club for a short while himself but feels the arrival of so many high-profile players has made the midfielder raise his game.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"He was brilliant and it is the best I have seen him play since I have been here," he said. "Adel has ability, everyone can see that, but with the players we've got now you have to raise your game. He was brilliant and you can't ask more of him if he plays like that every week."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The League table will make pleasing reading for QPR today as they sit above </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-1787-arsenal-fc.do" title="More on Arsenal FC..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arsenal</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, Tottenham and </span><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-6667-fulham-fc.do" title="More on Fulham FC..."><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fulham</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. However, the fact they have scored only one goal in four games should also be cause for concern.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bothroyd and Wright-Phillips both had efforts cleared off the line but there was also some wasteful finishing and they need to become more clinical if they are to avoid a relegation battle.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">QPR boss Neil Warnock reckons it was a no-brainer making <strong>Joey Barton</strong> his new captain.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The former Newcastle United midfielder was handed the armband on his debut as Rangers drew 0-0 with the Magpies at <strong>Loftus Road</strong> last night.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And Warnock believes it was the right decision for Barton to replace <strong>Adel Taarabt</strong> as skipper.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">He said: "I thought Joey handled himself well. He was pushing us all the time. It was the logical thing really [to make his captain].</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“Adel was bright about it and appreciates how far we've come. We need to drive on and to do that we need someone who's our leader.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-82760985821321813592011-09-09T16:59:00.000+00:002011-09-09T16:59:42.142+00:00Premier League Relegation Battle: Who Will Survive & Who Will Go Down<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="slide-description"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukkEgYJr-6zrFckW1tLOVxrBQ-i_yuz_5bgaJC9Iakh3N5BxR07plWISxtcT1S4hMyKMH1oMUx5mgmKZk13E3UwY8KS6FlhmZqVYh1WLFPfiT3B0Z3mBtcvawLZw6SWT6EqXlf6srcho/s1600/121017848_crop_650x440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukkEgYJr-6zrFckW1tLOVxrBQ-i_yuz_5bgaJC9Iakh3N5BxR07plWISxtcT1S4hMyKMH1oMUx5mgmKZk13E3UwY8KS6FlhmZqVYh1WLFPfiT3B0Z3mBtcvawLZw6SWT6EqXlf6srcho/s320/121017848_crop_650x440.jpg" width="320" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">We may only be a month into the new Premier League season, but there are several clubs who already have their eyes on next May. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">While the majority of clubs are targeting a top-half finish, a place in the Europa League or the Champions League and perhaps even the title, a select group of clubs will see finishing 17th as a success.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">That is almost always the aim of a club that wins promotion up to the top flight, and in the case of this year's new entrants—Queens Park Rangers, Norwich City and play-off winners Swansea City—that is no different.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">To survive a debut year in the Premier League is a highly lucrative achievement for a club which has made its way up from the Championship, and the windfall earned for doing so can fund the improvements necessary to consolidate their top-flight status. Upwardly mobile sides can look to the examples set by the likes of Stoke City and Bolton Wanderers as to what can be achieved.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But for the handful of clubs who only just scrapped their way to avoiding relegation, avoiding that fate for another year is often their main motivation. Blackburn Rovers, Wigan Athletic and Wolverhampton Wanderers all went into the final game of last season fighting against the drop.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is a look at which of the aforementioned clubs are likely to escape the drop, and which sides are odds on to slip back down to the second tier of English football. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/841170-premier-league-relegation-battle-who-will-survive-who-will-go-down">bleacherreport</a></div></div>bpx51http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468254251888285754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-34342244273814728722011-09-07T20:11:00.002+00:002011-09-07T20:11:46.932+00:00Derry: Barton and Taarabt together is going to mean fireworks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The 33-year-old midfielder told QPR Podcast, 'Open All R's': "At times I'm going to buy some popcorn and watch the movie unravel, because I'm sure there's going to be fireworks, like there is in any dressing room.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"A lot of people are going to make so much of this Barton and Taarabt situation, but we're hopeful it can blossom and there's an understanding there.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-59588228523258715392011-08-25T15:48:00.000+00:002011-08-25T15:48:21.127+00:00Taarabt faces QPR axe - A Warning from Boss Warnock<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/fulhamchronicle/aug2011/6/3/adel-taarabt-image-1-910714677.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/fulhamchronicle/aug2011/6/3/adel-taarabt-image-1-910714677.