Thursday Diary — Warnock hoping to sign Miller Thursday, 27th Jan 2011 21:16 by Clive Whittingham Neil Warnock says he is looking beyond Ishmael Miller's initial three month loan deal at Loftus Road and wants to sign the big target man permanently.
NewsMiller has missed huge swathes of action during the last three years with a cruciate knee ligament injury and other niggles but Warnock is unconcerned and wants to turn him into a Loftus Road favourite. Warnock told the Kilburn Times: "I think Miller needs someone like me, if I’m honest, and I’m looking forward to working with him. I hope it’s a long, long-term contract. I’ve always liked him a lot – because he’s so big and so quick he needs to do a lot of prep work during the week, but our physios are very good at that type of thing. So we’re optimistic we can get him fit and keep him fit. Other players have been offered to me over the last few weeks, but I’ve always wanted Miller really. Say what you want, some people told me never to touch Clint Hill with a bargepole because of his injuries before I took him to Palace. You can’t believe everything people tell you.” Miller said: “Neil Warnock was probably the main factor in me coming here. I’ve spoken to him a few times and he said he’d give me an opportunity to play regular football, which is what I want. I did well a few seasons ago and since then I’ve had some terrible injuries, but hopefully it’s in the past now. I’ve got a lot more to come and I want to get some goals for the team. We’re clear at the top and we want to keep the momentum going. The main thing is going up and hopefully we can do that.” Elsewhere defender Clint Hill has also been speaking to Ben Kosky at the Kilburn Times, praising the impact of new signing Wayne Routledge since he returned to the club and looking forward to the weekend trip to Hull. Hill said: “I’d rather have him on my team than playing against him. You always knew you were in for a tough game against him – he’s lively, quick and a quality finisher, so it’s great to have him on board. If the club can continue to bring in players of that calibre, that’s got to be good. Promotion’s what we’re trying to aim for and you need that competition to help the squad. “When we were going to play Hull they were struggling a bit, but they’re flying at the moment. Nigel’s done a great job there, he’s a good manager and he’s got his team playing well. It looks another dangerous game and hopefully we can go there and get a result. It’s important that we win our home games, but also that we keep nicking points away from home.” Jay Simpson, who spent last season on loan at QPR, is hoping to return to the Hull side to face his former colleagues on Saturday after two games as an unused substitute. Simpson, who scored twice in a behind closed doors friendly game with Leicester during the week, said: “I want to play, like with every game, and especially against my old club it would be nice to nick a goal as well. QPR have done very well this season. Last season, they started well and then were battling against relegation, so to maintain their place at the top shows how well they've done this year." Sheffield Wednesday chairman Milan Mandaric has today confirmed that the Owls are trying to bring in Lee Cook on loan. QPR have circulated the availability of Cook, Martin Rowlands, Gary Borrowdale and Antonio German among league clubs. Finally Frankie Sutherland, one of the brightest prospects in the QPR youth set up, has been nominated for the Irish Player of the Year award at Under 17 level along with Shane Byrne of Leicester City and Sean McGinty from Man Utd. Former R'sFor the first time since Blackpool’s remarkable rise to the Premiership Ian Holloway has had to put up with some negative media attention today. Pool have been fined £25,000 by the league for fielding a weakened team contrary to Premiership rules in a defeat at Aston Villa before Christmas – Holloway had said he would consider resigning if his club were punished for his decision to change ten of his starting 11 from the previous game. It has also been revealed today that Olly has a clause in his contract entitling him to a percentage of any transfer fee the club receives for one of his players. This is nothing new, Holloway had the same clause in his deal at QPR and Plymouth, but it has called into question, in the press at