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Post by cpr on Nov 25, 2012 12:11:49 GMT
Flashback 4 years QPR Official Site HARRY: ADEL HAS A BIG PUBLISHED 11:15 25th November 2012 by @officialqpr Redknapp: ‘Adel’s an amazing talent’ Adel has a big future. He’s an amazing talent with the ball."" Harry Redknapp NEW R’S boss Harry Redknapp has quashed speculation suggesting Adel Taarabt won’t feature in his plans at Loftus Road – insisting the Moroccan playmaker has a big part to play under his guidance. Redknapp, of course, loaned and then sold Taarabt to QPR during his time as Spurs boss, but the 65 year-old was quick to set the record straight regarding the R’s fan’s favourite. Speaking exclusively to www.qpr.co.uk, Redknapp said: “Adel has a big future. “He’s an amazing talent with the ball. He can still do more without it, but there’s no doubt he’s a match-winner for us. “He can turn things for us. He’s the player who can do something special, so we’ll be looking to get the best out of him.” Redknapp added: “I never really wanted to sell him at Tottenham to be honest. “I had a good relationship with him. I never had a problem with Adel. “At times his problems were self-inflicted, but I let him go because he wasn’t playing and the Chairman felt it was a good time to let him go. “He was a player I was always wary of letting go because I knew he could come back and haunt me one day.” www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/251112-redknapp-taarabt-507989.aspx
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Post by cpr on Nov 25, 2012 12:12:37 GMT
Let's hope he doesn't haunt him in the wrong way!
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Nov 25, 2012 12:16:39 GMT
Too damn right.
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Post by Hogan on Nov 25, 2012 12:23:37 GMT
Certainly saying the right things, lifting the spirits of the camp ahead of an important game.
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Post by nomar on Nov 25, 2012 12:32:52 GMT
Taarbs is also one of the few saleable players we have.
Also our best hope of getting out of the Championship at the first time of asking.
We have no strikers now, Cissé isn't interested any more. I'd play Mackie up front with Adel and Hoilett in support.
Make Adel the focal point now.
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Post by cpr on Nov 27, 2012 15:57:41 GMT
Just been told a Man U forum is speculating about United going for Adel, saying they've been linked with him!!!
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Post by sharky on Nov 27, 2012 16:01:07 GMT
Just been told a Man U forum is speculating about United going for Adel, saying they've been linked with him!!! Yep it's all over the press
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Post by cpr on Nov 27, 2012 16:04:42 GMT
Just been told a Man U forum is speculating about United going for Adel, saying they've been linked with him!!! Yep it's all over the press I assume you're taking the piss. Told my mate he was shit and they shouldn't touch him with a bargepole.
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Post by sharky on Nov 27, 2012 16:11:53 GMT
From The Independent
QPR forward Adel Taarabt linked with £12m switch to Manchester United
Sale of Taarabt would raise funds for new players at QPR
Adel Taarabt has emerged as a transfer target for Manchester United according to reports today.
The QPR trickster who was instrumental in the west London side's promotion to the Premier League is a regular in the transfer rumour mill having been coy over his future in the past.
Before Tony Fernandes' takeover of the club in 2011 the Moroccan international was linked with a switch to a host of clubs, particularly Paris St Germain. With the new owner investing heavily in the club Taarabt remained at Loftus Road.
Taarabt has failed to recapture the consistent form of QPR's promotion winning season since moving up a division, scoring just four Premier League goals. Yet recent matches have seen some of the sparkle that caught everyone's attention a couple of years ago, and Sir Alex Ferguson has apparently been paying attention.
It's claimed United will make a £12m bid in January to take the 23-year-old to Old Trafford.
While it may seem unlikely that a club in QPR's current predicament would part with one of their best players, new manager Harry Redknapp may view it as an opportunity to raise some funds.
The former Tottenham manager is renowned for his canny deals and acquisitions in the transfer market and may be able to invest any money raised in positions QPR desperately need - in particular central defence and attack.