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">ADEL Taarabt has been told to get himself fit or lose his place in QPR’s team. The mercurial Moroccan (pic) was the Championship player of the year last season, and a permanent fixture in Hoops’ starting XI.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But boss Neil Warnock has warned that <a name='more'></a>unless he sharpens his act, the midfielder could be watching Premiership action from the sidelines – especially as the likes of Joey Barton and four or five new players are on the cusp of joining the club.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The manager said: “If I bring four or five players in and Adel’s not fit – he won’t be in the team. He is not naturally going to be the main man – he’s going to be a good player in the squad. And he knows this to be fair to him.”</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Warnock has had more than his fair share of spats with the talented player in just one campaign – but was delighted with Taarabt’s attitude when picked to play lowly Rochdale in the Carling Cup on Tuesday – even if it did end with a 2-0 defeat.</span></div><div class="article" style="font-family: inherit;"> <div class="mpu-ad mpu2" style="display: none;"> <script type="text/javascript">
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</script> <noscript> <a href="http://trinitymirror.grapeshot.co.uk/southwest/redirect.cgi?target=http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/fulhamchronicle.5293/article_mpu;slot=article%5Fmpu;sect=london%2Dqpr;templ=page;cat=Sport;reg=TMS;st=other;oid=29301079;sz=300x250;gs_cat=GS_CHANNELS;tile=4;ord=650050280?" target="_blank"> <img src="http://trinitymirror.grapeshot.co.uk/southwest/redirect.cgi?target=http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/fulhamchronicle.5293/article_mpu;slot=article%5Fmpu;sect=london%2Dqpr;templ=page;cat=Sport;reg=TMS;st=other;oid=29301079;sz=300x250;gs_cat=GS_CHANNELS;tile=4;ord=650050280?" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt="article_mpuAdvertisement" /> </a> </noscript> </div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Adel play against Rochdale three months ago? I don’t think he would,” said Warnock. “But he’s got to get fit with games. And all that summer speculation with Paris Saint German over a move, as well as meetings with agents and our chairman took its toll, which is why he’s not as fit as he should be.”</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-sport/london-qpr/2011/08/25/taarabt-faces-qpr-axe-82029-29301079/#ixzz1W3XKTRQb" style="color: #003399;">fulhamchronicle</a></span></div></div>bpx51http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468254251888285754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442969635845395447.post-92174606053707224422011-08-25T13:20:00.000+00:002011-08-25T13:20:11.722+00:00Adel Taarabt's in trouble after getting shirty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Adel Taarabt" height="320" src="http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/Adel-Taarabt3_415.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="221" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Trouble in midfield: Adel Taarabt, pictured,<br />
playing for QPR before storming off after tossing<br />
away his shirt following his team's Carling Cup defeat</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="artfirstpara" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; float: none; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;"><a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-38672-adel-taarabt.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Adel Taarabt...">Adel Taarabt</a> seems certain to be on a collision course with manager<a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-37133-neil-warnock.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Neil Warnock...">Neil Warnock</a> after his dreadful display of petulance capped an awful night for <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35893-queens-park-rangers-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Queens Park Rangers FC...">Queens Park Rangers</a> as they slipped out of the<a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35469-carling-cup.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Carling Cup...">Carling Cup</a> to <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-40232-rochdale.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Rochdale...">Rochdale</a>.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Rochdale's Nicky Adams approached Taarabt to swap shirts only for the<a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-1692-morocco.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Morocco...">Moroccan</a> to rip off his top, turn away and toss it behind him before stalking off.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Warnock then conducted a bizarre press conference, where he praised the midfielder - courted all summer by Paris St-Germain - and said he needed to improve his match sharpness.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">The Rangers manager said, surely with tongue fixed firmly in cheek: "I was really pleased with</div><a name='more'></a> Taarabt's attitude.<br />
<div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">"He doesn't train very well, so he has to play. I was very pleased he came through because he does need three games in a week to just push him on. He looked good fitness wise, the best he's been, apart from the last 15 minutes.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">"And if we can get another game out of him on Saturday [at <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35745-wigan-athletic-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Wigan Athletic FC...">Wigan</a>] before the international break, then he promises to be back to what he should be for the<a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-13558-newcastle-united-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Newcastle United FC...">Newcastle</a> match. That's quite good, really."</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Asked why Taarabt doesn't train well, Warnock retorted: "Because he doesn't like training!"<br />