least, the motives behind his steadfast refusal to sell star midfielder Charlie Adam this transfer window. Holloway told The Sun: “"I do get rewarded with anybody I coach and make a profit on. My chairman looked at my record of producing players and helping players and selling them on and he wanted that at Blackpool. That's not what I'm doing it for. I'm on a far bigger bonus to keep us in the Premier League and Charlie Adam can help me do that. If you're saying I'm doing this because I'm getting 20-30 per cent of the Adam money I'll not be very happy - it's miles away, absolute nonsense." Two of our former charges were on the scoresheet in a Reserve Combination fixture between Brighton and Wycombe last night. Emmanuel Ledesma, who has been training with QPR again recently in a move that has attracted some criticism, is on trial with Gus Poyet's table topping Seagulls and equalised after a quarter of an hour. That came after our former traineee Scott Donnelly had put Wycombe ahead with a penalty he won himself. Donnelly is on loan at Wycombe from Swansea where he was signed from Aldershot by Paulo Sousa just a week before he left for Leicester. New manager Brendan Rodgers has found little use for Donnelly since he took over and his former boss at QPR Gary Waddock has taken the opportunity to give the player first team football. Brighton won the game 2-1. Brighton's reserve team boss Luke Williams said of Ledesma: "He did very well, worked really hard and it was a great finish for his goal. He's training with us at the moment and we certainly want to have another look at him in our next reserve outing." This time last season Matt Hill was one of five short term signings completed by then QPR boss Mick Harford with disastrous consequences. The former Preston full back failed to impress during a three month loan from Wolves. A year on the 29-year-old has signed permanently for our Championship rivals Barnsley after impressing during an eight game loan spell - Wolves allowed the player to leave Molineux for nothing to ease the permanent move to Barnsley through. Hill has played eight times for the Tykes on loan, scoring once against Nottingham Forest. Finally Pat Kanyuka, who was recently training with Wimbledon ahead of a potential deal, has instead been snapped up by League Two strugglers Lincoln. However the Imps must wait for international clearance for the defender as his most recent club was in Romania – and it’s that stumbling block that eventually scuppered his move to the Dons. Lincoln have agreed a deal with the former Swindon man until the end of the season. Championship Shorts- New Ipswich boss Paul Jewell has been reunited with his former Wigan talisman Jimmy Bullard after agreeing terms with Hull over his £45,000 a week wages. Bullard has endured an injury hit two years at the KC Stadium since signing from Fulham for £5m during their Premiership days. He has been an unused substitute for Nigel Pearson's side in the last two games and the Tigers have made no secret of their desire to get his wages off the books. Earlier this season he turned down a proposed long term loan move to Celtic but was keen to be reunited with Jewell with whom he won two promotions at the JJB Stadium once the Tractor Boys had agreed to pay 40 per cent of his salary, with Hull picking up the rest of the bill. The Tigers have used the extra space on their wage bill to sign former Inter Milan star and Tunisian international Tijani Belaid on a short-term contract. - Leicester have signed Chelsea full back Patrick van Aarnholt on a loan deal until the end of the season. The Dutch youngster was linked with a move to QPR 18 months ago and has spent time on loan at Coventry in the Championship previously. He is the ninth player taken on loan by the Foxes this season. - Scunthorpe must continue to wait to tie up the loan signing of left back Ben Gordon from Chelsea. A deal to take the 19 year old to Glanford Park was agreed at the start of the month but the player has remained in London to recover from a hamstring injury. The club has, however, received planning permission from North Lincolnshire Council to make the terraced end of Glanford Park an all seater stand during the summer. - Conor Sammon, who rejected a move to Scunthorpe last week after the Iron agreed terms with Kilmarnock, is now being linked with a move to Derby while