QPR Deny "Unwanted Players" Report...Briatore Critiques Italian and Praises English Football....Kudos for Buzsaky

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TEAMTALK - Rangers deny releasing players
QPR have denied reports claiming a number of players have been released as boss Luigi De Canio continues to revamp his squad.
De Canio has made eight signings at an estimated cost of around £5million since the transfer window opened on January 1, and some fringe players are expected to be shown the door at Loftus Road.
But the club insist reports that Danny Nardiello, Zesh Rehman, Stefan Moore, Pat Kanyuka, Kieron St Aimie, Stefan Bailey and Shabazz Baidoo have been told they can leave are wide of the mark.
"Nothing official has been decided. I'm sure there will be changes in due course but there is nothing happening at the moment," said a club spokesman.
Big-spending Rangers have also been linked with moves for Argentinian winger Sebastian Rusculleda and former Aston Villa goalkeeper Stefan Postma.
But the spokesman added: "It sounds like a lot of agent talk and rumour mill. There is nothing in it." Teamtalk


REUTERS - riatore blasts Italian football, hails Britain
ROME, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Renault Formula One Team boss and Queens Park Rangers co-owner Flavio Briatore has blasted the Italian soccer world and lauded the sport in Britain for its fair play and meritocracy.
"Here you are on market and you play in a clean competition, where the rules have no shadowy areas," he told the Italian edition of GQ magazine when asked why he bought into an English Championship (second division club) instead of one in his homeland. "It's a challenge with only one yardstick: merit. That's why there are investors from all over the world here, while in (soccer in) Italy, there is not even one."
Italian soccer is attempting to recover from a series of troubles, including the death of a fan and a police officer in separate incidents last year and the 2006 match-fixing scandal that led to Juventus being relegated to the second tier.
But Briatore, who completed his takeover of QPR with Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone in November, is not optimistic about the future.
"There is a caste of the chosen, who manage soccer and every other aspect of (Italian) society, from finance to politics, that do not even let you take part, never mind win," he said.
"So I stay away. I like to be judged by my results only."
Briatore said greater severity in implementing the rules helped keep the sport cleaner in England, adding that the main difference the countries was in "sporting culture".
"Here you'll never see a player asking an opponent to be given a yellow card," he said. "The referees are never in question, because they don't feel protagonists.
"In Italy they are all handsome, athletic, telegenic. Here they have tubby bellies and they blow up very little because they are not mad about getting noticed". (Writing by Paul Virgo; Editing by Alison Wildey) Reuters


QPR OFFICIAL SITE - AWESOME AKOS
R's midfielder Akos Buzsaky enjoyed a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year after breaking the 100-point barrier in the Actim Index, the official player rating system of the Coca-Cola Championship.
The Hungarian star was one of only six players to reach triple figures over the festive period, earning 104 points in four matches - just three behind Blackpool's Claus Jorgensen, who top scored.
Buzsaky's best performance was a 50-point haul in the 2-1 victory against Colchester United, where he netted both goals at Loftus Road.
He supplemented that with another impressive individual match score of 34 points in the New Year's Day win against Leicester City.
The Actim Index is calculated using a unique mathematical formula that rates each player's contribution be it goals, shots, passes, dribbles, tackles, crosses, saves, clearances, blocks, interceptions, assists, clean sheets, time on the pitch or number of points gained by the team with marks deducted for red and yellow cards.
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