By Dave McIntyre

ADEL Taarabt should join QPR for the good of his career, according to Rangers' assistant manager Mick Jones.

Boss Neil Warnock has been trying to convince Taarabt to return to Loftus Road, where the Tottenham youngster spent last season on loan.

Spurs are happy to offload the 21-year-old Moroccan, who has long sought a move to Spain, but Jones is convinced Taarabt will make a mistake if he joins a club outside the Spanish elite.

Jones said: "We'd like him to sign for us, and it could still happen. The thing is, he's keen to go to Spain.

"I think he could get a move there. But he wants to join one of the really big clubs like Real Madrid or Barcelona, and I'm not sure that's going to happen.

"My advice would be that if he wants to get to the top, then he should sign for QPR. Neil Warnock will help him get to the top. The way Neil would manage him, he'd be perfect for him.

"All I can say is that Neil's still trying to sign him, and that I think he should sign. It'd be a good move for him - good for his career."

After a spell on loan at QPR the season before last, Taarabt was reluctant to return last summer.

Spain was again his preferred destination, and he believed a number of possible moves were blocked before Tottenham, whose manager Harry Redknapp is a friend of Rs chairman Gianni Paladini, sent him back to west London.

Taarabt, who clearly has no future at White Hart Lane, is once again pursuing a move overseas. He produced some of his best performances towards the end of the season - after a number of European sides had agreed to send scouts to watch him.

But no club is likely to come close to matching the wages he could command at QPR. Financially, neither the player nor Spurs can expect a better offer than Rangers'.

The Rs are close to completing the £500,000 signing of Bristol City defender Bradley Orr - but their long-running bid to capture Darren Ambrose from Warnock's former club Crystal Palace is over.

Ambrose, who had been keen to make the move, signed an improved contract at Selhurst Park this week after Palace made it clear they were not willing to sell.

"Even without Darren Ambrose, we've still got good players here - and there are other players that we're interested in," Jones added.

Ah - the good old Kilburn Times. A fine publication, together with the Willesden Chronicle! Historically the local papers that have probably given Rangers the most indepth coverage for the longest period of time. Dave Mc is also a very good journalist.

Whilst Adel is undoubtedly a fine player, the type of swashbuckling player Rangers fans love, I'm not convinced he'd prove to be a great signing. I suspect we'd need to pay a top fee and big wages to land him and then practically build a team around him. He's also clearly got a massive opinion of himself. So much so that I think even Neil Warnock would find him a handful to manage. I suspect we could sign 3 very useful players for what Adel would cost us in total.

Martin

Said it before if he does not want to come and thinks he is good enough for bigger things and will only come if that does not happen then feck him.

I think he'll go to Spain, anywhere in Spain rather than stay in England. It's nothing to do with Rangers but he has stated in the press that he hates the type of football played by some clubs eg Stoke and who can blame him for that. He knows he will fit in better into a league where the emphasis is more on ball skills than on closing down, where the game is played more on the ground than in the air. If Danny Parejo can get a game for a club in the top ten of the best league in the world, Adel most certainly will. I for one will miss him

Fair points. The team might miss him, but he isn't fit to lace Stanleys boots, and he wasn't shy of a note!

A difficult one this, and a risk, because although he can infuriate, if NW could tame him, and help him become a team player, he is a potential match winner.

He has something that others don't, he lights up the game.
He's young with an ego that's way beyond his years.
Like Bill, I too will miss him.