Kris Commons looks set to go the other way after a £300k deal was agreed with Celtic. - Forest striker Nathan Tyson has admitted he is worried about his future with the club yet to begin talks over extending his contract which expires this summer. Tyson, who has been in good form of late, said: "I don't know where my future is going and so I am just playing every game like it's my last. I don't know what will happen in the next week or so - or in the summer." - Palace have re-signed striker James Vaughan on loan from Everton. Vaughan spent three months at Selhurst Park in the first half of the season but almost joined Cardiff in this window before Everton broke off the deal in a row over payment instalments. Palace will have an opportunity to buy the player in the summer. Transfer WindowChampionship deals done so far: Gary O’Neil, Middlesbrough to West Ham, £3m David Wheater, Middlesbrough to Bolton, £2.3m Aaron McLean, Peterborough to Hull, £1.3m Matty Fryatt, Leicester to Hull, £1.2m Adam Hammill, Barnsley to Wolves, £500k James Chester, Man Utd to Hull, £300k Michael Morrison, Leicester to Sheff Wed, £250k Sean Morrison, Swindon to Reading, £250k Jon Parkin, Preston to Cardiff, £100k Brett Williams, Eastleigh to Reading, £50k Sol Bamba, Hibs to Leicester, undisclosed Seamus Connely, Galway to Sheffield United, undisclosed Mark Duffy, Morecambe to Scunthorpe, undisclosed Jermaine Easter, MK Dons to Palace, undisclosed Abdisalam Ibrahim, Man City to Scunthorpe, undisclosed Liam Lawrence, Stoke to Portsmouth, undisclosed Mathieu Mansat, Hereford to Reading, undisclosed Alex Marrow, Blackburn to Palace, undisclosed Josh McQuoid, Bournemouth to Millwall, undisclosed Andy O’Brien, Bolton to Leeds, undisclosed Paul Reid, Colchester to Scunthorpe, undisclosed Matt Ritchie, Portsmouth to Swindon, undisclosed Theo Robinson, Huddersfield to Millwall, undisclosed Marc Tierney, Colchester to Norwich, undisclosed Marcus Tudgay, Sheff Wed to Forest, undisclosed Tommy Smith, Portsmouth to QPR, undisclosed Tijani Belaid, unattached to Hull, free Pascal Chimbonda, Blackburn to QPR, free Miguel Comminges, Cardiff to Southend, free Lewis Grabban, Millwall to Brentford, free Andy Hughes, Leeds to Scunthorpe, free Steffen Iverson, Rosenborg to Palace, free Paul Keegan, Bohemians to Doncaster, free Lubo Michalik, Leeds to Carlisle, free Eddie Nolan, Preston to Scunthorpe, free Darren Purse, Sheff Wed to Millwall, free Danny Shittu, Millwall to QPR, free Zac Thompson, Everton to Leeds, free Petter Vaagan Moen, Brann to QPR, free John Akinde, Bristol City to Dagenham, loan Marcus Bent, Birmingham to Sheff Utd, loan Jens Berthal Askou, Norwich to Millwall, loan Cian Bolger, Leicester to Bristol Rovers, loan Jimmy Bullard, Hull to Ipswich, loan Liam Cooper, Hull to Carlisle, loan Mark Cullen, Hull to Bradford, loan Luke Daley, Norwich to Stevenage, loan Ritchie De Lait, Man Utd to Portsmouth, loan Liam Dickinson, Barnsley to Rochdale, loan Craig Eastmond, Arsenal to Millwall, loan Nathan Ellington, Skoda Xanthi to Preston, loan Corry Evans, Man Utd to Hull, loan Matthew Gill, Norwich to Walsall, loan Ben Gordon, Chelsea to Scunthorpe, loan Brad Guzan, Villa to Hull, loan Ben Hamer, Reading to Exeter, loan Oli Johnson, Norwich to Yeovil, loan Julian Kelly, Reading to Lincoln, loan Tom Kennedy, Leicester to Peterborough, loan Kevin Kilbane, Hull to Huddersfield, loan Matt Kilgallon, Sunderland to Doncaster, loan Marc Laird, Millwall to Brentford, loan Shane Lowry, Villa to Sheff Utd, loan Vito Mannone, Arsenal to Hull, loan Ryan Mason, Spurs to Doncaster, loan Joe Mattock, West Brom to Sheff Utd, loan George McCartney, Sunderland to Leeds, loan Ben Mee, Man City to Leicester, loan Ishmael Miller, West Brom to QPR, loan Danny N’Guessan, Leicester to Southampton, loan Danny Philliskirk, Chelsea to Sheff Utd, loan Aaron Ramsey, Arsenal to Cardiff, loan Wayne Routledge, Newcastle to QPR, loan Owain Tudor Jones, Norwich to Brentford, loan Patrick Van Aarnholt, Chelsea to Leicester, loan James Vaughan, Everton to Palace, loan Rowan Vine, QPR to Mk Dons, loan Andreas Weimann, Villa to Watford, loan Aidan White, Leeds to Oldham, loan Callum Wilson, Coventry to Kettering, loan Yakubu, Everton to Leicester, loan Photo: Action Images Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.
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