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Loïc Rémy will be the prized target for the Premier League's predators if Queens Park Rangers are relegated, with Tottenham Hotspur prominent among those considering whether to pay the France striker's £8m release clause.
QPR's grip on their top-flight status loosened further when they drew 1-1 at home to Wigan Athletic on Sunday, with the manager, Harry Redknapp, cutting a distraught figure after the visitors' 94th-minute equaliser, describing the result as the "toughest" of his career.
QPR are second from bottom of the table, seven points adrift of safety with six matches to play, and the future of many of their players and of Redknapp has come under the spotlight.
The squad is replete with high-earners and it is questionable whether a club in the Championship would want to fund weekly wages of £50,000 or more – in some cases, significantly more – or whether, with reduced revenue, despite the Premier League parachute payments, they would have the capacity to do so.
If Rémy, who signed in January for £8m from Marseille, will have no shortage of suitors, then the goalkeepers Júlio César and Rob Green, the midfielders Adel Taarabt and Esteban Granero and the forward Junior Hoilett also stand to attract covetous glances.
Júlio César has had a decent season while Taarabt, despite his capacity to infuriate, has shown flickers of his undoubted talent. Granero, who joined from Real Madrid, has struggled in the relegation dogfight but he will hear offers from La Liga while Green and Hoilett remain attractive to Premier League clubs.
The problem for QPR and the expensively paid players will be to find clubs willing to take them on similar deals. Christopher Samba, for example, arrived only in January from Anzhi Makhachkala for £13m on a weekly wage between £62,500 and £100,000, depending on whom one believes and, on recent form, it is not outlandish to suggest that he would have to accept a pay cut if he wanted another transfer.
Read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...tion-loic-remy
QPR's grip on their top-flight status loosened further when they drew 1-1 at home to Wigan Athletic on Sunday, with the manager, Harry Redknapp, cutting a distraught figure after the visitors' 94th-minute equaliser, describing the result as the "toughest" of his career.
QPR are second from bottom of the table, seven points adrift of safety with six matches to play, and the future of many of their players and of Redknapp has come under the spotlight.
The squad is replete with high-earners and it is questionable whether a club in the Championship would want to fund weekly wages of £50,000 or more – in some cases, significantly more – or whether, with reduced revenue, despite the Premier League parachute payments, they would have the capacity to do so.
If Rémy, who signed in January for £8m from Marseille, will have no shortage of suitors, then the goalkeepers Júlio César and Rob Green, the midfielders Adel Taarabt and Esteban Granero and the forward Junior Hoilett also stand to attract covetous glances.
Júlio César has had a decent season while Taarabt, despite his capacity to infuriate, has shown flickers of his undoubted talent. Granero, who joined from Real Madrid, has struggled in the relegation dogfight but he will hear offers from La Liga while Green and Hoilett remain attractive to Premier League clubs.
The problem for QPR and the expensively paid players will be to find clubs willing to take them on similar deals. Christopher Samba, for example, arrived only in January from Anzhi Makhachkala for £13m on a weekly wage between £62,500 and £100,000, depending on whom one believes and, on recent form, it is not outlandish to suggest that he would have to accept a pay cut if he wanted another transfer.
Read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...tion-loic-remy
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