QPR will need to shift out players if they want to get more in.
Ian Holloway has a need for reinforcements to counter a side on a horrendous slide towards a relegation battle.
No wins in five, indeed no points, and only one goal to show for their labours in vain.
Strikers are expensive even when you split their wages with a parent club. Note this on spare Jordan Rhodes at Middlesbrough.
So where do Rangers and Holloway cut their costs?
Ariel Borysiuk
It may be a surprise to learn that only six months after the Pole came in - he could be on his way out.
GetWestLondon understands the midfielder has found it hard to adjust to London life and lack of games.
Injury at the beginning of season hardly helped - and a mere six Championship starts, the last of which a humbling 2-0 home defeat to Brentford that all but did for boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in October, will hasten Borysiuk’s departure either permanently or on loan.
Chances 4/5
Olamide Shodipo
A great future prospect for Hoops having made his debut in the opening day win - but one who needs the same League One type grounding that Darnell Furlong and Michael Doughty are getting at Swindon.
Rangers would like to add to his 13 appearances so far - but only after he gets a regular berth elsewhere on loan
Chances 4/5
Sandro
He’s been written off at Rangers more times than flimsy homes after a hurricane.
But surely it comes as no surprise the ex-Spurs midfielder has featured more regularly since Holloway’s arrival - four appearances and counting.
After all, you can’t offload a £40k-a-week player if he isn’t actually in the shop window.
Ben Gladwin
The winger has already been loaned out twice in his two-year career with Hoops.
Can one expect another trip back to Swindon that softens the blow director of football Tim Sherwood there, and a pal of Rs director Les Ferdinand, will suffer when Furlong and Doughty make the return trip?
It’s a pretty sound bet.
Chances: 4/5
Nasser El-Khayati
One year on and the man signed from Burton has barely had a look in.
Considered lightweight on fans forums, he has occasionally shone, none more so than when he hit the cracking winner against Charlton in April.
See it again, above.
But if there was a Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink player, it’s the one signed from Burton for £300,000 in the last winter transfer window.
The former Burton boss has gone, and after only six Championship appearances this season, the winger he signed could join him.
Chances: 3/5
