Sunday, 8 May 2011
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Real Madrid ready surprise move for Liverpool target Adel Taarabt
The Rangers ace has become one of the hottest properties in Europe after almost single-handedly guiding the west Londoners to promotion with 19 goals and a string of dazzling displays.
Taarabt was linked with a move to United before he joined QPR from Tottenham last summer, but it seemed Liverpool had moved to the front of the queue for the Moroccan schemer.
Damien Comolli, now at Anfield, was the man responsible for bringing Taarabt to England in 2007, and with the Reds desperately seeking a creative spark for next season, Liverpool's director of football was rumoured to be gearing up to pounce once again.
But Real’s reported interest could change everything, with the forward allegedly telling his team-mates that he's on Jose Mourinho's radar.
I'll prove Spurs were wrong to let me go so cheaply, vows QPR talisman Taarabt
It took the bright lights of Times Square for Adel Taarabt to realise he had to leave Tottenham last summer. And now he wants to show Harry Redknapp and Co exactly what they are missing when he plays against his old club next season.
Taarabt moved across London to QPR after finally losing patience with his lack of first-team action at White Hart Lane. And it has proved an inspired decision by the Morocco midfielder after a string of sensational displays helped Rangers end their 15-year exile from the top flight. His performances have earned rave reviews and helped him win Championship player of the year.
FA would be wrong to punish the QPR players, says Taarabt
As a Football Association disciplinary panel begins its deliberations on the Alejandro Faurlin case, Adel Taarabt, the Queen's Park Rangers captain, is insisting that it would be wrong for the players to suffer as a result of any punishment.
Rangers, who secured promotion to the Premier League on Saturday, face seven charges relating to alleged breaches of rules on third-party ownership of players when they signed Faurlin. A verdict, which could include a points deduction, is expected on Friday.
"We have done the job on the pitch so we deserve to be where we are – we didn't cheat or do anything wrong," Taarabt said yesterday. "Every game we play 11 against 11 and we win games on the pitch. We don't do anything else."
Saturday, 30 April 2011
Taarabt: 'The real celebration will be next week'
Adel Taarabt has claimed the full extent of Queens Park Rangers achievements has not fully sunk in yet.
After winning 2-0 at Watford to seal promotion to the Premier League and seal the Championship title the Moroccan playmaker said the real party will be at Loftus Road next Saturday when Rangers host Leeds.
He said: “It’s a fantastic feeling but I don’t think we realise [the full extent of our achievements] yet because the game has just finished and we were not at home so it is only 2000 fans.
“I think we will celebrate next week at home.”Adel Taarabt
“I think we will celebrate next week at home and for me when I go home and everyone calls me from Morocco I will realise.”
21-year-old Taarabt also took time to pay credit to manager Neil Warnock, a man he says has guided him this year even when he has made mistakes.
He added: “He’s been like a father and he’s always been there for me. At the times when I had a problem or I made a mistake he forgave me all the time.
“He told me ‘I forgive you but try to give it back to me on the pitch’.”
Sunday, 24 April 2011
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Warnock's biggest test will be making Adel a Premier hit
QPR look like being the first team through the door into next season's Premier League after an outstanding season under Neil Warnock.
It's taken a while, but after a 15-year spell out of the top flight - even dipping down to League One for three seasons - Rangers look to be finally heading back.
The club that in the 1980s and 1990s reached two Wembley finals, finished in the top five three times and produced England stars Les Ferdinand, David Seaman, Paul Parker, Andy Sinton, Terry Fenwick and David Bardsley has spent too long outside the big time.
Happy Rangers... Talented Adel Taarabt with manager Neil Warnock
But they will be relishing their promotion from the Championship as soon as it is confirmed within the next week or so. Joy has been thin on the ground at Loftus Road since Ray Wilkins took Rangers down back in 1996.
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