Beale: QPR don’t have to sell players

New QPR boss Michael Beale says the club are not under any pressure to sell their best players this summer.

The likes of Ilias Chair, Chris Willock, Rob Dickie and Seny Dieng have been linked with moves away from Loftus Road.

Centre-back Dickie has been linked with West Ham, as has goalkeeper Seny Dieng, but Beale is confident he will be able to keep them.


“I don’t think there is a need financially to move players on. That is my understanding right now,” Beale told West London Sport.

“I think we feel as a club the offers we might get for one or two of our players are not up to their potential level.
if a player has a fantastic season and the opportunity to go there (the Premier League) comes then the club will have to listen.

“But as it stands right now I do not expect any of our key players to be leaving.”

Beale has been brought in to replace Mark Warburton, who was axed after an appalling end to last season in which Rangers fell out of the promotion race.

“The team did very well for much of last season, but I am interested to get the player’s take on why it turned,” Beale said.

“I know there were a lot of injuries, but maybe why it turned in the changing room or on the pitch.

“That experience of the last 15 games will see the players wanting to do much better next season and that will be huge for them.

“Around Christmas they might have felt quite excited about the second half of the season but it didn’t work out the way they planned.

“I am looking forward to getting my teeth into all of that in the next few weeks.”