QPR have been linked with Tottenham defender Michael Dawson, a player they came close to signing in the summer. Strikers Darren Bent and Peter Crouch, both of whom have played under Redknapp in the past, have also been linked with a move to Loftus Road.
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Post by sharky on Nov 27, 2012 16:16:45 GMT
.....and from Teamtalk.com
Harry should try to harness Taarabt talent
Tuesday 27th November 2012 15:38
Adel Taarabt is already being linked with a transfer, but WhoScored.com's Ali Tweedale believes his skill and passion are prize assets to QPR.
With audacious rumours surfacing on Tuesday morning linking Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson with a wholly unexpected and rather unrealistic move for QPR's Adel Taarabt in the January transfer window, yet more questions are sure to be raised as to whether new Hoops manager Harry Redknapp wants to keep Taarabt at Loftus Road.
The pair never saw eye-to-eye when they were at Tottenham together, with Taarabt's chances limited more or less exclusively to cup games, despite Redknapp publicly saying he had seen fewer players as talented as the Moroccan.
The then Spurs manager had stated that he had never seen a player do some of the things Taarabt managed on the training ground, and that he could well go on to achieve big things in his career.
But Redknapp did not back up his sentiments in his team selection. Arguably Taarabt's finest moment in the league for Tottenham came in March 2007 in an extremely brief appearance against West Ham at Upton Park with Martin Jol as manager, when he came off the bench with his side 3-2 down with three minutes left.
After Dimitar Berbatov had equalised, Taarabt played his part in a Spurs counter attack to win the match at the death. Many fans had expected him to push on from there and break into the first team on a more regular basis, but in came Juande Ramos, and then Harry - and it was not to be.
After a successful loan spell in the Championship with QPR, Taarabt made the move permanent in the summer of 2010 and helped the Hoops back into the Premier League en route to winning the Championship Player of the Year award. Taarabt stoked the fire with Redknapp, stating that he had made a mistake going to Spurs, where the manager had not given him the chances that he would have got under Arsene Wenger at Arsenal.
Now, with the two reunited at Loftus Road, the tabloids have jumped on the bandwagon to report that Taarabt is on his way out. We have seen moments of magic from the Moroccan in his time in England and Redknapp might know better than getting shot of a player with the potential to change a game in an instant.
Taarabt's 2011/12 season was very much a settling-in period for him in the top flight, and he has already matched his goalscoring tally from last term this time around. He started 24 league games last season and only managed two goals, while he has already netted twice this term in only eight starts.
Given the ambitious nature of his play, many of his attempts on goal come from outside the penalty area, and his shooting from distance is largely justified by the fact that he troubles the keeper so often. Since the start of last season, only Wayne Rooney (38) has had more shots on target from outside the penalty area in the Premier League than Taarabt (35). The two have similar shooting accuracy from distance, with Rooney hitting the target 54.3% of the time, while Taarabt does so with 53.0% of his long rangers. Rooney, though, leads the charts for goals from outside the box, with five, while no fewer than 22 players have scored more such goals than Taarabt's two.
He so often infuriates fans with his flamboyant play, but he is clearly learning that he cannot be the main man every week as he was in the second tier. When QPR were promoted, the midfielder would frequently try things from outrageous positions, and Redknapp will be one to try and curb that part of his game.
He seems to have become a little more unselfish in his play already this season, having created more chances this season (2.7 per game) compared to last (2.2). Only seven Premier League players can boast a better key pass rate than Taarabt this season (as can be seen on WhoScored.com's Premier League statistics page), and most of those rely on set pieces to lay on those chances. In fact, only Everton's Steven Pienaar (2.5) and Liverpool's Luis Suarez (2.46) create more chances in open play on average than the Moroccan (2.33); an astounding statistic for a player at a team that has scored only 10 league goals and are bottom of the table.
