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Some might find this statement posted on the Official site to be more than just a trifle cursory - given that it concerns someone with such a long history as Kevin Gallen.
QPR Official Site FRIENDS REUNITED
Club Captain Kevin Gallen has joined Plymouth Argyle on loan until the end of the current Coca Cola Championship campaign.
The 31 year-old joins forces with former R's boss Ian Holloway at Home Park.
Gallen has made 19 appearances in all competitions this season, scoring just four goals.
A former product of the QPR youth system, Gallen spent eight years at Loftus Road before leaving the club in 2000 to join Huddersfield Town on a free transfer.
He then joined Barnsley a year later, but returned to the R's in November 2001 and marked his second debut with a goal against Swindon.
Earlier this season, Gallen clocked up his 400th appearance for the club. QPR
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Kevin-Gallen
IT was Kevin Gallen's versatility that persuaded Ian Holloway to bring his former Queens Park Rangers captain to HomePark.
Gallen, 31, is linking up again with Holloway on loan from Queens Park Rangers until the end of the season.
The former England Under-21 striker has scored more than 100 league goals in a 400-plus games, 14-year, career.
Apart from brief spells at Huddersfield and Barnsley, Gallen's entire career has been spent at home-town club Rangers.
"Kevin Gallen is one of the best players I have ever worked with and I've got him from now until the end of the season.
"He has played right-wing, left-wing, centre-midfield; he was my captain and hardly ever missed a game when I was at QPR.
"We're in the market for some more strikers and we've lost Wottsy from centre-midfield.
"He's somebody I know, somebody I trust, and I know he can put the ball in the net as well.
"I thought he covered a lot of options for us while I try to buy the other type of striket that I need - a big, strong fellow who can head things."
Gallen signed for the Rs on his 17th birthday after scoring a remarkable 153 goals in 110 appearances for the Rangers' youth team, breaking Jimmy Greaves' long-standing record at that level.
After a productive partnership with Les Ferdinand, he suffered a serious knee injury after crashing into a goalpost at Portsmouth which blighted his progress and it was not until he returned to Loftus Road after short stints at Huddersfield and Barnsley that he really blossomed.
Under Holloway's management, and having been awarded the Rangers' captaincy, he scored another 55 goals in the last five seasons as the Rs returned to the Championship.
Argyle fans will not need much reminding of Gallen's ability. It was the Rangers' skipper's two goals that inspired the Rs to a 3-0 victory over the Pilgrims in November 2003, taking Hollway's then side to the top of League Two, above his current charges.
His tally of 97 goals for QPR, including four from 19 games this season, makes him the sixth highest scorer in the club's history.
Kevin Gallen
Born: September 21, 1975 Clubs: QPR, Huddersfield, Barnsley
Squad number: 17 Plymouth
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