That's an extraordinary state of affairs for a player who was made captain last season and led the charge to the Premier League.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">A year after the capitulation to League Two <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-45515-port-vale-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Port Vale FC...">Port Vale</a>, Warnock tried to brush off the consequences of last night's defeat as an inferior competition he is not much interested in with top flight survival all important.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Last season's defeat came amid a 19-game unbeaten <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35673-barclays-premier-league.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Barclays Premier League...">League</a> run but this reverse to a League One side, even with multiple changes to the line-up, has to be damaging for the club's morale.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">In the first home game since <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-45640-tony-fernandes.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Tony Fernandes...">Tony Fernandes</a>'s takeover, Rochdale deserved the win with goals from former <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-9045-toulouse.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Toulouse...">Toulouse</a> and Grimsby striker Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro after five minutes and then a glorious chip by veteran Gary Jones after 81 minutes.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Warnock added: "Yes, I'm pleased we're out; the competition needs revamping."</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">But Rochdale manager Steve Eyre countered: "He didn't say that before the game. Any competition in League or Cup that has a front line of Taarabt and [Jay] Bothroyd tells me he was taking it quite serious, pre-game.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">"Post-game he has wished us all the best and said he hopes that we get the tie we want. He's a fantastic man and you're looking at 1,000 games and more he's managed in - I've not done even a 1,000 minutes yet.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">"And he's someone I can call on, someone I respect. He's done plenty more than I have."</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Warnock's mood will not have been lightened by news that, after losing right-back<a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-142109-bradley-orr.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Bradley Orr...">Bradley Orr</a> to injury last night, <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-6667-fulham-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Fulham FC...">Fulham</a> have joined the chase for <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-21249-aston-villa-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Aston Villa FC...">Aston Villa</a>'s <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-47570-luke-young.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Luke Young...">Luke Young</a>, who is on QPR's wanted list.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">The former <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-10887-tottenham-hotspur-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Tottenham Hotspur FC...">Tottenham</a> and <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-36614-charlton-athletic-fc.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Charlton Athletic FC...">Charlton</a> defender, who can play either side, favours a move to <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-13440-craven-cottage.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Craven Cottage...">Craven Cottage</a> as Villa target Spurs' <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-41666-alan-hutton.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Alan Hutton...">Alan Hutton</a>.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">Warnock knocked back moves for <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-14787-joe-cole.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Joe Cole...">Joe Cole</a> and former Rangers striker <a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-5456-peter-crouch.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Peter Crouch...">Peter Crouch</a>even though Fernandes will be hoping to bring in up to four new players. "I'd love them both but I can't see they'll be at QPR if I'm honest," said the manager. "We couldn't afford one of Crouch's shoelaces! It's easier said than done, bringing players in, even if you've got money. It's not easy to get four or five good players here in a week.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">"How busy will I be? Too busy. I'm doing 12 weeks' work in eight days and I'm finding it difficult - and tiring!</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 2px;">"I hope we get at least one in by the weekend to start it rolling and then push on, Monday and Tuesday. The chairman is really trying his hardest. I spoke to him in<a class="inform" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-605-malaysia.do" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: underline;" title="More on Malaysia...">Malaysia</a> and he's as excited as I am. But he wants to sign them<br />
yesterday."</div></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23980651-neil-warnock-content-despite-crashing-out-of-carling-cup-after-2-0-loss-to-rochdale.do"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">thisislondon</span></a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06261880497048387429noreply@blogger.com0