Taarabt has his tricky dribbling skills to call on when he needs to create space to put balls into the box, and his success rate when it comes to taking on opponents (61.4%) ranks him amongst the best in Europe's top five leagues, ahead of the likes of Lionel Messi (59.5%) and Franck Ribery (48.6%). Messi attempts 5.9 dribbles per game, compared to Taarabt's 4.9, so it is not as if the Argentine simply tries to dribble past many more players.
That is not, of course, to say that Taarabt is anywhere near Messi's level. The end product is very much missing from the QPR youngster's game, though his dribbling skills are there for all to see.
As pointed out in this WhoScored Team Focus article by Michael Cox, the Hoops have struggled massively in front of goal, and it is difficult to look past their misfiring strikers to find their problem. Taarabt's tally of two goals from 36 shots hardly helps matters, but scoring the goals is more of an issue for the strikers.
Redknapp will be almost certainly dipping into the transfer market in January, and it might well have crossed his mind to replace the injured Bobby Zamora up front. Though Taarabt will probably not be off to Old Trafford, reports that he could be on his way out of the club may not be too far off the mark given his history with Redknapp.
However, the new Hoops manager might think better of it. Taarabt is an unquestionable talent with a fiery and determined attitude to succeed that could come into great use in what is undeniably already a relegation battle for Queens Park Rangers.
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Post by fraserinbc on Nov 27, 2012 16:16:55 GMT
so the usual press echo chamber then.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 16:18:55 GMT
I first put this Taarabt story on the January thread about 16 hours ago
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Post by cpr on Nov 27, 2012 16:30:53 GMT
I apologise for not seeing it Andrew. Bit like my list of players linked on Sunday that got ignored. ;D Wonder if Harry will say what the Spurs percentage is now!
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Post by 0hwestlondon on Nov 27, 2012 16:36:37 GMT
See now you have confused me, shall i post about Adel on this thread or the january one? ;D
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Post by haqpr1963 on Nov 27, 2012 16:41:42 GMT
See now you have confused me, shall i post about Adel on this thread or the january one? ;D Start a new one. (CPR loves it when we do that....)
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Post by cpr on Nov 27, 2012 16:45:53 GMT
Damn! I was gonna say that!!!! Gonna start a new thread so I can say it now!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 16:46:24 GMT
See now you have confused me, shall i post about Adel on this thread or the january one? ;D Start a new one. (CPR loves it when we do that....) solved
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Post by 0hwestlondon on Nov 27, 2012 16:48:19 GMT
See now you have confused me, shall i post about Adel on this thread or the january one? ;D Start a new one. (CPR loves it when we do that....) ;D
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Post by Macmoish on Nov 25, 2014 9:41:10 GMT
Two wasted years
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Post by Macmoish on Nov 25, 2015 10:01:04 GMT
3 Years ago...
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Post by alfaranger on Nov 25, 2015 11:00:30 GMT
Just referring to his size?
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Post by timewaster on Nov 25, 2015 13:18:40 GMT
Has he played yet this season ?
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Post by alfaranger on Nov 25, 2015 13:31:01 GMT
Has he played yet this season ? The Benfica website has him down as playing twice this season - no goals.
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Post by Macmoish on Nov 25, 2016 9:35:21 GMT
Flashback 4 Years
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Post by corndog on Nov 25, 2016 17:38:44 GMT
I tried to look up what he is doing right now, according to Wikipedia he's on the Benfica B team, but he isn't on the team page's roster. The only recent news I could find is this gem Former Tottenham and QPR midfielder in critical situation, agent has given up on himHere's the main point from that; "Joorabchian got the player a decent deal. He had just been released by QPR, but still managed to sign a five-year contract, with gross salaries of €2.3m per season plus a €3m signing on fee. Taarabt didn’t make a single official appearance for Benfica for the entire season. So Joorabchian agreed a deal with TSV 1860 Munich, from Bundesliga 2. The player didn’t want to sign, so the agent lost his patience and ended the partnership."
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