QPR hope it is third time lucky as they plot a move for Chris Samba in the January transfer window.
Twice in January and summer they had eyes on the central defender who was only too willing to throw his lot in with Hoops – and twice the Congo international escaped their clutches.
Eventually, Samba joined Russia’s moneybags Anzhi Makhachkala for a fee reported to be around £10 million.
But Chronicle sport understands Rangers and Samba have maintained contact, and although his £100,000-a-week wages would be as big an issue as his transfer fee, time is running out for a porous Hoops defence with only one Premier League clean sheet.
The other hurdle needing a clearance could depend on Liverpool doing Rangers a favour.
If they beat Anzhi in next week’s trip to Russia in the Europa League, Samba and his team-mates face elimination that would ease a cut-price deal for a player brought to England by Rs boss Mark Hughes in 2007, and already the victim of racist abuse in a Russian league game back in March.
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Twice in January and summer they had eyes on the central defender who was only too willing to throw his lot in with Hoops – and twice the Congo international escaped their clutches.
Eventually, Samba joined Russia’s moneybags Anzhi Makhachkala for a fee reported to be around £10 million.
But Chronicle sport understands Rangers and Samba have maintained contact, and although his £100,000-a-week wages would be as big an issue as his transfer fee, time is running out for a porous Hoops defence with only one Premier League clean sheet.
The other hurdle needing a clearance could depend on Liverpool doing Rangers a favour.
If they beat Anzhi in next week’s trip to Russia in the Europa League, Samba and his team-mates face elimination that would ease a cut-price deal for a player brought to England by Rs boss Mark Hughes in 2007, and already the victim of racist abuse in a Russian league game back in March.
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