QPR: 5 Reasons Why R's Will Definitely Get Relegated

4. Adel Taarabt

Adel Taarabt Adel Taarabt is a riddle inside a mystery in a box of a footballer. He is an amazingly talented player who seems to have a built in an off switch removing his talent at any given moment. He has some amazing skills and touches and should be up there with the most talented match winning players in the league, and without him, QPR wouldn€™t have been promoted from the Championship. But Taarabt has been mostly anonymous this season, barely having any impact in games; he hasn€™t scored at home since December, has struggled to get team mates thinking on his level as some of his once pin point passes now don€™t stay in play let alone find their man. The very best players in the Premier League players don€™t play well every week but they must still show more consistency than Taarabt does making less crazy decisions and trying to help the team. Taarabt has too many games when he is merely a passenger not even tracking back to defend or ducking from dangerous looking free kicks. Harry Redknapp clearly knows these flaws in his game and left him out of key away games against Aston Villa and Fulham because of his limitations and his tendency to defend like a disinterested kid at a grown ups' party. Being unpredictable is great but not when your team badly needs you and that is the problem with Taarabt being so unreliable. QPR need him, but he needs to contribute more to an overall team performance rather than offering the odd game when he is pretty much unplayable. A few more big game match winning moments from Taarabt might have helped keep QPR away from their current situation.
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Ian Newby is a average nerd living in the north of England, if given the chance he would spend all his life sat watching every single football match he possibly could before catching up on nerd happy TV shows then playing videos games all night, thankfully he doesn’t do that.